Traffic Enforcement, Highway Patrol
The Traffic Enforcement / Highway Patrol topic area serves as a resource for the latest developments in traffic enforcement tactics and techniques.
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The impact of the crash caused Deputy Lorenzo Bustos, 29, to be pushed under the cruiser, causing fatal head trauma
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LAPD Chief Michel Moore said the “illegal activity” on the bridge is “drawing limited resources away from more pressing duties”
The 25-year-old agent had just left a ticket on a van when the driver and his friend got out of the vehicle, confronted and then assaulted the agent
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The bridge, which cost more than a half-billion dollars, has attracted drag racers and arch climbers since it opened July 10
Hosted by NLEOMF, the summit will share recommendations to improve vehicle and roadside safety throughout the country
Court holds requesting personal identification in a public location, without threats, overt coercion, or a display of force, was a seizure requiring reasonable suspicion
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The officer, who was shot in his upper body, was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries
Sheriff Raphael Washington says the clinic helps both officers and teenagers
Pennsylvania’s state police agency was the first in the U.S. to fully integrate female troopers
“I take full responsibility,” Col. Lamar Davis said. “I need to practice what I preach”
Pompano Beach Vice Mayor Barbara Perkins is heard telling the officer he needed to ‘find something better to [expletive] do’
Officer Jesse Madsen intentionally collided with a wrong-way driver after an exit ramp’s sensors failed, police said
The cruiser had its lights flashing as the trooper assisted a stranded motorist
Photos showed significant damage to the trooper’s vehicle
A CHP officer is in critical but stable condition after he was shot during a traffic stop on Monday
Trooper Toni Schuck is credited with sacrificing herself to protect runners and pedestrians during a road race
The shooting touched off a manhunt for the suspect Monday evening
Vacancies piled up during the pandemic when the academy temporarily closed but attrition continued
Dayton Police will team up with other agencies to crack down on what city officials called “automobile circus acts”
The man pulled a pistol after Trooper Rodney Cook told him to step out of the truck, video shows
Video shows the good Samaritans applying a tourniquet and detaining the suspect until police arrive
Officer Charles Banks warned off oncoming cars with his flashlight while trying to save the crash victims, video shows
An officer asks the suspect to step out of the vehicle, but, seconds later, the man opens the door and starts shooting at the officers
If the flag flies into traffic and causes a crash, the state could be held responsible, said officials with Ohio’s transportation department
Officer Don Campbell says he was inspired by a tragic night that left a fellow cop dead
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