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Calgary police are working internally to encourage — and when necessary enforce — better driving behaviour among officers.

At a Calgary police commission meeting Tuesday afternoon, acting Supt. Mike Worden and Chief Roger Chaffin spoke of a driver safety and compliance program.

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Not so long ago, there was a problem — and police concede it was a rather big one.

CPS vehicles were busted by automated enforcement — photo radars and the like — on 4,903 occasions back in 2010.

In 2014 the number was 1,587, down 68%.

And in 2015, the number was closer to 1,300.

Worden said that number would likely never drop to zero.

He said more than 1,000 vehicles travel 17,000,000 km to reach 400,000 incidents every year, 50,000 of which are considered high priority.

“In those (high priority) cases officers are most likely driving over the speed limit with lights and sirens,” Worden said.

“Our officers need to get to those calls.”