In a hurry — speeding and blowing stop signs — as you drive along Titmus Drive in Manor Park?

If so, you might want to reconsider your actions. Suffolk County police are stepping up traffic enforcement on the little-known shortcut that’s been bugging residents who live in the area for years.

Insp. William Neubauer, commanding officer of the Seventh Precinct in Shirley, said patrol officers plan to focus specifically on the north end of Titmus Drive, where there are frequent complaints about reckless motorists burning rubber throughout the residential area near Sunrise Highway’s north service road and Brookhaven Calabro Airport.

Officers from the Aggressive Driving Unit, a division within Highway Patrol, will also target the area in an effort to reduce moving violations along the roadway, in addition to officers from the precinct, Neubauer said. “This is an issue that comes up from time to time,” he said of residents’ complaints about reckless driving along Titmus Drive.

Ray Keenan, president of the Manor Park Civic Association, said the added enforcement would go a long way to make the area safer.  At least two cars have gone off the road in the past year, including one that veered through a fence at the airport, crashing in the woods. The car was abandoned by its driver and finally impounded, he said.

MaryAnn Johnston, past president of the Manor Park Civic Association, said her members have noticed increasingly dangerous driving along the roadway over the last five to seven years. It’s not uncommon for residents to complain about motorists who blow stop signs, narrowly avoiding major car crashes that could end up with a fatality, according to Johnston, who’s had similar experiences.

Others have tales of not being “allowed” to exit their driveway because of people who are either driving so fast they cannot stop in time to perform that action, or do not care to, Johnston said.

“Titmus Drive has just become a speed zone from the [Sunrise Highway] service road to Moriches-Middle Island Road,” said Johnston, who lives on Abbott Avenue. “It has become a cut-through.”

Keenan said the civic would welcome “anything” to reduce the growing pattern. Precinct analytics show that between June 1 and July 16 officers doled out 32 tickets, including seven to motorists driving over the 30 mph speed limit and 11 to those who failed to stop at stop signs, Neubauer said. The rest of the tickets were written for other moving violations, he said. “That’s a pretty high level in my estimate,” he said, adding, “a high level of tickets, actually, for a secondary roadway.”

But despite the high number of tickets issued to motorists along the roadway, only two crashes have occurred there over the last 18 months, according to Neubauer; one last September involving a hit-and-run on Sachem Drive for which a man later turned himself in, the other a parked car near Applegate Drive.

Johnston said some residents would like to see the precinct utilize what’s commonly referred to as a sleeping police officer — a mannequin — at the wheel of a patrol car to bring the speed down, similar to what is utilized in East Hampton, but the brass informed them it is not their policy.

Neubauer said he is familiar with the practice, but he didn’t think it would be effective. “I don’t think that would be a good deterrent and certainly it is not a good use of a patrol vehicle,” he said.

Joshua Slaughter, chief of staff to Legis. Kate Browning, whose district includes Manor Park, said about 150 tickets have been issued by police since Jan. 1. For the moment, police seem to have curtailed the issues along Titmus and will continue to target the area, but that residents need to understand it is not the only roadway with issues.

“Can they always do more?” he asked, adding, “Yes, they would like to do more but it is not the only road that we get concerns about.