Traffic Safety Unit Award

The National Sheriffs' Association (NSA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) are proud to announce the annual Traffic Enforcement Safety Unit Award. This Award is one means by which to contribute to safer highways. The award was created to recognize traffic enforcement units that exemplify the cutting edge in traffic safety programs. Unlike the J. Stannard Baker Award, which seeks to recognize individuals in traffic safety, the Traffic Safety Unit Award will be a unit or office based award. The criteria evaluates the quality of each participating agency's program in terms of office policy and training, public information and education, enforcement activity and effectiveness.

The Traffic Safety Unit Award  will target three major traffic safety priorities: occupant protection, impaired driving, and speeding. 

The Traffic Enforcement Safety Award will allow Sheriffs' offices to set comprehensive goals, to strive to reach new heights, to share their experiences with their counterparts, and to be recognized for their traffic safety accomplishments; in short, to make significant differences in the communities their officers serve professionally each day of every year. This competition will have no losers, only winners, for saving lives and reducing the frequency and severity of injuries are the true rewards of each agency's efforts.

Every Sheriff's office, regardless of size, is encouraged to take part in this challenge. If you have questions regarding your traffic units' efforts toward traffic safety, please contact:

    National Sheriffs' Association

 

The same application is used for The Traffic Enforcement Safety Unit Award and the IACP/NSA Law Enforcement Challenge. For the application, click here. Please print out application and submit with package

The application deadline is May 1, 2010.

 

Current Winners of the Traffic Safety Unit Award

2009

            Winner: Tift County Sheriff's Office, Georgia

Sponsors of the Traffic Safety Unit Award

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

 

Previous Winners of the Traffic Safety Unit Award

2007

Winner: Coweta County Sheriff's Office, Georgia

Winner:  Forsyth County Sheriff's Office, GA

 

2005

Winner:  Clackamas County Sheriff's Office, OR

2004

Winner: Stafford County Sheriff's Office, VA

First Runner Up: Franklin County Sheriff's Office, GA

Second Runner Up: Collier County Sheriff's Office, FL

2003