The Dakota County Traffic Safety Project was created in 2005 to reduce the number of fatal, injury, and alcohol-related crashes on Dakota County roadways. The project focuses on educating drivers and enforcing traffic laws.
The program is a collaboration of police departments from all of the cities in
Dakota County, the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office and the Minnesota State Patrol. It is partially funded by each agency, as well as grant funding from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Office of Traffic Safety.
To achieve the goals of the project, law enforcement officers conduct saturation patrols where extra officers patrol Dakota County roadways.
In addition to the Dakota County Traffic Safety Project, law enforcement agencies also take part in extra on-duty enforcement saturations, HEAT (High Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic) and Operation NightCAP (DWI).
For more information on these projects, please visit the links below: