International Association of Chiefs of Police

Traffic Safety! D i s p a t c hOctober 2008

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The IACPs National Law Enforcement Challenge is accepted each year by hundreds of police agencies, sheriff’s departments, and state police organizations. These agencies know they have saved lives and prevented injuries in the communities they serve by educating the public and enforcing the law.

The National Law Enforcement Challenge is a fun way for agencies to showcase their work in the areas of safety belt promotion, impaired driving prevention, and speed deterrence while competing against agencies of similar size and type. The award competition offers a way to communicate your ideas for preventing crashes and saving lives to agencies around the United States. This is one competition that produces only winners.

In this issue of the Traffic Safety! Dispatch, we honor those who accepted the Challenge and won in 2007. Congratulations to these outstanding agencies!

If you haven’t entered before, please consider doing so for 2008. Read this brief overview of the program, then download the applica-tion at www.lawenforcementchallenge.org.

Completing the application process is essentially performing an easy self-evaluation of your traffic safety activities. The performance areas upon which the applications are judged are the five cornerstones of successful traffic safety programs. The application asks questions about your policy and the enforcement guidance you provide your officers; the traffic safety training your personnel completed in 2008; how you worked to educate and inform the public about traffic safety issues; your agency’s traffic enforcement activity; and the measured success you experienced in increasing safety belt use, deterring impaired driving, and reducing the death and injury toll from speed-related crashes.

About the IACP’s National Law Enforcement Challenge

Those five areas are assigned a weighted number of points that a panel of three judges use as they review the submitted applica-tions. Judges are selected by IACP based on their program knowl-edge and traffic safety expertise. They represent law enforcement practitioners, national organizations with an interest in traffic safety, and corporate partners.

The judges will carefully review each application to recognize the best overall traffic safety program in each of the more than 20 categories, which are based on agency size (number of sworn personnel) and type (municipal police, sheriffs department, and state police and highway patrol) categories. Special awards are also presented for the best work done by an agency in specific program areas such as occupant protection, impaired driving, speed awareness, child passenger safety, and underage drinking prevention. In addition, the best first-time entry in the challenge will take home the “Rookie of the Year” award.

There are several things you can do to increase your chances of winning, while providing easy access to the information the judg-es need to compare your entry to another agency’s. Organize your application by the topic areas covered on the application (policy and guidelines; training of officers; incentives and recognition; public information and education; and enforcement activity).

Policy: Include the relevant wording from your policy manual that shows your requirements for safety belt use by officers. Judges will also be looking for policy statements or guidelines that demonstrate that you have communicated to your officers that enforcing safety belt, child restraint, speed, and impaired driving laws is an important part of their daily routine. These statements help officers understand they are the front line in the effort to save lives on our streets and highways, and their enforce-ment work makes a difference.

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About the IACP’s National Law Enforcement Challenge

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Underage Alcohol Prevention AwardAgencies will be judged on their notableefforts to address the problems of underagedrinking and of drinking and driving bythose under the legal drinking age.

Bicycle/Pedestrian Safety AwardAgencies will be judged on their efforts to promote and enforce bicycle and/or pedestrian safety in their communities.

Commercial Vehicle Safety AwardAgencies will be judged on their notableefforts to promote and enforce occupantprotections laws and their overall comprehen-sive education and enforcement programs for commercial vehicles.

Motorcycle Safety AwardApplicants will be judged on their efforts to promote and enforce motorcycle safety in their community.

Technology AwardApplicants will be judged on their efforts to enhance safety, increase mobility, and sustain the environment using innovative technology with a special emphasis on Intelligent Trans-portation Systems (ITS).

Training: Provide numbers and percentages of sworn officers who have received traffic safety training. Docu-mentation you elect to provide for this section should be relevant to the topic areas.

Incentives and Recognition: Describe your efforts to rec-ognize officers who have excelled at traffic enforcement and education. Providing incentives for outstanding work related to traffic safety inspires others in your department to increase their performance level. Scan press clippings and photos of award events. Also include documentation of your agency’s participation in the national campaigns and mobilizations.

Public Information: Give the judges a good idea of the work you did to educate the public on traffic safety is-sues. Scan in examples of press clippings and photos from events in your community to illustrate your narrative.

