An overall plan for monitoring the organizational, operational, behavioural and safety impacts of setting up a national traffic police (NTP) force in Israel is presented. The information is based on repeated road surveys; administrative data compiled, in part, according to requests; enforcement data; official accident data; analysis of organizational structures and operational procedures; personnel survey questionnaire; numerous site visits; observations and discussions with all echelons of the force; and discussions with people and agencies whose work is coordinated with the traffic police. In developing the measures and criteria for evaluating the traffic police, it was found that very little of earlier research on police work relates to the strategic, tactical and organizational issues that had been indentified.
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