In support of the Washington State Patrol's Strategic Plan and the Field Operations Bureau's Strategic Plan, District 3 adopted four goals for the district:

1. Reduce the number of collisions involving impaired drivers on state and interstate highways.
2. Reduce the number of speed-related collisions on the state and interstate highways.
3. Reduce incidents of aggressive driving on state and interstate highways.
4. Increase use of seat belts and child restraints on state and interstate highways.

• Actively participate in the local traffic safety task forces, including the multi-jurisdictional emphasis patrols in each Autonomous Patrol Area (APA).
• Adjust schedules to enhance staffing during periods known for increased impaired driving.
• Work to reduce the flow of illegal drugs, and consequently drugged drivers, through aggressive interdiction techniques.
• Partnership with media to increase public awareness and education.
• Partnership with community groups, including those in the Hispanic community, to educate their members about the dangers of impaired driving.
• Use maps, statistics, and all available data to monitor impaired driving and impaired driving injury collisions in order to validate our efforts.
• Aggressively enforce DUI and other hazardous collision-causing violations.

• Adjust schedules to enhance staffing during periods known for increased speeding problems (e.g., major holiday weekends, summer weekends, during special events such as Water Follies, etc.).
• Partnership with media to increase public awareness and education.
• Use unmarked vehicles and specialty vehicles when available to work speed enforcement, and partnership with the Department of Transportation to use their pickups and other vehicles for observation.
• Keep all troopers equipped with an assigned speed-measuring device.
• Utilize the Avation Section in a directed approach to impact those areas in the district known for speed problems.
• Use all available data - including Department of Transportation-generated speed reports - to strategically focus all speed enforcement efforts in a directed approach.
• Aggressively enforce speed and other hazardous collision-causing violations.

• Train all troopers to recognize and record all incidents of aggressive driving observed.
• Target aggressive drivers through directed enforcement in areas known for their aggressive driving problems.
• Utilize undercover/unmarked vehicles for enforcement.
• Utilize aggressive driving POPS trooper to apprehend aggressive drivers throughout the district.
• District POPS trooper will assist the Public Information Officers in coordinating public service announcements and media coverage of our efforts to combat aggressive driving.
• Coordinate enforcement efforts with WSP Avaiation.
• Aggressively enforce all collision-causing violations stemming from aggressive driving.

4. Increase use of seat belts and child restraints on state and interstate highways.

• Partnership with community groups in the Hispanic community to educate their members about the importance of wearing safety restraints.
• Adopt and maintain a "zero tolerance" policy toward safety belt and child restraint enforcement.
• Use unmarked vehicles and specialty vehicles, and partnership with the Department of Transportation to use their pickups and other vehicles for observation posts.
• Utilize POPS troopers and the POPS philosophy to direct efforts toward education and use.
• Use all available data - including our own safety belt surveys - to monitor safety restraint usage in our seven counties.
• Aggressively enforce safety restraint violations.