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The Selective Enforcement Motorcycle Squad (SEMS) is a new traffic enforcement unit
within the Traffic Bureau. The SEMS unit has been created as a squad of four officers, one
supervisor, and one clerk to work on neighborhood traffic safety concerns in conjunction
with the City of Tempe Transportation Division and City of Tempe Neighborhood Office.
These officers will address neighborhood traffic complaints to assist residents in
improving the quality of life in neighborhoods with respect to traffic safety. The primary
technique the SEMS unit will use to accomplish its goal of helping to reduce traffic
problems within neighborhoods is traffic enforcement. This enforcement will typically be
one or more motorcycle officers writing citations for traffic violations.
The SEMS unit will also employ education as a tool to reduce speeding. The education
comes in many forms, including the radar trailer in a neighborhood with a speeding
problem, talking with the groups in the neighborhood, making personal contact on traffic
stops, and being highly visible in those areas where complaints have been made.
To contact the SEMS unit regarding a problem with traffic in your neighborhood, you may
fill out the
on-line complaint form. Otherwise, you may
contact the SEMS unit by one of the following:
- Telephone: 480/858-SEMS (7367)
- Mail to Tempe Police Department, P.O. Box 5002, Tempe, AZ. 85280 -
Attn: SEMS Unit
- In person at the Tempe Police Main Station, 120 E. Fifth St.,
or the
Tempe Police Substation, 8201 S. Hardy Drive.
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