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S.T.O.P.P.E.D
Sheriff’s Telling Our Parents & Promoting Educated Drivers
Please join the
STOPPED Program and
partner with The Delaware County Sheriff’s
Office
in promoting young driver safety.
Sheriff Tom Mills is pleased to invite you to participate in The
Delaware County Sherriff's Office STOPPED Program.
The STOPPED
Program is a parental notification program originally developed
by the Onondaga County Sheriff’s
Office in Syracuse New York. The intent of the program is to
reduce the number of youthful drivers involved in auto
accidents. Annually over 3,000 drivers between sixteen and
twenty-one years of age die in the United States as a result of
car crashes.
The Delaware County Sheriff’s Office offers parents this
voluntary notification system to extend their watchful eyes and
raise the awareness of drivers under the age of 21.
How it works
Parents
voluntarily register with the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office,
any motor vehicle that will be operated by a driver under the
age of 21.
What then
An identification decal is issued and affixed to the windshield
of each registered vehicle.
What to expect
If for any
reason the registered vehicle, when operated by a driver under
the age of 21, is stopped by Sheriff’s Deputies, the deputy will
complete a notification card providing the following
information:
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Time and location of stop
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Driver’s Name and the number of passengers
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Reason for the stop
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Whether any traffic tickets were issued
Notifications will be mailed directly to parents to make them
aware of potential problems and enable them to enforce any
parental rules that often coexist with teenage driving
privileges.
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