The OU and the Norman police departments will be out Labor Day weekend for the final days of their part of the national “Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest,” campaign.

While no official numbers have been released from either department, officials from both departments have agreed they have seen more drunken drivers than expected since the campaign began Aug. 21.

The Norman Police Department has been allowed to enforce more checkpoints throughout Norman with a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Safety Administration, said Lt. Tony Riddles, a Norman Police Department officer that is part of the patrol.

“I think it is unfortunate that [the campaign] is so successful,” he said. “One of the checkpoints we had the other night, we had about [a] four times higher arrest rate than the national average.”

Riddle said the nation’s average arrest rate at drunken-driving checkpoints is 1 percent.

While the Norman Police Department has been enforcing checkpoints throughout Norman, the OU Police Department has been asked to be “especially alert” to drunken behavior on the road and “[to take] enforcement action,” said Lt. Bruce Chan, OU Police Department spokesman.

“So far in this campaign, what I have seen is that there are too many drunk drivers on the roads,” he said. “I strongly encourage everyone to be safe this holiday weekend.”

Throughout the campaign, Chan said the OU Police Department is not singling out OU students in particular, but are looking for any drunken drivers on the street.

Riddles said he cannot speculate on how many arrests will be made during the final crackdown of the campaign.

“I would be proudest if we got no DUI arrests from our [final enforcement of the campaign],” he said. “The point of the checkpoints [is] to stress public awareness and not about the arrests or padding the stats.”