UC Davis students will be working with the Davis Police Department to create and implement a new traffic safety program that will include sobriety checkpoints throughout Davis. According to Officer John Wilson, the full-time staff member who will be working on the new plan, the sobriety checkpoints will probably be instituted in the spring. The committee has identified 35 target areas that it will address, including driving under the influence education, bicycle safety education, traffic safety education and suspended license enforcement. We want to talk to as many fraternities and sororities as will let us.
Student groups are a priority.
The committee is in the process of creating a DUI awareness poster that will be displayed in local businesses. Short videos about bicycle safety, to run on local cable stations, are also in production. She became involved with the police department last year when she worked for the department as a decoy after meeting reserve officer John Neves through her large animal radiology class last year. Walling will specifically be working on suspended license enforcement. According to Wilson, any driver who is driving with a suspended license will have their vehicle impounded for 30 days.