Monterey County officers work to stop speeders
A new program focused on traffic enforcement is making the Marina community and the rest of the Monterey Peninsula safer by slowing it down. A special group of Monterey regional traffic officers are aiming to do through the STOPP Program.
On Thursday, officers targeted the areas of Reservation Road, Imjin Parkway and Del Monte Boulevard, to catch speeders using the latest technology. They used a high-tech speed tracking device called LIDAR.
Marina Police said they wrote 49 traffic citations and gave nine warnings during the operation.
Officers said this year there have already been 20 accidents. While they hand out 70 to 80 tickets each time they do this special traffic enforcement, that’s not what the strategic traffic operations and prevention program is aiming to do.
“We could sit here and write tickets all day long. That’s not our goal. Our goal is to get people to slow down so we can reduce our accident rate and reduce the likelihood of people being injured,” Marina Police Sergeant Eddie Anderson said.
STOPP is made up of law enforcement agencies from across the Monterey Peninsula. They plan to set up these operations each month in problem areas. The money for the enforcement comes from Monterey County law enforcement agencies.
