Traffic Section
The Traffic Section’s primary focus is to create a safe and expedient flow of vehicle and pedestrian traffic in the Town of Prescott Valley through citizen education.
The Traffic Section is supervised by Sergeant Rob Brown. Officers assigned to the Traffic Section enforce speed limits and other traffic laws, investigate traffic accidents, and perform select traffic enforcement details, such as commercial vehicle inspections and Driving Under the Influence saturation patrols.
Sergeant Rob Brown
Sergeant Rob Brown has worked with the Prescott Valley Police Department for his entire nearly 20 years in law enforcement. He began in Patrol, then became a motorcycle officer for nine years. He served in SWAT for six years, two of them as sergeant, and worked in criminal investigations for three years.
Sergeant Brown began the department’s vehicle impound program, has instructed at the Northern Arizona Regional Training Academy (NARTA) and oversees the PVPD K9 program. He also has served with the Family Violence Unit, and writes the Department of Highway Safety grants each year that provide PVPD with money for DUI, speed and child safety enforcement. He has overseen four DUI roadblocks in Prescott Valley during his career. He is a traffic accident reconstructionist, oversees Drug Recognition enforcement, and does commercial truck enforcement.
Sgt. Brown has a passion for traffic enforcement because traffic issues generate the highest number of complaints to the Prescott Valley Police Department, and the most injuries. “Traffic enforcement is very important,” he says. “It keeps our community safer."
Sergeant Rob Brown
Officer Brad Penner
Officer Brad Penner has been in law enforcement for 18 years – 11 with the Tempe PD, a year with DPS, and six year with Prescott Valley. A two-time recipient of the department’s Officer of the Year honors, Penner works in Patrol, Traffic and as a SWAT negotiator.
His work with DPS interested him in traffic enforcement, and he is experienced in intoxication testing and accident reconstruction.
Officer Brad Penner
Officer Jake Lichlyter
Officer Jake Lichlyter has served as a Police Officer since December of 2002 when he started his career in the Glendale Police Department. In February 2006 he joined the Prescott Valley Police Department, where he has continued to serve as a Police Officer. During that time, he has participated as firearms instructor, lead the Below 100 Initiative program and various other functions of the Department. Most recently, after nearly 15 years of law enforcement, he joined the traffic team to focus on enforcement and traffic collision investigations.
Officer Jake Lichlyter
Officer Robert Payne
Officer Robert Payne began working for the Prescott Valley Police Department in 2014 after serving in the United States Army for four years. He is also a member of the Prescott Valley S.W.A.T. Team and has been a S.W.A.T. Team operator since 2016. Officer Payne has been with the Traffic Team since April of 2017. He has a passion for learning more about traffic enforcement and traffic collision investigations.
Officer Robert Payne
If you have a traffic-related question, wish to request traffic enforcement in your neighborhood Sergeant Rob Brown may be contacted at 928-772-5103 or via email.
Special Thanks
Prescott Valley Police Department extends a special thank you to the Governor's Office of Highway Safety for their support and assistance for our traffic enforcement efforts through funding of traffic-related safety grants.
Vehicle Impound Information A.R.S. 28-3511
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3511 hearings
All 3511 hearings will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. For further information, please contact a Community Service Officer at 928-772-9261.