Traffic Division

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City of Portland Fiscal Year 2026-27 Proposed Budget Public Safety > Portland Police Bureau > Traffic Division Traffic Division Budget Revenues by Fund 2023-24 Actuals 2024-25 Actuals 2025-26 Revised Budget 2026-27 Proposed External Revenues $498,752 $617,427 $870,500 $882,500 General Fund $478,472 $686,570 $730,000 $780,000 Grants Fund $20,280 ($69,142) $140,500 $102,500 Internal Revenues $4,240,789 $5,066,379 $7,171,055 $7,501,012 General Fund $4,282,812 $5,066,379 $7,171,055 $7,501,012 Grants Fund ($42,023) $0 $0 $0 Police Special Revenue $0 $0 $0 $0 Fund Grand Total $4,739,540 $5,683,806 $8,041,555 $8,383,512 Program Expenses by Major Object Program expenses only include personnel, internal materials and services, external materials and services, and capital. 2023-24 Actuals 2024-25 Actuals 2025-26 Revised Budget 2026-27 Proposed Capital Outlay $29,618 $0 $0 $0 External Materials and $183,768 ($199,226) $1,549,051 $549,003 Services Internal Materials and $1,519,114 $1,522,271 $1,828,459 $970,129 Services Personnel $4,583,863 $3,947,889 $4,662,449 $6,596,185 Grand Total $6,316,363 $5,270,935 $8,039,959 $8,115,317 Program Description and Goals The Traffic Division is responsible for the safety of pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists as they commute through the City of Portland. This includes keeping Portland roadways moving through delays, reroutes, civic functions, special events, processions, parades, dignitary visits, and traffic crash investigations. The primary goal of the Traffic Division is to mitigate traffic related fatalities, 711

City of Portland Fiscal Year 2026-27 Proposed Budget injuries, and economic loss through enforcement, education, investigation, and collaboration with community partners. The Traffic Division employs a combination of specialized investigative units, detached motorcycle officers, technology, planned missions, and initiatives to support traffic safety goals. Members of the Traffic Division variably conduct focused missions in high crash corridors as determined by statistical data, input from agency partners, and locations where fatal crashes have recently occurred. Services Traffic enforcement; Major Crash Team; Traffic Investigations Unit; photo radar; photo red light; fixed speed cameras Equity Impacts The location, method, and timing of proactive enforcement missions is dependent on a collaborative process with community partners, advocate agencies, victims of traffic violence, and other public service agencies as well as crash data. The Traffic Division tracks and publishes all this information and makes it available to the public online. The Traffic Division's strategy for pedestrian and motorist safety is to focus on safety through education, voluntary compliance and enforcement. This is primarily accomplished through agency partners facilitating safety courses that the Bureau (Traffic Division) provides instructors for, in the form of officers as teachers. The Traffic Division works directly with partners and oversees the scheduling of detached Traffic Division officers to provide this instruction. Changes to Program There are no significant changes to the Traffic Division program offer in FY2026-27. 712

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