For further information please contact: Corporal Jeff Wilson
636-300-2800 ext. 3334
C010147
July 12, 2011

EMPHASIS: Operation P.R.O.T.E.C.T. To Be Conducted In St. Louis County

Captain Ronald S. Johnson, commanding officer of Troop C, Weldon Spring, announces Troop C has scheduled an “OPERATION P.R.O.T.E.C.T.”, which will be an eight-hour operation, utilizing 12 state troopers. The enforcement effort will focus on southbound Interstate 270 near Interstate 44, in St. Louis County. Operation P.R.O.T.E.C.T. will begin at 8 a.m. and continue to 2 p.m. on Thursday, July 14, 2011.

“OPERATION P.R.O.T.E.C.T.” identifies and prioritizes construction /work zones with critical issues or problems affecting highway safety through complaints from the general public, highway/construction workers, law enforcement, and emergency responders, to include, but not to be limited to, recent crash statistics. In addition, a zero tolerance enforcement policy has been established for the operation as well as routine construction zone enforcement focusing on traffic violations, such as speed, following too close, other hazardous moving, and commercial motor vehicle violations. This zero tolerance policy directs troopers to take appropriate action on all observed traffic violations in construction/work zones by issuing uniform citations or warnings.

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