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Agencies collaborate in 'One-Team' enforcement approach

From Quick Notes
Office of Highway Safety
What started as an effort with one LEL (Law Enforcement Liaison) in Lewiston eventually became a northwest campaign on impaired driving. The “One Team” event held before the July 4th impaired driving crackdown leveraged resources and provided an opportunity to practice mutual aid initiatives, sharing of resources, staff, and communication for enhanced services.

The “One Team” event provided the northwest states with a new media approach to “market” their impaired driving enforcement during the crackdown. Leading up to the crackdown, LEL’s from each of ITD’s six districts, coordinated “One Team” events in their respective areas. Included in the events were police officers, sheriff’s deputies and state troopers throughout the area.

They were available for interviews with news media and photo-ops to promote the “One Team” initiative. This campaign created an outstanding opportunity for law enforcement officers from adjoining states, counties and cities to renew their commitment to work together all year long to save lives on all our roadways.

District 1, Coeur d’Alene - We held our One Team Event on Friday, June 29
We started our day at 9 a.m. with DUI refresher training at the Coeur d'Alene Police Department and had about 12 officers participate in the training. Those officers/troopers/deputies represented about six different agencies from Idaho, Montana and Washington.

At noon, the group traveled to the Coeur d'Alene City Park where we met with additional officers for lunch donated by the Texas Roadhouse. While there, we took a group photo and officers were available to speak with the local media that attended.

After lunch, we traveled to a local fire station so officers could participate in a wet lab as part of the DUI refresher training. We had 12 agencies and two grants officers from Washington attend the lunch and photo opportunity.

ABC (KXLY) and CBS (KHQ) attended the photo and the wet lab training and both ran stories about the event soon after.

The highlights of the event were: participation from three states; two of the three major news networks attended; lunch completely donated by Texas Roadhouse (they also said they wanted to be a part of any future events we have); DUI refresher training taught by instructors from three different agencies and two different states, and an overall fun and positive event that should gain momentum and grow in the future.