About Us
Police Traffic Services Programs are statewide efforts that focus on:
Increasing safety belt and child safety seat usage
The Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS), the law enforcement community, training agencies, associations, prosecutors, the judiciary and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) work together to decrease crashes, fatalities, and injuries. To achieve this goal, the program combines a concerted local and statewide media campaign with additional law enforcement activities to reinforce the message. Selective Traffic Enforcement Programs (STEPs) are grants provided by TxDOT to law enforcement agencies to enforce traffic safety laws such as speed and safety belt use. In these grants, Texas peace officers work primarily overtime and regular time in several cases to issue citations and arrest DWI offenders in order to reduce fatalities, injuries, and crashes within their local jurisdiction.
STEP - Driving While Intoxicated (DWI)
This is a project to decrease impaired driving and alcohol-related crashes.
STEP - Intersection Traffic Control (ITC)
This is a project to decrease intersection crashes. This STEP targets intersections with a high frequency of crashes within metropolitan areas.
STEP - Occupant Protection (OP)
This is a project to increase safety belt and child safety seat usage .
STEP - Speed
This is a project to increase speeding citations and decrease crashes and to increase driver compliance with posted speed limits.
STEP - Wave
STEP Waves are campaigns centered on the high traffic holiday periods. Participants may design their own enforcement program based on their specific community's traffic problems. To participate in a Wave agencies may enforce one or more of the following : safety belt, speed, and DWI.
STEP - Comprehensive
This is a project that focuses on two or more of the Traffic Safety STEP elements including Occupant Protection (OP), Driving While Intoxicated (DWI), Speed, and Intersection Traffic Control (ITC).
STEP - Comprehensive Commercial Motor Vehicle
This is a project to decrease Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) Hazardous Moving and Speed violations and CMV crashes.
STEP -Click It or Ticket (CIOT)
This is a campaign to conduct enforcement as part of a statewide and national mobilization effort to increase the use of safety belts in cars and pick-up trucks.
STEP - Impaired Driving Mobilization (IDM)
This is a campaign for local law enforcement agencies to conduct DWI enforcement Waves and increase DWI arrests as part of the statewide "Drink. Drive. Go To Jail" campaign and in conjunction with the national Impaired Driving Mobilization campaign.
