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Pa. State Police announce record number of DUI arrests in 2010

Pennsylvania State Police announced they made a record number of arrests for driving under the influence in 2010.

Commissioner Frank Noonan said state police made 17,695 DUI arrests last year, an increase of nearly five percent over the 16,900 DUI arrests reported in 2009.

Noonan said it was the ninth consecutive year in which the number of DUI arrests by state police increased.

At the same time, the number of alcohol-related crashes investigated by troopers dropped slightly.

Troopers investigated 4,595 alcohol-related crashes last year and 4,625 in 2009.

Noonan contributed the growing number of arrests to an expanded program that trains police to identify DUI drivers and PennDOT's commitment to allocating funds for drunken driving enforcement.