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.
Regardless of the situation, you must resist being so focused on providing assistance that you put yourself in danger
Setting a compliance baseline at the beginning of a vehicle stop can help improve officer safety
The app’s police-tracking feature notifies drivers of any nearby law enforcement vehicles and patrol activity
The attack comes as police grapple with what Police Chief Todd Axtell called a stretch of unprecedented violence in the city
Police officers were inside a housing building in Queens and returned to their vehicle to find their windshield damaged by a brick
The fire caused ammunition stored inside the cruiser to explode, so students were moved into the middle school’s gymnasium as a precaution
As the trooper was assisting a driver change a tire, a U-Haul truck driver drove off the road and hit his cruiser
Miraculously, only minor injuries resulted
The unusual MCI tested police, who’ve struggled to keep pace with the Permian Basin’s growth and were short-staffed
A Clearwater police officer is facing an ultimatum in her East Lake neighborhood
A parolee stole a police SUV near Dayton, Ohio, and crashed into a minivan filled with children
Officer Amy Caprio died in May 2018 while responding to a suspicious vehicle report
Two LAPD officers were stopped at an intersection about 11:30 p.m. when a man began shooting at them
The officers blame a design flaw in 2014-17 Explorer SUVs modified for police duty
Moments earlier, the officer tried to stop the suspect by using a TASER on him
Stephanie Schreurs rolled her police SUV at a sharp curve
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The approximately three-minute video was posted on Hogan’s Facebook page on Aug. 2
The inmate seized a gun from one of the troopers as they were driving the inmate back to prison from a court hearing
The suspect did not stop after the trooper collided with another vehicle, but was later captured
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The deputy was declared dead at a hospital
Patrol vehicles seem to be getting smaller and smaller. Do cops have enough space?
Officer John Anderson was killed when a teen driver collided with him in an intersection
The suspect dragged a Seminole County deputy about 100 yards on an on-ramp during a traffic stop
Hundreds of teenagers and young adults massed in North Philadelphia late Sunday, damaging at least six police cars
The suspect escaped by crawling out a sliding small window that separated the front and rear compartments of the patrol car
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