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Motorists will continue to see saturated police presence on the roads during holidays, as well as the occasional DUI checkpoints over the next year or so now that the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office received a grant for $180,000 from the California Office of Traffic Safety.

The primary cause of deaths on local streets and highways remains drunken driving, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s office and the "Avoid the 13" DUI Task Force will keep up with its DUI enforcement in the county as a result of a recent $101,500 grant awarded by the California Office of Traffic Safety. The Sheriff’s office will administer the grant for the entire county on behalf of the Santa Clara County Police Chiefs’ Association.  

Police will be out in force for the next three weeks, looking for drunken drivers. Beginning last Friday and running through Jan. 2, law enforcement officers will conduct DUI checkpoints and institute saturation patrols, looking to take impaired drivers off the road, according to a press release from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department.