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, high-visibility 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 cycling or walking.
Likewise, it will serve to include control operations focused on the main violations that cause accidents: speeding, failure to yield, skipping stop signs and/or red lights, and improper turns or lane changes.
Additionally, for presentations to the community on traffic safety issues such as distracted driving, drunk driving, speeding, and cyclist and pedestrian safety; and collaboration in law enforcement with neighboring agencies.
Added to this is the Training and/or Recertification of agents: Standard Field Sobriety Test (SFST), Advanced Application of Driving Under the Influence on the Road (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, impaired driving alcohol, following too closely, unsafe lane changes, improper turns and other violations of the main collision factors.
The grant program will be in effect until September 2024.
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