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.
What can we do to increase officer safety despite the declining budgetary resources most agencies have available?
Although police package vehicles come with beefed-up suspensions, cooling, transmissions, electrical systems, and so forth, most of the other equipment that makes it a functional police car comes from third-party vendors
Terrorists will continue to refine their tactics and improve their operational capabilities, so we’re not going to have much of that ‘luck’ left to rely upon
Man was issued 14 traffic tickets, including one for speeding
Officer and another driver pulled over for a traffic stop were both struck
New York State Trooper Amanda Anna had served with the New York State Police for six years
Civilians use the cars for fun, camaraderie
Cleveland Officer Justin Maples, 34, was a seven-year police veteran
The roadway is now the hallway — scanning left and right, you call out, “Bicycle left... clear!” and move on
Law enforcers say the ring stole more than 100 cars with a value of $4 million
A woman tries to jump out of her moving truck and is dragged underneath
Man flags vehicle down, tries to steal it
Study found what a lot of parents already know
Vehicle hit an 18-year-old and narrowly missed two other men
DMV officials say they’ve issued Google the nation’s first license to test self-driving cars
Officers also discovered a concrete slab painted with an anarchy symbol
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s early estimate of 2011 fatalities is lowest in more than 60 years
It was the third year in a row he has captured the top award
SWAT team surrounded doctor’s office to find a patient believed to have shot at a speed SUV while wearing a nightshirt
A vehicle involved in the crash rolled down an embankment and trapped the driver inside
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement did not find criminal violations
Milwaukee police are trying to find a man who nearly ran over a bike patrol officer
Below 100 is an initiative to bring line-of-duty deaths in the year to fewer than 100 — as of this writing, we have lost 34 LEOs according to ODMP
Both were travelling westbound responding to a call for backup
St. Louis County police updated policy after unusual incident
Maxwell Dorley, 42, was responding to a call for backup
Allegations of a cover-up started shortly after the crash
Almost 3,000 drivers with blood-alcohol counts double the legal limit have been taken off the road
‘Those of us without badges, guns and training should stick to muttered curses’
Jimmy Lee, 26, is back on his feet since being struck by a vehicle last year
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