The Nevada Department of Transportation has launched a pilot program to enhance roadway safety and aesthetics, by reducing debris and unlawful access of state underpasses and other roadway structures. Besides ongoing roadside litter removal, NDOT has contracted with a local security firm to patrol underpasses, culverts and roadsides of Reno-Sparks freeways. The Nevada POST certified officers, will patrol for and report roadside graffiti, signs of possible copper theft, cuts in roadside fence and other vandalism. And the officers will steer the homeless away from freeway roadsides and underpasses.