N.C. Highway Patrol to Announce Operation Stop Arm Enforcement Effort

 

October 14, 2005

MEDIA ADVISORY

TO:	News Directors, Editors
FROM:	Lieutenant Everett Clendenin Public Information Officer
RE:	Operation Stop Arm

Bryan Beatty, Secretary of the N.C. Department of Crime Control & Public Safety, will hold a press conference on Monday, October 17^th to kick-off Operation Stop Arm.  The news conference will be held at 10:00 a.m. at Safety City, located on the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, between Dorton Arena and Hillsborough Street. 

Operation Stop Arm is an aggressive crackdown by the Highway Patrol on motorists who fail to stop for school bus stop arms. 

Dr. Ben Matthews from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and Colonel Fletcher Clay, Commander of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, will participate in the news conference. 

Operation Stop Arm will be conducted throughout North Carolina during the week of October 17-21.  Across the state, some troopers will be riding with the children on the school buses, and others will be following the buses.  Troopers will be driving marked and unmarked patrol cars, and motorcycles.  

We encourage you to cover this event.  If you have any questions, please call our office at (919) 733-5027.