From the Avoid the 100 Campaign
The Winter holiday Anti-DUI crackdown has resulted in a significant number of DUI arrests from local routine traffic enforcement and special Avoid the 100 DUI deployments overnight in Los Angeles County.
From 12:01 AM Friday December 13, 2013 through midnight Monday December 23, 2013 officers representing 100 county law enforcement agencies have arrested 1,366 individuals for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. In 2012, 1,298 DUI arrests occurred during the same eleven (11) day time period. (**NOTE: These numbers are only provisional with some agencies yet to report**)
The CHP is deploying all available officers for their Maximum Enforcement Period which begins at 6:00 PM tonight through midnight December 25th. All regularly scheduled traffic and patrol officers will focus efforts at stopping and arresting DUI drivers during their normal shifts. Multiple DUI/Driver’s license checkpoints, multi-agency DUI task force operations and local roving DUI patrols are all part of this region-wide crackdown during the 20 day Winter Holiday Campaign.
Police, Sheriff and the CHP encourage all motorists to help make your community safer: Report Drunk Drivers – Call 911! Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. DUI arrest data collection will continue through New Year’s Day, midnight Wednesday, January 1, 2014.
