From June 10 – 24 officers from the La Porte Police Department worked 66.25 hours of Operation Pull Over funded aggressive driving patrols. The goal of these patrols was to prevent crashes, injuries and fatalities. These patrols targeted the dangerous moving violations that cause traffic crashes. These violations include sign/signal violation and failure to yield; speeding or driving too fast for conditions; following too closely; improper turning and driving left of center among other violations.
During these patrols, officers wrote a total of 96 citations, 75 warnings and made five misdemeanor arrests and one felony criminal arrest. The citations included 44 for speeding, 17 for sign/signal violations and 19 for seat belt violations. The rest of the citations were for a variety of offense.
“The La Porte Police Department will continue its efforts throughout the summer to increase traffic safety in our community by running special patrols addressing seat belt violations and dangerous and impaired driving. Summer is a time when there are more cars on the road and motorists need to be as safety conscious as possible. Please drive safely and defensively at all times,” said Captain Tom Heath.
Operation Pull Over is a traffic safety grant program funded by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration and administered by the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute. The goal of Operation Pull Over is to reduce traffic crashes, injuries and fatalities by promoting passenger restraint use, and supporting impaired and dangerous driving enforcement.
For more information on Operation Pull Over and the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute’s other programs and activities, please visit http://www.in.gov/cji.