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wmm economist suntribune police news saturday jan 26 2002 7 commuters to by roger varley staff write motorists in york region might soon be faced with warnings to stay out of the penalty box supt eric jouiffe told the police services board wednesday the force is con sidering designating certain intersections as penalty box zones designed to stop motorists from blocking traffic intersections would be marked with grids similar to hash marks now found in a number of busy toronto intersections any motorists finding themselves stuck in the penalty box after a traffic signal turns red would face a fine sgt tom garrique of the traffic unit said police hope to test the program by june or july we have to research intersections to see which are worthy of a trial run said sgt carrique he said the regions traffic and works department will determine which intersec tions should be included while the success of torontos experiment will also be studied sgt carrique also announced the introduction of a field test for a new auto mated ticket machine to speed up the process of issu ing tickets to errant motorists he said a traffic officer will be able to swipe the magnetic strip on drivers licences and the machine will automatically record the drivers information on the ticket it will save the officer having to write the ticket by hand and expedite the tick eting process he said the two new initiatives were unveiled as supt jouiffe and sgt carrique reported on the results of the first three weeks of the savealife campaign which started with a traffic blitz on hwy 7 earlier this month since the campaign start ed the percentage of motorists on hwy 7 com plying with the speed limit has jumped to 44 per cent from- 17 per cent supt jouiffe also unveiled a blueandwhite savealife campaign sign police hope to persuade the region of york to instau on highways and major roads in the region york has lowest police costs in gta chief middaugh tells councillors from page 5 operating and middaugh told the politi- spending cians york has the lowest in iso- percapita cost for policing lation of those five gta regions he mark- said ham the budget met with no mayor opposition from politicians don regional chairperson bill cousens fisch said however there former ought to be assurances chairper- other forces are contributing son of the to a joint effort to combat finance terrorism so york is not commit- don cousens accepts increase in york region police budget tee said the police budget is justifiable although it far exceeds a guideline of limit ing departmental increases to the inflation rate i can justify the increase because im not about to see us have a sec ondrate police depart ment mr cousens said nor are we going to have a shortage of police officers enforcing the laws and pro tecting people speak effectively at meetings learn to speak witfo cotffi be relaxed when speaking at interviews and also at business office community and social gatherings enroll in the christopher 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