Governor's Office of Highway Safety awards traffic grant to PCSO

PINAL COUNTY - The Governor's Office of Highway Safety has awarded almost $200,000 in grants to the Pinal County Sheriff's Office for the next fiscal year.

The funds will support the Traffic Unit for additional DUI and speed patrols, along with paying for accident investigation overtime.

"DUIs, speeding and crashes are expensive, and the legal consequences are punishing," Sheriff Ross Teeple said, "but it's even worse when careless drivers kill or seriously injure innocent people."

$90,000 will pay for additional DUI task force details. $90,000 will fund overtime for extra speed enforcement, and $15,000 will fund crash investigation overtime.

Drivers can expect additional enforcement on major holidays all year, including every weekend between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

"PCSO already has a very aggressive Traffic Unit," Teeple said, "and this will allow those deputies to spend even more hours making our roads safer."