On Friday, TPD announced it accepted a $91,277 grant from the Governor’s Officer of Highway Safety and a $140,000 grant from the Oversight Council on Driving or Operating Under the Influence Abatement.
Jamie Donnelly The Tucson Police Department received over $200,000 to help enhance DUI enforcement efforts in the city.
The grants will help provide additional personnel support, employee related expenses and overtime expenses, a TPD news release said. The additional officers on the roads will participate in high-visibility DUI deployments and saturation patrols with an emphasis on holidays and weekend nights. People are also reading… The grants will also assist members of the impaired driver enforcement unit in helping educate members in the department with a mentorship program where officers will ride with members of the unit to become more proficient in investigating impaired drivers, the news release said.
Through the funding, TPD will join other law enforcement agencies as part of the Southern Arizona DUI task force for the remainder of 2022.
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