Traffic Records

Making deployment and resource allocation decisions for the purpose of protecting the public interest and public safety are important and a large part of the management function of police administrators and supervisors. These decisions are often made in the midst of shrinking resources and increased calls for service.

Resource allocations at this depth require information about the crashes that are occurring within the jurisdiction. Crash-investigating agencies maintain the necessary data in the Commonwealth of Virginia Police Crash Report FR300.

To be effective, a traffic records system should provide a detailed profile of the jurisdiction’s crash experience. This includes the specific locations of the crashes (intersection or road segment) and detail of the over-represented characteristics of the crashes. The records system should provide details reports on demographics, weather conditions etc to make decision making easier.

The Virginia Highway Safety Office has designed and deployed such an effective traffic records system called TREDS (Traffic Records Electronic Data System). TREDS allows law enforcement agencies to electronically create and submit FR300 crash reports to the DMV. TREDS provides LE users prepackaged and custom reporting capability to make data driven decisions.

TSTC is proud to be part of the TREDS project by providing class room training sessions, online training aids, training manuals and customer support. TSTC also provides assistant to law enformcement agencies with traffic records data analysis.