CHP's new anti-DUI grant

Staff Report | Article Launched: 02/08/2007 12:00:00 AM PST

The California Highway Patrol has obtained a grant called "Statewide Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Reduction Effort," from the Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
This grant funds DUI enforcement to remove impaired drivers from California's roadways, according to a CHP press release.

CHP personnel will be deployed on an overtime basis. In addition to enforcing DUI laws, officers will also enforce all other traffic safety laws such as, speeding, unsafe passing, and occupant restraint violations.

Utilizing project-funded overtime, the CHP will conduct a minimum of 200 sobriety checkpoints, 45 DUI task force operations and deploy DUI roving enforcement patrol operations statewide. The enforcement activities will be conducted statewide between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007.

The CHP is urging motorists to help reduce DUI fatalities and injuries by not drinking and driving. Let's all do our best to keep California roadways safety in 2007, the CHP press release ended.

Article courtesy of http://www.chicoer.com/

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