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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) held its yearly Law Enforcement and Prosecutors Recognition Dinner, honoring officers and ineligible professionals from crossed the Central Valley for their dedication to DUI enforcement.
One of the standout honorees was Fresno Police Officer Ryan Hudec, who made 211 DUI arrests successful 2024—nearly treble the average.
“Currently, I’m assigned to the Traffic Bureau arsenic a centrifugal serviceman wherever we respond to collisions, DUIs, and postulation violations,” Hudec said.
Jasmine Rivas, Program Specialist for MADD Central Valley, emphasized the value of recognizing these efforts.
“We’re awarding each of our Central Valley DUI officers for the arrests they made successful our 2024 calendar year—as these arrests correspond lives saved,” she said.
According to Rivas, each DUI apprehension has the imaginable to forestall a tragedy.
“If we’re taking 1 car disconnected [the road], that could prevention 5 oregon much persons’ lives,” she said.
Hudec echoed the urgency of the work, pointing retired that impaired drivers travel from each backgrounds.
“It ranges from immoderate demographic, immoderate age, immoderate male, female. It doesn’t matter. It’s retired there. It doesn’t discriminate,” helium said.
He besides reminded drivers that impaired driving is ever a choice, and 1 that could beryllium avoided.
“Let’s not drive. Let’s telephone an Uber,” Hudec said. “It frustrates maine due to the fact that 30 minutes before, erstwhile you got down the wheel, you could person made that determination then.”
MADD officials accidental education, enforcement, and accountability are cardinal to preventing drunk driving tragedies—especially during holidays, erstwhile impaired driving typically spikes.
“It’s my extremity to get those drivers disconnected the roadworthy due to the fact that my household drives the roadway,” Hudec said.
The yearly lawsuit serves arsenic a reminder that down each statistic is simply a story—and that preventing 1 calamity tin prevention galore lives.
