Lindsay Lohan has been ordered by a judge to attend alcohol education classes every week.

A drink-driver nine months pregnant was among those caught in a transtasman blitz on alcohol and violence at the weekend.

Police in New Zealand and Australia are cracking down on alcohol related crime this weekend in the first joint operation between the two countries.

Following a south Auckland booze blitz which nabbed 81 alleged drink-drivers on Saturday night, nzherald.co.nz today followed those and other offenders through the courts.

A mother with three pre-school children in her car produced a breath alcohol reading more than two and a half times the legal limit.

"The number of women [caught] was just amazing. Years ago, it was just men who were dumb enough to drink drive," a road policing manager says.

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A teenager whose night of drinking ended with the death of his best friend in a road crash has been jailed for five years.

Booze checks in the greater Auckland area indicate the number of drunk drivers under 20 has risen by 77 per cent compared with three years ago.

Over 50 police officers have been disciplined this year for misconduct including turning up for work drunk.