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Topic: Ticket quotas
Tennessee Highway Patrol ticketing quota uncovered in our area
July 11, 2009 | 
Editor’s Note: I strongly recommend everyone to go and view the News Channel 5 story and videos on this subject as well!
Springfield – 
Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) troopers are being punished for failing to issue a specific number of speeding tickets in at least one part of the state. Attorney Fletcher Long provided WTVF-TV with a copy of what THP Sergeant Clifford M. Babits posted on the wall of the Troop C station in Robertson County. The Tennessee Highway Patrol’s Toop C also covers Montgomery County.
“I can no longer justify fives on evaluations for troopers not producing activity,” Babits wrote. “I require three things. 1. Answer the radio, 2. Work your crashes, and 3. WRITE TICKETS. I take some of the blame for not properly motivating ya’ll in the area of activity. Overall activity last year (2008) was well below the district average… Because activity plays such a high part of an everyday road trooper’s requirement, it is going to weigh heavy on yearly evaluation scores.”
The Tennessee Highway Patrol District 3. Troop C covers Montgomery County, Robertson County, and Sumner County.
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