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Police agencies in Pleasanton and Dublin each received state grants totaling over $110,000 combined to fund enforcement efforts aimed at deterring unsafe behaviors and enhancing safety conditions on streets in their cities.
“This grant funding enhances our ongoing traffic safety efforts,” said Sgt. Steve Ayers of the Pleasanton Police Department, which was awarded $50,000. “Our intent is to mitigate dangerous behaviors and create an environment where everyone feels safe on the road.”
Capt. Nate Schmidt, of Dublin Police Services, which garnered $65,000, said, “This grant funding allows us to support our ongoing traffic safety efforts and goals of reducing serious injury and fatal crashes in our community. We will provide directed targeted enforcement efforts and educational opportunities to those drivers who jeopardize the safety of other people on the road.”
In both cases, the grant came from the California Office of Traffic Safety via the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for initiatives to be conducted now through September 2023.
According to both departments, the grants will support:
* DUI checkpoints and patrols focused on stopping suspected impaired drivers.
* High-visibility distracted driving enforcement operations targeting drivers in violation of California’s hands-free cell phone law.
* Enforcement operations focused on the most dangerous driver behaviors that put the safety of people biking or walking 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 presentations on traffic safety issues such as distracted driving, impaired driving, speeding, 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).
