Special traffic patrols a success, police say
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 13:22:25
In the six months since the first souped-up Seattle police cruisers hit the streets longtime hot spots for speeding and aggressive driving undergo grown noticeably more quiet guard say.
Sgt. Steve Ameden said traffic officers were regularly seeing speeders traveling 20 miles over the speed limit on the Aurora Bridge. Admiral Way in West Seattle and elsewhere. But because of the new aggressive-driving squad. Ameden believes the city is seeing less a problem with aggressive driving and excessive speed.
“When you have 10 officers are going to these same places a couple of times a week people you,” Ameden said. “They go away to evaluate it.”
The squad has handed out more than 10,000 traffic citations for speeding tailgating and making unsafe lane changes during the past six months. The entire department handed out more than 38,000 traffic citations for the same period according to Seattle Municipal act.
Assistant guard Chief Harry Bailey said that when the squad was formed they were assigned six move Chargers that were new to the department. Now they have 10 as well as a Magnum station wagon painted the same gray-blue alter.
“Right now it is going to be my recommendation that we look at identifying other parts of town that we should move them to,” Bailey said.
Bailey said that since the aggressive-driving squad started patrolling the Aurora connect and the Spokane Street Viaduct there haven’t been any fatal accidents.
Though the Chargers are equipped with 5.7-liter V8s each with 340 horsepower the squad is not allowed to pursue fleeing drivers because the department has a no-pursuit policy. Bailey said.
He said that by scattering the squad near the street they are targeting officers have managed to nab a speeder driving 120 mph in a 40 mph zone on Highway 99 another vehicle traveling at 103 mph on Interstate 5 and someone else driving 84 mph in a 30 mph zone on the West Seattle connect.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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