Enforcement: Select any three-month’s data (it doesn’t need to be consecutive months) to document in this sec-tion, which covers the one thing we can do that no other traffic safety advocate can: enforce the law.

Effectiveness: Your self-evaluation would not be complete without a review of the outcomes of your efforts. Supply evidence that you helped increase safety belt use in your community or reduced the proportion of crashes that were associated with speed and alcohol. Document the change from the previous year in total crashes and injury crashes. ■

First Time EntryThe “Rookie of the Year” Award will bepresented to an agency that is enteringthe Challenge for the very first time. Thisaward is open to all first-time entries,regardless of category.

Occupant Protection AwardApplicants will be judged on their notableefforts to promote and enforce occupantprotection laws.

Impaired Driving AwardApplicants will be judged on their notableefforts to detect and apprehend impaireddrivers and address unsafe driving throughenforcement, officer training, and publicinformation and education.

Speed Awareness AwardApplicants will be judged on their notableefforts to address the problem of speeding.

Child Passenger Safety AwardApplicants will be judged on their efforts topromote and enforce child passenger safetyin their communities.

Special Awards

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2007-2008 IACPNational Law Enforcement ChallengeAward Winners

Municipal: 1-8 SwornBenton, TN 1st PlaceMiddleton, TN 2nd PlaceLeland Grove, IL 3rd Place

Municipal: 9-16 Sworn West Point, VA 1st PlaceLavonia, GA 2nd PlaceEast Hazel Crest, IL 3rd Place

Municipal: 17-25 SwornGlen Carbon, IL 1st PlaceBarrington Hills, IL 2nd Place – TIECornelia, GA 2nd Place – TIEBennington, VT 3rd Place

Municipal: 26-35 SwornMatteson, IL 1st PlaceBradley, IL 2nd PlaceCamillus, NY 3rd Place

Municipal: 36-45 Sworn

New Lenox, IL 1st PlaceCanton, GA 2nd PlaceLake Zurich, IL 3rd Place

Municipal: 46-65 SwornAlgonquin, IL 1st PlaceGallatin, TN 2nd PlaceDougherty County PD, GA 3rd Place – TIEMundelein, IL 3rd Place – TIE

Municipal: 66-100Buffalo Grove, IL 1st PlaceQuincy, IL 2nd PlaceLivermore, CA 3rd Place

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Municipal: 101-200 SwornLauderhill, FL 1st PlaceSanta Rosa, CA 2nd PlaceNaperville, IL 3rd Place

Municipal: 201-500 SwornHoward County, MD 1st PlaceRoanoke, VA 2nd PlaceChesterfield, VA 3rd Place – TIEChesapeake, VA 3rd Place - TIE

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Municipal: 501-1250 SwornVirginia Beach, VA 1st Place – TIETucson, AZ 1st Place – TIEHenrico County, VA 2nd PlaceSavannah-Chatham Metro 3rd Place

Municipal: 1251 or More SwornFairfax County, VA 1st PlaceSan Jose, CA 2nd PlaceLos Angeles, CA 3rd Place

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Sheriff: 1-20 Sworn King William County, VA 1st PlaceJeff Davis County, GA 2nd Place – TIEHardin County, TN 2nd Place – TIESagadahoc County, ME 3rd Place

Sheriff: 21-30 SwornTwiggs County, GA 1st PlaceFranklin County, GA 2nd PlaceGilchrist County, FL 3rd Place

Sheriff: 31-50 SwornWythe County, VA 1st PlaceNew Kent County, VA 2nd PlaceSumter County, GA 3rd Place

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Sheriff: 51-100 SwornTift County, GA 1st PlaceBaldwin County, GA 2nd PlaceKendall County, IL 3rd Place

Sheriff: 101-200 SwornCoweta County, GA 1st PlaceStafford County, VA 2nd PlaceHanover County, VA 3rd Place

Sheriff: 201-400 Sworn Charlotte County, FL 1st PlaceDouglas County, GA 2nd PlaceWill County, IL 3rd Place

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Sheriff: 401-1000 SwornCollier County, FL 1st PlacePasco County, FL 2nd PlaceJefferson County, CO 3rd Place

