Hearing from Police Leaders: Perspectives on surveying police personnel about traffic enforcement attitudes and behaviours
CARSP Webinar Series
Date/Time
Date(s) - January 31, 2024
12:00 pm EST - 1:00 pm EST
This webinar provides insights from one-on-one interviews conducted with Ontario police leaders (i.e. police chiefs and sergeants) who work in traffic enforcement. This qualitative study is the first phase of a partnership project being conducted by CARSP and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), that aims to understand how the culture within law enforcement agencies, including attitudes and perceptions of road safety, may contribute to officers’ traffic enforcement efforts. Phase 1 involved interviews with 20 police leaders across Ontario, about traffic enforcement in their police service and solicited feedback on the first draft of a planned survey of frontline officers (Phase 2 of the project).
This webinar will provide a high-level overview of the police leaders’ views on priority factors impacting the effectiveness of traffic enforcement in their police services and insights from police leaders on how best to move this research to action. More specifically police leaders told us what information we need to get into which hands to enact change.
CARSP webinars are free for CARSP members. Webinar recordings are posted 1-2 days after the live webinar takes place. They are immediately available to CARSP members, and after one month, to the general public. Not a CARSP member, membership is affordable ($125/year). Join here.
Speakers
Brenda Suggett
Brenda is the Executive Director for the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP). Brenda is responsible for the day-to-day operations of CARSP and is a resource to the CARSP board and its committees. Brenda plays a key role in the strategic and operational planning of the organization. She also plays a regular leadership role with CARSP’s annual flagship event the CARSP Conference.
Prior to joining CARSP Brenda worked in public health epidemiology for 15 years. Brenda received her Bachelor of Science in Health Studies from the University of Waterloo in 1989 and a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto in 1994.
Navoda Rillagodage
Navoda works as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba. She has also been working as a research assistant for CARSP since May, 2021. Navoda received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Manitoba. Her PhD thesis focused on developing an effective approach to set weather-responsive variable speed limits and thus improve road safety in adverse road-weather conditions. Navoda received her master’s degree in Environmental Systems Engineering from the University of Regina and her bachelor’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka.