JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – The Jackson Police Division is warning residents of town to all the time drive with their license and insurance coverage available.

At the start of the yr, JPD started conducting checkpoints across the metropolis. The initiative is named TAT, (Tickets, Arrests, and Tow), and earlier this month netted 20 arrests and 50 citations at a single location.

“We’re informing our residents right here in Jackson, Mississippi as we speak, if you’re driving a car and also you wouldn’t have a driver’s license, you wouldn’t have insurance coverage, you may be positioned underneath arrest and your car might be towed,” mentioned Deputy Chief Deric Hearn at a press convention Thursday.

“So what if they’ve a driver’s license and never the insurance coverage?” a journalist requested him.

“Goin’ to jail,” Hearn acknowledged. “Car gonna be towed. No exception.”

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