The La Porte Police Department will be conducting 35 hours of additional Comprehensive Highway Injury Reduction Program funded traffic safety patrols from December 20 – January 6. Patrol officers will be working in all parts of La Porte with the primary focus of enforcing seat belt and child restraint laws; while also strictly enforcing all other traffic laws throughout the city.
“The time period around Christmas and New Years was chosen because it is a good time for us to remember that one of the best things we can do for our loved ones is to always make sure they are properly restrained when in a motor vehicle,” said Captain Pat Hemphill. “The greatest way to prevent injury or death in a motor vehicle crash is to be buckled up 100% of the time.”
Comprehensive Highway Injury Reduction Program is a traffic safety grant program funded through federal highway safety funds and is administered by the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute. To find out more information about Operation Pull Over, DUI: Taskforce Indiana and the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute’s programs please visit their web site at http://www.in.gov/cji.
