Santa Helps Salina Police Check Seatbelts
Dave Foor - Wed 11:05 AM 12/19/2012
Tuesday night officers had some additional help as Santa showed-up to lend a hand, although he did not write any tickets.
Salina Police conducted a second night of seat belt enforcement check points Tuesday night under a KDOT grant program.
The locations were at Schilling and Ripple, Kenwood at The Midway and Century Plaza and Magnolia.
23 adult seat belt violation citations were issued.
Officers also checked for DUI violations but no DUI citations were issued.
An adult seat belt violation results in a $10.00 fine.
The grant covers four officers and a supervisor for four hours, once a month, during night time hours.
However, Tuesday night officers had some additional help. Santa showed up to lend a hand, although he did not write any tickets.
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Chatter11
Wednesday 19 December 2012 11:08 Report this comment
OK-so the fine is $10.00 - are there $50.00 court costs involved?
ifyousayso
Wednesday 19 December 2012 11:27 Report this comment
No, it is strictly $10.00. However, a seatbelt violation according to state law, is classified as a misdemeanor and not an infraction, which under Kansas Law, a person can be arrested for an on-view misdemeanor. Seatbelts are also not a moving violation, nor do they go against your driving record or insurance. With that being said, save yourself 3 gallons of gas and buckle your seatbelt. Or don't, your choice, just don't whine and gripe about law enforcement if you get caught. I believe by now we have all been warned!
ksfarmdude
Wednesday 19 December 2012 11:28 Report this comment
good for them in the meantime there was probably several burglaries and drug deals made and other crimes that are being ignored , just so they can catch those awful hiedous terrible seatbelt violators
ifyousayso
Wednesday 19 December 2012 11:33 Report this comment
Farmdude, am not doubting that and I agree with you. Was just answering the ? for Chatter11.
bbopper
Wednesday 19 December 2012 11:35 Report this comment
The officers involved with this action are traffic officers, not crimnal investigators.
BDMcGee
Wednesday 19 December 2012 11:47 Report this comment
All at taxpayer expense for their overtime. Some seem to believe that those grants are funded by giant money trees. Public employees getting paid overtime at taxpayer expense. I don't disagree with the principle, I just disagree with the ineptness of government to cut costs when everyone else does.
ILD
Wednesday 19 December 2012 12:07 Report this comment
If I assigned 4 workers and a supervisor to a project that made $230 my boss would fire me. What waste of tax payer money.
Freewill
Wednesday 19 December 2012 12:52 Report this comment
Is this what Chief Hill does all day is dream this crap up? Santa the snitch? SPD at new lows.
whatajoke
Wednesday 19 December 2012 17:02 Report this comment
the SPD made 230$$??? from 3 checkpoints WTF??? more of my$$$ being wasted and making people 'leery' of approaching SANTA in the holiday season,.......you govt paid employees make me mad!! you s hould get a real job ...what will they try next ?? offering "candy' to kids to give them a ticket for jaywalking???? LMAO KEYSTONE COPS embarrass salina AGAIN! : (
whatajoke
Wednesday 19 December 2012 17:04 Report this comment
wonder how much overtime and etc...this cost us??? for 230$? worth of tickets
GetAGrip
Wednesday 19 December 2012 18:33 Report this comment
What an absolute farce by using good ole St. Nick to pick out seat belt violators. Is this some kind of fetish with our fine Salina/Saline County officers. That seems to be all you hear about. Seat belt check lanes, seat belt check lanes, seat belt check lanes. I have nothing against wearing a seat belt and do so most of the time. But, dam there just has to be more important law enforcement work to do. I highly respect our officers in Salina and Saline County, but this approach just takes the cake. Bet this makes the late night talk shows.
Youretellingme
Thursday 20 December 2012 07:14 Report this comment
Hooray to the spirit of Christmas from the SPD (Salina Pricks Department), there are better ways to spend the taxpayer $$$ than standing in a corner fooling people, specially the couple from Abilene that came to our city to spend money. I believe the good officer from the SPD not longer work there... Not respect for SPD
youmakenosense
Thursday 20 December 2012 09:55 Report this comment
I have been involved in law enforcement my entire life and still am, this is the absoulte lowest thing I have seen done, it would be one thing if your working a felony drug case, but to do this for stupid seat belt violations is a sham, so every little kid coming by pops his belt off and sets up so he can see Santa. Chief Hill owes everyone an apology, he needs to come down from his ivory tower and see how the rest of the world lives.
Iamgonnagetyou
Thursday 20 December 2012 10:22 Report this comment
You beat me to commenting on the Santa Claus. And look at the city truck parted in the picture. I bet the city manager was behind all of this as the chief is not smart enough to pull this off. Those that received summons for this entrapment should file lawsuits against the city and the officials responsible.
harryj45
Thursday 20 December 2012 10:54 Report this comment
**** on seat belts! The badges in this town have bigger fish to fry. Get back to doing the job you were hired to do.... and stop grandstanding on such frivilous nonsense. I don't care if the President himself comes out to help, it's a waste of time and money.
mama5546
Thursday 20 December 2012 11:49 Report this comment
I you read the article again, it says this is done with a KDOT grant. That grant money pays for these officers to work. No money comes out of the police budget and they are still fully staffed to protect the rest of us.
Iamgonnagetyou
Thursday 20 December 2012 16:08 Report this comment
Bs it takes x amont of cops to do this and kdot money is taxpayer money. Kdot does not have a money tree growing outside their agency. What this story fails to say is they had a cop dressed up as santa and he radio's another cop on a motorcycle. The santa cop gives candy canes to unsuspecting motoists many from out of town the has his partner pull them over for a ticket. Its time for public outrage and the firing for all involved.
SalinaLady19
Thursday 20 December 2012 17:23 Report this comment
It isn't about $230.00! It is about trying to save the lives of people who apparently don't really care enough about their own life to take a couple seconds and put the seatbelt on. Thanks to police officers for doing a fairly thankless job to try and keep all of us safe. i don't know why it is so hard to follow rules. If everyone wore their seatbelts this wouldn't be necessary. Why don't you blame the knuckleheads who didn't have their seatbelts on, instead of the police officers doing their job? They are the ones really wasting tax payers money.
Aurora.
Saturday 22 December 2012 00:14 Report this comment
SalinaLady19 you worry about your own life not about mine or anyone else's. People die every day wearing seatbelts some have their heads severed by the belt and the troopers find it somewhere but on the body but they fail to report these types of deaths. The police in Salina used to do a good job but that is no longer. As crime continues to increase its only a matter of time until you are a victim then let's see if you say the same thing. That is if you don't have a wreck and die with your seat belt on.