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Border to Border 2004: Successful For Eighth Year


Photo by Don Allen, VACP

The Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police in cooperation with law enforcement agencies throughout Virginia and the bordering states of Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina completed it's "Border To Border" project September 2, 2004. This was the eight year for the project as part of Virginia's "Smart, Safe and Sober" traffic safety campaign.

This year, 190 law enforcement officers representing 45 agencies held 8 checkpoints with 592 summons or arrests made. Checkpoints were held at the state borders in Giles, Lee, Wise, Pittsylvania, Chesapeake, King George and Frederick Counties. Officers checked traffic for three hours with sister state law enforcement officers beginning at 10:00 AM and ending at 3:00PM. Two of the southwestern counties had rain interfere with the project or greater numbers would have been reported. Participating officers reported the following violations of special interest this year during the 3-hour checkpoints:

  • 2 DUI arrests
  • 1 Felony Habitual Offender
  • 48 Adult Seat Belt Violations
  • 41 Speeding Violations
  • 2 Reckless Driving Violations
  • 9 Child Safety Seat Violations
  • 3 Narcotic Violations (65 canine vehicle searches)
  • 6 Commercial Motor Vehicle Violations (2 removals from the highway)
  • 14 Technician Inspections of CPS (Only 2 were installed correctly)

"We are extremely pleased with the efforts and professionalism of our law enforcement agencies throughout Virginia and in our neighboring states," explained Donald Allen, Traffic Safety Specialist with the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police. "Compared with our efforts last year we issued more summons with many more officers involved this year. Each year the numbers of participants increase as a testament to it's success and popularity with law enforcement officers in Virginia as well as our bordering states. We saw a decrease in the number of adult seat belt violations but saw the same number of child safety seat violations. This is certainly a message to all of us that we need to continue to enforce child safety seat statutes as well as continue the education of parents and caregivers as to proper use and installation of child safety seats."

 


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