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RIVERSIDE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
Sheriff Stanley Sniff
Moreno Valley Police Department
PRESS RELEASE
Date/Time Written: October 8, 2009/ 1000 HRS Type of Incident: DUI Enforcement & Awareness Grant Date/Time of Incident: October 1, 2009 – September 30, 2010 Location(s) of Incident: City of Moreno Valley Reporting Officer: Sergeant Jacqueline Horton File Number: N/A MORENO VALLEY POLICE LAUNCHES PROGRAM
TO COMBAT DUI DEATHS AND INJURIESThe Moreno Valley Police Department has been awarded a new traffic safety grant for a year-long anti-DUI program aimed at preventing deaths and injuries on our roadways. New enforcement measures to combat impaired driving are coming as a result of a recent $196,615 grant awarded by the California Office of Traffic Safety to the Moreno Valley Police Department. The Moreno Valley Police Department is dedicated to keeping our streets safe through both enforcement and education.
This special DUI Enforcement and Awareness grant is to assist in efforts to reduce the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol and other drug related collisions. The grant activities will specifically target impaired driving offenders as well as educate the public on the dangers of impaired driving. This will be done through the use of DUI/driver’s license checkpoints, warrant searches for repeat DUI offenders, saturation patrols, and tow yard stings targeting offenders with suspended or revoked driver's licenses getting behind the wheel after retrieving their vehicle from the tow yard.
Drunk driving is one of America’s deadliest crimes. In 2008, over 11,700 people died in highway crashes involving a driver or motorcycle operator with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 or higher.
“Last year in California 1,029 died in alcohol-impaired crashes, a 9 percent reduction in deaths from 2007,” said Christopher J. Murphy, Director of the Office of Traffic Safety. “This grant will help keep that trend going by get drunk drivers off the roadways of Moreno Valley, making it safer for everyone.”
New this year is the addition of 5 special Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Operations. Motorcycle fatalities have been on the rise in California, increasing 175 percent statewide in the last decade, from 204 killed in 1998 to 560 killed in 2008.
Moreno Valley Police Officers will be conducting specialized enforcement efforts throughout the course of the next year. Extra officers will be on duty patrolling areas frequented by motorcycles. Officers will be cracking down on traffic violations made by motorcyclists, and other vehicle drivers, that result in far too many motorcycle collisions, injuries and deaths.
Funding for the grant comes from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Funding for this operation is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. ###
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