NEWS RELEASE

RIVERSIDE POLICE DEPARTMENT

NORTH RIVERSIDE POLICE DEPARTMENT

08 December 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RIVERSIDE/NORTH RIVERSIDE PURCHASE TRAFFIC SAFETY TRAILER

Partnership Increases Traffic Safety for Both Villages

Riverside Police Department and North Riverside Police Department recently partnered to purchase a high-tech
traffic enforcement trailer that can be
used by both communities for combined
or separate operations.
The vehicle is intended to be used for
DUI sobriety checkpoints, major traffic
crash investigations, traffic control at
large public events, and any other police
or emergency operation that would
require the police department to deploy
large pieces of equipment at a public
scene.
The trailer is equipped with items for
traffic: cones, barricades, directional
signs and safety equipment for officers to
wear on specific scenes. The trailer is
also equipped with lighting, storage and
radio transmission equipment.
Riverside Police Chief Thomas Weitzel said that the partnership allows each
police department to have state of the art equipment at a shared cost with a
benefit to each village. The trailer was purchased for $12,000 using funds
collected through DUI and traffic conviction fines and grant dollars. No village funds were expended.
North Riverside Police Chief Lane Niemann stated that as villages face financial challenges, police departments
can continue to enhance their existing partnerships by sharing expenses and maintaining new technology,
equipment and special purpose vehicles.
All Riverside and North Riverside police officers were trained in the use of the equipment and its operations.