DUI checkpoints or roving patrols?

As millions of drivers head out to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, officers like Dan Colley of the Apopka Police Department, will be patrolling highways looking for drunk drivers.

"If a person is arrested for DUI they're taken off the road and we look at that as we've saved at least one life tonight."

Law enforcement officers like Colley, conduct roving patrols or wolf packs, where they roam and pull drunk drivers over. They also have DUI checkpoints nearby, where drivers get flagged down in an area known for drinking.

But the American Beverage Institute, which represents the Restaurant Trade Association is against the DUI checkpoints.

"We don't want to see our customers at a check point because they might have had a glass of wine with dinner."

The institute says officers make more arrests nationwide using roving patrols rather than DUI checkpoints and think the checkpoints target the wrong drivers. "We believe these checkpoints are not effective that they should be de-funded and all the money should be put towards roving patrols."

While local law enforcement says, they do make more arrests during the roving patrols, they believe the DUI checkpoints often educate drivers and deter them from drinking and driving, but the American Beverage Institute says there's no proof of that, "They simply go around them, also people text message each other letting them know where check points are."

However, Colley and other law enforcement officers standby both techniques. "I think they're effective no matter how they're done."

Florida Highway Patrol says last year 52 people died in accidents during the Thanksgiving holiday. Out of that number, 24 were alcohol related.