The Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety awarded the city of Surprise with seven grants totaling $279,464 to support impaired driving enforcement overtime, education, travel, materials and supplies.

The Surprise Police Department was awarded money for all the grants for which it applied and said acceptance of the grants will have numerous positive impacts to the community.

For starters, DUI cases will be prosecuted and discouraged by traffic task force operations.

The city said awareness programs will also help support improved enforcement of impaired driving, speeding, distracted driving, bicycle pedestrian safety, seatbelt usage, child safety seat usage, motorcycle safety and citizen education.

The following are the grants the department received:

• Accident investigation OT, travel, materials and supplies.
• DUI enforcement OT, materials, supplies and capital outlay.
• Know your limit OT, materials and supplies.
• Motorcycle safety awareness OT.
• Occupant protection enforcement OT, materials and supplies.
• Pedestrian and bicycle safety enforcement OT, materials and supplies.
• Select traffic enforcement (step) OT, materials and supplies