Police get grant for anti-DUI campaign

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- The South San Francisco Police Department will soon begin a yearlong campaign to end drunken driving by increasing DUI checkpoints, staking out repeated DUI offenders, increasing patrols and conducting court stings.

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The efforts are possible because of a $137,588 grant the department received for 2010 from the California Office of Traffic Safety, according to South San Francisco police.

In 2008, 1,029 people died in California due to alcohol-impaired crashes, said Christopher J. Murphy, director of the Office of Traffic Safety. This was a 9 percent decrease from 2007.

"This grant will help keep that trend going by getting drunk drivers off the roadways of South San Francisco," Murphy said.

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