The LaPorte City Police Department has received an Operation Pull Over grant worth $22,500 for next year which will fund 700 hours of dangerous driving, impaired driving and seat belt patrols.
Operation Pull Over is a traffic safety program which targets impaired driving, seat belt and child restraint violations, plus dangerous driving. Type of dangerous driving include speeding, stop sign/signal violations, aggressive driving and distracted driving. While texting is probably the distracted driving behavior that we most commonly think of, there are many other sources of distracted driving: eating and drinking, pets and passengers, grooming, and radio/climate control.
Officers urge you to give your driving your full attention at all times.
