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Sixty people were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs last weekend during an ongoing, holiday anti-drunken driving program by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office and other county law enforcement agencies, deputies reported Monday, Dec. 17.
The DUI arrests, during a 48-hour sweep that started at 12:01 a.m. Friday and concluded at midnight Saturday, came from routine traffic stops and special DUI deployments overnight in Santa Clara County, deputies said.
The recent patrol is part of the 16-day Winter Holiday Anti-DUI crackdown involving regularly scheduled traffic and patrol officers, multiple DUI and driver’s license checkpoints, multi-agency DUI Task Force operations and roving DUI patrols throughout the county, deputies said.
Of the 60 arrests, the highest number took place Saturday by the San Jose Police Department, which brought 14 DUI suspects into custody, and sheriff’s deputies next with six arrests the same day, deputies said.
Deputies and officers from other county law enforcement jurisdictions made a total of 78 arrests during the same 48-hour period in 2011, deputies said.
The holiday-time campaign, to run through midnight Jan. 1., received its funding from a grant by the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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But I saw a bike rider run a stop sign yesterday. I wish the police would focus their attentions on those who are doing the most damage on the roads. Oh wait, they are! Nice work Police dept but keep it going.
Its estimated that for every driver arrested for DUI, 10 more get away with it. Keep that in mind as you observe the drivers on the road out there. Be careful out there on the roads, the drunk drivers truly are capable of taking your life.
Good work! Keep it up!
Good work, indeed. The only issue with this county is one gets arrested in prison and goes thru trial only if the arrested party is a legal resident or citizen. If the arrested person is an undocumented immigrant then that person gets a ride home by the cop and excused away. So watch out if you are legal in this country. you will get arrested and put in prison for violating the law but you are let go freely if you are undocumented because they are free to do anything. Thank You Santa Clara, San francisco, Los Angeles,etc…