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Pleasanton's OTS ranking for 2019, was 7th out of 105 for bicycle crashes involving people 15 years old or younger and 3rd for 2018. These numbers suggest a need to concentrate more time educating the youth on bicycle safety, awareness and the importance of wearing a properly fitted helmet. The City of Pleasanton is looking to reduce bicyclist crashes by concentrating on roadway violations being committed by bicyclist, whether it be through education or enforcement. Pleasanton with conduct safety presentations and bicycle rodeos. PPD has continued to hire new Police Officers over the past few years and there is a need for the new officers to attend RADAR and LIDAR School. Speed remains one of the City's top three PCFs and being able to have more officers trained in the tools which can lead to more enforcement and education for drivers in the city. Placing officers in a position to enforce speed violations can reduce the number of injury crashes. Pleasanton will conduct specialized enforcement for speed and have more RADAR/LIDAR trained officers. PPD takes pride in traffic enforcement and in safety. Throughout the year, the traffic division, which consists of five motor officers, one Sergeant and one Lieutenant, is responsible for investigating all crashes. As with many other agencies, the department is experiencing staffing shortages, which leads to special enforcement efforts being lost. PPD will assign additional officers to address bicycle safety violations and address primary crash factors within the City. The Pleasanton Police Department participates with surrounding police departments in a collaborative effort to address current trends within their city. These trends often include the hosting agency's main PCF in crashes occurring in their city. This Concentrated Intensive Traffic Enforcement(CITE) team meets twice a month with the hosting agency rotating through each of the six participating agencies. Motor units from around the Tri-Valley area saturate the hosting agencies jurisdiction and address identified traffic enforcement needs. With many police agencies being short staffed, CITE team is an excellent way of addressing PCF's and reducing crashes. For the reasons cited above, PPD looks forward to expanding traffic efforts in an effort to reduce crashes, educate the community and make the roadways safer for all. Traffic Data Summary 2. PERFORMANCE MEASURES A. Goals: 1. Reduce the number of persons killed in traffic crashes. 2. Reduce the number of persons injured in traffic crashes. 3. Reduce the number of pedestrians killed in traffic crashes. 4. Reduce the number of pedestrians injured in traffic crashes. 5. Reduce the number of bicyclists killed in traffic crashes. 6. Reduce the number of bicyclists injured in traffic crashes. 7. Reduce the number of persons killed in alcohol-involved crashes. 8. Reduce the number of persons injured in alcohol-involved crashes. 9. Reduce the number of persons killed in drug-involved crashes. 10. Reduce the number of persons injured in drug-involved crashes. 11. Reduce the number of persons killed in alcohol/drug combo-involved crashes. 12. Reduce the number of persons injured in alcohol/drug combo-involved crashes. 13. Reduce the number of motorcyclists killed in traffic crashes. 14. Reduce the number of motorcyclists injured in traffic crashes. 15. Reduce hit & run fatal crashes. 16. Reduce hit & run injury crashes. 17. Reduce nighttime (2100 - 0259 hours) fatal crashes. 18. Reduce nighttime (2100 - 0259 hours) injury crashes. B. Objectives: Target Number 1. Issue a press release announcing the kick-off of the grant by November 15. The 1 kick-off press releases and media advisories, alerts, and materials must be emailed to the OTS Public Information Officer at pio@ots.ca.gov, and copied to your OTS Coordinator, for approval 14 days prior to the issuance date of the release. 9/16/2022 9:19:12 AM Page 4 of 17