Police Specialty Vehicles News & Articles

By Melissa Payne WHNT.com FLORENCE, Ala. — Florence Police officers can now cruise around town with a different form of transportation. On some days, motorized Segways have taken the place of the ...

By Callum Borchers The Boston Globe WATERTOWN, Mass. — The manhunt for suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had reached its climax. Tsarnaev, who eluded police for 17 hours after an ...

By Nathan Scharn UT San Diego OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Oceanside harbor authorities this year got a serious maritime upgrade. Docked next to a vintage small fleet of red police boats is a sleek new black ...

Technology played a big role in aiding the police operation that caught the Tsarnaev brothers ...

Formed in a small office in Los Angeles, in 2006 Carbon Motors began morphing from an interesting idea into a tangible reality when they moved to Atlanta and began pursuing investors. ...

Agencies of all sizes have a need for lower-speed enforcement, and every agency in America is looking to cut operating costs wherever they can safely do so. ...

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 ...

During IACP 2012 in San Diego, I visited briefly with Noel Cherowbrier of T3 Motion to learn more about the many advantages afforded to police agencies choosing to augment the patrol mix with the addition ...

During IACP 2012 in San Diego, I was able to spend a little time with the folks from AeroVironment — the company that makes the Raven and Wasp Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) for the United States ...

Code of conduct aims to quell issues of privacy raised by concerned citizens ...

Missing person searches, drug surveillance and dangerous rescues are just some of the ways officials think their new tiny aerial tools can be used. ...

KQRE ALBUQUERQUE — The Los Lunas police department got the Mamba SWAT Vehicle, valued at nearly $400,000, for free. The Mamba first came to New Mexico state police through a federal program that ...

By Joan Lowy Associated Press WASHINGTON — The prospect that thousands of drones could be patrolling U.S. skies by the end of this decade is raising the specter of a Big Brother government that peers ...

PoliceOne "First Person" essays are the place where P1 Members and Columnists candidly share their own unique view of the world. This is a platform from which officers can share their own personal insights on issues confronting cops today, as well as opinions, observations, and advice on living life behind the thin blue line. ...

By Terrence T. McDonald The Jersey Journal JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Jersey City officials hosted a show-and-tell Wednesday of roughly $12 million in new fire trucks, police vehicles and other emergency-management ...

NCTimes.com VALLEY CENTER, N.C. — A new patrol vehicle that is able to scan hundreds of license plates at a time was deployed Monday in Valley Center, Sheriff's Department officials said. The ...