The Concord Police Department will roll out a police traffic services program to deter dangerous and illegal driving behaviors that increase the risk of crashes in the community thanks to a $150,000 grant from the Office of Traffic Safety.
“Impairment, speeding and other dangerous driving behaviors jeopardize the safety of other people on the road,” Concord Police Department, Lt. Mark Robison said. “This funding allows us to provide necessary traffic enforcement measures with the goal of reducing serious injury and fatal crashes on our roads.”
The grant will pay for additional enforcement measures, including:
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- DUI checkpoints and patrols specifically focused on suspected impaired drivers.
- Enforcement operations focused on suspected distracted drivers in violation of California’s hands-free cell phone law.
- Bicycle and pedestrian safety enforcement operations focused on driver behaviors that put vulnerable road users at risk.
- Enforcement operations focused on top violations that cause crashes: speeding,
failure to yield, stop sign and/or red-light running, and improper turning or lane changes. - Community education presentations on traffic safety issues such as distracted driving, DUI, speeding, and bicycle and pedestrian safety.
- Collaborative enforcement efforts with neighboring agencies.
- Officer training and/or recertification: Standard Field Sobriety Test (SFST), Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) and Drug Recognition Expert (DRE).
The grant program will run through September 2022.
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How about some traffic enforcement on Concord Blvd.The speeding is out of control.And back in the day if you had loud exhaust you got a fix it ticket.At three in the morning when a car goes by at about eighty and loud exhaust it’s ridiculous.
The headline reads $135,000, but in the first paragraph it reads $150,000. Which ever amount it is, how long will it last, and what are they going to do when it runs out? Shouldn’t the above-mentioned laws be enforced every day, even without a grant? The taxpaying citizens of Concord are not paying the top brass big bucks to sit on their butts all day, time to get to work.
While they’re at it, crack down on the illegal food carts starting to spread all over the Monument neighborhood. It’s starting to look like Tijuana.
This use to be included in a police officer’s duties and now we have to have a grant for them to do their job?
Someone has to pay for the unconstitutional DUI checkpoint overtime.
Thanks for the joke!
Waste of money
Good!
More stings at crosswalks are needed! Once again, I could have been clipped at a pedestrian crosswalk by some jerk who felt coming to a full stop at one of those pesky red, octagonal signs was a major inconvenience. It happens a lot because walking is one of the last forms of exercise my old bones can handle. I’m savvy enough to wait for the driver to acknowledge my right of way, so I wasn’t in danger but the rudeness and lack of concern ticks me off. Drivers are even selfish jerks at the flashing lights along the canal trail. Stings at Cowell and Concord B would be great. I’ll bring a chair and refreshments to watch the fun.
Used to be a whole lot more OTS money BEFORE the little captain got involved.
And they only have 4 motorcycle cops, not the 10 they used to have. Retention and recruitment have the numbers of officers down. And the word is out that the chief and his stooges are not who cops want to come to work for.
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