Winter AVOID the 100 LA County Law Enforcement Agencies: Anti-DUI Campaign (Update #5)
DUI Arrests Continue to Rise Compared to Last Year
The Winter Holiday Anti-DUI crackdown has resulted in a significant number of DUI arrests from local routine traffic enforcement and special Avoid the 100 DUI deployments overnight in Los Angeles County.
From 12:01 AM Friday December 16, 2011 through Midnight Thursday December 22, 2011 officers representing 100 county law enforcement agencies have arrested 1,028 individuals for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. In 2010, 924 DUI arrests occurred during the same seven (7) day time period.
All regularly scheduled traffic and patrol officers will focus efforts at stopping and arresting DUI drivers during their normal shifts. Multiple/DUI Driver’s License Checkpoints, Multi Agency DUI
Task Force operations and local Roving DUI patrols are all part of this region-wide crackdown during the 17-day Winter Holiday Campaign.
The CHP (and many police agencies) will be deploying all available officers during their Maximum Enforcement Period this holiday weekend; Friday 6 PM through midnight Monday.
Police, Sheriff and CHP encourage all motorists to help make the holidays safer: Report Drunk Drivers – Call 911. DUI arrest data collection will continue through New Year’s Weekend, midnight Sunday, January 1, 2012. Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety
http://www.ots.ca.gov/ , through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
http://www.nhtsa.gov/
MEDIA NOTE: Please visit the AVOID website at
www.californiaavoid.org for more information on the campaign’s DUI Enforcement, statistical data on DUI arrests and DUI fatal crashes from current and earlier enforcement efforts. The checkpoint locations and saturation patrols will be made available for media opportunities or ride-alongs each night.
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“Avoid the 100" LA County (Law Enforcement Agencies) DUI Task Force:
DUI Checkpoints Schedule (Dec.16, 2011-Jan.1, 2012)
http://sheriff.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/lasd/media/detail/?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/lasd+content/lasd+site/home/home+top+stories/avoid+the+100+la+county+law+enforcement+agencies+dui+task+force
December 23, 2011
Public Information Officer Contacts:
Sr. CSO Wendy Brewer, Glendora Police Dept., (626) 852-4826
wbrewer@glendorapd.org
Dep. Daniel Dail, LA County Sheriff’s Dept. (323)890-5400
Dadail@lasd.org
Inv. Vic Gomez, Gardena Police Dept., (310) 925-0111
vgomez@gardenapd.org
Off. Don Inman, LAPD, (213) 486-0703,
30891@lapd.lacity.org
Off. Vincente Ramirez, CHP, (818) 240-8200
ViRamirez@chp.ca.gov
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Captain Mike Parker
Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau – Newsroom
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
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