The role of the police traffic control

The role of the police traffic control may be outlined as follows:

1. Record Keeping and Data Processing. – Record motor vehicle accident facts and collect and analyse data for the purpose of providing standard and adequate area-wide acci­dent records and facts essential to planning accident preven­tion measures through engineering, education, enforcement and legislation.

2. Accident Investigation. – Determine and report the cause, circumstances, and other facts of a traffic accident and obtain adequate evidence to secure prosecution of the vio­lator.

Personnel must be trained for on-the-scene investigation ranging from questioning of participants and witnesses to the examination of the vehicle and other physical evidence at the accident scene. Emphasis should be on truthful re­construction of the accident and prompt police action when violation of the law contributed to the accident. Police ac­tion at the scene directed toward the person causing the ac­cident is highly selective and highly effective enforcement.

3. Enforcement. – All police activity relating to the ob­servation of traffic violations and the police action to be taken such as warning, reporting, summoning and arresting, includes techniques for securing voluntary compliance as open patrol in plainly marked cars, patrol in unmarked cars, and radar and other forms of speed management.

Enforcement also includes techniques necessary to secure co-operation of the courts, and to assist in prosecuting traffic offenders. It also includes active cooperation with the state agency administering driver license control in order that the unlicensed driver and the driver operating while his license is suspended will be kept off the highways.

4. Direction. – Telling drivers and pedestrians how and where they may or may not move or stand at a particular place. punishment is in a county penitentiary, as distinct from a state prison, is generally a misdemeanour; where the maxi­mum punishment is one year in a penitentiary in New York, that crime is by definition a misdemeanour. An offence punishable by imprisonment in a state prison, or capitally, is a felony.

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