Goal Four Accomplishments: Shift Focus to Traffic Safety
- Updated policy to reflect a strong focus on traffic safety – focusing enforcement efforts on violations that statistically show lead to accidents, injuries, and deaths on roadways.
- Utilize the internal component of our Body Worn Camera (BWC) program to ensure that officers are utilizing the tenants of Procedural Justice and Fair & Impartial policing during all interactions, including traffic stops.
- Created software changes in our Records Management System (RMS) to provide for better recordkeeping of citizen traffic complaints, to use for data driven decision making and allocation of patrol efforts.
- Purchased a passive traffic counting and speed recording device to assist with allocation of patrol efforts. This device (JAMAR box) also utilizes software to compute the best time for police presence and enforcement efforts.
- Utilized our website to allow citizens to send in complaints, to include traffic safety concerns.
- Worked in concert with a subject matter expert from the CRI-TA team to develop a traffic report to the community. This initial report serves as the outline and platform for future reports that have been released.
- Work as part of a statewide grant program (TZD) to add additional officers throughout the year to focus on impaired driving, distracted driving, speeding, and seatbelts.
- Emphasis placed on assisting drivers with reinstating invalid, revoked or suspended driver’s license status through the Driver Diversion Program.
- Officers educate and provide drivers with materials during traffic stops to guide them into a program designed to allow them to reinstate their driver’s license and avoid future violations and hardships.
- Implemented the Lights ON! program.
- Motorists with broken or burned out vehicle lights are issued vouchers by officers during traffic stops for free repair of the light instead of a citation.
- The program helps promote safe vehicle operation and increases opportunity and access to services.