DEPUTIES TO JOIN CHP TO LOOK FOR SPEEDERS.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE -- Sheriff's motorcycle deputies will help California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officers hunt for speeders today on the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. . The joint CHP-sheriff's effort is a part of the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Traffic Task Force, which focuses on particular safety problems such as speeding around schools or intersections where motorists fail to stop for pedestrians. ``They're going to be flooding the area. It's going to be a bigger presence,'' CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan Lt. Andria Witmer said. The motorcycle deputies, who normally patrol city streets in Lancaster and Palmdale, will augment regular CHP patrols along the freeway from the Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. County line through Acton, mostly between about 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. today, said Capt. Nick Norton, commander of the Antelope Valley CHP station. The motorcycle deputies are harder for speeders to spot in time to slow down, Norton said. Speeding, drunk driving and failing to wear seat belts are among the major causes of traffic fatalities, Norton said. The task force was set up in 2004 to pool Sheriff's Department and CHP resources. In the past the task force has conducted stings that ticketed motorists who failed to stop for pedestrians crossing the street, searched for hopper trucks dropping gravel and targeted speeders around schools. |
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