Click It or Ticket is a high visibility
enforcement program designed to raise safety belt usage and
save people from death and serious injury on the streets
and highways.
The program will use educational radio messages recorded personally by chiefs and sheriffs, along with stepped-up enforcement, to send a strong message that safety belts save lives.
The Click It or Ticket campaign is currently used in 18 other states and the District of Columbia. In other Click It or Ticket campaigns, the occupant restraint usage rate increased by more than 10 percent, meaning that thousands of previously unbuckled drivers and passengers began using safety belts and child safety seats.
The campaign consists of strict enforcement, strong educational messages in the form of ads on most radio stations in the area, and numerous public appearances by officers on behalf of the program.
Virginia's statewide safety belt compliance
rate is currently 79 percent. The goal for 2017 is to increase the rate to at least 82.1%.
May 2017 National Mobilization
Paid Media Wave May 15 - June 4, 2017
Enforcement Wave May 22 - June 4, 2017
PRE-Mobilization Seat Belt Survey Form —
Conduct May 8-12; Due May 19 via TREDS! Word doc | PDF
Enforcement Data Reporting Form — Conduct May 22 – June 4; Due June 16 via TREDS! PDF
POST-Mobilization Seat Belt Survey Form — Conduct June 5-9; Due June 16 via TREDS!
Word doc | PDF
May 2015 Click It or Ticket Mini-Mobilization Results
Almost 500 of you participated in the 2015 May Click It or Ticket Mobilization and worked more than 16,000 hours of overtime, 4,000 more hours than the May 2014 mobilization, and you worked about 388,000 regular hours, a WHOPPING 100,000 more hours than last year’s May Click It! We really appreciate your extra effort. A special thank-you goes out to all those officers who entered your agency’s information in TREDS.
For the two-week enforcement effort, 79,034 arrests and/or citations were issued from May 18-31:
3,456 safety belt citations (vs. 2,566 for May 2014 Click It)
864 child safety seat citations (vs. 568 for May 2014 Click It)
27,980 speeding tickets (vs. 13,674 for May 2014 Click It)
6,119 reckless driving citations
854 DUIs
30 underage drinking citations
20 stolen vehicles recovered
64 fugitives apprehended
933 drug arrests
32 weapons seized
Unfortunately, unrestrained fatalities are up so far this year compared to the same time last year, so your continued Occupant Protection efforts are more important than ever. The next Click It or Ticket Enforcement Mini-Mobilization will be Friday, Nov. 20 through Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015, which is the week leading up to the national Click It effort on Thanksgiving Day.
THANK YOU FOR A JOB WELL DONE!!!
November 2014 Click It or Ticket Mini-Mobilization Results
Hundreds of local law enforcement officers and State Police troopers from across Virginia participated in the 2014 November Click It or Ticket Mini-Mobilization by emphasizing proper seat belt and child safety seat use. Law enforcement officers worked more than 4,500 hours of overtime and issued:
1,403 safety belt citations;
274 child safety seat citations;
13,672 speeding tickets;
3,707 reckless driving citations;
446 DUI arrests; and,
10 underage drinking citations.
In addition, two stolen vehicles were recovered, 30 fugitives were apprehended, 368 drug arrests were made and 17 weapons were seized. For the entire mobilization, 15,347 arrests and/or citations were issued during a one-week period, from Nov. 21 through 27, 2014.
The next national and statewide Click It or Ticket enforcement mobilization dates are May 18 through 31, 2015. Virginia’s law enforcement officers will be asked again to emphasize occupant protection during this time period.
The awards are based on the seat belt rates from the pre- and post-observation surveys reported by participating agencies to the Virginia Highway Safety Office. The following earned either a Most Improved or Highest Use award compared to agencies in Virginia with a similar number of sworn officers. Read more...
May 2014 Click It or Ticket Mobilization Results
The Thanksgiving Click It or Ticket enforcement mini-mobilization was from May 19 - June 1, 2014.
Citations/Arrests
Click It or Ticket May 2014
Enforcement Data
mobilization period (days)
14
safety belt citations
2,561
child safety seat citations
566
speeding citations
13,468
reckless driving citations
1,443
DUI arrests
796
underage drinking citations
6
total arrests/citations
40,330
November 2013 Click It or Ticket Mini-Mobilization Results
The Thanksgiving Click It or Ticket enforcement mini-mobilization was from November 22 to 28, 2013.
Citations/Arrests
Click It or Ticket Nov. 2013
Enforcement Data
mobilization period (days)
7
safety belt citations
1,134
child safety seat citations
225
speeding citations
8,858
reckless driving citations
2,242
DUI arrests
323
underage drinking citations
22
total arrests/citations
24,797
State Safety Belt Usage Rate (2016):
79%
2015 Rate: 80.9%
Send us your Click It or Ticket photos!
Email us your photos and we'll put them online and maybe in the SS&S Calendar or Newsletter! Here's how to do it:
Compose an email message to vachiefs@email.smugmug.com with the subject "vacp-sss" (DON'T include the quotes, and DON'T include any other characters).
In the body, write a short, one-line description, such as "Harrisonburg CIOT" or "Warren Co. CPS class" or "Salem PD Checkpoint".
Attach your full-size photos — DON'T size them down for email.
Click It or Ticket is a high visibility
enforcement program designed to raise safety belt usage and
save people from death and serious injury on the streets
and highways. 
