Programs

Buckle Up Miami Gardens - Child Passenger Safety Seat Program

The Miami Gardens Police Department is joining with the Miami-Dade County Child and Youth Safety Initiative Community Partnership to promote child passenger safety. A key component of this initiative will be free child safety seat inspections to ensure all children are properly protected. Child safety seat inspections are done by appointment only.

For more information, please contact Melissa Harden.

Walk Safe - Pedestrian Safety Program

“Walk Safe” - is an elementary school based pedestrian injury prevention program that has been developed and implemented to reduce pediatric pedestrian trauma by educating elementary school children, teachers, parents.

For more information, please contact Patricia Shellman.

Miami Gardens C.T.S.T. - Community Traffic Safety Team

The goal of the Miami Gardens Community Traffic Safety Team (CTST) is to decrease vehicle, pedestrian, and bicycle injuries and fatalities to residents of Miami Gardens through traffic safety prevention efforts.

The CTST program will be a collaborative effort involving enforcement, education, and engineering. CTST will use existing National and State educational and enforcement campaigns, as well as team developed campaigns to implement this program. Local traffic safety issues will be addressed by City of Miami Gardens Public Works, School Crossing Guard Division, Miami Gardens Police Department, Miami–Dade County Public Works, and Florida Department of Transportation.

The primary focus of the team will be student and school traffic safety. For more information or to place an item on the agenda, please contact Cherise Asberry.

Meetings: 1st Monday of the month.
Time: 10-11a.m 
Location: Miami Gardens City Hall