Mission

• Reduce the number of persons killed or injured in alcohol and other drug-related traffic crashes
 
• To promote DWI prevention as a public priority
 
• Coordinate local efforts in Law Enforcement, Prosecution, Probation, Rehabilitation, Public Information, Education, and Administration.

Overview

• STOP-DWI stands for “Special Traffic Options Program for Driving While Intoxicated”.
 
• The STOP-DWI Program was created by the State Legislature in 1981
 
• Empowers counties to coordinate local efforts to reduce alcohol and other drug related traffic crashes.
• The Program functions as a financially self-sustaining alcohol and highway safety program.
 
• STOP-DWI efforts are funded entirely from fines paid by convicted drunken drivers, no tax dollars are used.

Best in Country

• New York State is recognized nationally as a leader in traffic safety and in particular for continual progress in reducing alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes and fatalities.
 
• New York’s STOP-DWI program is the Nations’ first and, to date, only self-sustaining impaired driving program. Other States have implemented components of self-sufficiency, but none to the degree of New York State.