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COLORADO LAW ENFORCE M E N T

LIAISON DISPATCH

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HIGHWAY SAFETY OFFIC TRANSPORTATION SAFETY

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: COLORADO TRAFFIC FAT ALITIES CONTINUE TO RISE IN 2 0 1 8

C O L O R A D O F A- 1 TALITIES CON- TINUE TO IN- Colorado’s traffic fatalities have continued to rise during the first three months of C R E A S E 2018. 120 Colorado citizens and visitors have lost their lives on Colorado roads in CDOT CONDUCTS 1 R E G I O N A L 2018. This compares with 118 reported fatalities during the same time frame in T R A I N I N G 2017. Thirty-seven of those reported fatalities involved impairment. This is a re- DDACTS: WHAT 2 IS IT AND WHY duction of four impaired driving related fatalities, down from forty-one in 2017. IS IT IMPORTANT TO LAW FORCE- MENT CDOT HIGHWAY SAFETY OFFICE CONDUCTS REGI O N A L WELD COUNTY 3 - 4 TRAINING DUI TASK FORCE Members of the Colorado Department of Transportation’s Highway Safety Office re- SOUTHERN UTE 4 - 5 PD INTRODUCES cently presented the annual regional training for law enforcement agencies interest- YOUNG DRIVERS TO EFFECTS OF ed in submitting applications for grant funding. During the week of March 19-23, IMPAIRED DRIV- ING 2018, six instructors traversed 847 miles and provided training to over 200 officers LIFESAVERS 5 - 6 in six locations throughout the state: Pueblo, Pagosa Springs, Montrose, Rifle, Den- CONFERENCE ver and Kersey. U P C O M I N G 6 TRAINING Training consisted of requirements for State and Federal Grant programs including

UPCOMING EVENTS High Visibility Enforcement (HVE), Checkpoint Colorado, and Click It or Ticket. Grants provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration were also addressed • Grand Junction Traffic Safe- as well as numerous other funding opportunities, including speed and other mini ty Champions Luncheon- May 16, 2018 grants. A make-up session for those who missed the training will be scheduled in the near future. • Denver Traffic Safety Cham- pions Luncheon-May 23, 2018

• Click-It or Ticket May Mobi- lization-May 21-June 3, 2018

• Memorial Day HVE Period- May 25-29, 2018

• Summer Blitz HVE Period- June 15-25, 2018

• July 4 HVE Period-June 29- July 5, 2018

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DDACTS - COMPLETING TH E PUZZLE TO REDUCE SOCIAL HARM

Yet another acronym! What is spots”, development of strategic DDACTS and why is it important to operations, information sharing law enforcement? sessions with stakeholders, devel- opment of outcome measures, There is an old adage that if you and monitoring, evaluation and always do what you’ve always adjustments of operations. 3 done, you’ll always get what pendently in time and/or loca- you’ve always gotten. Why is DDACTS important to law tion.”1 enforcement? The principal com- In today’s law enforcement envi- Data Driven Approaches to Crime plaint from law enforcement su- ronment, shortage of resources is and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) is a pervision is that resources are in- an obstacle for all law enforce- law enforcement model based on sufficient to keep pace with the ment agencies as we continue to the knowledge that criminals use demands of calls for service and “do more with less.” This is not motor vehicles during the commis- often traffic units are often the likely to change in the future. sion of crimes and the premise first to be abolished in favor of Police departments must continue that highly visible traffic enforce- “routine” patrol units. to explore and implement new ment serves as a deterrent. DDACTS addresses this issue by strategies to reduce social harm DDACTS utilizes highly visible, tar- deploying resources to traffic en- and improve the quality of life for geted traffic enforcement based forcement-related activities based our citizens. on data analysis of high rates of on the analysis of the place- Research over the past 35 years traffic crashes and crime to lower based relationship between crash- has revealed that “the application crashes and crime, thereby estab- es and crimes. of highly visible traffic enforce- lishing an effective and efficient By collecting and analyzing data ment is a proven and effective method of deploying law enforce- related to crime and crashes and strategy that addresses both ment resources.2 deploying resources based on that crime and crashes, whether they DDACTS is based on seven princi- analysis, law enforcement agen- occur simultaneously or inde- ples: Building community partner- cies can reduce the social harm to ships to establish support for visi- communities throughout Colorado ble enforcement, local data collec- and reduce traffic related fatalities tion and analysis to identify crime, from the 648 Colorado lives lost crashes and traffic related “hot in 2016.

