Binghamton area Police are getting a second weekend of extra work while other law enforcement agencies around the Twin Tiers are stepping up patrols in preparation for the Saint Patrick’s Day Weekend.

Binghamton area law enforcement stepped up patrols for the Binghamton Saint Patrick Parade weekend March 7 & 8.

Special DWI enforcement patrols are again being deployed throughout the area for the actual Saint Patrick’s Day Weekend to make sure revelers do not take it behind the wheel.

The Broome County Stop DWI Program says over Saint Patrick’s Day Weekends from 2009 to 2013, there were 276 lives lost in drunk driving crashes across the nation.

Cortland County Undersheriff Herb Barnhart says the Crackdown efforts start Friday and end March 18th.

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