DUI Grant Helping GJPD
$9,000 to Help Pay Overtime to Officers
POSTED: 6:53 pm MDT August 31, 2010UPDATED: 7:20 pm MDT August 31, 2010GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Starting this weekend, the Grand Junction Police Department will be stepping up DUI enforcement until the end of the year.Police say drinking and driving increases as people celebrate different events from September through the beginning of January. And thanks to a grant, they'll have extra patrol out there catching the offenders.$9,000 from the Colorado Department of Transportation will pay for overtime costs during the holidays. It's a plan to keep city streets safe, and one that may have not been possible without CDOT."Well, the city would end up paying that overtime money," said Sgt. Doug Norcross with GJPD. "And due to the budget constraints that we're under, we probably wouldn't have had nearly the man power that's available now."On average, Grand Junction police arrest 600 drunk drivers a year; 75 of those during November and December alone.They're hoping that number goes down as drivers become more responsible, designate a sober driver, and thus save many lives.
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