Crime & Safety

Mentor Police Will Put Extra Cruisers on the Streets for Super Bowl Weekend

Mentor Police will be watching for drunk drivers and speeders this weekend

will have a blitz of its own this weekend.

The Ohio Department of Public Safety gave Mentor and other area police departments a grant that allows them to put additional officers on the streets during high-traffic weekends. That includes Super Bowl weekend, Mentor Police Lt. Tom Powers said.

Extra officers will be patrolling today, Saturday and Sunday. They will "aggressively enforce" all traffic laws, Powers said. The lieutenant said the main goal of the enforcement blitz is to keep drunk drivers off the road.

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Mentor Police Department had a similar blitz on the weekend of New Year's Eve. They also offered several tips on that night.


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