Long Beach police will operate a DUI checkpoint this weekend, looking for drunk, drugged and unlicensed drivers.

Officers will run the checkpoint from 6 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday. Police did not specify exactly where the checkpoint would be located but said it would be somewhere in the department’s east patrol division, which covers 24 square miles of Long Beach stretching as far west as Cherry Avenue and the Signal Hill border.

“The L.B.P.D. supports new efforts from the Office of Traffic Safety that aims to educate all drivers that ‘DUI Doesn’t Just Mean Booze,’” the release said. “If you take prescription drugs, particularly those with a driving or operating machinery warning on the label, you might be impaired enough to subject yourself to a DUI arrest. Marijuana can also be impairing, especially in combination with alcohol or other drugs, and can also result in a DUI arrest.”

Such DUI checkpoint locations are selected based on collision statistics and frequency of DUI arrests, the release said.

Funding for the checkpoint is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

– Staff reports