For the area around Lambeau Field, the New Year's celebration will start Saturday afternoon and likely won't end until Sunday afternoon after the Packers game.
Area police departments are putting extra officers on the weekend roll call to deal with crowds that may be partying well into New Year's Day.
The Ashwaubenon Public Safety Department won't tell us how many officers will be on duty, but there's no doubt those who are working will be focused on the entertainment district blocks from Lambeau Field.
"It's not every day that we can have a Packer game, New Year's Eve, the Badgers playing," Lieutenant Terry Rottier said.
The New Year's weekend events will attract thousands of partiers and football fans to the stadium district and its surrounding bars and restaurants.
"There's going to be a lot more people in town than it would be on a normal weekend outside of the football season, so we're staffing accordingly," Rottier said.
Besides the department's normal patrol, it's adding extra officers. Some will be on overtime, although no exact cost is being released.
But rather than watching the Times Square ball drop at home, these public safety officers say they took an oath to protect us.
"Our main goal here is that our traveling motor public and our village residents are safe," Rottier said. "We always hope that there's no calls. However, if there is calls we want to be able to react in a timely fashion."
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