The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office received a grant from the California Office of Highway Safety (OTS) for the Traffic Enforcement Program to Increase Highway Safety.
The $207,400 OTS grant will support ongoing enforcement and education programs to help reduce the number of serious injuries and deaths on county roads.
This support will provide additional programs and resources, including: Driving Under the Influence (DUI) checkpoints and saturation patrols focused on stopping drivers suspected of driving under the influence.
Additionally, highly visible distracted driving enforcement operations targeting drivers who violate California's hands-free cell phone law; and enforcement operations focused on the most dangerous driver behaviors that endanger the safety of people on bicycles and on foot.
It will also serve to include control operations focused on the main violations that cause accidents: speeding, failing to yield, running stop signs and/or red lights, and improper turns or lane changes.
Also, for community presentations on traffic safety issues such as distracted driving, drunk driving, speeding, and bicycle and pedestrian safety; and law enforcement collaboration with neighboring agencies.
Added to this is the training and/or recertification of officers: Standard Field Sobriety Test (SFST), Advanced Enforcement of Driving Under the Influence (ARIDE) and Drug Recognition Expert (DRE).
Finally, the money will allow for highly publicized motorcycle safety, pedestrian safety, and/or bicycle safety operations in areas or during events with a high number of motorcycle incidents or collisions due to unsafe speed, drunk driving, following too closely, unsafe lane changes, improper turns, and other major crash factor violations.
The grant program will be in effect until September 2024.
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