{"id":195697,"date":"2026-02-27T00:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195697\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:59:20","slug":"over-180-citations-issued-during-bakersfield-pd-chp-joint-traffic-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195697\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 180 citations issued during Bakersfield PD, CHP joint traffic enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department and Bakersfield California Highway Patrol conducted a traffic enforcement operation on Wednesday targeting common driving violations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The joint operation took place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. with the BPD Traffic Division and CHP officers focusing on Union Avenue, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BPD said officers looked for signs like speeding, running red lights and pedestrian violations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/kcso-searching-man-last-seen-231413580.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office searching for man last seen in 2009;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office searching for man last seen in 2009 <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bakersfield police issued 119 citations with six driver\u2019s license violation impounds, while CHP issued 69 citations with two license violation impounds, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One person was arrested for a post release community supervision warrant during the enforcement, according to BPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with questions or information about this operation is encouraged to call the police department at 661-327-7111.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department and Bakersfield California Highway Patrol conducted a traffic enforcement operation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,154,324,91337,38457,91338],"class_list":["post-195697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police","tag-bakersfield-police-department","tag-bpd-traffic-division","tag-chp-officers","tag-driving-violations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}