SEAL BEACH, CA \u2014 Cinco de Mayo is upon us, Seal Beach \u2014 and the Seal Beach Police Department is planning to up enforcement for the duration of the night. <\/p>\n
The SBPD will have additional officers on patrol looking for drivers suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. <\/p>\n
“Don’t put yourself and others on the road at risk by driving impaired,” Chief Michael Henderson told Patch. “If you’re planning to celebrate with a drink or two, leave your keys at home and designate a sober driver.”<\/p>\n
The Seal Beach Police Department wants to remind the community that alcohol is not the only substance that can cause impairment \u2014 prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, cannabis products and other drugs may also cause impairment. <\/p>\n
If you plan on drinking or taking medications with a driving warning label, let someone who is sober drive. If you see someone who appears to be driving while impaired, call 9-1-1. <\/p>\n
Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEAL BEACH, CA \u2014 Cinco de Mayo is upon us, Seal Beach \u2014 and the Seal Beach Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-288805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288805","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=288805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}