WESTBROOK – Anyone who drinks one too many glasses of eggnog this holiday season should think twice before getting behind the wheel in Westbrook.

Westbrook police recently received grant funding from the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety to conduct high visibility holiday traffic enforcement details. The City Council approved a resolution accepting the $4,800 grant at its meeting on Monday.

According to police Capt. Tom Roth, the details aim to reduce OUI-related traffic accidents and remove impaired drivers from the roads.

Roth said all on-duty officers enforce traffic laws, but officers working the detail will concentrate on these specific violations. The details run through January and will feature both fixed roadblocks and roving patrols, though Roth would not say where or when they would take place.

This grant marks the latest to come to Westbrook in the past couple of years. Since 2009, the city has received a $16,000 high visibility traffic grant, a $5,000 OUI grant and two $3,000 grants to enforce speed limit and seat belt laws, Roth said.

Councilor John O’Hara said at the meeting that these grants have proven helpful in removing impaired drivers from roads.

“This program has worked very well for us,” he said.

Some may not like the heightened level of traffic enforcement in the city, but Roth said the police response is based on feedback from citizens.

“Traffic concerns are the biggest complaints we receive,” he said.