Traffic Safety

The deadline for the J. Stannard Baker Award for Highway Safety is May 1, 2009!  Applications must be received in the NSA office.  Click here for your application.

Thank you for participating in our study of Traffic Safety that was sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in partnership with The National Sheriffs' Association.  Click here to see the results of the survey.

Mission:

The Traffic Safety Committee is charged with the responsibility of studying, considering, evaluating, analyzing, and reporting on to the Executive Committee and Membership all matters of policy, standards, practice and procedures relating to the enforcement of traffic laws and ordinances, traffic crash investigation, emergency vehicle operations, highway traffic safety problems and programs, and all proposed legislation relating to traffic safety services affecting Sheriffs.

Objectives:

1. Increase awareness among Sheriffs of the importance of highway traffic safety programs by the Office of the Sheriff as a major facet of the responsibility of Sheriffs to protect the lives and property, and improve the quality of life, of their citizens.
2. Identify traffic enforcement strategies and tactics which have proven to be effective in reducing traffic fatalities, damages, and injuries in crashes; and disseminate information on such strategies and tactics to members of the Association and other public safety agencies and legislative bodies.
3. Serve as the liaison, representing the National Sheriffs' Association, to organizations whose purpose is to research, develop, finance, promote and evaluate traffic safety programs and issues.
4. Develop and submit to the Resolutions Committee and/or the Executive Committee at the Annual Conference of the National Sheriffs' Association, statements of the Traffic Safety Committee's positions on traffic safety matters for adoption by the Committees as official positions of the Association.
5. Initiate, oversee, and evaluate research and development projects and technical assistance programs conducted by the staff of the National Sheriffs' Association in the field of traffic safety enforcement and education.
6. Promote the development and delivery of training programs on traffic safety policies, procedures, strategies, and tactics to personnel of Offices of the Sheriff as well as to the general public.
7. Establish and promote an awards program for recognizing individual law enforcement employees who have made significant contributions or outstanding achievements in highway safety enforcement, educational, or promotional activities.
8. Seek grant funding for the National Sheriffs' Association for traffic safety programs.
9. Provide traffic safety training programs to personnel of Offices of the Sheriff as well as to the general public.
10. Promote support from the Office of the Sheriff for enforcement activities and high-priority traffic safety emphasis areas, including occupant protection and impaired driving national mobilizations.
11. Provide oversight for any traffic safety grants to the National Sheriffs' Association to ensure their compliance with the foregoing mission and objectives of the Traffic Safety Committee.