More than 8,000 dangerous drivers have been kept off roads in St. Lawrence County and around the state during the last three years due to regulations implemented in 2012, according to a statement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office.

The measures deny licenses to repeat offenders driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or persistently drive recklessly.

Since the measures went into effect three years ago, the Department of Motor Vehicles has permanently denied licenses to:

• 1,792 people for accumulating five or more alcohol or drug-related driving convictions in their lifetime.

• 2,515 people for having three or four alcohol or drug-related driving convictions in the last 25 years, plus at least one other serious driving offense during that period. A serious driving offense includes a fatal crash; a driving related penal law conviction; and an accumulation of 20 or more points worth of driving violations within the last 25 years, or having two or more driving convictions worth five points or higher.

• 3,825 drivers for an additional five years after revocation due to three or four alcohol or drug-related convictions but no serious driving offense in the last 25 years. Once reinstated after that five-year period, these individuals will receive a problem driver A-2 restricted license. This type of license is limited to driving to or from work or medical visits, among certain other limitations, and most often requires drivers to use an ignition interlock on their vehicle for five years.

These statistics were as of Friday, Sept. 25, the three-year anniversary of the implementation of these regulations.

The governor also pointed to a 20-day campaign, from Aug. 21 to Labor Day, Sept. 7, during which impaired rivers were targeted, 769 people were charged with driving while intoxicated statewide.

The governor’s office said that the average blood-alcohol content of motorists caught driving while impaired was more than .14 percent, nearly twice the legal limit of .08 percent.

State police and local law enforcement agencies targeted not only drunk or impaired motorists, but also drivers who were speeding, not wearing seatbelts, not abiding by the “move over” law and texting while driving.

State and local law enforcement agencies have also issued 96,366 tickets for cell phone use while driving in 2015 and 3,213,900 since the law took effect in 2001.