Press release from City of Hendersonville:
Due to feedback garnered at every city council conversation; as well as the feedback HPD has received from citizens about concerns of drivers constantly disregarding red lights, running stops signs, increased reports of drivers exceeding the posted speed limits and driving too fast for conditions in several neighborhoods in our city, the Hendersonville Police Department will launch its STEP Initiative effective immediately. Accordingly, citizens can expect to experience increases in our radar patrols. These will be done in marked and unmarked vehicles and on motorcycles. Moreover, citizens can expect to experience more traffic safety checkpoints in the weeks ahead.
“Our goal is to do as much as we can to better ensure the safe travels of citizens throughout the city whether by vehicles, bicycles, or by foot,” said Hendersonville Police Chief Herbert Blake. “Therefore, our police officers will make dedicated efforts to increasingly enforce traffic laws throughout the city. We will use our social media outlets and conventional media to educate citizens and to hopefully establish a higher awareness of the importance of traffic safety in addition to our enforcement efforts. Citizens can help us by obeying traffic laws. We encourage citizens to continue to report observations of careless driving in their neighborhoods.”
Contact the Hendersonville Police Department at 828-697-3025.
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