WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. From Westchester County Department of Communications. May 21, 2007: Last year one out of every four limousines stopped by county police during prom season was found to have safety or licensing problems. In addition, alcohol was confiscated, and in one case teenagers were taken to a local emergency room with suspected alcohol poisoning.

Operation Safe Prom 2007 checkpoints are now underway.  For exact locations please contact Kieran O’Leary at the Westchester County Department of Public Safety at (914) 864-7858.

The effort is part of County Executive Andy Spano’s prom initiative. (For details see www.westchestergov.com/news.htm.)

 Overall during the next few weeks, county and local police will stop limousines on their way to 65 proms in Westchester. Prom season started two weeks ago and will continue well into June. The program is funded through the county’s Stop-DWI Office. The county’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (part of the Department of Public Safety) has told the limousine drivers that there is a no-tolerance policy for any underage drinking in the limousines and that drivers of limousines where drinking occurs could lose their licenses.