Kensington Road Sept 15 – Sept 21
Elmhurst Road Sept 22 – Sept 28
Golf Road Sept 29 – Oct 5
Euclid Avenue Oct 6 – Oct 12
Northwest Hwy Oct 13 – Oct 19
Wolf Road Oct 20 – Oct 26
Central Road Oct 27 – Nov 2
Burning Bush Lane Nov 3 – Nov 9
Elmhurst Road Nov 10 – Nov 16
Seminole Lane Nov 17 – Nov 23
Busse Road Nov 24 – Nov 30
Rand Road Dec 1 – Dec 7

Please contact Sergeant Mike Eterno at 818-5248 with your traffic law enforcement concerns or questions.
 

The Mount Prospect Police and Fire Departments are once again teaming up to host
the Children’s Safety Academy. The Academy will be held at the Public Safety Building,
112 East Northwest Highway on Wednesday, July 31, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
The one day event is open to all 8-9 year old Mount Prospect residents. Children will
have the opportunity to tour the Police / Fire Headquarters, receive hands-on
experience with tools of fire and crime fighting, search for fingerprints, wear the
protective gear of a firefighter, and learn about safety. Lunch will be provided.
The Academy is free of charge but anyone interested in attending must register by July
21, 2008. To register for the Academy, or for more information, please call the Mount
Prospect Police Department Crime Prevention Unit at 847-870-5650. The Academy is
limited to the first 20 children registered. So call today!

The Mount Prospect Police Department and the River Trails Park District will sponsor the
Village’s 25th annual celebration of “National Night Out,” a nationwide community crime
prevention event.

The evening will be highlighted by two big events. A poolside performance from 6:30 to 7:30
p.m. by Ainsworth Rose, “The One Man Jamaican Band” along with a rowdy dodgeball double
elimination tournament of 16 teams of local children and adults, complete with winner’s
trophies. All players will receive free tournament t-shirts.

The evening will be further enhanced by free swimming and mini-golf, provided by the River
Trails Park District, and plenty of free popcorn provided by our sponsor, Midwest Bank and
Trust Company.

This year’s event will take place at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday August 5th at the Woodland Trails Park facility located at 1500 East Euclid Avenue, Mount Prospect. In the event of rain, the festivities will be held on Wednesday, August 6th.

Get your neighbors, co-workers, families, and friends to form a team! Six person dodgeball teams in four age categories are now being assembled. All teams must register prior to the event. Teams will be competing in the following categories, with four teams accepted in each division: ages 8 to 11, ages 12 to 14, ages 15 to 18, and 19 to adult division.

So mark your calendars now for a fun evening of dodgeball, Jamaican music, swimming, and
mini-golf on August 5th – all in an effort to strengthen community spirit and police-community
partnerships. For more information or to sign-up a team, call Officer Bill Roscop at 847-870-
5650.

The main focus of this campaign was speed violators. During various times of the day
and night officers were deployed on major thoroughfares, using standard and nontraditional
methods to stop and ticket violators.

The week long campaign resulted in the issuance of 234 traffic tickets of which 211
were for exceeding the posted speed limit. Five (5) traffic arrests were also made
during the campaign. The violators cited during this campaign exceeded the posted
speed on average by 15 to 20 MPH. The highest violation recorded during the
campaign was for a driver cited for going 25 MPH over the posted limit; this driver was
traveling 65 MPH in a posted 40 MPH zone on west Golf Road.

The Mount Prospect police Department will continue its strict enforcement of state and
local traffic laws to foster safer road ways. Future campaigns of this nature are
planned.

Beginning Monday June 23, 2008 and running through Sunday June 29, 2008 officers
from the Mount Prospect Police Department will embark on an aggressive speed
enforcement campaign within the Village. During this time period, officers will be
assigned to major thoroughfares across the Village with their sole focus aimed at
enforcing posted speed limits. Officers will be using radar and laser speed measuring
instruments in non-traditional methods to increase their effectiveness in identifying
violators. This campaign is in response to the number of citizen complaints received by
the department for speeding on the major road-ways as well as the increase in
pedestrian traffic which typically occurs with the onset of warmer weather.

“Enforcing the posted speed limits creates a safer environment for motorists and
pedestrians in the Village”, said Officer Dirk Ollech. “Historically we have seen a
decrease in traffic crashes on roadways where speed enforcement has been routinely
conducted. Our goal for this campaign is to foster an increased atmosphere of
compliance with existing posted speed limits throughout Mount Prospect” Ollech
continued.

Mount Prospect Police Launches New Program To Curb Speeding On Residential Streets.

John Dahlberg, Chief of the Mount Prospect Police Department announces the implementation of the Keep Kids Alive Drive 25 program in Mount Prospect.

Keep Kids Alive Drive 25 is a safety campaign targeting observance of residential speed limits. In most towns and cities throughout the U.S. the residential speed limit is 25 mph, thus the slogan. The objective of this program is to visually reinforce residential speed limits by way of non-traditional signage reminding motorists within the Village that adherence to speed limits is ultimately their responsibility. Keep Kids Alive Drive 25 lawn signs can be purchased or provided to a neighborhood by the Mount Prospect Police Department if a neighborhood agrees to participate in an established Keep Kids Alive Drive 25 enforcement protocol. Residents then display the signs in their front yards in an effort to make motorists more aware of the existing speed limit.

“The signs appear to capture the attention of motorists, even more so than traditional speed limit signs, and drivers tend to be more cognizant of the speed at which they are traveling on streets where the signs are in place.” said Sergeant Michael Eterno.

Sergeant Eterno, Supervisor of the department’s traffic unit, started the program in Mount Prospect in the beginning of October 2007 when signs were given to residents of the 2100 block of west Haven Street. The traffic unit had responded in the past to complaints of speeding in that neighborhood and addressed the issue by assigning extra patrols and placing the “speed trailer” in the area. In an effort to supplement law enforcement resources Sergeant Eterno contacted neighborhood resident Jeanne Scaramuzza and offered her the Keep Kids Alive Drive 25 yard signs. The program was welcomed by the residents who were given signs a short time later. Since the start of the program here in Mount Prospect signs have been used in four other neighborhoods.

If Mount Prospect residents are interested in implementing this program in their neighborhood they can contact Sergeant Eterno at 847-818-5248.

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