The Lemon Grove Sheriff’s Station’s Traffic Division consist of one Traffic Sergeant, one motorcycle unit, three sedan units, one Community Service Officer, one Crime Prevention Specialist, who are assigned to the City of Lemon Grove, two County Community Service Officers, and two County Crime Prevention Specialists. 

The Traffic Division aggressively operates the “VCEEE” program in the City of Lemon Grove:  Visibility, Communication, Education, Engineering, and Enforcement.  The Traffic Deputies, the Community Service Officers, and the Crime Prevention Specialists are all highly trained and experienced.  The motorcycle unit is also trained in commercial enforcement and one Community Service Officer and one Crime Prevention Specialist are certified by NHTSA as Child Passenger Safety Seat Technicians.  All of the Traffic Deputies are trained/certified in the use of our radar/laser equipment to assist them in speed enforcement.  
  

The citizens of the City of Lemon Grove main traffic concerns continue to be motorists speeding in their neighborhoods and around their children’s schools and the traffic congestion due to the San Diego Trolley traversing five (5) of our busiest intersections. 

 The three intersections having the most traffic collision during the year 2007 were:  Broadway at Massachusetts Avenue, Broadway at Lemon Grove Avenue, and Central Avenue at Massachusetts Avenue.  Speeding was the primary collision factor with Alcohol Related being second. 

Over the past several years, injury collisions have consistently declined, with no fatal collisions reported in 2006 and 2007.  The decrease in injury collisions has a direct correlation to the number and type of citations issued throughout the year.  Speeding citations were top while seat belt/passenger restraint citations were second.   Redesigning roadways, educating the motorist that speed kills, and making available to the public free child/infant safety seat installations/inspections have had a positive effect on the decline of injury collisions.

 The operation of the “STOP” program, Serious Traffic Offender Program, continues to be very successful in getting unlicensed drivers off the road and eventually licensed.  The Lemon Grove Sheriff’s Station had a 72% success rate in 2007.

 Numerous other special details have also contributed to the success in the decline of injury collisions:  DUI/CDL checkpoints, concentrated Seat Belt enforcement days, Street Sweep details, which get the unregistered, illegally parked, and abandoned vehicles off the roadway, bicycle/helmet safety programs for students and parents in the Lemon Grove School District, and the thorough investigation and prosecution of Hit and Run drivers.