Sheriff: 1001 or More SwornOrange County, FL 1st PlaceSan Diego County, CA 2nd PlaceLos Angeles County, CA 3rd Place

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State Police-Highway Patrol: 1-250 Sworn

North Dakota Highway Patrol 1st PlaceWyoming Highway Patrol 2nd PlaceMontana Highway Patrol 3rd Place

State Police-Highway Patrol: 251-500 Sworn Nebraska State Patrol 1st PlaceVermont State Police 2nd Place

State Police-Highway Patrol: 501-1000 Sworn Kentucky State Police 1st PlaceGeorgia Department of Public Safety 2nd PlaceSouth Carolina Highway Patrol 3rd Place

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State Police-Highway Patrol: 1001-2500 Sworn Maryland State Police 1st PlaceVirginia State Police 2nd Place – TIEFlorida Highway Patrol 2nd Place – TIEIllinois State Police 3rd Place

State Police-Highway Patrol: 2501 or More SwornCalifornia Highway Patrol 1st PlaceNew Jersey State Police 2nd Place

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Special Law Enforcement Crystal Lake, IL Park District Police 1st PlaceMuscogee, GA, Marshal’s Office 2nd PlaceVermont DMV 3rd Place

International Law EnforcementOntario Provincial Police, Canada 1st PlaceRoyal Canadian Mounted Police – “D” Traffic Services 2nd Place

College-Campus Law EnforcementCalifornia State University 1st PlaceCornell University, NY 2nd PlaceUniversity of Georgia 3rd Place

Multi-Jurisdictional Agencies Cumberland Region Law Enforcement Networks, TN 1st PlaceCuyahoga County DUI Task Force, OH 2nd PlaceAvoid The 13 – Santa Clara County, CA 3rd Place

2007-2008 IACPNational Law Enforcement ChallengeAward Winners

Military PoliceNorfolk Naval Shipyard, VA 1st Place – TIEFort Campbell, KY 1st Place – TIEFort Lee, VA (50 sworn) 2nd PlaceNaval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, VA (82 sworn) 3rd Place

Private AgenciesIPTM, FL 1st PlaceNorthwestern University Center for Public Safety, IL 2nd PlaceSafe Campuses Now, GA 3rd Place

State AssociationsVirginia Association of Chiefs of Police 1st PlaceIllinois Association of Chiefs of Police 2nd Place

Special Categories

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Best of theBest

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Championship ClassWashington State Patrol 1st Place

Forsyth County, GA 2nd Place

Hickory Hills, IL 3rd Place

Clayton J. Hall Memorial AwardThis special award, honoring the memory of Clayton J. Hall, a highway safety leader who helpeddevelop the Law Enforcement Challenge concept and many other innovative safety programs, ispresented annually to the law enforcement agency that submits the most comprehensive traffic safetyprogram. All agencies entered in the National Law Enforcement Challenge are considered forthis award, provided that they have not won this award in the last five years.

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SPECIAL CATEGORY AWARDS

Underage Alcohol California Highway Patrol Impaired Driving Port Orange, FL Speed Award Albemarle County PD, VA Occupant Protection Fairfax County, VA Child Passenger Safety Florida Highway Patrol Commercial Motor Vehicle Vermont DMV Motorcycle Safety Forsyth County, GA Rookie of the Year Tucson, AZ Bike/Pedestrian Safety San Francisco, CA Technology Award Ripon, CA

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DISPATCH STAFFCarolyn Cockroft, Newsletter AdvisorJoel Bolton, Traffic Safety Consultant

Editorial Advisors:Vincent Talucci, S&P Division Director, IACP

Clarence Bell, S & P Division The Traffic Safety! DISPATCH is funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and published by the Division of State and Provincial Police of the Interna-tional Association of Chiefs of Police. Sharing of material in this newsletter is encouraged. Submissions and com-ments may be directed to Joel Bolton, Gulf States Regional Center for Public Safety Innovation, P.O. Box 1492, Lake Charles, LA 70602. 1-800-THE-IACP

Find the IACP’s National Law Enforcement Challenge application on the Web at

www.lawenforcementchallenge.orgDeadline:

May 1, 2009