Crime & Safety
Los Angeles County Officers Plan Summer DUI Crackdown
Law enforcement agencies are planning two DUI checkpoints in Claremont Aug. 19 and Aug. 25.
Starting this weekend, law enforcement agencies throughout Los Angeles County will step up their DUI efforts for a two-week crackdown on drunk driving.
The crackdown will include high visibility of police officers, 64 DUI and driver’s license checkpoints and 173 roving saturation patrols throughout Los Angeles County from Aug. 16 through Sept. 2. Law enforcement agencies from the East San Gabriel Valley, including Glendora, Azusa, Claremont and La Verne, will host a DUI checkpoint in an undisclosed location Friday, Aug. 23.
“Every year, about one third of all motor vehicle traffic deaths involve one or more drunk drivers or motorcycle operators,” said Glendora Police Chief Rob Castro in a statement. “In 2011, 9,878 people died in crashes involving drunk drivers. That works out to approximately one drunk driving fatality every 53 minutes. In California, 774 died due to the crime of impaired driving.”
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2013 Summer/Labor Day DUI Checkpoint and Patrol Schedule:
Friday, August 16
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DUI Checkpoint – El Segundo
DUI Checkpoint – Huntington Park
DUI Checkpoint – Pasadena
DUI Checkpoint – Santa Monica
DUI Checkpoint – Torrance
DUI Checkpoint – CHP South Los Angeles
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Van Nuys Area
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Newton Area
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Olympic Area
DUI Checkpoint – LASD Lynwood
DUI Checkpoint – LASD Malibu
DUI Checkpoint – LASD Palmdale
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance
DUI Patrol – Long Beach
DUI Patrol – Pomona
DUI Patrol – San Gabriel
DUI Patrol – Whittier
Saturday, August 17
DUI Checkpoint – Burbank
DUI Checkpoint – El Monte
DUI Checkpoint – Huntington Park
DUI Checkpoint – Manhattan Beach
DUI Checkpoint – CHP South Los Angeles
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Northeast Area
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Foothill Area
DUI Checkpoint – LASD Paramount
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance
DUI Patrol – Pomona
DUI Patrol – Vernon
DUI Patrol – CHP Newhall
DUI Patrol – CHP West Los Angeles
Sunday, August 18
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance
DUI Patrol – LAPD Foothill Area
Monday, August 19
DUI Checkpoint – Claremont
Tuesday, August 20
DUI Checkpoint – Signal Hill
Thursday, August 22
DUI Checkpoint – Hawthorne
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Hollywood Area
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance
Friday, August 23
DUI Checkpoint – Avoid the 100 (East) Glendora, Azusa, Covina, Irwindale, Pomona, La Verne, Claremont, CHP, LAPD
DUI Checkpoint – Avoid the 100 (East) Glendale, Pasadena, South Pasadena, San Marino, San Fernando, Burbank, CHP
DUI Checkpoint – Gardena
DUI Checkpoint – Montebello
DUI Checkpoint – Pomona
DUI Checkpoint – Redondo Beach
DUI Checkpoint – Whittier
DUI Checkpoint – CHP Altadena
DUI Checkpoint – CHP Baldwin Park
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Southwest Area
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Hollywood Area
DUI Checkpoint – LASD West Hollywood
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (East) - (San Gabriel, Downey, Alhambra, Monterey Park, Montebello, Bell Gardens, Whittier)
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance
DUI Patrol – Pomona
Saturday, August 24
DUI Checkpoint – Avoid the 100 (East) in City of Arcadia (Participating agencies: Arcadia, West Covina, Baldwin Park School Police, El Monte, Monrovia, Sierra Madre, CHP, LAPD)
DUI Checkpoint – El Monte
DUI Checkpoint – South Pasadena
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Southwest Area
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Topanga Area
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance
DUI Patrol – Long Beach
DUI Patrol – Pomona
Sunday, August 25
DUI Checkpoint – Claremont
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa
Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance
DUI Patrol – Long Beach
Wednesday, August 28
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance
DUI Patrol – LAPD Hollywood Area
Thursday, August 29
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD Southeast Area
DUI Checkpoint – LASD Bellflower
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance
Friday, August 30
DUI Checkpoint – Inglewood
DUI Checkpoint – Pasadena
DUI Checkpoint – Redondo Beach
DUI Checkpoint – Vernon
DUI Checkpoint – CHP East Los Angeles
DUI Checkpoint – CHP Santa Fe Springs
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - West Valley Area
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - 77th Street Area
DUI Checkpoint – LASD Malibu
DUI Checkpoint – LASD Norwalk
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (East) Glendora, Azusa, Irwindale, Covina, La Verne, Pomona, Claremont
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (East) Arcadia, West Covina, Baldwin Park School Police, El Monte, Monrovia, Sierra Madre, and CHP
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance
DUI Patrol – Pomona
DUI Patrol – San Gabriel
DUI Patrol – Whittier
Saturday, August 31
DUI Checkpoint – El Monte
DUI Checkpoint – Long Beach
DUI Checkpoint – San Gabriel
DUI Checkpoint – CHP West Los Angeles
DUI Checkpoint – CHP West Valley
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Rampart Area
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Northeast Area
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD - Devonshire
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance
DUI Patrol – Pomona
DUI Patrol – Whittier
DUI Patrol – LAPD - 77th Street Area
Sunday, September 1
DUI Checkpoint – CHP West Los Angeles
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance
DUI Patrol – Pomona
DUI Patrol – LAPD Southeast Area
Monday, September 2
MEP (Maximum Enforcement Period) – CHP Southern Division
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) El Camino College Police, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach, Torrance
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