{"id":97945,"date":"2025-12-23T02:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/97945\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T02:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:20:11","slug":"el-paso-police-to-step-up-enforcement-during-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/97945\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Police to step up enforcement during holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 The El Paso Police Department will increase traffic patrols and enforcement over the next two weeks, the department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This stepped-up enforcement includes Christmas week and New Year\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The increased enforcement is being funded through the federal Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) grant, El Paso Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During this enforcement period, officers will focus on reducing dangerous driving behaviors that contribute to serious and fatal crashes, El Paso Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Enforcement efforts will specifically target:\u00a0 DWI, speeding, distracted driving including cell phone use, safety belt violations, and controlled intersection violations like running red lights or stop signs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Traffic fatalities in El Paso city-wide are down 11% year-to-date compared to the same time last year, El Paso Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EPPD hopes to continue this positive trend and is asking for the community\u2019s cooperation to help close out the year with further reductions in serious injury and fatal traffic collisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The El Paso Police Department encourages residents to look out for one another and make safe driving choices this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 The El Paso Police Department will increase traffic patrols and enforcement over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,1785,2263,7769],"class_list":["post-97945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police","tag-el-paso-police-department","tag-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}