Project TENSOR, also known as Traffic Enforcement Noise/Speed Offence Reduction, is an annual partnership involving traffic members from various EPS traffic units, City of Edmonton Peace Officers and Alberta Transportation.
In 2020, 1,200 tickets were handed out for noise and speeding during 11 Project TENSOR deployments throughout the spring and summer months. This year, Project TENSOR members held 14 such deployments across Edmonton issuing more than 1,800 tickets, says Const. Clint Stallknecht, of the EPS Traffic Safety Unit.
“Traffic issues, especially noise and speeding, continue to generate a bulk of the complaints our section receives from the general public.”
“We certainly understand the public’s frustration with these issues. Citizens should be able to go to sleep at night without constantly being woken by obnoxiously loud vehicles speeding through their neighbourhoods. Motorists should also be able to drive on city roadways without having their lives placed in jeopardy by other individuals driving their vehicles with reckless abandon at excessive speed.
“Project TENSOR isn’t going to resolve all of these issues, though citizens are very grateful to see police and peace officers out on city roads doing their best to address their concerns.”
The second part of Project TENSOR involves the use of “Notice of Directions”, whereby police issue written directions to have the identified issue on a vehicle repaired, then have the driver report back to them for inspection, once the repairs have been undertaken.
To date, in 2021, Project TENSOR has resulted in the issuing of 1,821 tickets, and 464 Notice of Directions.