THE Guam Police Department now has more vehicles in its fleet.
Gov. Eddie Calvo yesterday released three 2011 Crown Victoria police cruisers on the Department of Public Works' lot.
Each vehicle costs about $32,849 and was purchased with funding from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Calvo commended DPW Director Joanne Brown and the Office of Highway Safety for making the purchase possible.
“When you think of public works, you think of it as an agency more responsible for the repair of roads; but there is more to public works – in particular the Office of Highway Safety that entails support and collaboration with our men and women of the police department,” Calvo said.
Brown said they were able to apply for the funding after the Office of Highway Safety was taken off high-risk status late last year. Brown explained there were concerns about the lack of accountability with regard to grants over the past several years that were finally resolved.
“This is the first time in seven years that the Office of Highway Safety has been able to provide for the Guam Police Department, so it’s a good day,” she said.
Cil Javier, of the Office of Highway Safety, said in addition to the vehicles, there is federal funding to pay overtime for GPD officers when they conduct checkpoints and Operation Dragon sweeps. To date, over $100,000 in overtime has been paid to the officers.
Police Chief Fred Bordallo said the vehicles will be deployed to the Highway Patrol Division. The vehicles carry equipment related to highway enforcement such as DUI and seatbelt checks.
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Never geard of those types of scanners and cannot find any info on that operation. It seems in most states that the police use visual observations to determine seat belt use. Mainly the cops just look and see if the shoulder harness is across your chest. Such a machine sounds great...!
This is just a guess, but I suspect that a moving vehicle can be scanned to determine whether or not the seatbelts are engaged, reading the same electronic signal that shows on the dashboard.
Officer Manibusan in the featured foto looks kool....arm covered in tats, short haircut, beer gut almost hanging over belt, cool shades...
What kind of equiptment is required to check for seatbelts ?
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