The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office Regional Crime Laboratory has received more than $500,000 to help in its continuing efforts to counteract impaired driving, officials said.
The grant for $542,981 from the California Office of Traffic Safety will be used to pay for two full-time criminologist positions specializing in analysis of biological samples for the presence of drugs and alcohol.
It will also fund overtime for criminalists to assist in maintaining current forensic alcohol testing operations, while completing the final steps to bringing in-house drug toxicology testing to the Sheriff’s Crime Lab in January 2025.
Of the 7,500 samples tested during the previous grant period (Oct. 1, 2023 through Sept. 30, 2024), those arrested had an average blood alcohol concentration more than twice the legal limit, officials said. Drivers arrested with at least one other impairing substance had an average blood alcohol concentration of 0.14%. The drugs most commonly detected in the blood samples were cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamine, xanax and fentanyl.
The Sheriff’s Crime Lab provides forensic science services to more than 30 law enforcement agencies in San Diego County.
The grant program runs through September 2025.
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