Sheriff office ranks in bottom 10 of drunk driving arrests

Mason County either has very few people who drink and drive or they just don’t get caught, at least according to Mlive. The Mason County Sheriff’s Office was recently ranked by a news agency as having one of the lowest percentages of drunk driving arrests over the past five years.

A September report on Mlive.com listed the state’s top and bottom police agencies for drunk driving arrests. Mason County Sheriff’s Office was listed as the eighth worst department in Michigan for drunk driving arrests per officer, down almost 30 percent since 2006, an average of 1.39 arrests per year per officer. By contrast, neighboring Oceana County ranks as No. 6 for the most arrests, an average of 5.35 arrests per year per officer.

However, MCSO has a total of 33 personnel, but only a third are road patrol, which means the poll is skewed, unless all rankings were calculated equal.

Below are the figures:

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