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The SOS committtee needs a Chairperson to complete the work that this group has started.  Please contact the board is you are concerned about the speeding which occurs within our community.

Click here to download the SOS Presentation to the Board on 2-25-08

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Speeding ... still VERY MUCH a Problem... A letter from a Resident & a Police Officer ...

I am a Gwinnett County Police Officer and work Evening Watch (3pm-1am) at Westside Precinct (Gwinnett Village/Norcross). On several occasions in the past few weeks, I have had to initiate traffic stops either on vehicles leaving Rivermoore Park or vehicles within Rivermoore Park. All of the traffic stops have taken place at or around 1:30 AM and most have involved teenaged drivers driving at a high rate of speed and ignoring traffic signs. I have yet to write a citation to any of my neighbors and have yet to contact any parents about the curfew violations and violations of the teens' provisional driver's licenses. I have gone to painful extremes to explain that I am stopping the vehicle for what I refer to as an "educational traffic stop".

On two occasions, I made contact with drivers who were obviously impaired and endured verbal abuse that I normally wouldn't accept without taking someone to Gwinnett County Jail. No more.

Recently, I was driving in my personal vehicle with my wife and three small children and was incessantly tailgated from Meadow Bluff Dr. all the way onto Moore Rd. When I pulled to the right at Crofton, the individual proceeded to flip me off and speed off. I have contacted the supervisors at Northside Precinct (as I did when it was reported to me that people were having packages stolen off of their porches) and made them aware of the driving habits of some of our neighbors.

I would like to suggest that we have more social activities within the neighborhood designed to help people become familiar with one another. I, also, would gladly offer my services as a police officer to those who feel they need that type of service or guidance to help support a more neighborly feel here. I am a big proponent of the idea of neighborhood being as close to family as it could be and I do not get that feeling here right now, but I know there are good people who live here. 

From the Board - A "Street Safety" committee called S.O.S. (Safety Over Speed) has formed to investigate solutions for our neighborhood.  Contact Jennifer Farine if you would like to participate.  Our resident officer makes a good point - if we thought of our neighbors as "family", we may consider their safety as more important that getting where we are going. 

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