Grant Details:
Application Due Date: TBA
Description: Purpose: To provide potential Highway Safety Funding recipients with a comprehensive listing of regulations governing the administration of an approved highway safety project. Objectives: To reduce the number of impaired driving injuries and fatalities through increased high-visibility DUI enforcement. To communicate to the public, through media venues, the inceased level of DUI enforcement, so the drivers will perceive that the chance of being caught operating under the influence is too high a risk, therefore deterring that behavior. Activities and Procedures: This program is being offered on an expanded year-round basis and is in line with the goals and objectives as highlighted in the Connecticut Highway Safety Plan. The funding will be used to address various circumstances in which increased drinking and driving within the municipality is expected to take place. In the course of discussions with police agencies, it is evident that the incidence of impaired driving increases at certain times of the year other than holiday periods; for example, shoreline communities during the summer months have increases in population. Events such as summer festivals, country fairs, music concerts, sporting evenets, etc. all represent a potential for a higher incidence of impaired driving. Enforcement techniques to be employed include extra DUI patrol activities, and may include field sobriety checkpoints. A checkpoint is definied as, an iperation not to exceed eight officers, including a supervisor, conducted at a fixed location, that lasts no more than eight hours where operators are stopped and interviewed to determine if the operator is impaired. Roaming or saturation patrols will not be conducted or reported as checkpoints. Policies and Procedures DUI Application Instructions and Regulations 2010 Comprehensive DUI Enforcement Program Application
Organization Information:
Organization: Connecticut Department of Transportation
Website: http://www.ct.gov/dot/site/default.asp
Contact Information:
Contact Name: Kathryn Barnabei
Contact Email: Kathryn.Barnabei@ct.gov
Contact Phone: (860) 594-2364
More Information:
http://www.ct.gov/dot/cwp/view.asp?a=2094&q=435934
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