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Safety City Knoxville

    Police Chief

    Paul Noel
    (865) 215-7000

    800 Howard Baker Jr. Ave.
    Knoxville, TN 37915

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    Safety City Knoxville
    865-215-7103
    [email protected]

    Safety City is a Community Service Project of the Knoxville Police Department.

    Safety CityThe objective of Safety City is to provide an early educational program for elementary school children (kindergarten-fourth grades). The program will teach children about vehicular, pedestrian, bicycle and fire safety. The skills taught at Safety City will empower youngsters with the ability to avoid needless accidents and instill good safety habits at an early age.

    The concept of Safety City is one of providing "hands-on" safety education within a child-size setting complete with buildings, paved streets and sidewalks, working traffic signals and traffic signs. Students receive classroom instruction in basic pedestrian, vehicular, bicycle and fire safety. Then, students are able to practice and demonstrate their safety skills in participatory activities on the Safety City site. Participatory instruction can include pedestrian exercises, traffic activities through driving child-size vehicles and bicycle and fire skills.

    Safety City KnoxvilleGoals of Safety City
    • To provide a creative and safe environment where elementary students will have the opportunity to increase their knowledge and skills in pedestrian, vehicular and bicycle safety.
    • To reduce injuries and deaths resulting from motor vehicular related crashes
    • To reduce injuries and deaths resulting from fire
    • To provide other personal safety education programs as they develop

    During the school calendar year, second grade students attend Safety City as a school field trip.


    Summer Hours (June-July)

    During the Summer, Safety City is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays to the public. Our hours for Summer 2023 will be posted in 2023.

    Please note that Safety City is only open to the public in June and July. From August through May, Safety City is only open for school field trips.


    Safety City ChristmasSafety City Christmas

    During "A Safety City Christmas," families are invited to bring their own bicycles, push scooters, battery-operated cars, doll buggies and the like to the display of Christmas lights around the miniature city. These special evenings even welcomed a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus. Open dates are subject to change due to weather and other conditions. Open dates run from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

    2022 SCHEDULE
    Nov. 29, 2022
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