The collective missions of protecting the public cannot be achieved without ensuring the safety of those who provide that service. Officer safety needs to be the highest priority every shift, every day.

To that end, as chair of the State and Provincial Police Directorate’s (S&P’s) Traffic/Officer Safety Subcommittee, the author is pleased to outline how the subcommittee is working to coordinate its efforts with those of the IACP Highway Safety Committee (HSC) to ensure that all officers make it home at the end of every shift.