Duties of the Traffic Division

• Enforce traffic laws on public streets.
• Lead investigator for all serious injury and fatal crashes (between 18 and 24 per year)
• Investigate all Hit and Run crashes (between 400 and 600 per year)
• Conduct investigations into all traffic matters that require follow-up beyond the investigation conducted by the Uniform Division
  
• Review all traffic investigations conducted by the Uniform Division
  
• Licensing and Inspection of all taxi cabs that operate within the City
  
• Licensing of all taxi cab drivers who operate within the City
  
• Liaison for Prosecutor's Office on all driving related cases submitted by the Mishawaka Police
  
• Calibrate Portable Breath Test instruments
  
• Generalist Instructor
  
• Emergency Vehicle Operation (EVO) Instructor
  
• Administer the Electronic Vehicle Crash Reporting System

• $5.00 fee paid at Records Division
• Forms then presented to an officer for vehicle inspection and certification
  
  

• Has been a Mishawaka Police Officer for 17 years
• "Police Officer of the Year" for 1999
• Traffic Captain for 5 1/2 years
• International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Certified Drug Recognition Expert
• Fully accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstructionists, one of only two active Law Enforcement Officers in the State of Indiana to hold this accreditation
• Coordinator for the St. Joseph County Fatal Alcohol Crash Team (FACT). This team is one of the first four multi jurisdiction crash investigation teams of it's kind in the country