The Traffic Unit is tasked with traffic control and enforcement within the City of Plantation. Its main purpose is to reduce traffic crashes, injuries, and fatalities related to crashes and to facilitate the safe and expeditious flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic through education and enforcement of State and local traffic regulations. 

The members of this Unit are tasked with patrolling in marked and unmarked vehicles and motorcycles, specifically targeting drivers violating traffic laws, who may be under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, and aggressive driving offenders. These officers are also trained in the investigation and reconstruction of traffic fatalities and serious injury crashes, as well as hit-and-run accidents.