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.
Training to use an armored vehicle to breach a building is critical for successful deployment during tactical response
These programs help to reduce traffic congestion as a result of collisions, while increasing officer safety on the roadways
Creating and using ALPR is no longer in the category of innovative policing – it is an essential tool for effective law enforcement
Police believe the incident was gang-related and that there have been previous gang problems related to funerals
The driver was involved in a hit and run accident and refused to exit the burning vehicle, so officers removed him and saved his life
Officers said 27-year-old Sabra Bewley was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after the incident
Police say the 52-year-old woman, who was drunk, didn’t even know the sign was in her car
K-9 Billy was riding in a patrol car that was hit by another car late Monday and suffered spinal cord damage
The thieves took personal belongings, including guns, from a total of 30 cars at three different fire stations
It is time to train 100 percent of police officers nationwide in the team tactics of crowd control
When a deputy first arrived on scene, he said the man got out of car but then jumped back into the car and began to rummage through it
The teens used police cars on joyrides that took the vehicles as far away as Corona and Santa Clarita
A man angry about a parking dispute stabbed two people and then drove into a group of pedestrians on a sidewalk, leaving one person dead and several injured
The note says the remorseful anonymous driver hit a parked car one evening in 1985 or 1986 and has asked police to find the driver
John Quincey Stephens told the deputies that he injected heroin during the pursuit and that he fled because he was high
Trent Ferree, who killed a deputy’s wife and injured his daughter, told police he was “looking for a victim to run over”
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said Deputy Eric Overall “died trying to ensure that no one else would get hurt that fateful night”
Daniel Allen Lowell, 34, and Trista Marie Schlaefli, 32, face several charges, including homicide by vehicle
Dash cam footage captured a patrolman’s “ninja-like reflexes” in dodging a speeding car
J.R. Stewart was killed Monday when the motorcycle he was riding was struck by a vehicle fleeing law enforcement
Delontaye Antwan Nicholas Wilson is charged with two counts of criminal mischief with damage to property
Christopher Berak, 22, faces life in prison without parole
Police said the man suspected of killing Deputy Eric Overall visited a jail where he said “he was God and he was here to bring out one of his sons”
The sheriff’s office says Deputy Eric Overall, 50, had been with the department for 22 years
Bruce John Homer told deputies he was frustrated law enforcement wouldn’t crack down on people running through a stop sign at the intersection
Sayfullo Saipov, 29, faces several charges including eight counts of murder
Forest Hill officers and a motorist were tending to a disabled vehicle when another car came through and side-swiped a patrol vehicle
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s patrol vehicle was heading to an emergency call when it crashed with another car and ran onto a sidewalk, killing two boys
Officer Adam King’s Jeep overturned and struck a tree
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said they are investigating the officer’s death as a suicide
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