Full Notification

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                   November 3, 2021            
LT. Stephen Sharpe
(323)887-1200
[email protected]
 
City of Montebello Police Department Awarded $115,000 Grant from the Office of Traffic Safety
                                               
Montebello, Calif. – The Montebello 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.
 
“Impairment, speeding, and other dangerous driving behaviors jeopardize the safety of other people on the road,” Montebello Police Department, Captain Lopez 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:

• 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.
• 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.
 
Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The Montebello Police Department also received a $45,000  grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) for a traffic records improvement project to enhance the timeliness of reporting crash and citation data.
 
“Accurate and timely data is critical to understanding the nature of the biggest traffic safety issues in our community and the best ways to address them,” Montebello Police Department, Captain Lopez said. “We are grateful for this funding from the OTS, which allows us to report data efficiently and effectively.”
 
Grant funds will pay for a new electronic crash and citation data reporting system.
 
Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.