Evening star., 1932-04-15
Persistent VioIators to Get
Heavy Penalties at Gen.
trail Bureau.
CONFERENCE CLEARS WAY
FOR TENTATIVE PROGRAM
Officers Would Keep Lists of Driv-
ers Showing Past Histories-Aid
of Courts to Be Sought.

4 sentative program designed to
bring about better observance of the
traffic regulations through stricter and
more systematic enforcement by the
Police Department was worked out to-
day at a protracted conference between
police officials and a group of members
of the Traffic Advisory Committee, Gre
ated by the District Commissioners.
The campaign will be aimed primar-
fly at persistent violators of the minor
regulations such as overtime parking,
parking abreast and disobeying official
signs. Efforts will be made to break
up this practice by the imposition OF
heavier fines or collateral on repeaters.
A traffic Office is to be established
under the supervision of Inspector E.
w. Brown, commander of the Traff1c
Bureau, where the records OF all trafnc
offenders will be kept on file. All vio-
lators in the future will be required
to go to this Office to deposit collateral
instead of to the various police precinct
stations. Officers on duty in this office
will make complete check to ascertain
the number OF violations charged
against the offender and the amount OF
collateral required will be based on the
number of previous offenses.
Fixed Schedule Planned.
4 fixed schedule of collaterals for the
various minor offenses is to be eStab-
lished. and the clerks in the traffic rec
ord Office will be required to follow it
without deviation. The scale will be
graduated according to the number OF
previous offenses For example the first
offense for overtime parking would call
for a collateral of 50, the second ofense
SIS and the third offenSe $40, and on up.
Inspector Brown and other police Of
ficials will frame the collateral sched-
ule. Copies will be distributed through
out the entire Police Department.
Efforts also are to be made by police
officials to bring about closer co-opera-
ton between the police and the courts
in the imposition of heavier penalties
on persistent traffic violators. Brig.
Gen Pelham D. Glassford. superintend-
ent of police, is arranging with Cor
poration Counsel William w. Bride for
a conference with the judges of the
Police and Traffic Courts, at which this
plan will be discussed.
The traffic record Office is to be set up
in the present Trafnc bureau neaoQuar-
ters at 462 Louisiana avenue. A Spe-
cial parking reservation is to be estab-
lished on John Marshall place, nearby,
for the convenience of traffic violators
who go to the traffic record Office TO
deposit collateral.
Present Weaknesses Seen.
The traffic enforcement conference
was held in the Office of Gen. GlasSford
and lasted from 10:30 o'clock this
morning until about l o'clock this after
noon. Gen. GlaSsford announced at its
conclusion that the purpose OF the
meeting was to bring about better OBJ
servance in enforcement of the traffic
regulations and the establishment Of
uniform procedure in the disposition OF
every traffic case. The police superln-
tendent said that he objected to the
present system, particularly because 1t
enabled some violators to escape with
q small fine or collateral while others
were made to put up the maximum COL
lateral or pay the maximum fine.
In addition to Gen. Glassford, those
attending the conference were Inspector
Brown, Capt B. A. Lamb, assistant
commander of the Traffic Bureau;
George w. Offutt. president OF the
Washington Board of Trade and chair
man of the Traffic Advisory Commit
tee; Edwin S. Hege Charles P. Clarke,
Theodore F. Behler of the American
Automobile Association; Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer and M. 0. Ed
ridge, assistant director of trattlc.