Crime & Safety

South Brunswick Police Honored for Traffic Safety Efforts

The South Brunswick Police Department was honored with the New Jersey Law Enforcement Challenge award for its traffic safety initiative in 2010.

The South Brunswick Police Department was honored with the prestigious New Jersey Law Enforcement Challenge award for its traffic safety initiative in 2010. The Law Enforcement Challenge is a competition among similar sizes and types of law  enforcement agencies.

The award recognizes the best overall law enforcement traffic safety programs in the New Jersey. The main areas of concentration include efforts to enforce laws and educate the public about occupant protection, impaired driving, and speeding. Departments submit an application which documents their agency's efforts and effectiveness in these areas.

The winning safety programs are those that combine officer training, public information and enforcement to reduce crashes and injuries within the jurisdiction. 

A panel of judges reviewed each application and assigned points based on certain established criteria. After judging was completed, the judge’s scores were averaged and a final score was assigned for each submission. South Brunswick Police Department received the top score for the entire competition. For its effort the department was awarded a new Truspeed Lidar radar gun valued at $2,000. 

The award recognized the department’s efforts to increase traffic safety. In 2010 those efforts resulted in a 17 percent reduction in accidents, an 11 percent increase in impaired driver arrests, and 8 percent increase in occupant seatbelt usage.

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“The award is recognition of our department’s commitment to increasing motorists safety through awareness, education and enforcement," Chief Raymond Hayducka said.

The Law Enforcement Challenge is financed through a grant awarded to the International Association of Chief's of Police (IACP) by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Both of these organizations believe an increase in traffic enforcement in a community results in a decrease in motor vehicle crashes, injuries, and fatalities. The New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police has established it's own state Challenge program along with the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety.


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