Performance Details
Department of Public Safety - Alaska Wildlife Troopers
Mission
Enforce fish and game laws; preserve public peace; protect life, property, and resources.
Core Services
- Enhance recreational boating safety patrols.
- Enhance proactive wildlife patrols and investigations through increased field presence.
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Performance Detail
A: Result -Protect lives. |
A1: Core Service - Enhance recreational boating safety patrols. |
Target #1: 10% increase in boating safety contacts over the previous 2-year average.
Contact is the term that describes AWT interacting with the boating public. Contacts represent the number of boats encountered, as opposed to the number of boaters. Contacts demonstrate the presence of law enforcement on the water, which is a deterrent to behaviors that are unlawful. Contacts give AWT an interface to promote safe and lawful boating activity and positively influence behaviors, promoting the prevention of accidents, injuries, and fatalities on the water. During these contacts, the benefits of state boating safety laws are demonstrated to the boating public. Related links: Target Last Modified: 10/30/2023 |
Target #2: 10% increase in hours spent conducting public education appearances over the previous 2-year average.
AWT delivers boating safety presentations in schools in conjunction with the Department of Natural Resources, Office of Boating Safety which is the activity reported above. However, AWT also presents boating safety information while presenting to hunter education classes as well as while meeting with hunting, fishing, and other outdoor groups. AWT has been targeting these groups because the overwhelming majority of recreational boating fatalities in Alaska in past years have been adults. AWT also conducts education on the water while contacting boaters during directed boating safety patrols. This measure documents efforts to educate the public in how to boat safely and prevent injury, accident, and loss of life on the water. Related links: Target Last Modified: 10/30/2023 |
B: Result -Protect wildlife resources. |
Target #1: Wildlife violations detected less than 5% of total resource user contacts.
These numbers do not include citations written by wildlife troopers for non-natural resource law violations, such as those generated for traffic enforcement or other general law enforcement duties. AWT is attempting to focus efforts where concerns for populations of wild stocks of fish and game are high, but the opportunity to contact the general public engaged in hunting and fishing activity are often reduced. In addition, AWT vacant positions has shifted in the past year from occurring in rural areas to urban areas. Troopers assigned to rural areas typically have fewer contacts than those assigned to urban areas due to the volume of resource users encountered. Targeting 95% compliance is a reasonable goal. Less than 95% compliance indicates a need to reevaluate enforcement presence and education efforts. Related links: Target Last Modified: 10/31/2023 |
B1: Core Service - Enhance proactive wildlife patrols and investigations through increased field presence. |
Target #1: Five-year average number of resource user contacts.
Related links: Target Last Modified: 10/30/2023 |
Last refreshed: 03/27/2024 05:00 pm