A motorcycle officer who made traffic stops and was carrying a pistol and stun-guns was actually an impersonator with ...

LOS ANGELES — If you've ever been pulled over by a police officer for not wearing a seat belt, there's a decent chance the officer also wasn't buckled up either. While 86 percent of Americans ...

Sheriff Doug Gillespie today acknowledged for the second time in five months that an on-duty officer at the wheel of a patrol car was speeding and not wearing a seat belt or using lights and ...

Drake, who just retired at 53, said rookie officers often face pressure to conform and copy their training officer. Bustamante found commanders rarely disciplined officers for not wearing seat belts.

Unbuckled, but unbowedDespite on-duty wreck fatalities, police who don’t wear seat belts insist there’s a reason By MOISES MENDOZA , HOUSTON CHRONICLE March 1, 2010 ...

Exclusively Sunday in the Houston Chronicle: There’s an open secret about seat belts at police departments across Texas and the country. Many officers killed in car crashes while on duty aren ...

For three months, the officers reported their pain level on a scale from 1 to 10. Then, they switched— the ones wearing belts were given vests, and vice versa — and continued reporting daily pain.

The death of Trinity County Sheriff Brent Lee, who was killed early Thanksgiving morning in a wreck while pursuing a vehicle, was a sobering reminder of the risks law enforcement takes each day for ...

The video features officers who have been involved in on-duty crashes and who say seat belts saved their lives. It emphasizes family connections that officers would miss if they were to die in a ...

The duty belt carried by law-enforcement officers is similar, ... Canton officers wear either plain leather or synthetic leather, plain-stitch belts, Lawver said.

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