ABC grant funds alcohol enforcement efforts in 2015
Date of Release: February 3, 2015
The West Covina Police Department recently received a grant from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to target alcohol related problems. This grant contributes $8,600 in overtime funding to conduct the following operations, through September 2015:
• An educational class for licensed businesses, focusing on compliance with alcohol laws, under ABC’s Licensee Education on Alcohol and Drugs (LEAD) program. This class is open to businesses licensed by ABC, and will be held on Thursday, February 26th, from 10AM to 2PM at Faith Community Church (1211 E. Badillo Street, West Covina, CA 91790);
• Inspections of businesses selling alcohol, under ABC’s Informed Merchants Preventing Alcohol-Related Crime Tendencies (IMPACT) program;
• Minor decoy operations in which minors attempt to purchase alcohol at business locations;
• Shoulder tap operations, in which minors outside a business ask people to purchase alcohol for them.
The overall goals of this grant are to address recent increases in alcohol involved collisions, foster partnerships with cooperative and law abiding businesses, identify problematic establishments and bring them into compliance, and engage in proactive alcohol enforcement.
This project is part of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control’s Minor Decoy/Shoulder Tap Grant Project, funded by the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
To report suspected alcohol related violations, please call West Covina Police Department’s 24 hour crime hotline at (626) 939-8688. Anonymous tips can be sent online at www.westcovina.org (Police Department) or by texting 84747 using the keyword “TIPWCPD.”
Any media related inquiries, please call (626) 523-4031.
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West Covina Police Department
Public Information Officer Rudy Lopez
1444 West Garvey Avenue
West Covina, CA 91790
626 939-8500
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