Cops crack down on traffic safety

BALDWIN PARK -- Police will be cracking down on traffic safety this month, with planned operations targeting drunken driving as well seat belt enforcement, officials said.
The Baldwin Park Police Department will hold a sobriety and driver's license checkpoint Saturday at an undisclosed time and location within the city, Baldwin Park police Lt. David Reynoso said in a written statement.
Police will also participate in a Click It or Ticket campaign between Friday and Feb. 28, in which officers will focus extra enforcement on making sure everyone inside a vehicle is wearing a seat belt, police said.
Though 95.7 percent of Californians use their seat belts, the remaining percentage who don't amounts to more than a million people, California Office of Traffic Safety Director Christopher J. Murphy said.
The Baldwin Park Police Department is one of 280 law enforcement statewide participating in the Click It or Ticket campaign, officials said.
Both the sobriety checkpoint and seat belt enforcement efforts are being paid for by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.