References: 1 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration… (2014, March). Data Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS): Operational Guide. (Report No. DOT HS 811 185) Washington DC: Author. (page 2)

2Ibid. (Executive Summary)

3Ibid (Executive Summary)

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NORTHEAST REGION - WELD COUNTY AGENCIES PARTNER TO REDUCE IMPAIRED DRIVING CRASHES

Weld County has an impaired driving Force and Gilbert Police Department problem.” That was the first sentence to assist in his effort to convince local in Trooper Nate Grimm’s proposal to agencies that a task force was need- the Weld County Police Chiefs that a ed and that the results would impact Multi-agency Impaired Driving Task impaired driving fatalities in Weld Force be developed in Weld County. County.

Statistics have shown that during the In May of 2017, Trooper Grimm pre- past five years, Weld County has con- sented his proposal for the task force sistently ranked in the top five coun- to Captain Eyer, Troop Commander ties for Impaired Driving fatality crash- for Troop 3A. Captain Eyer made ar- es at about 9% of Colorado’s DUI re- rangements for Trooper Grimm to pre- lated crashes, while representing only sent a proposal to the Weld County 5% of Colorado’s population. In Chief’s Association. The decision was 2015, Weld County lead the state in made to move forward with the devel- DUI related traffic fatalities with 19. opment of the task force.

Trooper Grimm was determined save The task force is comprised of nine the lives of the Colorado Citizens that participating agencies that include call Weld County home and in Decem- Colorado State Patrol Troop 3A, Weld ber of 2016 began researching the County Sheriff’s Office, Dacono PD, development of a Multi-agency Im- Evans PD, Fredrick PD, Ft. Lupton PD, paired Driving Task Force. With the Lochbuie PD, Milliken PD and Wind- support and encouragement of Major sor PD. Tim Keeton and Sergeants Chris Grimsley and Jason Bachman, Troop- The primary goal of the task force is er Grimm traveled to Arizona and to reduce impaired driving related tapped the knowledge and expertise fatalities in Weld County through en- of Arizona’s East Valley DUI Task forcement and education efforts.

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Approximately half of the According to Trooper ception of police pres- deployments were joint Grimm, the task force ence and activity and deployments, meaning conducted six operations increased media and that the participating during 2017, totaling public outreach. agencies worked togeth- eleven nights. The num- er on the specific section ber of participating agen- According to Trooper of road. To overcome cies ranged from three to Grimm, the biggest chal- jurisdictional concerns, five during each opera- lenge facing the task Weld County Sheriff Ste- tion. force is continued buy-in ve Reams granted a con- from participating agen- ditional appointment to A total of 456 hours were cies. While the larger all officers during joint spent during the six op- agencies have the man- operations. erations. Enforcement power, time and money resulted in 22 impaired to participate, the small- In addition to the joint driving arrests, 8 under- er agencies face re- deployments, agencies age alcohol offenses, source allocation issues. coordinated several and 12 arrests for vari- dates and times where ous other violations. A by-product of the task officers would be as- force has been inter- signed to traffic enforce- In addition to the im- agency cooperation and ment in their individual paired driving arrests, the ability of officers to jurisdictions. These op- several benefits exist work together with offic- erations supported the when conducting task ers from other depart- philosophy of high visibil- force operations, includ- ments, which contributes ity in the reduction of ing increased non-DUI to increased morale. impaired driving. arrests, increased per-

SOUTHWEST REGION - SOU THERN UTE POLICE DEPARTMENT INTRODUCES YOUNG DRIVERS TO THE HAZARDS OF IMPAIRED AND TEXTING WHILE DRIVING

