Tag: Vehicle Ops

In these changing times, the challenges of attracting qualified applicants to forsake the gains of other careers to join the law enforcement community continue to grow. Agencies that in the ...

With more than 18,000 police agencies nationwide, there’s certainly a need for police-oriented vehicles even though, numerically, the police vehicle marketplace remains minuscule compared to the overall automotive landscape. There’s ...

While most of the recent safety advancements in modern automobiles have successfully filtered into modern patrol vehicles, one item that has caused nearly as many headaches (no pun intended) as ...

Jan. 26, 1979 the day my future driving career took a wild slide through the back roads of an obscure southern county. The Dukes of Hazzard television show debuted, and ...

Law Officer Editor Dale Stockton speaks with Italian Polizia Stradale Officer Massimiliano Finore alongside the department s Lamborghini Gallardo at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference 2006. ...

In the police vehicle world, a triangle exists between three key players. The first is the law enforcement agency, which provides demand for police-oriented vehicles. The second is the automotive ...

No matter what type of patrol vehicle you drive, it’s almost a certainty the vehicle was derived from a production-based civilian model. In most cases, that isn’t a bad thing ...

This column first appeared on PoliceOne.com. When you respond to a shots-fired call and find yourself pinned down by rifle rounds zinging in from an unidentified location, what's the best ...

In law enforcement, many of us spend a great deal of time behind the wheel of our patrol vehicle, our office on wheels. Unlike the desk at home, however, we ...

The days are gone when building a patrol vehicle meant a red gumball, a portable radio and some paint. Today s vehicles are filled with computers, MDTs, GPS sensors, cellular ...