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P1 Survey: Police Vehicles and Accessories Comments

In November of 2012, PoliceOne presented law enforcement officers with a survey on police vehicles and vehicle accessories. We have posted the results to the survey below. They represent a poll of 281 ...

Video: Wrong-way teen driver tries to flee police Video

The teenager speeds backwards toward a roundabout and narrowly misses oncoming traffic as an unmarked police car and back-up vehicles attempt to stop him ...

S.C. man leads police to 3 dead bodies, then kills self Comments

Kenneth Meyers was driving a victim's car when deputies began chasing him ...

No Dummy: Federal Signal’s SmartSiren Platinum

By Scott M. Bruner PoliceOne Product EditorLightbars and siren systems usually take hours to install and configure, and can cause multiple headaches trying to integrate them. Federal Signal’s SmartSiren ...

Acoustic warning speakers used by police causing controversy Comments

By Bradley J. Fikes North County TimesESCONDIDO, Calif. — Deterring pirates with blasts of ear-splitting sound got American Technology Corp. a lot of welcome attention. But when the company's acoustic ...

New sirens shake ground to get drivers to pull over Comments

By Jacob Quinn Sanders Arkansas Democrat-GazetteLITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Forced to share the road with newer vehicles that are engineered to cancel out road noise, and with drivers distracted by cell ...

Mo. city police sirens now feature vibrations

By Jaime Baranyai The Springfield News-LeaderSPRINGFIELD, Mo. — With modern-day drivers distracted by cell phones, iPods, kids in the back seat and more, Springfield Police have purchased some new ...

Early warning for campus emergencies

“This is a test of the THOR Broadcasting System. In the event of an actual weather emergency, safety instructions for Beaver Stadium and Bryce Jordan Center patrons would follow. I repeat, this is only a test.” Sounds like a standard test message, possibly broadcast as part of routine maintenance at the nation’s largest stadium. Except that this test used the THOR-8L, a new long-range directed acoustic device developed at Penn State University. And it was heard, clearly and distinctly, in a restroom located three-quarters of a mileaway. ...

Study of traffic incident management systems released

The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Highway Administration, working in partnership with the International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA) and with funding support from the Office of Justice Programs’ National Institute of Justice, recently produced a report that provides technical guidance and training programs in traffic incident management for emergency service providers. ...

Limiting Cars' Lights, Siren Use May Prevent Police Crashes

LAPD system allows only 1 car to respond in full ''Code 3'' mode - Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer San Francisco - The patrol car smash-up that killed a San Francisco police officer might have ...