Vehicle Incidents and Issues
The Vehicle Incidents and Issues topic deals with issues related to specialized patrols like motorcycle units as well as vehicular risks and challenges to LE, including vehicle crashes involving police and vehicular assaults against officers.
The Risk Homeostasis Theory can be applied to law enforcement in a variety of ways, including our willingness to ignore proven safety devices and proven safety measures
Police1 takes a look back at the biggest news stories of the year for the law enforcement community
Where there is blood, there are officer safety reminders
As girl, 18, was being led out of the house in handcuffs, she began shouting
Police chief said he was taught in police academy that .4 percent is ‘clinically dead’
An Abington Township police officer was hospitalized and an alleged bank robber in custody after a pursuit
General Motors has issued a recall due to safety concerns of some models
The unfortunate fact remains that many of our heroes in uniform are dying because of their actions behind the wheel
Police officers can be heard asking who the patrol car belongs to, but the driver wasn’t found
Las Vegas police said the vehicle appeared to be driving itself
“Fugitive of the week” led police on a pursuit and struck an officer with his vehicle
Lisa Hernandez, a parolee injured two officers when she tried to ram her way out of arrest
Sheriff’s Deputy Sergio Aleman was driving the agency’s motorist assistance truck when the collision occurred
A mayor who was ticketed for illegally parking his Corvette ordered his own parking spot be put into the police lot
State prosecutors have said the troopers sought to conceal their involvement in the escort, which reached speeds exceeding 100 mph
Suspect had been convicted of DUI before in a separate case
Troopers allegedly involved in an unauthorized high-speed escort of luxury cars
The man provided the officer with his license and registration, then began acting suspiciously and reaching under the seat
The trooper warned the driver for operating a vehicle improperly equipped with emergency lights and a police siren
One of two burglary suspects got into a cruiser and drove away as police fired shots
When the driver got out of the vehicle, the officer recognized him as a fellow cop
Police killed a gunman who opened fire on officers responding to a home invasion
A stolen car being chased by Gulfport, Fla. police hit a bus, which then plowed into an apartment building
Millville Police Patrolman Christopher Reeves died Sunday morning when a suspect hit his cruiser, striking the driver’s side
A fire ignited in the trunk of an unmarked patrol car July 4
A high-speed pursuit of a vehicle linked to a shooting ended with an abrupt crash
As I sat outside the courtroom awaiting my turn to be questioned in front of the Grand Jury, a million things ran through my mind
The Benton County Sheriff was pulled over by a Bentonville police officer who asked him about an improper license plate
Two Massachusetts state police cruisers have been struck by other vehicles in separate overnight highway crashes
MOST POPULAR
- Masked man attacks squad with paving slabs, baseball bats
- Deputy saves man from submerged car, then responds to rollover on same night
- Wis. officer entangled in 40-car pile-up worked to save others
- Reality Training: How cops can stay safe on the road
- Reality Training: Are you prepared for an ambush attack?