Impaired Driving Task Force Overview
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Impaired driving task forces exist to address drunk and drug impaired driving primarily through enforcement and education initiatives. These task forces are sometimes created by state agencies and operate at the statewide level. There are also many task forces that operate at the local (city or county) or regional level. These local task forces may operate like statewide task forces in many ways, including the types of people and agencies that participate in them. However, they may also differ in some ways, including the amount of funding and other resources they have available, the type of activities in which they participate, and how they measure the effectiveness of their efforts. Research has shown that impaired-driving task forces can have a beneficial effect on the incidence or occurrence of impaired driving and impaired driving crashes. (7) The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published A Guide (8) for Statewide Impaired-Driving Task Forces to assist State officials and other stakeholders who are interested in establishing an Impaired- Driving Statewide Task Force or who are exploring ways to improve (9) their current task force. The two-volume guide describes nine local impaired-driving task forces and the approaches taken to create them, decisions made on who to include as members, and how they address impaired driving in their communities. Task forces selected for study represent a wide range of histories, structures, and approaches to conducting task force activities. Nevertheless, there are many similarities between them. Volume I is a guide for local impaired-driving task forces. The guide summarizes the information collected from the various task forces and includes recommendations by task force members. At the end of Volume 1, there are summaries of the nine local task force case studies. THE PRIMARY MISSION OF THE IMPAIRED DRIVING TASK FORCE IS TO PREVENT TRAFFIC DEATHS.
Volume II contains the full-length case studies for each of the nine local task forces identified in Volume 1.
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