DOWNEY — The Downey Police Department has been awarded a $270,000 state grant to increase traffic safety in the city. 

The grant will fund additional traffic enforcement efforts, including: 

• DUI checkpoints and patrols specifically focused on suspected impaired drivers

• Enforcement operations focused on distracted drivers

• Bicycle and pedestrian safety enforcement operations

• Enforcement operations focused on violations that cause crashes, such as speeding, failure to yield, stop sign and red-light running, and improper turning or lane changes

• Community education presentations

• Officer training and recertification 

“Impairment, speeding and other dangerous driving behaviors jeopardize the safety of other people on the road,” Downey Police Chief Dean Milligan said. “This funding allows us to provide necessary traffic enforcement measures with the goal of reducing serious injury and fatal crashes on our roads.” 

Funding was provided by the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.