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State Police Issue More Than 11,000 Tickets During
Labor Day Weekend Enforcement Period
Published: September 09, 2026
at 06:30 p.m.
By: Press Release
from New York State Police
State Police Issue More Than 11,000 Tickets During
Labor Day Weekend Enforcement Period
The New York
State Police today announced that it issued a total of 11,201 tickets
statewide during the Labor Day weekend enforcement campaign.
The special
enforcement period began on Friday, September 4, 2026, and ran through
Monday, September 7, 2026.
During the
campaign, which was partially funded by the Governor’s Traffic Safety
Committee, State Police utilized sobriety checkpoints and additional DWI
patrols and focused enforcement efforts on impaired and distracted driving.
In total,
troopers arrested 253 people for DWI and investigated 632 crashes,
including five fatal crashes.
As part of the
enforcement campaign, troopers targeted speeding and aggressive drivers
across the state. The following is a sampling of
tickets issued during the campaign:
Speeding: 3,935
Distracted Driving: 308
Seat Belt Violations: 746
Move Over Law Violations: 234
During last
year’s Labor Day weekend enforcement campaign, which ran from Friday,
August 29, 2025, through Monday, September 1, 2025, State Police issued
9,912 total tickets and arrested 225 people for DWI.
Below is a
breakdown of violations by troop:
|
Troop
|
Region
|
DWI Arrests
(# of persons)
|
Speed
|
Distracted
Driving
|
Child Restraint
& Seat Belt
|
Move Over
|
Total
Tickets
(includes other
violations)
|
Total Penal Law
Arrests
|
|
A
|
Western NY
|
17
|
359
|
9
|
140
|
8
|
1211
|
37
|
|
B
|
North Country
|
7
|
269
|
13
|
55
|
25
|
776
|
51
|
|
C
|
Southern Tier
|
12
|
441
|
8
|
59
|
24
|
910
|
30
|
|
D
|
Central NY
|
31
|
283
|
27
|
71
|
6
|
1079
|
95
|
|
E
|
Finger Lakes
|
10
|
285
|
18
|
70
|
12
|
1000
|
36
|
|
F
|
Western HV
|
42
|
372
|
41
|
78
|
12
|
1027
|
66
|
|
G
|
Capital Region
|
25
|
462
|
32
|
50
|
39
|
1111
|
64
|
|
K
|
Eastern HV
|
42
|
522
|
16
|
35
|
12
|
1164
|
73
|
|
L
|
Long Island
|
24
|
143
|
34
|
30
|
5
|
645
|
27
|
|
NYC
|
New York City
|
9
|
63
|
20
|
23
|
3
|
414
|
20
|
|
T
|
NYS Thruway
|
34
|
736
|
90
|
135
|
88
|
1864
|
44
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