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.
We close out our roundtable discussion with Officer Terry Bykerk of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Police Department, Officer Don Spence of the Dundee, (Mich.) Police Department, Lieutenant John Leas of the San Diego (Calif.) Police Department, and Staff Sergeant Chris Whaley, Ontario (Canada) Provincial Police
Ford recently invited four police officers from around the U.S. and Canada to drive the new Interceptors — Police1 caught up with those cops to get their take on the new vehicles for a new three-part series of articles
Kevin Schulte, a detective with the Lawton Police Department, died in the crash Sunday night
Joseph Wargo was on duty when the driver slammed into the cruiser
As the car burned, other police officers in the area pursued the suspect
Officer Trevor Slot of Walker police department was killed Thursday
Belarus traffic cameras captures violent collision at busy intersection
When it became a police car, the vehicle had only 13 miles on its odometer
1 dead, 4 critically hurt after Arizona dust storm triggers pileups
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
Vehicles included two Bugatti Veyrons, a Ferrari 599 GTO and a Maserati MC12
1 in 5 pursuits end in a crash in California’s Coachella Valley, and a mix of department policy and personal judgment comes into play when undertaking pursuits
Reed S. Berry, 26, of St. Joseph, Michigan, was under surveillance because of his suspected terrorist links
Pursuit hit speeds in excess of 100 mph
Dashcam from Czech police car shows Audi plowing head-on into patrol
For unknown reasons the patrol car left the roadway, landed in a field
Trooper Dean Patterson says Kentucky State Police were called out to the scene
Derrick Whittle served with his department for less than a year
Investigators say Donna Desport caused $4,600 in damages
Officer Eric Fontes was killed after a pickup truck crashed into the scene of a traffic stop
The officer involved was originally issued a three-day suspension
A Boynton Beach police spokeswoman says the officers piled into a single car
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
You were given intelligence and the ability to make decisions of your own free will. It is your job to consciously decide to keep yourself safe and preserve the precious life that has been granted to you
Accounts of a fatal motorcycle crash in Chicago differ; police statement says officer acted appropriately
The stolen car in which the suspect was a passenger crashed into a house
Police pulled over the bus as it crossed the Yangtze River after receiving a bulletin from authorities
Mark Scianna, 49, was the father of a special-needs boy
Authorities say Andes first called police at 2 a.m. and yelled at a dispatcher
