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Show TRAFFIC ENGINEER TELLS POLICE NEED Most police departments are undermanned un-dermanned for traffic work, the Ideal personnel being four traffic officers per 10,000 population. Foster Fos-ter Kunz, traffic engineer for the state road commission, told the Salt Lake Round Table at a meeting meet-ing Tuesday at the Hotel Utah. Mr. Kuns urged "selective enforcement" en-forcement" In traffic programs, defining de-fining it as directing enforcement at the most frequent violations, at places and times where violations mostly occur. Traffic enforcement is ineffective ineffec-tive unless there Is Intelligent public pub-lic support," he said. Mr. Kunz held that highways have not kept pace with automobiles; automo-biles; that drivers of cars capable of traveling 80 miles an hour cannot can-not hold speeds down to the limitations limi-tations of highways. |