Victorian Traffic Management Unit

The Victorian Traffic Management Unit is the "highway patrol" for Victoria Police in The state of Victoria In Australia.

The Traffic Management Unit has a number of measures and laws in place to reduce the road toll in Victoria.

TMU have used in the past and now present a variety of vehicles to combat the rising road toll. Some of these vehicles include marked and unmarked vehicles ranging in size colour and performance depending on the type of traffic offences are being targeted.

The TMU have 4 main areas they target:

*Drink/drug driving
*Speeding
*Hoon driving
*Fatigue

Vehicles

The TMU use these vehicles for the target areas:

Drink/Drug Driving

*S.M.A.R.T Cars (Special Mobile Anti Road Toll) more detail on these cars further down.
*Unmarked Vehicles
*Divisional Vans
*Booze and Drug Buses
*Marked and Unmarked Motorcycles
*Marked Vehicles.

Speeding, Hoon Driving, Fatigue

*S.M.A.R.T Cars (Special Mobile Anti Road Toll) more detail on these cars further down.
*Unmarked Vehicles
*Divisional Vans
*Marked and Unmarked Motorcycles
*Marked Vehicles.

S.M.A.R.T Cars

Special Mobile Anti Road Toll vehicles are high visibility and their sole purpose is to deter people from breaking traffic laws. These officers use the vehicle as a deterrent and if needed these vehicles will be actively involved in interceptions and pursuits. The officers in these vehicles typically head investigations related to traffic accidents and for traffic control also. The vehicles are equipped with radios, moving mode radars and for metropolitan vehicles a on-board computer that links up with Victoria Police Databases and dispatching and Vicroads data.

Typically these vehicles have been the Holden Commodore SS. The first of these vehicles was a gold coloured VX Holden Commodore SS.

There has been a release of 40 Blue BA Ford Falcon XR8's but were soon replaced by the VZ Commodore SS and now the Metallic Brown VE commodore SS.

Marked Vehicles

These Marked cars have all the features of the SMART cars except they have the standard Victorian police sticker kit. The only change to the standard kit in a this orange line at the top and bottom of the police checker which defines the vehicle as a TMU vehicle. The roll of the officer is the same as that of SMART car officer. These vehicles are generally Holden commodores SS's and Ford Falcon XR8's

Unmarked Vehicles

These vehicles are used in intercepting vehicles who break the law. These vehicles look like every other vehicle so they virtually hide in traffic. These officers catch offenders whilst in the act and has a positive impact on the road toll as it enforces on the community that the police are watching and will catch you out.

These vehicles come in a variety of cars and are near on impossible to identify.

Some of these vehicles include

*Holden Commodore Varieties
*Ford Falcon Varieties
*Holden Adventra
*Ford Terriroy Turbo and non turbo models
*Holden and Ford ute varieties
*Nissan Skylines
*Subaru WRX's
*Toyota Aurion
*Mitsubishi 380
*Chrysler 300C