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Vehicle Incidents and Issues

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 law enforcement, including vehicle crashes involving police and vehicular assaults against officers. From single-car traffic accidents to high-speed pursuits, most law enforcement injuries and fatalities occur in, or immediately outside of, a police officer’s vehicle.
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News

Video: Texas deputy shot in face at traffic stop

The officer had no idea he was pulling over a convicted felon wanted for murder - Full Story

News

Suspect killed, officer hit by car in Va. bank shooting

The suspect hit the officer as police approached his vehicle, forcing the officer's partner to fire at the driver - Full Story

Columns

3 keys to improve your safety and success Betsy Brantner Smith - Survival Insights

3 keys to improve your safety and success

You are responsible for your own officer safety as well as your own career satisfaction - Full Story

Columns

Are you a K-9 officer or an interdiction officer with a dog? Andrew Hawkes - Highway Drug Interdiction

Are you a K-9 officer or an interdiction officer with a dog?

I propose to you that there is a difference between a full-time K-9 officer and a full-time interdiction officer who happens to be a certified dog handler - Full Story

Videos

Cop saves woman from high-speed crash

Dash-cam video captures a police officer shoving a woman out of the way of a patrol car after it was hit by a van.

Exclusives

Responding to critics of the Below 100 campaign

Responding to critics of the Below 100 campaign

Despite the efforts of many who have supported the goal of this campaign, some individuals have responded with two specific criticisms. - Full Story

Exclusives

ILEETA 2012: Below 100 is an idea for all of us

ILEETA 2012: Below 100 is an idea for all of us

Below 100 is an initiative to bring line-of-duty deaths in the year to fewer than 100 — as of this writing, we have lost 34 LEOs according to ODMP - Full Story

In-depth News

Dash cam released from Mich. officer's death

Dash cam released from Mich. officer's death

Police released dash cam showing parts of the 120 mph, three-county pursuit that ended in the death of Walker officer Trevor Slot and two suspects, prompting a look back at the circumstances of the fatal day as it unfolded in October. - Full Story

In-depth News

9-year-old again drove for drinking dad

9-year-old again drove for drinking dad

For the second time this month, authorities have charged a father with allowing his 9-year-old child to be a designated driver. - Full Story



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Vehicle Incidents and Issues Columnists

Police Driving: Safety Behind the Wheel Police Driving: Safety Behind the Wheel
with Travis Yates
Topics & Tactics for Law Enforcement Topics & Tactics for Law Enforcement
with Scott Buhrmaster