UDPD Awarded Grant to Aid in Prevention of Underage Drinking

From Upper Dublin Township Police Department:

The Upper Dublin Township Police Department has been awarded a $9,935.16 grant from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. The Underage and Dangerous Drinking Grant seeks to support initiatives aimed at preventing underage and dangerous drinking.

The grant will provide the funds necessary to dedicate patrol officers to enforcement details targeted at detering underage and dangerous drinking. It will be the duty of those officers assigned to the details to patrol areas frequented by underage and dangerous drinkers. These officers will work during times on days that statistics show there have been large numbers of young people engaged in underage and dangerous drinking practices. Officers will conduct enforcement details in popular underage and dangerous drinking areas by utilizing police patrol vehicles, foot patrols, and police bicycles. The assigned detail officers will patrol those areas of Upper Dublin Township not accessible by police vehicles; these areas include Upper Dublin Township parks and recreation properties, School District of Upper Dublin properties, golf courses and country clubs, and large wooded natural areas. In addition, the assigned detail officers will work closely with campus and school safety and security personnel as well as community leaders, local residents and merhcants for the sole purpose of enforcing Federal, State and Local Laws. Through increased enforcement and current educational programs the Department expects to meet its goal of reducing deaths, injuries, health risks and property losses caused by underage and dangerous drinking.

As a result of this grant, the Upper Dublin Township Police Department will be provided with funds to purchase two Portable Breath Test Instruments (PBT). The PBT will assist officers in determing the  blood alcohol content of underage and dangerous drinkers.

The Upper Dublin Township Police Department has been a previous recepient of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s Underage and Dangerous Grant and has been successful with preventing underage and dangerous drinking.