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Traffic Safety

The Plum Borough Police Department is committed to making the roadways within our Borough safe for both vehicles and pedestrians.

The Plum Police Department participates in federally funded highway traffic safety initiatives throughout the year which are aimed at reducing vehicular crashes and the resulting injuries and fatalities from these types of incidents.

The Plum Police Department addresses these ongoing issues by continuing their efforts as the the Police Traffic Services (PTS) grant holder for the Eastern Allegheny Traffic Safety Alliance (Formerly the East Hills DUI Task Force). Plum Police Sgt. Eric Zdobinski is the author of the current grant and serves as the Director of the Eastern Allegheny Traffic Safety Alliance. Sgt. Zdobinski along with PTS Coordinator Plum Police Sgt. Joseph DiMaria coordinate training and scheduling for all the Alliance’s 10 member police departments which consists of Churchill, Edgewood, Forest Hills, Monroeville, North Versailles, Oakmont, Penn Hills, Plum, White Oak and Wilkins Township police departments.

Member police departments of the Eastern Allegheny Traffic Safety Alliance participate in the following traffic safety programs:

Impaired Driving – The goal is to reduce and eliminate impaired driving related crashes within the participating jurisdictions. The task force targets impaired driving through the use of stationary sobriety checkpoints, mobile awareness details as well as roving impaired driver patrols. The Plum Borough Police Department is a founding member of this task force, which has been in existence in various forms since 1993. 

Aggressive Driving - The goal of the project is to reduce the number of aggressive driving related crashes, injuries, and deaths through educational and enforcement activities conducted on targeted roadways which have been identified as having a high number of crashes due to aggressive driving related behaviors. Aggressive driving behaviors include speeding, following too closely (tailgating), improper passing, red light running, and other moving violations. The Plum Borough Police Department has participated in the PA Aggressive Driving Enforcement and Education Project since 2007.

Occupant Safety Protection - The goal of the program is to reduce the number of traffic fatalities due to unrestrained passenger vehicle occupants by enforcing existing seat belt laws, educating the public, and encouraging increased seat belt use which includes the enforcement and education of Child Passenger Restraint Systems (child car seats). The Plum Borough Police Department has participated in the Buckle Up occupant safety protection program since 2008.

Pedestrian Safety – The goal of this program is to educate drivers and pedestrians on the proper use of crosswalks, right of way intersections and the observance of children in school zones and bus stops. Officer’s efforts in addressing these issues will help reduce the number of vehicle versus pedestrian crashes.

On a more localized level, the police department has programs and equipment in place to address traffic safety concerns of its residents and visitors, most notably, issues of speed enforcement. The department possesses several types of speed timing equipment used to enforce vehicle speed limits as well as motorist educational equipment such as radar-based speed display units. The radar-based speed traffic display units are designed to assist in identifying problem roadways in which speeding is prevalent. The device, when deployed, collects data related to the traffic patterns experienced on the roadway. That information is then used to develop an enforcement strategy which will be most effective in addressing the problem while using department resources in the most efficient manner.

If you wish to request increased traffic enforcement in your neighborhood or would like to have a speed display unit deployed in a specific area you can contact the police department at 412-795-6800 ext. 4371 during regular business hours and speak with Administrative Assistant Danielle Fusco.

 

Our department is currently addressing any additional traffic safety concern requests with patrol officers from each patrol crew. After regular business hours and weekend requests can made with the following Patrol Officers: