$135,000 OTS grant to enhance Redding traffic services programs, fund enforcement operations
REDDING, Calif., — Redding Police Department was excited to announce today that the department has received a $135,327 grant from the Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to focus on traffic safety within the City of Redding. The grant is intended to assist with the department’s enforcement efforts in the areas of traffic safety; and to deter illegal, often dangerous, driving behaviors that increase the risk of crashes on the city’s streets and roadways, according to Redding PD.
The goal of the OTS Grant Program is to prevent serious injury and death resulting from motor vehicle crashes so all roadway users arrive at their destination safely. Using Federal Highway Safety Program funds, the OTS partners with political subdivisions throughout the state to address California’s highway safety needs at the state, county and local level and awards grants to law enforcement agencies that submit for traffic-related programs funding, supported by local crash data and other relevant information that demonstrates a specific need for funding.
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OTS grants are typically awarded for education and enforcement programs related to alcohol and drug-impaired driving, distracted driving, emergency medical services, motorcycle, bicycle and pedestrian safety programs, and related traffic enforcement operations. The grant will also enable officers to conduct special enforcement efforts and programs during specific traffic-related safety campaigns and holidays.
With their recently awarded grant funding, Redding PD will be better able to focus on the following areas:
•Driving Under the Influence Enforcement through checkpoints and saturation patrols, focusing on suspected impaired drivers.
•Collaborative Driving Under the Influence Enforcement, working with neighboring agencies in focused patrols for impaired drivers.
•General Traffic Enforcement, general enforcement in the areas of the primary collision factors such as speed, right-of-way, and failure-to-yield violations throughout the City of Redding.
•Distracted Driving Enforcement for both adults and juvenile drivers.
•Motorcycle Safety Enforcement.
•Pedestrian and Bicycle Enforcement focused on bicycle and pedestrian behaviors, as well as vehicles that could affect the safety of bicyclists and pedestrians.
•Collaborative Traffic Enforcement with our allied agencies.
Funding for this grant program, which will run through September 2022, was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Trevor Montgomery, 50, moved in 2017 to the Intermountain area of Shasta County from Riverside County and runs Riverside County News Source (RCNS) and Shasta County News Source (SCNS).
Additionally, he writes or has written for several other news organizations; including Riverside County based newspapers Valley News, Valley Chronicle, Anza Valley Outlook, and Hemet & San Jacinto Chronicle; the Bonsall/Fallbrook Village News in San Diego County; and Mountain Echo in Shasta County. He is also a regular contributor to Thin Blue Line TV and Law Enforcement News Network and has had his stories featured on news stations throughout the Southern California and North State regions.
Trevor spent 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Orthopedic Specialist before joining the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in 1998. He was medically retired after losing his leg, breaking his back, and suffering both spinal cord and brain injuries in an off-duty accident. (Click here to see segment of Discovery Channel documentary of Trevor’s accident.)
During his time with the sheriff’s department, Trevor worked at several different stations; including Robert Presley Detention Center, Southwest Station in Temecula, Hemet/Valle Vista Station, Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center, and Lake Elsinore Station; along with other locations.
Trevor’s assignments included Corrections, Patrol, DUI Enforcement, Boat and Personal Water-Craft based Lake Patrol, Off-Road Vehicle Enforcement, Problem Oriented Policing Team, and Personnel/Background Investigations. He finished his career while working as a Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigator and was a court-designated expert in child abuse and child sex-related crimes.
Trevor has been married for more than 30 years and was a foster parent to more than 60 children over 13 years. He is now an adoptive parent and his “fluid family” includes 13 children and 18 grandchildren.