Job Summary
Serving as the primary liaison between the Highway Safety Office, the DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Federal law enforcement agencies, and local/regional law enforcement agencies, this new full-time position will lead planning, implementation, and evaluation of District-wide mobility safety enforcement efforts. This position will report to the Executive Director of the Washington DC Police Foundation.
General Job Information
This position can be classified as a full-time employee or hourly contractor (not to exceed 2,080 hours), depending upon the candidate selected. The Washington DC Police Foundation will serve as a grantee with the DC Highway Safety Office. The mission of the Washington DC Police Foundation is to bring together business, professional, civic and nonprofit organizations and individual citizens to promote public safety by providing financial and in-kind resources to the Chief of Police and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
Duties and Responsibilities
This new position, the Law Enforcement Liaison (LEL), will serve an important role in the law enforcement community, within the Highway Safety Office and throughout the District. The LEL will be accountable for promoting national and state priorities through the District’s highway safety programs, encouraging law enforcement officers and leaders to support the enforcement of traffic safety laws, particularly those dealing with impaired driving, occupant protection, vulnerable roadway users, and speed management. The purpose of the program is to enhance communication between LELs, ensure greater coordination of LEL activities statewide, create and support LEL training and guidance workshops to increase the knowledge and skills of LELs, and provide technical assistance. The LEL program will endeavor to strengthen the work of a proven network of highway safety professionals with enhanced communication tools, updated training, sharing of best practices, exchanging information on new research, policies, and programs, and highlighting successes. The LEL encourages law enforcement officers and leaders to actively support and enforce the District’s traffic safety laws in pursuit of the Vision Zero goal.
This role is crucial for promoting safer roadways and reducing crashes, resulting in injuries and fatalities in the District.
Some of the duties the LEL will perform include:
- Provides technical assistance and serves as a consultant to local and federal law enforcement, and other stakeholders to help improve ability to effectively investigate and enforce traffic violations.
- Serves as a dedicated liaison between the HSO and District’s law enforcement agencies and the DMV; establish and maintain relationships with law enforcement agencies to promote HSO and NHTSA programs.
- Works with police agencies to strategize ways to better enforce D.C.’s traffic laws, facilitate training, crash data exchanges and create some multijurisdictional public education campaigns.
- Enhances coordination in the investigation and enforcement of traffic safety violations.
- Assesses training needs, with an emphasis on the effective investigation and enforcement of traffic safety violations. Assist law enforcement agencies in the procurement of equipment needed to facilitate traffic enforcement.
- Develops and maintains a working relationship with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) other LELs and other traffic safety professionals around the country.
- Remains abreast of current trends and developments in traffic safety by attending local, regional and national conferences relevant to traffic safety.
- Works with HSO grantees to facilitate progress and compliance with their programs. Review and evaluate grant applications; process progress reports and financial claims; monitor grants for program compliance; provide assistance and oversight to grantees with grant projects.
- Works closely with the Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor (TSRP), the training units of police agencies, and the Court to encourage traffic enforcement plans, DUI Courts, Ignition Interlock Program, Drug Recognition Expert and Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Education training, and other programs.
- Hold monthly or quarterly leadership lunch meetings to promote current programs and gather feedback from the local law enforcement community on challenges and best practices.
- Submit a monthly report of grant activity to the Highway Safety Office and post to the Highway Safety project site.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
How to Apply
Please send cover letter and resume to:
Asst Chief Patrick A. Burke (MPD, ret.)
Executive Director
Washington DC Police Foundation
1310 L St, NW
Suite 325
Washington DC 20005
Cell: 202 909-6542
Ofc: 202 481-3267
E-mail: Patrick.Burke@dcpolicefoundation.org