From the Town of Bel Air:
The Thanksgiving Holiday Initiative (Sober Streets) has successfully concluded. There were no serious motor vehicle crashes during the holiday weekend. There were also few disruptions at our local taverns despite large turnouts.
We attribute the success to the enormous emphasis on “high visibility” enforcement and the excellent partnership with the Harford County Traffic Task Force. This dedicated group of officers/deputies/troopers share our passion and commitment for improving traffic and community safety.
Additionally, we credit the great relationships forged with local taverns and our media partners who overwhelmingly spread the word about our mission of safety to their patrons and citizens in the community. Enforcement personnel noted that motorists and passengers exercised a high level of awareness for sober motoring. Many were involved in transporting others who felt that they had consumed in excess of the legal limits.
Overall this weekend there were 363 citations and warnings issued with one suspended operator and one non-licensed operator cited. There were 22 cell phone violations documented (enforced) during the operation.
Holiday traffic arrests included:
1. Joyner, Gregory, 21, Havre De Grace, Md. Charge: Possession of Suspected Marijuana (over 25 grams).
2. Boucher, Lisa, 26, Fallston, Md. Charge: DUI
I think bel air needs another bar…
I love that Bel Air Police are doing these holiday enforcements. I hope they keep them coming for all holidays. I also hope they are targeting Heroin dealers. Good Job to the Bel air Police.
Bel Air is amateur hour. North Harford, you’d probably get 1/3 drunks for every car stopped. All them ‘billies drive around with one eye open after a farm bonfire, plus, barely no cops.
LOL !!!!
When will they ever learn?
I don’t know about anyone else, but over 300 citations sounds like a no discretion mandate. Just write tickets son. What an oxymoron to let every bar in town get a license, then sit on the parking lots near their parking lots with binoculars to see what vehicles are pulling off the lot to stop and check them. That’s crap and the town cops who do this are hypocrites. They are in the bars when they are off, and sometimes just hangout while on duty. No one else sees this happening? I’m sure the street cops are real proud to be reduced to ticket writers now; exactly what they said was going to happen with their new boy chief. We have an astounding drug heroin problem and they are writing tickets……wow. I am either missing something, or will have to just sit back and wait until these so-called “partner” bar and tavern owners wake up when crowds start drifting away from the town because of these silly initiatives that yielded really not much for the effort other than fines. Compare this to the Sheriff initiative last week and those results and you will start seeing the inexperience of Chief Moore shine though. What a mistake Town of Bel Air.
Yes, you are missing something. If I had read it, there were numerous written warnings. No fine, just a reminder.
Stop trolling – if you have good ideas, attend the meetings and Present then to the Town Council for action instead of drawing conclusions based on your own mis-information.
I don’t know about anybody else, but I find it ironic that only 1 arrest was made for a suspected DUI. The operation was called “Sober Streets”. Apparently, the streets were already sober. I applaud the effort, but the results were just not there. With 363 citations issued maybe it should have been called “Operation Citation Solution” or maybe even “Operation Revenue Generator”. Like I said, the effort was there, the intentions were honorable, but the net yield is wanting……
22 cell phone violations just in Bel Air. My guess is that’s 21 more than Gahler and his sheriffs have issued all year.