To facilitate the safe and expeditious movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, the department must enforce traffic laws, investigate traffic crashes, and direct traffic. To enforce compliance with traffic laws and to develop driver awareness of the causes of traffic crashes, the department appropriately warns, cites, or arrests traffic law violators. Traffic crashes may be investigated to protect the rights of the involved parties, to care for the injured, and to determine the causes of crashes so that methods of prevention may be developed, and to gather necessary evidence to prosecute the violator.
Officers will control an intersection, or roadway, when necessary to permit the flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Officers will provide information to the public to assist them in reaching their destinations.
Revised: July 1, 2011