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A2 Council Approves Overtime for Police to Step Up Traffic Enforcement

Motorists around Ann Arbor can expect to see more police cars focused on traffic enforcement in January. 

City Council Monday night voted ten to one to provide $125,000 to the police department to fund overtime for officers specifically focused on traffic enforcement. 

Police Chief John Seto says the goal is to make the roads safer, not increase revenues through issuing more tickets, addind that the overtime budget should equal about 70 extra hours a week for traffic enforcement.  This is on top of his earlier decision to add one additional officer to the traffic enforcement team.

Like many, I first came to this area when I started school at the University of Michigan, then fell in love with the community and haven’t left. After graduating from U of M in the mid 1990’s I interned at WDET for several years, while also working a variety of jobs in Ann Arbor. Then in 1999 I joined the WEMU news team.
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