The word 'checkpoints' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a particular area or point where someone is stopped, inspected, or questioned. For example: "The police set up checkpoints to look for contraband."
Recently I left Damascus after buying a fake ID for $30 to pass the army checkpoints at the Turkish borders.
On the drive from the airport, I passed no fewer than six police or military checkpoints, all manned by heavily armed men.
Despite past pledges by Niger's government to tackle people-smuggling, local officials in the Agadez region have profited from bribes being paid at checkpoints along the route, a Reuters investigation found.
By July 2009, the Interior Ministry had increased security at all checkpoints across the Tigris river into Baghdad, making a commute at any time of day even more insufferable than normal.
On the way to the US, he passed through Nazi checkpoints in Paris posing as a cheese merchant.
"The checkpoints in the area are under the control of Hezbollah members," he told Asharq al-Awsat.
Drivers on this road are careful to avoid stopping between the regular military checkpoints inspecting all passers by.
The operation, the Drug Enforcement Agency said in its statement, allowed the baggage handlers – who weren't required to go through a full security screening – to carry duffel bags and backpacks filled with plastic bags of the drug into the Oakland airport, where they handed them off to passengers who had already been through TSA checkpoints.
Many soldiers who were guarding checkpoints in Arbaeen, Barazil and Friyia districts defected yesterday.
At one of the many checkpoints around the Yobe capital of Damaturu, a soldier said the number of children hawking on the streets had ballooned in recent weeks.
When Matilde Abarca heard that armed vigilantes had dragged her son Sergio de Román from the market stall where he sold mangos, she rushed to beg for his release at one of the checkpoints the group had erected in the Mexican town of Chilapa.
