Police Light Bars News & Articles

• How to buy vehicle equipment (eBook)

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  Download this Police1 vehicle equipment buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• How police can set up a safe work zone at roadway incidents

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  Setting up a safer work zone begins with the proper placement of the first-arriving vehicle and expands from there

• How to buy light bars

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  Many considerations go into purchasing the right lighting solution for your police department’s patrol vehicles

• Spotlight: 911Signal strives to make cops, communities safer

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  911Signal’s X6 lighthead is slim, compact and takes up little room

• Spotlight: Equip emergency vehicles at an affordable price with SpeedTech Lights

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  Your one-stop shop when outfitting your vehicle

• Spotlight: LED Equipped offers superior emergency vehicle lighting and equipment

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  Their light bars feature powerful up to date Generation LED lighting

• P1 Survey: Police Vehicles and Accessories

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  59.2% of LEOs responded that their agencies are currently looking to purchase a new fleet of patrol vehicles

• Ohio police transition to smaller cruisers

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  Officers will need to adapt to storing thousands of dollars of equipment in smaller cars

• Video: Nissan GT-R becomes a cop car

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  When it became a police car, the vehicle had only 13 miles on its odometer

• Redesigned Capitol Police cars enter national contest

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  Capitol Hill Police unveils money-saving, sleek look for cruisers

• Police light bars with a message

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  When installed, the system has 50 pre-programmed messages — such as “ACCIDENT” — from which officers can choose depending on the incident they’re addressing

• How to buy emergency lighting

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  By Mike Shimwell S A Equipment Republished with permission of International Fire Fighter Magazine It is essential that public safety responders have access to a wide variety of lighting equipment, ...

• No Dummy: Federal Signal’s SmartSiren Platinum

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  SmartSiren’s upgraded sibling offers plenty of features

• Side-mounted lights in low-light and no-light traffic stops

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  Something has caught my attention with the addition of the side-mounted (on mirror) warning lights to most of the patrol and traffic vehicles in my department. As officers, we are taught to disguis...

• New sirens shake ground to get drivers to pull over

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  By Jacob Quinn Sanders Arkansas Democrat-GazetteLITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Forced to share the road with newer vehicles that are engineered to cancel out road noise, and with drivers distracted by cell ph...

• How to buy light bars

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  LEOs use their light bars far more often than they use their duty weapon. Yet the importance of this particular piece of equipment often gets submerged in budgetary considerations, and receives lit...

• Okla. debuts ambulance siren you can feel

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  By Justin Juozapavicius Associated PressTULSA, Okla. — You're in the car and you've got the radio cranked up insanely loud. Chances are, you're not going to hear that ambulance siren wailing behind...

• Buying space with your spotlight

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  During traffic contacts on multi-lane avenues or highways, I often aim my spotlight down on the ground to create a circle of light on the asphalt just beside my front fender. Passing motorists, who...

• PoliceOne Member Photo of the Week:
  Racing for education

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  I run our Racing For Education program here in Phoenix, Ariz. and I thought this would be a cool picture for your Web site. With teen driving accidents being the number one killer for teenagers, I ...

• Fla. officer hits 2 pedestrians while responding to call

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  Emergency lights, but no siren on South Florida Sun-Sentinel.comPEMBROKE PINES, Fla.— A police officer struck and killed two pedestrians early Monday while responding to a call, authorities said. T...

• Idaho State Police sporting new low-profile cruisers

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  By Sonja LeeThe Idaho Falls Post Register IDAHO — The sleek look is a bid to make cops a little less obvious on the road. After years of being on the lookout for the black-and-white cars with big l...

• Pimp my patrol car: Someone has to add those bells and whistles

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  Michelle MachadoThe Record STOCKTON, Calif.  — Jerry LaBarber is probably one of the few people who can strip parts from police cars and get away with it. LaBarber is a city of Stockton mechanic wh...

• N.M. police equip squad cars with 4-ft. raised warning lights

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  By Christopher Sanchez Albuquerque Tribune ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Albuquerque Police Department is equipping some of its vehicles with emergency lights that rise about 4 feet above the unit's roof...

• Familiarize yourself with other local squad cars

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  How many times have we backed up or assisted a sister agency? Almost every day, right? But how familiar are you with their patrol cars? The local PD ended a pursuit next to my house while I was hom...

• Training for touch during emergency driving

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  While training new recruits about emergency/pursuit driving, park your patrol unit, blindfold the recruit and have him/her practice turning on various emergency lights and equipment by touch, witho...

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