From 2003 to 2012, Toronto Police had a team dedicated to looking for bad drivers and handing out tickets.
Now, there is a push to bring that back.
The Police Services Board will look at a proposal at its meeting next week to create a special traffic enforcement team.
It's part of the city's "Vision Zero 2.0," a plan to reduce the number of deaths and injuries on our roads.
The plan calls for eight officers to work overtime shifts on weekdays starting in January. It would cost about a million dollars a year.
They'd keep an eye out for speeding, aggressive, distracted and impaired driving.
You may be surprised to learn that Toronto does not have police officers solely dedicated to traffic enforcement on city streets.
Traffic services officers are usually busy investigating crashes or patrolling the highways.
Other officers can do traffic enforcement, but it's only one part of their job.
The board report says that when there was a dedicated traffic enforcement team, there was 125 percent increase in tickets and a 24 percent decrease in collisions.
This idea has the support of Mayor John Tory.
A statement from Tory's spokesperson, Don Peat, reads:
"Under the Mayor's leadership, we are taking action to make sure there is enhanced police enforcement on our streets - this was a key part of Vision Zero 2.0 which the Mayor launched earlier this year.
This pilot for a Vision Zero Enforcement Team was included in the Vision Zero 2.0 report approved by Council in July.
The Mayor will want to make sure police deploy these officers along the streets identified by Transportation staff - which is also part of the Vision Zero work the City has undertaken - where we know people are engaging in dangerous driving behaviours that are hurting people.
This is also why the Mayor has worked relentlessly to get automated speed enforcement approved so that we can get it deployed on our streets as soon as possible to catch bad drivers and encourage others to slow down."