Newspaper Clipping - Newspaper Clipping Scan - Officer Tracy Harell Police Complete Safe and Sober Project - 8/1/2003 (2) Eagan Police Department completes Safe and Sober project
Recently Eagan Police laws. An example of this arose out of traffic stops. Many
Officers completed a Safe and occurred July 26, 2003, when of these were for speed, stop
Sober project. The goal of the Eagan Police Officer Harrell sign or equipment violations,
Safe and Sober project is to pro- was working on a Safe and which officers see every day.
vide an increased patrol effort Sober detail and he stopped a This past month, officers
directed at specific traffic safety car which turned out to be a logged 66 traffic enforcement
issues. In the most recent proj- stolen vehicle. The driver was hours for the Safe and Sober
ect,the officers concentrated on arrested and narcotics were project.During the project,offi-
DWI cases. found inside the vehicle. cers stopped 114 vehicles,
A well-known theory among People often question the arrested three individuals for
police officers is that if you importance and prioritization of DUI and two others for under-
conduct enough traffic stops, traffic enforcement. This is just age drinking violations.
eventually you will encounter another example of how traffic Additionally,from July 3 to 26,
other forms of criminal activity. enforcement leads to improved Eagan officers arrested a total
Criminals drive cars and exhib- crime control. In fact, in Eagan of 20 people for drinking- and
it the same disregard for traffic during 2002, there were 102 driving-related offenses.
laws as they do for criminal narcotics-related arrests that
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