LAREDO POLICE DEPT. RECEIVES TxDOT GRANT FUNDS FOR COMMUNITY TRAFFIC SAFETY ENFORCEMENT
Written by Post Public Information Representative, Sep 21, 2014, Comments Off
Courtesy Raul Leal,
LAREDO, TX – In an official presentation of ceremonial grant checks held today at the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Laredo District Office, the TxDOT Laredo District and the TxDOT Traffic Safety Division delivered two traffic safety grants to the City of Laredo and the Laredo Police Department.
The Laredo Police Department was awarded grants in the amount of $94,000 for Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) Comprehensive infraction enforcement, and $52,499 for STEP Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) grant infraction enforcement.
The City of Laredo will match the aforementioned grant amounts for each grant, city match $41,971 for STEP Comprehensive and city match $22,532.27 for STEP CMV, to leverage the programmed traffic safety enforcement production of the Laredo Police Department. TxDOT and City of Laredo collective enforcement amounts total $135,971 for STEP Comprehensive and $75,031 for STEP CMV to pay for officers’ overtime.
Last fiscal year, the Laredo Police Department was awarded $50,077 for STEP Comprehensive and $25,004 for STEP CMV.
Funds will be payable to the Laredo Police Department on a reimbursement basis from the Texas Department of Transportation made possible by the State and Community Highway Safety Grant Program from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Grant funds for use October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015.
The Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) Comprehensive grant will be utilized for the enforcement of DWI arrests, speed and safety belt citations, and intersection traffic control for the purpose of reducing the number of alcohol-related and speed related citations and intersection traffic control crashes as well as to increase safety seat belt usage.
The Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) grant will be utilized for CMV speed and safety belt citations and hazardous moving violation citations to reduce the number of speed and/or hazardous moving violation related crashes that involve a CMV, in efforts to increase the CMV speed compliance rate and increase of CMV safety belt usage rate among drivers and front seat passengers.
The Laredo Police Department plans to use 2,200 STEP Comprehensive enforcement hours to increase citations in the area of DWI arrests, speeding, child safety belt and intersection traffic control, 1,214 STEP CMV enforcement hours to increase CMV speed, safety belt and harzardous moving violation (HMV) citations.
