They are responsible for all operations during their watch but are carried within the Uniform Division for administrative purposes. The Uniform Division also has 13 Lieutenants who serve as field supervisors. The balance of personnel in the division are officers assigned to patrol, traffic, or lake duties. Patrol officers are primarily assigned to respond to calls and take enforcement action within assigned zones. They are also responsible for traffic enforcement within their area of assignment.
Backup officers come from adjacent zones or the same zone on major calls.
Traffic officers are primarily responsible for investigating traffic collisions and traffic enforcement at locations having high accident rates. Their mission is to investigate accidents and take appropriate enforcement methods to reduce the number of accidents, to reduce the loss of property due to accidents, and, most importantly, to reduce the number of lives lost due to traffic accidents. Lieutenant Ronnie Griffin heads the Lake Patrol. Lake Officers are primarily responsible for all law enforcement efforts at Lake Lawtonka and Lake Ellsworth. Two officers are assigned year round to those duties and additional officers are assigned during the summer months' peak activity levels.