The Tyler Police Department Traffic Unit’s primary purpose is the lives and property of motorist and pedestrians within the City of Tyler.  The Traffic Unit’s function is to reduce injury related crashes through enforcement, education, and engineering.  Through various programs and contacts officers can educate both drivers and pedestrians on bad habits to help correct them.  Officers use traffic enforcement to gain voluntary compliance from drivers who violate traffic laws.  The Traffic Unit works closely with the City Engineers’ office to bring attention to different areas of the city that may need changes to help facilitate the flow of traffic.  Through crash analysis and citizen complaints, The Traffic Unit can create focus points for areas of enforcement or improvement.  

The Traffic Unit consists of a Lieutenant, a Sergeant, motorcycle officers, and marked cars.  The unit also consists of Public Service Officers who work traffic flows, abandon vehicles, and other calls where a police officer isn’t needed.  The Traffic Unit utilizes both Stalker Radar and Lidar for traffic enforcement.  The unit also utilizes a LTI Truvision Lidar Unit capable of capturing photos of the vehicle, speed, distance, and where the laser detected the vehicle.  The unit deploys Stalker Speed Trailers in areas identified as having a high volume of speed related issues to make motorist more away of their speed.  Traffic officers receive advanced crash investigation training and are responsible for investigating all fatality crashes or those crashes where life threating injuries have occurred.  Members of the Traffic Unit consists of crash reconstructionist, CDR Analysts, and crash forensic specialists.