The South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) announced Thursday the upcoming Driver Suspension Eligibility Week for drivers with certain license suspensions.

The South Carolina Department of Public Safety troopers and officers are making plans to keep the highways safe as people celebrate this long New Year's holiday weekend, which begins tonight at 6 p.m. and runs through midnight January 1. Last year, over the 78-hour New Year’s holiday period, seven people were killed in traffic crashes.

The South Carolina Department of Public Safety State Transport Police graduated nine new officers today. These officers have trained at the Criminal Justice Academy for 20 weeks. This is the first time that STP and Highway Patrol recruits have trained side-by-side for the majority of their training period.  The State Transport Police is a division of SCDPS.

STP is divided into seven statewide districts, and the new officers will be assigned among those districts.