Extra law enforcement patrols out for Super Bowl LIX festivities

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Law enforcement crossed the Central Valley is informing drivers to beryllium harmless portion connected the roadworthy this weekend.

"One determination tin alteration everybody's beingness successful an instant," Fresno County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Tony Botti said.

Botti says deputies volition beryllium assisting Fresno and Clovis Police with stepped-up patrols this play to marque definite radical enactment harmless connected the road.

"We cognize erstwhile a large lawsuit similar the Super Bowl is going on, during the game, aft the game, there's ever a higher accidental that somebody's connected the roadworthy that's swerving, that's being inattentive," helium said. "Our anticipation is that we don't person to marque immoderate DUI arrests. That's not due to the fact that we didn't spot them. That's due to the fact that everybody got the connection to enactment responsibly and get location safely,"

Botti says ride-share services similar Lyft are an casual mode to support you and your loved ones harmless if you determine to drink.

The institution released a connection saying successful part, "We expect a ample fig of rides, and we're besides readying accrued incentives for drivers the week of the crippled to guarantee determination are capable drivers to conscionable request and to assistance drivers marque the astir of their time."

"Take the 50-60 dollar thrust alternatively of spending that play successful jail," Botti said.

Lyft Driver Ernie Contreras has been driving for the ride-share app for astir 8 years.

He believes immoderate magnitude of intoxicant depletion is unsafe and says helium inactive doesn't recognize wherefore radical don't take to usage the app.

"It's easy. The app is casual to use. You tin inquire for a thrust aboriginal oregon inquire for the thrust aboriginal and idiosyncratic volition prime you up. At the extremity of the day, I deliberation utilizing the app is gonna prevention a batch of lives," Contreras said.

It's not conscionable drunk drivers that officers volition beryllium looking for arsenic well.

Botti says it's communal TO drawback radical nether the power of medicine drugs and cannabis.

He wants to beryllium precise wide that driving with those substances successful your strategy tin beryllium conscionable arsenic unsafe arsenic alcohol.