Its airlifted every morning and afternoon from Monday to Friday for traffic patrol.
Then we need to sort of slide past the traffic patrol.
He said that might cause the troop to put more emphasis on traffic patrols and less on criminal investigations.
Pitt kept one eye out for the traffic patrol and the other on the speedometer.
"We never had traffic patrol before," he said.
He said the department had tried some Luminas for traffic patrol but that its front-wheel drive and light weight made it more expensive to repair.
If the speed limit is 55, do not do 56 or you will be pulled over by the traffic patrol.
Police favored them for traffic patrol because they were faster than anything on the roads.
The town police have increased traffic patrols, issuing more than 1,178 speeding tickets since January, compared to 576 in all of 1998.
One official said the city might divert special police units, like a narcotics unit, to work on traffic patrols during a strike.
