BEND, OR -- Law enforcement from around Deschutes County continue their special highway traffic detail, Wednesday. "Highway 20, Highway 97, Highway 126 up in Redmond, the Parkway, the Bypass up in Redmond, they will all be focusing on reducing speed on those roads. It’s really neat to be able to work together," says Sheila Miller, with Bend Police. "Everybody will stay in their own jurisdiction, but they’re all kind of trying to do the same thing."

Miller tells KBND News they want drivers to know about the operation in advance, "If you see this and it makes you slow down, everybody wins. We don’t have to pull you over, you don’t have to get a ticket and all the people around you are safer because you’re not speeding. And, our goal is compliance, and our goal is to reduce speeds. If you do that because you know there’s a detail and you don’t want a ticket then, like I said, everybody wins."

According to Miller, they aren’t typically able to prioritize traffic stops when there are more urgent calls like domestic violence and assault. "We hear from people every day, ‘gosh, you should be doing this all the time.’ And, I can tell you, we would love to do that," she says, "But until we have the staffing, we really have to focus on those emergency calls."

Our full conversation with Bend PD's Sheila Miller is available at our Podcast Page.

Enhanced patrols focused on speeding began Tuesday and are conducted between 8 a.m. and noon through Thursday.