RECENT TRI-CITY DUI TASK FORCE HOSTED BY YCSO

Published on December 30, 2024

Using a grant from the Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety (GOHS), YCSO hosted a pre-Christmas weekend Tri-City DUI Enforcement Unit that resulted in more than a dozen traffic citations. 

Five law enforcement agencies (YCSO, Prescott PD, Prescott Valley PD, Chino Valley PD, and AZ DPS) partnered together to keep local streets and highways safe from impaired drivers the weekend before Christmas and the saturation patrol resulted in 61 traffic stops. In addition to 14 citations issued, four others resulted in a misdemeanor arrest, three of which involved drugs. 

YCSO received a $21,000 grant from GOHS for the impaired driving enforcement operation, which aimed to reduce incidences of alcohol and drug-related driving fatalities and injuries through enforcement, education and public awareness to drivers in Yavapai county. GOHS also provided other funding to YCSO: just over $20,000 to assist in serious or fatal accident investigations, and more than $15,000 for the Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP), which targets speeding, aggravated driving, red light running and other forms of risky driving behavior in certain areas of the county. 

Sheriff David Rhodes expressed his gratitude to GOHS for the funding of programs to make Yavapai county streets and highways safer for all residents and visitors, and he also thanked the four agencies who joined with YCSO in the DUI Task Force effort. 

YCSO was also involved in other holiday-related special saturation details hosted by our partner law enforcement agencies in Yavapai county. We strongly encourage citizens to drive sober at all times. If you do celebrate, please have a designated driver, or call a taxi or ride-share service to make sure you and everyone else on the road makes it home safely. Remember the motto "Get a DD, not a DUI."