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Project Safe Start 2022 ends with more than 1700 charges laid around Halton

Milton, Ontario, Canada / FM101 Milton Now
Cameron Wilkinson
Sep 27, 2022 | 1:32 PM


Project Safe Start 2022 ends with more than 1700 charges laid around Halton

Photo: Halton Police

The results are in for the 15th annual Project Safe Start.

This year’s campaign ran from Monday, August 29th, to Friday September 9th. It focused on education, awareness and high-visibility enforcement of traffic laws throughout the region.

Media Relations Officer and Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) Constable Ryan Anderson says the main offence this year is people ignoring stop signs.

Over the course of the two-week initiative the top traffic offences were:

  • Disobey Stop Sign – Fail to Stop (655 charges laid and warnings issued)
  • Speeding (605 charges laid and warnings issued)
  • Speeding – Community Safety Zone (112 charges laid)

HRPS officers issued a total of 1,718 charges laid and 1,274 warnings issued during this year’s project.

Constable Anderson says the numbers reflect the amount of officers who were at-work during the campaign.

This year, HRPS officers committed nearly 1,500 hours to Safe Start education and enforcement.

The HRPS also implemented a comprehensive social media campaign as part of this road safety initiative which comprised of targeted messages, reminding the community that pedestrians, cyclists, motorists and police all play an active role in road safety. These daily messages had a collective reach of 626,987.

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