Concord Police Department received a $115,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) for a one-year enforcement and education program.
The money will fund various activities intended to reduce deaths and injuries on California roads.
“The Concord Police Department is dedicated to our citizens and their safety while traveling on our roadways,” said Concord Police Chief Guy Swanger. “Drivers, motorcycle riders, bicyclists and pedestrians all have a responsibility to use the roads in a safe manner. Our Traffic Unit and Patrol officers are going to be out enforcing the traffic laws and trying to reduce dangerous driving habits, including DUI and distracted driving, during this OTS Grant period.”
The grant-related activities are for the 2020 federal fiscal year, which runs from Oct. 1, 2019 to Sept. 30, 2020.
The funding from the OTS will be used for numerous programs, including:
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- DUI checkpoints.
- Patrols specifically looking for suspected alcohol and/or drug-impaired drivers.
- Patrols targeting violations of California’s hands-free cell phone law and vehicle code violations by drivers, motorcyclists, bicyclists and pedestrians that put other roadway users at risk.
- Patrols targeting the primary causes of crashes: Speeding, improper turns, running stop signs or signals, right-of-way violations and driving on the wrong side of the road.
- Patrols specifically looking for seat belt and child safety seat violations.
- Serving warrants to multiple DUI offenders.
- Creating “Hot Sheets” identifying repeat DUI offenders.
- Officer training to identify suspected impaired drivers and conduct sobriety tests.
“Getting in a vehicle remains one of the most dangerous things we do,” OTS director Barbara Rooney said. “We must continue to work work with our partners in law enforcement to shift that realization and make traveling on our roads safer.”
Get the damn red light runners on Treat at Navaronne Way! Don’t ever cross Treat with the green light unless you check traffic both ways.
wow
the council and politicians really have the police under control
that is a sad when police cant do their jobs unless awarded a democrat grant
to do their job
the chief said
Our Traffic Unit and Patrol officers are going to be out enforcing the traffic laws and trying to reduce dangerous driving habits, including DUI and distracted driving, during this OTS Grant period.”
WHAT ..so on a daily basis the police can not do this ….
how ridiculous that the state and city reps have shackled to police into a personal police force only able to do their jobs with grant money
so where does the money go that is taken from taxes ….???
sad to see the socialist agenda has taken over the police force as its own and allowing police to do their jobs at the will of the socialist agenda
this esplains why their are cars racing up and down crystal ranch road and yv
And yet nothing mentioned about creating city paid crossing guards for our public schools OR stepping up enforcement for all within intersections near our schools.
13 Crossing Guards City Wide for $120,000 (this is what City of Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill) pay each year to a 3rd party.
Date 01/01/2015 – 12/31/2018
County Contra Costa
City Concord
Selected Factors
Victim Age = 5 to 18
No State Highway included
Total 61 Children struck by a motor vehicle either walking or riding a bicycle
Ped Collisions 30 (8.5%
Bike Collisions 31 (8.8%)
Overall Victim Summary
Ped Collision Summary
By Type of Violation
Number of Ped Collisions by Type ofViolation
30 Ped Collisions
2…17 (…2…17 (…21954:8 (26.67%)
21954:8 (26.67%) 21456:2 (6.67%)21456:2 (6.67%)
Party Violation Classification Type of Violation Description Count%
Driver 21950 Driver failure to yield right-of-way to pedestrians at a marked or unmarked crosswalk 17 56.67%
Pedestrian 21954 Pedestrian failure to yield right-of-way to vehicles when crossing outside of a marked or unmarked crosswalk 8 26.67%
Pedestrian 21456 Pedestrian failure to yield right-of-way at traffic signal / Failure of pedestrian to yield right-of-way to vehicles already in intersection Failure to obey crosswalk symbols or finish crossing before “countdown” ends 2 6.67%
Check out the collision map using data from California Department of Transportation to see where most of these collisions occur.
https://tims.berkeley.edu/tools/gismap/#
Good job Concord PD … as always keep up the good work 999
Do something about the blacked out Tinted Windshields, this is getting out of hand. Can drive down Galindo and Willow Pass and count 5 -10 cars like this. Come On now!!!
They only have 5 motorcycle cops (instead of the 10 they used to have), and the department is down 12 officers. They also only have 3 police dogs (instead of 9), and they disbanded their crime scene unit. And out of touch chief, out of control managers, and hard work not be rewarded have led to a moral problem.
As a city resident, I want more police. I want more traffic laws enforced. I want the problem homeless people issues addressed.
If it takes grant money to get more enforcement, so be it.