Riverina Highway Patrol to work with Cotmakers, RivMed to combat carseat offences

From child not being in car seats at all to slipping out of ill fitted straps, Riverina Highway Patrol officers have seen it all.

Riverina Police District Leading Senior Constable Hannah Bloomfield said two new programs have recently launched to combat the growing problem.

'We are running two programs, one is with RivMed where they identify families who may be eligible for a car seat to be fitted or reinstalled correctly," Leading Senior Constable Bloomfield said.

"The second one is where we identify someone who may be eligible for a voucher for Cotmakers to have a profession fit their car seat."

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Leading Senior Constable Bloomfield said the idea behind targeting car seats is to send a message out to the community about their importance.

"Children are at greater risk of being injured during a serious car incident," she said.

"Car seats have a lot of different safety features that can prevent them and keep them safe and that's why we do it, to keep our children safe."

Riverina Police District Acting Director Ben Smith the campaing was launched in Sydney and has recently been adopted by Wagga.

"Residents can have their seat fitted and checked by a professional and if that person contacts us within seven days we don't issue a traffic infringement which is quite expensive," he said.

"It's almost $400 and three demerit points.

"We need to solve this problem and by giving them these vouchers hopefully we can do that."

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