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It was on a priority call for police service as I steered my Chevrolet Caprice patrol car left through a sharp high-speed curve that it hit me. As I strained to grip the steering wheel and maintain my position in the driver’s seat, so I wouldn’t slide to my right across the bench seat, I realized how close I came to ...

In this article, Sgt. George M. Godoy of Police Exam 911 explains some of the technical aspects of police chases and pursuits, and how you should be explaining your answers in police interviews. Sgt. Godoy runs a very successful Police Video Training Course for applicants to help improve their scores on Police Exams and has personally tested over 1000 potential applicants. ...

The Advanced Vehicle Stops Training Program (AVSTP) is a Center advanced program developed to enhance the safety of officers while conducting vehicle stop activities.  Federal, State and Local law enforcement officers are trained in advanced vehicle stops concepts, principles, and tactics from a variety of courses designed specifically to enhance officer safety from the ever present threats of vehicular traffic ...

The Advanced Law Enforcement Driver Instructor Training Program (ALEDITP) was developed to fulfill an expressed need from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. The curriculum fulfills requirements to further develop an instructor's knowledge of driver training and to improve the driver trainer's ability to design, develop and validate training curriculum, driving ranges and evaluation standards. The program provides the instructor ...

Copyright � 2006 RealPolice.net   Summary:  Understanding your limitations as a police officer involved in a police chase is extremely important.  Know ahead of time how you deal with situations before you're in the situation.     window.google_render_ad(); Most new police officers, including myself when I started couldn't resist getting into a police chase. I mean its one of the ...

Articles | Magazine FeaturePRINT PAGE EMAIL PAGE (Photo Dale Stockton)Travis Yates 20080614 2008 Jul 14 Law Officer Magazine Volume 4 Issue 7 Emergency Code Runs Travis Yates Law Officer Volume 4 Issue 7 2008 Jul 14 Few activities rise to the level of danger for a law enforcement officer than an emergency code run. Traffic, speed and emotions combine with the ...

TONY SCOTTI Emergency Vehicle Operations Contributor Confronted with an emergency scenario while driving the driver's reaction time can be the difference between success and failure. Although it is an important part of driving and driver training reaction time is not easy to demonstrate. But there are exercises that can show the affect of reaction time on the decision making process. The ...

1 backup tactic, 3 positive benefits Submitted by: Ptlm. Derek Mahlum, Havre (MT) PD There’s one thing you can do as a backup officer arriving at a vehicle stop that the primary officer will really appreciate because it helps protect him in three ways. That’s to turn your headlights off just before pulling behind the primary’s patrol car and leaving only ...

Officers need to understand the risks associated with pursuits so that they can better pursue suspects Police pursuits are dangerous. Available data indicate that the number of pursuits continues to increase, as well as the number of pursuit-related injuries and deaths. A traffic accident constitutes the most common terminating event in an urban pursuit, 1 and most people agree that these ...

How to Use the Pursuit Intervention Technique (PIT Maneuver) in a Car The Pursuit Intervention Technique (PIT maneuver) is a procedure which has been used by law enforcement departments around the world (this is also known by some as the Precision Immobilization Technique). Vehicles at high speed are, by laws in physics and aerodynamics, inherently less stable than at lower speeds. ...

In the spring of 1999 a couple of my Task Force officers, along with myself, were sitting in our office writing reports and discussing several cases that we had just made. Suddenly our supervisor walked in and said “Boys I think we have a meth lab around here somewhere”. Wow, did we give him the once over. We called him everything ...

Officers need to understand the risks associated with pursuits so that they can better pursue suspects Police pursuits are dangerous. Available data indicate that the number of pursuits continues to increase, as well as the number of pursuit-related injuries and deaths. A traffic accident constitutes the most common terminating event in an urban pursuit, 1 and most people agree that these ...

Police pursuits have long been the center of attention when it comes to media. Should we chase, should we terminate, should we only chase for serious crimes, etc. It seems no matter which route the police choose, they end up getting blamed for the outcome. But what makes this topic so interesting is that the chances of an innocent person dying ...

Police Liability and Police Driving go hand in hand As a police officer, I've seen first hand how police officers can get sued for the simplest things, and one of those things are simply speeding to calls to try and help. On one hand, you of course want to get there as quickly as possible to help. The problem is however ...

STEVE ASHLEY Emergency Vehicle Operations Contributor Officer.com We've all been there. A quiet night, a simple traffic violation, a routine stop, then--suddenly--the offender floors it, and the chase is on. Most departments have spent a lot of time and effort laying out guidelines for officers to follow in vehicular pursuits, and many have provided driver training to help keep officers safer, ...

STEVE ASHLEY Emergency Vehicle Operations Contributor Officer.com We spend a lot of time in law enforcement training for high risk activity, and a good part of that time is spent on use of force issues. In fact, even if your department does almost no training, there's a better than even chance that what you actually manage to do is use of ...

TONY SCOTTI Emergency Vehicle Operations Contributor Officer.com Many departments report that the number of accidents while backing up is higher than other types of accidents. More often than not, these result in fender benders. Not dramatic accidents, but still annoying and expensive. Driving in reverse is deceptively hard, and has no correlation to driving forward. There is a simple reason for ...

STEVE ASHLEY Emergency Vehicle Operations Contributor Officer.com Most officers have been through some sort of driver training, either in the academy, or as part of an in-service class. While academy training is often looked upon as so basic as to be almost useless in the real world, one place where that is absolutely not the case is in driver training. Academy ...

STEVE ASHLEY Emergency Vehicle Operations Contributor Officer.com No one knows how many officers are injured or killed each year because they are just too busy behind the wheel. It's a sure bet, however, that distracted driving is one of the more likely causes of many officer involved motor vehicle crashes. When you consider the number of activities that the typical officer ...

TONY SCOTTI Emergency Vehicle Operations Contributor Officer.com There are times when your car starts "talking" to you. It usually happens when your car is approaching its limits. This phenomenon is called neutral steer or over- and understeer. Under- and oversteer are terms used to explain vehicle characteristics, and they are important signals transmitted to you by the vehicle; it is how ...