Extra officers with the Junction City Police Department were brought in Tuesday morning to enforce the city’s snow traffic emergency.

Tim Brown, Police Chief, confirmed that multiple cars have already been towed that were parked along emergency snow routes within the city.

“Anybody that is parked on a snow emergency route, if their car is there they should have removed it within two hours of midnight last night. If not then we come out and we do our due diligence trying to notify people to move their vehicles, if not we’re going to tow them,” Brown said.

Vehicles that are towed will receive a ticket that will go through municipal court.

“I know this has been some time since we have had to do this, but this is one of those kind of storms that requires this kind of activity so we can get these roads clean and such.”

Some of the key snow emergency routes include Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Chestnut, Ash and Sixth streets.

Brown also explained that the Police Department has put snow emergency reporting in place.

“That basically means that Junction City Police Department currently will not be responding to every accident unless there is an injury or some type of issue where that vehicle, because of the damage, will not be able to be removed from a city street.”

Officers will not respond to non-injury accidents under $1,000. Drivers are asked to move to a safer location and exchange information. The Police Department will continue to work injury accidents and accidents that block the streets. Once the case load permits the JCPD will go back to normal reporting.

Brown did say that for the most part people are staying off the roads,”but there are still those folks that find the necesity to go out,” Brown said. “They need to drive with caution if their going to be out, we prefer they don’t need to be out, but if they do they really need to drive with care.”