Leaders, what has worked for you in combating DUIs, drugs, and other Soldier crimes?

When I took over my company, there were 5 hot UA's.. 3 DUI's, and some other miscellaneous stuff. I dealt with that for the first 4-6 months making sure it was a very PUBLIC affair for the company, for the next 3 1/2 years (1 year deployed) I had zero DUI's, zero hot UA's and the other garbage stopped as well, I don't claim it was me an me alone, but I made it clear to everyone that we live by the big boy rules, you work hard, you play hard, but just like in combat.... You have your buddies 6. My NCO's knew they were responsible for their Soldiers failures as I was responsible for theirs. It was NOT out of the norm nor fround upon for a Soldier to call a peer or one of his leaders for a ride, we had money for a cab at the CQ desk as well... I think what it boiled down to was everyone understood were a unit and a family 24/7 not just during the duty day, or while in the field/deployed. Once everyone understood that and took it to heart there were drastic changes all around. My company officers understood they were not exempt either, I even had a Squad Leader and above "get to know" each other event at my home, so wives could meet and girlfriends, children, but more importantly so that we could all see how we interacted with our own families, and the families could see how we interacted with each other. I challenged every Soldier in the company to get to know things about Soldiers in other platoons, like is the guy married, does he have kids, how old are they, what did he do before the military. I think it worked well everyone knew what was expected, and that there was no slack if you messed up, you were going to pay for it. When I left we had the highest weapons qual across the board, in the division, highest APFT in the brigade as a company and the second highest in the division, we had the most honor grads, in everything from sniper school, pathfinder, ranger, WLC, BNCOC.. I found out later (about 6 months) after I retired that there were 10 hot UA's 4 DUI's and 3 AWOLS not sure what changed, but I honestly think it can be done sometimes "old school" stuff works.... Anyway just my 2 cents.

Simply knowing your Soldiers and owning their trust is a great start!

Camp Pendleton used to have the "Arrive Alive" Program. They worked with a local cab company and issued EVERY Marine/Sailor on base an "Arrive Alive Card" which had the phone # to the cab company on it. If you were out in town and couldn't drive for whatever reason, call the number and the company would return you "home" (barracks, housing, house). No Questions Asked.

They take the card which had your unit information on it. A couple days later your SACO would pay the bill and you would pay the SACO back. No Questions Asked. They'd then issue you a new card.

On top of that, everyone had their leaderships phone number. Need a ride, someone will come get you.

We may have had lots of issues but DUI wasn't one of them.