These officers focused a significant amount of their patrol time on working the school crossings, in areas that have high-volume traffic problems. They established an excellent rapport with the crossing guards and children at these locations. We have been very pleased to note substantial modification of driving behavior related to speed and cross walk violations in our school zones due the efforts of our motors. The feedback from the School District and parent groups, has been extremely positive. On a related note, the Traffic Safety Team implemented a new educational program for school bus drivers.
Selective enforcement is conducted based upon information supplied by the bus drivers.
Motorists who violate the laws pertaining to yielding to our school buses when their red lights are flashing, are aggressively targeted. We also are sending out warning letters to motorists requesting voluntary compliance, when the officer does not personally observe violations that are reported by the bus drivers. One of our on-going missions for TST, continued to be building partnerships with our citizens designed to address traffic safety issues which occur in their neighborhoods. Members of the Team strived to regularly attend NAC meetings during the year. The Team remained available and continued promoting education by addressing special interest groups who wish to have a speaker address topics related to traffic safety.