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WHEREAS, public safety is the highest priority of law enforcement agencies; and

WHEREAS, traffic crashes result in more than 40,000 citizens being killed annually in the United States; and

WHEREAS, enforcement technologies used by properly trained law enforcement officers aid in the collection of evidence for presentation in court; and

WHEREAS, conformance with the applicable performance specifications serves to increase the confidence of the public, the courts, and law enforcement officers in the accuracy and reliability of these enforcement technologies; and

WHEREAS, daily accuracy checks and periodic certification testing ensures conformance with the applicable performance specifications; and

WHEREAS, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) has established the Highway Safety Committee Enforcement Technologies Advisory Technical Subcommittee (ETATS); and

WHEREAS, ETATS establishes a baseline for conforming enforcement technologies available for use during traffic enforcement activities; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED that IACP members should purchase only those enforcement technology models that conform to the applicable performance specifications and are listed on the applicable IACP Conforming Products List (CPL); and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED that all IACP members should provide, at a minimum, tests for measurement accuracy within a period of three years prior to an alleged violation in which the conforming enforcement technology device was used to collect evidence in compliance with the ETATS Critical Performance Testing (CPT) protocols.