Members of the South- cated on the Southern orange traffic cones ern Ute Police Depart- Ute Indian Reservation and included numerous ment recently introduced in Southwest Colorado. curves and sharp turns. potential and current The course was con- Officers employed the young drivers to the haz- structed with one objec- use of golf carts as ve- ards of impaired and tive in mind, to demon- hicles to traverse the texting while driving. strate to young drivers course. Middle and During two separate the dangers of driving high school students events, officers con- while impaired and/or were then fitted with structed a driving course texting. The course was DUI goggles and placed in the parking lot of the laid out using customary in the driver’s seat. The local Sky Ute Casino lo-

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students were then asked structed the students to focused on the act of driv- to “drive” thorough the text a specific message ing. course. Obviously, an of- while “driving.” A number of orange cones ficer accompanied them While the exercise proved perished during the events during their “trip.” to be amusing for those and their lives were donat- Once they had completed observing and fun for the ed for the advancement of their “trip” using the DUI student “drivers,” stu- knowledge for the student goggles, the officer re- dents learned what haz- drivers. placed the goggles with ards they created when cell phones. Officers in- they are not completely

TRAFFIC SAFETY PROFE SSIONALS MEET TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES, RESEARCH AND POLICY INITATIVES

Over 2,100 public health Solutions, Impaired Driv- The conference provided and safety professional, ing, Motorcycle Safety, a wealth of information as researchers and advo- Pedestrian/Bicycle Safety well as abundant opportu- cates besieged the city of and Teen Traffic Safety. nities for networking with San Antonio, Texas on other traffic safety profes- Opening ceremonies be- April 22, 2018 for the sionals. Participants visit- gan with a welcome from 2018 Life Savers National ed exhibits by over 90 or- the San Antonio Council- Conference on Highway ganizations from the traf- woman Shirley Gonzales Safety Priorities hosted by fic safety industry. and Texas Department of the Texas Department of Transportation Commis- Exhibitors included ven- Transportation. sioner Laura Ryan, an dors displaying their latest During the next two and a address by Deborah Hers- and greatest products and half days, participants at- man, President and CEO safety organizations tended over 88 work- of the National Safety providing information on shops in 11 separate Council and culminated everything from child re- tracks including, Adult and with a heart wrenching straint systems to motor- Child Occupant Protection, speech by Constable Tre- cycle safety. Of course Aging Drivers, Communi- vor Nehls and Leland Ja- there was lots of cations, Criminal Justice, cobson, whose son died “swag” (stuff we all get) to Distracted driving, Evolv- after accidently being left be gotten from exhibitors ing Safety Priorities and in a hot car. as they sought to garner

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attention of participants. The conference was held during participants enjoyed helping the annual San Antonio Fiesta San Antonio celebrate its herit- The City of San Antonio proved which this year celebrated the age. to be an exemplary host by 300th birthday of the City of San providing a venue with over The 2019 Lifesavers Confer- Antonio. The Fiesta featured 10 1,600,000 square feet of space ence will be convened March days of reveling including sever- conveniently located within 31, 2019 and will be hosted by al parades, fireworks, and food walking distance of local hotels the City of Louisville, Kentucky. and arts festivals. Conference and the famous Riverwalk.

UPCOMING TRAINING

COURSE DATES LOCATION CONTACT

SFST Instructor Update June 17, 2018 Durango [email protected] DRE Update June 18, 2018 Durango [email protected] Marijuana DUI Investigations June 18-19, 2018 Boulder [email protected] w/ Green Lab ARIDE June 20-21, 2018 Durango [email protected] Accident Investigation June 18-29, 2018 Denver Greater Metro Region 303 994-8035 SFST Instructor Update July 9, 2018 Pueblo [email protected] DRE Update July 10, 2018 Pueblo [email protected] SFST Instructor Update September 24, 2018 Rifle [email protected] DRE Update September 25, 2018 Rifle [email protected] Police Radar/LIDAR Instructor October 8-12, 2018 Golden [email protected]

Project Manager Leslie Chase Phone: 303-512-5003 Email: [email protected]

LEC and Central Region LEL Bruce Sheetz Phone: 303-757-9355 Email: [email protected]

Northeast Region LEL Lee Birk Phone: 303-638-3898 Email: [email protected]

South Region LEL Gini England Phone: 970-739-3687 Email: [email protected]

Southeast Region LEL Mark Hunt Phone: 719-492-6655 Email: mark. [email protected]