Santa Clara and Sunnyvale police departments teamed up with the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office in a West Valley ticket blitz that issued 135 traffic violations in a matter of hours.
On Oct. 22, Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety (DPS) and Santa Clara Police Department (SCPD) joined Palo Alto, Los Altos and Mountain View police as part of the operation.
Lt. Eric Lagergren, SCPD’s public information officer, wrote in an email that his department dispatched its five traffic units to assist the effort. Those units are only half as many traffic units the city has historically had, he added…