New Mexico Statewide Traffic Record System (STRS)

TraCS Rollout Project – Phase I

With the successful completion of the TraCS Software Evaluation Pilot on September 30, 2006, the STRCC and STREOC in cooperation with the New Mexico Department of Transportation, Traffic Safety Bureau approved going forward with a statewide rollout of TraCS for law enforcement agencies.

The TraCS statewide rollout project is a multi-phase project providing law enforcement agencies throughout the state with the opportunity to use TraCS for electronically creating, printing, and transmitting traffic records data from law enforcement officers in their patrol cars to their local agency systems to a statewide repository. For the current equipment being used in the field, see the New Mexico TraCS equipment and configuration guidelines.

In Phase I, a TraCS statewide training and support organization (i.e. TraCS Project Office) will be established and implemented to train, equip and rollout approximately 450 officers with TraCS and New Mexico Law Enforcement Agency forms. The law enforcement agencies that make up Phase I include those that participated in the pilot project, those that are part of the enhanced DWI Law Enforcement program, and the Tesuque Tribal Police Department:

Albuquerque Police Department
Doña Ana Sheriff's Department
NM Department of Public Safety, Motor Transportation Division
NM Department of Public Safety, State Police
Rio Rancho Department of Public Safety
Santa Fe Police Department

Six Counties from the Enhanced DWI Law Enforcement program:

Bernalillo County
Doña Ana County
McKinley County
Rio Arriba County
San Juan County
Santa Fe County
Tesuque Tribal Police Department

A New Mexico TraCS Users Group was established in October 2007 for the agencies participating in the TraCS project to discuss current project status, project issues, change requests and lessons learned. The TraCS Users Group meets every other month and gives officers an opportunity to share their experience with using TraCS with each other.

The statewide TraCS rollout project – Phase I was certified in December 2007 by the New Mexico Department of Information Technology. An Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)  team is monitoring the project.

Law Enforcement Agencies interested in participating in Phase II may submit an
LEA TraCS Statewide Rollout Project Assessment.

Project History