FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Both the Fresno Police Department and the Clovis Police Department announced Tuesday that they person some received wealth from the California Office of Traffic Safety.
Fresno Police Department received $673,000 and the Clovis Police Department received $142,000.
Officers accidental the grants volition beryllium utilized to enactment ongoing enforcement and acquisition programs, to assistance trim the fig of superior injuries and deaths connected our roads.
- According to constabulary officials, the assistance volition supply further programs and resources, including:
- DUI checkpoints and patrols focused connected stopping suspected impaired drivers.
- High-visibility distracted driving enforcement operations targeting drivers successful usurpation of California’s hands-free compartment telephone law.
- Enforcement operations focused connected the astir unsafe operator behaviors that enactment the information of radical biking oregon walking astatine risk.
- Enforcement operations focused connected apical violations that origin crashes: speeding, nonaccomplishment to yield, halt signs and/or red-light running, and improper turning oregon lane changes.
- Community presentations connected postulation information issues specified arsenic distracted driving, impaired driving, speeding, and bicycle and pedestrian safety.
- Officer grooming and/or recertification: Standard Field Sobriety Test (SFST), Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE), and Drug Recognition Expert (DRE).
The assistance programme runs done September 2025.