Kansas City, Mo. ? A program in which police had an ice cream reward instead of a ticket for motorists they pulled over has been halted after just three days for a little fine-tuning.

Police in Kansas City’s North Patrol Division had been stopping motorists they saw driving safely to give them coupons for free ice cream.

Sgt. Don Jantzen said some in the community expressed concerns about the program, and the department’s legal counsel advised officers to stop it. He said Maj. John Armilio, the division commander, would “revamp” it and come up with a new approach within two weeks.

Jantzen said one suggestion was to distribute the coupons at the division headquarters, rather than to motorists stopped by officers, but it hadn’t been determined how that would work.

Paula Talley, of Kansas City, was rewarded Monday for wearing her seat belt and yielding to traffic. She said she was afraid being stopped would make her late for work, but she made it on time.

“My job probably wouldn’t have cared about free ice cream,” she said.

Bill Calvert, of Smithville, was stopped for driving the speed limit, stopping properly at a sign and using his signal. He said he could see people getting upset by such stops if they “were in the wrong frame of mind.”

Dorothy Gardner, stopped Monday for having her children properly buckled, said she was sad the program was stopped and hadn’t heard any negative comments from people she had talked to.

She said the five-minute stop would not have made her any later than if she were delayed by normal traffic signals.