E. B. Rains Park Cleanup
Officers from the Northglenn Police Department volunteer their time and energy to clean up and beatify the E.B. Rains memorial area. The memorial is located on the East side of E.B. Rains Park, 11700 Community Center Drive. Sergeant Steve Garrow is pictured with Chief Russ Van Houten.
E.B. Rains is the only Northglenn Officer to lose his life while on duty in the city's history. Corporal Edgar Blain Rains Jr. lost his life on May 30th, 1984 while protecting the citizens of Northglenn.
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Meet the Traffic Unit
The Northglenn Special Events and Traffic Unit currently consist of four members and a supervisor. Sergeant John Rosecrans leads the group and reports to the Neighborhood Service Area Commander, Commander Jim May.
Officer Kurt Barnes, Officer Joel Brown, and (two positions vacant), round out the team. Each member of the unit is motorcycle certified and they spend the majority of their time, weather permitting, on their Harley Davidson Police Motors.
The unit’s primary responsibility is traffic enforcement, but as the name implies, they also assist with traffic flow and safety surrounding special events.
Neighborhood traffic concerns are often one of the most important to the citizens of Northglenn. The traffic unit wants to help with those neighborhood concerns and has additional resources and tools to help validate and mitigate those problems. Please contact them at pdtraffic@northglenn.org if you need help.
Additional Information:
| | Mission of the Traffic Unit
The mission of the Northglenn Special Events and Traffic Unit is to reduce the number of traffic accidents in the City of Northglenn through aggressive enforcement of the traffic laws, driver safety education, and roadway and intersection engineering.
Enforcement areas will vary, but the most aggressive enforcement will correspond to the high traffic areas of 104th Avenue, 120th Avenue, and Interstate 25.
Education will include additional signage, verbal warnings, publication articles, and face to face time with community groups, schools, and businesses.
Engineering will involve reviewing all aspects of the roadway, signage, and signaling to improve roadway efficiency and safety.
The Traffic Team also assists with the following functions:
- Multi-Jurisdiction Truck Enforcement – including hazardous material incidence response, enforcement of height and weight restrictions, insuring compliance with local, state and federal safety standards, and bus enforcement/inspections.
- Assistance with citywide events such as the 4th of July firework celebration, All About Art, etc
- Promote public safety awareness
- Denver Metro DUI Task Force – Metro area agencies have joined together to target DUI driving.
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- An accident is beyond the skills and abilities of the responding officer
- Police officer involved accidents which do not meet the criteria for the North Metro team
- Any accident the watch supervisor feels requires the expertise of the Accident Investigation Team
- Traffic accidents involving fatalities
- Traffic accidents with serious bodily injury involving felony criminal charges
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