There is hereby established in the Police Department
of this Town a Traffic Division to be under the control of a police
officer appointed by and directly responsible to the Chief of Police.
It shall be the duty of the Traffic Division
with such aid as may be rendered by other members of the Police Department
to enforce the street traffic regulations of this Town and all of
the state vehicle laws, to make arrests for traffic violations, to
investigate accidents and to cooperate with the Traffic Commission
and other officers of the Town in the administration of the traffic
laws and in developing ways and means to improve traffic conditions,
and to carry out those duties specially imposed upon the Division
by this chapter and the traffic ordinances of this Town.
The Police Department Traffic Division thereof
shall keep a record of all violations of the traffic ordinances of
this Town or of the state vehicle laws of which any person has been
charged, together with a record of the final disposition of all such
alleged offenses. Such record shall be so maintained as to show all
types of violations and the total of each. The record shall accumulate
during at least a five-year period and from that time on the record
shall be maintained complete for at least the most recent five-year
period.
It shall be the duty of the Traffic Division,
assisted by other police officers of the Department, to investigate
traffic accidents, to arrest and to assist in the prosecution of those
persons charged with violations of law causing or contributing to
such accidents.
The Records Division shall maintain a suitable
system of filing traffic accident reports. Accident reports or cards
referring to them shall be filed alphabetically.
The Traffic Division shall annually prepare
a traffic report which shall be filed with the Mayor. The report shall
contain information on traffic matters in this Town, as follows:
