WPCNR TROOPER TRAIL. From Westchester County Department of Communications. March 18, 2004:If you’re like many law-abiding people, you don’t talk on a hand-held cell phone while driving, but you see almost everyone else doing it, in violation of a state law. Or maybe you do flaunt the law, because you don’t expect to be caught.

A word to the wise – Westchester’s police will be watching and chances are they will find you.

Beginning Monday, Police throughout the county are teaming up in a one-week effort to get the message out that hand-held cell phones and drivers do not mix. The Westchester County Department of Public Safety and 27 city/town/village police departments will embark on a joint effort looking for violators and handing out tickets for using hand-held cell phones while driving.

The fine for talking on a cellphone without use of a handsfree device is $100.