LAW ENFORCEMENT DUI ENFORCEMENT BLITZ STARTS 17-DAY WINTER HOLIDAY EFFORT ON FRIDAY, DEC. 18, EN EL CONDADO DE VENTURA
Although they would far rather talk to sober drivers during traffic stops and at sobriety checkpoints, law enforcement officers in Ventura County expect they will arrest a few hundred of the other kind during a 17-day crackdown that begins Friday, dic. 18.
Evite el cuarto anual de la represión de vacaciones de invierno del 14 termina a la medianoche del enero 3, said Commander Martin Meyer of the Oxnard Police Dept., presidente de la campaña.
Los funcionarios y diputados traídos 470 DUI suspects during last year’s similar holiday crackdown, a five percent bump over the previous year, y 64 por ciento por encima de la 2006-2007 winter numbers, Avoid the 14’s first year.
“If you drink and drive, you don’t just have the police to worry about,” dijo Meyer. “Think of all the drivers out there with cellular phones, just waiting to make a mobile 911 llamamos y sacarnos de ti.”
The enforcement blitz includes a sobriety checkpoint in Thousand Oaks on Saturday, dic. 19, y otro en el Fillmore el ene. 2.
Officers from seven cities, including Camarillo, llenar más, Moorpark, Ojai, Oxnard, Santa Paula and Thousand Oaks will run in-city saturation patrols on the opening weekend and Christmas weekend of the crackdown.
An intense DUI task force operation is set for Saturday, dic. 26. Oficiales de la Fuerza de Tarea llevarán a cabo una patrulla de la saturación de varias agencias en la cita de Oxnard y Ventura. Saturaciones de autopista Patrulla de California están en el calendario de aplicación para la Navidad y los fines de semana de Año Nuevo.
No se registraron muertes por DUI se informaron en ninguno de los últimos tres ofensivas de vacaciones de invierno. "Esa es la mejor noticia que podríamos tener,” dijo Meyer. "Tenemos la esperanza de que se repita.”
"Conducir ebrio no es simplemente vale la pena el riesgo. Not only do you risk killing yourself or someone else, but the trauma and financial costs of a crash or an arrest for impaired driving can be significant,” , dijo el director Christopher J. Murphy of the California Office of Traffic Safety, which funds the campaign through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
“Violators often face jail time, the loss of their driver’s license, higher insurance rates, honorarios de abogados, time away from work and dozens of other expenses. Así que no correr el riesgo. Recordar, if you are at the limit or over the limit, you are under arrest.”
