Arizona DUI Enforcement Grant Approved

The Glendale City Council adopted a resolution allowing the Glendale Police Department to accept a $50,000 Governor's Office of Highway Safety's DUI enforcement grant. Glendale will use the money to pay overtime for patrol officers and other personnel during the holiday DUI task force. This will allow the department to increase the number of hours dedicated specifically to stopping drunken drivers. The city accepted a similar grant last winter. Glendale regularly participates in the West Valley DUI Task Force, a partnership of police agencies that team up for DUI saturation patrols. By targeting specific areas and making large numbers of arrests, the task force hopes to discourage drunken driving. Officers from Surprise, Goodyear, Avondale, El Mirage, Buckeye and Tolleson also participate in the task force.

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West Valley DUI Task Force Hosted In Surprise, Arizona

Police will be on the lookout for drunken drivers in Surprise on Saturday night (November 14, 2009). From 7 p.m. until 3 a.m., police from Surprise and about eight other agencies will descend upon the West Valley city to seek those who appear to be driving while impaired. Assisting agencies include police departments in Glendale, Avondale, Tolleson, Goodyear, Buckeye and El Mirage. The state Department of Public Safety and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office are also expected to help with the effort. "We've all witnessed the tragic results of someone's decision to drink and drive," said Surprise police Sgt. Mike Ferrara in a news release. That's why you see this cooperative effort from the participating agencies."

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