Full Notification

SUMMER/LABOR DAY AVOID DUI CAMPAIGN – MONDAY UPDATE 8

The Summer/Labor Day National Anti-DUI crackdown has resulted in a significant number of DUI arrests from local routine traffic enforcement and special Avoid the 100 DUI deployments overnight in Los Angeles County.

From 12:01 AM Friday August 16, 2013 through midnight Sunday August 25, 2013 officers representing 100 county law enforcement agencies have arrested 1,373 individuals for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. In 2012, 1,258 DUI arrests occurred during the same ten (10) day time period. Of the 187 DUI arrests that occurred last night, six of them were a result of crashes causing injury. (**NOTE: These numbers are only provisional with some agencies yet to report**)

This week, extra DUI saturation patrols and DUI checkpoints will be deployed in multiple cities in Los Angeles County (See Enforcement Schedule). In addition, all regularly scheduled traffic and patrol officers will focus efforts at stopping and arresting DUI drivers during their normal shifts.

Police, Sheriff and the CHP encourage all motorists to help make your community safer: Report Drunk Drivers – Call 911. Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

DUI arrest data collection will continue through midnight Labor Day, Monday, September 2, 2013. Avoid programs, named for the number of police agencies in each county, will conduct multiple/DUI driver’s license checkpoints, multi-agency DUI task force operations and DUI patrols region wide during 18-day Summer/Labor Day Campaign.

MEDIA NOTE: The checkpoint locations and saturation patrols will be made available for media opportunities or ride-alongs each night.

Avoid the 100 Los Angeles County

DUI Campaign

 

ENFORCEMENT SCHEDULE

Wednesday, August 28

DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance

DUI Patrol – LAPD Hollywood Area

Thursday, August 29

DUI Checkpoint – LAPD Southeast Area

DUI Checkpoint – LASD Bellflower

DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance

Friday, August 30

DUI Checkpoint – Inglewood

DUI Checkpoint – Pasadena

DUI Checkpoint – Redondo Beach

DUI Checkpoint – Vernon

DUI Checkpoint – CHP East Los Angeles

DUI Checkpoint – CHP Santa Fe Springs

DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - West Valley Area

DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - 77th Street Area

DUI Checkpoint – LASD Malibu

DUI Checkpoint – LASD Norwalk

DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (East) Glendora, Azusa, Irwindale, Covina, La Verne, Pomona, Claremont

DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (East) Arcadia, West Covina, Baldwin Park School Police, El Monte, Monrovia, Sierra Madre, and CHP

DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance

DUI Patrol – Pomona

DUI Patrol – San Gabriel

DUI Patrol – Whittier

Saturday, August 31

DUI Checkpoint – El Monte

DUI Checkpoint – Long Beach

DUI Checkpoint – San Gabriel

DUI Checkpoint – Torrance

DUI Checkpoint – CHP Antelope Valley

DUI Checkpoint – CHP Altadena

DUI Checkpoint – CHP East L.A.

DUI Checkpoint – CHP Santa Fe Springs

DUI Checkpoint – CHP South L.A.

DUI Checkpoint – CHP West Los Angeles

DUI Checkpoint – CHP West Valley

DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Rampart Area

DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Northeast Area

DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Devonshire

DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance

DUI Patrol – Pomona

DUI Patrol – Whittier

DUI Patrol – CHP Santa Fe Springs

DUI Patrol – LAPD - 77th Street Area

Sunday, September 1

DUI Checkpoint – CHP West Los Angeles

DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance

DUI Patrol – Pomona

DUI Patrol – LAPD Southeast Area

Monday, September 2

MEP (Maximum Enforcement Period) – CHP Southern Division

DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance

 

Media Notes: Reporters are invited to ride along with law enforcement or may join Task Force & checkpoint operations in your region throughout the Campaign by contacting one of the PIOs listed above. This schedule is subject to change and all DUI Activity may not be listed at the time of print but will be updated daily on the website: www.californiaavoiod.org

To schedule an interview regarding impaired driving efforts and programs in California please contact Chris Cochran, California Office of Traffic Safety at (916) 509-3063 or via email at [email protected]. Funding for the “Avoid” program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.