It shall be the duty of the Police Department to enforce the street traffic regulations of this city and all state vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in this city; to make arrests for traffic violations; to investigate all traffic accidents and to cooperate with other officials of the city in the administration of the street traffic laws and in developing ways and means to improve traffic conditions and to carry out those duties specially imposed by this and other traffic ordinances of this city.
(A) Accident and violation records. The Police Department shall maintain a standard system of filing traffic accident reports by location and shall maintain suitable files and records showing the types and number of traffic accidents, the arrests and warnings issued to traffic law violators.
(B) Traffic accident studies. The Police Department shall make frequent studies and analyses of all accident and arrest reports and records and shall utilize such information to work out ways and means for accident prevention.
(C) Police to report accidents. Every officer, who in the regular course of duty, investigates a traffic accident, shall make a full and complete report of such investigation on a standard accident report form.
(D) Police to submit annual traffic report. The Police Department shall annually prepare a traffic report which shall be filed with the Mayor and the City Council. Such report shall include all information pertinent to the number of traffic accidents, accident trends, the number of accidents investigated, arrests made as a result of such investigation, the number of moving traffic violation arrests, the number of parking violation arrests and other data on the traffic activities of the Department.
(Ord. 1993- , passed - -1993)