Orange County's DUI task force has a holiday warning for drivers: “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.”
According to the Sheriff's Department, the 38-agency DUI Task Force program, which continues through Jan. 3, will utilize DUI/driver's license checkpoints; local DUI saturation patrols; multi-agency DUI task force strike team patrols; and DUI warrant/probation sweeps. And, during Christmas and New Year's weekends, the California Highway Patrol will deploy all available officers.
"If you are caught driving impaired, you will be arrested," said Deputy Wayne Howard with the Sheriff’s Department traffic bureau. "No warnings. No excuses.”
The department reminds drivers that DUI violators can get jail time, lose their driver's license and face higher insurance rates, attorney fees and court costs, as well as lose pay—or even a job—through lost work time.
Throughout the campaign, the Sheriff’s Department and Laguna Beach, Irvine, Tustin and La Palma police departments will conduct DUI saturation patrols. Other agencies have announced these schedules:
- Los Alamitos, Orange and UC Irvine police: Dec. 21, 8 p.m.-3 a.m.
- Placentia, Buena Park and La Habra: Dec. 22, 8 p.m.-3 a.m.
- Anaheim and Cal State Fullerton police: Dec. 22, 8 p.m.-3 a.m.
- Fullerton police: Dec. 24, 8 p.m.-3 a.m.
- Placentia police: Dec. 31, 8 p.m.-3 a.m.
Scheduled DUI/driver's license checkpoints:
- Anaheim: Dec. 29, 7 p.m.-3 a.m.
- Buena Park, Placentia: Dec. 29, 7 p.m.-3 a.m.
The Sheriff’s Department and Buena Park police will conduct DUI warrant service operations during the campaign but will not announce the dates.
Grant funding for the Orange County effort comes from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
I love your code Dusty, sure does make a lot of sense.
And that is why you see the nonsense one-liners. :) Thanks for the reinforcement, my friends. :)
Andromeda, what are you, like 8 years old? Don't inconvenience me or my freedoms to halt drunk drivers. Their just enjoying their own...oh wait minute: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/11/family-of-man-killed-by-alleged-dui-driver-calls-death-unimaginable.html
We are supposed to be a Constitutional Republic that follows the tenets passed along in the Bill of Rights. Innocent people are not supposed to be punished (or even inconvenienced) for the acts of a handful of criminals. That's not the nation I was born into. Sorry. And I certainly won't condone it like Hitler's henchmen condoned his actions. I told you there are perfectly LOGICAL optional ways to catch drunk drivers. You target the places that drunks frequent - like BARS - and put undercover cop cars in the parking lot waiting for a drunk to stagger out the front door to his car. And you pop him when he drives from the parking lot. There is no expectation of privacy as a drunk leaves a bar. And the bar owner has NO right to immunity from police surveillance. But the cities REFUSE to take that common sense enforcement action because it would make the bar owners made. But they don't mind ticking off an innocent law-abiding citizen minding his own business who is FORCED to undergo a police interrogation and invasive search. So you know the 'war on drunk drivers' is not about saving lives. It's about POWER and MONEY. Now respond to that mfriedrich. hah. But I know you won't. You'll run away because I make too much sense, don't I?
I hate it when it ends this way. No one goes all 10 rounds with me. It's discouraging and disappointing.