Corrections Specialty Vehicles News & Articles

• How to buy prisoner transport vehicles and inserts (eBook)

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  Download this Corrections1 prisoner transport products buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• Eye in the sky: Using drones to boost correctional facility security

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  In the right hands, drones can be a powerful asset to any correctional facility, rather than a recurrent threat

• Mac's Lift Gate, Braun Northwest create safer way to transport inmates

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  The Mac's Prisoner Transport Lift allows officers to lift high risk offenders strapped into a restraint chair into the vehicle

• Telogis and Ford Motors announce officer safety solution with telematics

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  Telogis is able to gather vehicle data specific to the officers’ driving environment to keep officers on the road safer and more aware

• Ford deploys new prisoner transport vehicle

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  2015 Ford Transit Prisoner Transport vehicle can carry as many as 12 inmates in 3 separate compartments

• 5 new motorcycles hit the market

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  From electric to automobile hybrids, here are five new bikes unveiled this year

• Md. jail gets new van to save time and money

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  12-seat van is split into three passenger compartments, allowing for many uses

• Prepared for disaster: Mich. county acquires mine-resistant military truck

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  Sheriff William Federspiel says he hopes to never have to use it, since to do so implies "something awfully bad has happened"

• Va. van transporting 8 inmates slams into tree

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  Van's driver was transported to Mary Washington Hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries

• Inmates, COs injured in Okla. transport van crash

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  Van pulled into the path of a semi

• Specialty vehicles get rolling: T3 Motion and Segway X2

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  By Lindsey J. BertomenWhen agencies began adopting clean air vehicles for special applications, they quickly reaped the obvious benefits. But some obvious shortfalls also exist, and so when I teste...

• Familiarize yourself with other local squad cars

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  How many times have we backed up or assisted a sister agency? Almost every day, right? But how familiar are you with their patrol cars? The local PD ended a pursuit next to my house while I was hom...

• Preventing cruiser theft

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  I always make sure the parking brake is activated anytime my patrol car is in park and running. If by chance a suspect wanted to take the car, he'd first have to figure out how to take the brake of...

• Gang gun-hiding tactic

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  The trend in Miami, Florida for gangs are to hide their weapons in the front or rear bumpers of their vehicles. They also hind weapons under the hood in the engine area. They know that officers wil...

• Training for touch during emergency driving

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  While training new recruits about emergency/pursuit driving, park your patrol unit, blindfold the recruit and have him/her practice turning on various emergency lights and equipment by touch, witho...

• Using radar during foggy weather

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  When it is so foggy out you can't see 20 feet from your vehicle, turn your radar on. That way you will get advance warning a vehicle is approaching. Related tip

• More on convenience store safety

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  Adding to the convenience store awareness & safety tip submitted by Officer Larrick Winslow, Ferndale (WA) PD: My town is small enough that we only have two stores open inside the city limits. I've...

• Convenience store awareness

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  If you're an officer like me you probably visit the local convenience store throughout your shift to get a cup of coffee. Do you just park in front of the window and walk right in? If there is a ro...

• Using your radar to keep you safe

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  If you have stopped a violator or are directing traffic around an accident scene, consider leaving your radar unit on. Many drivers still rely on their radar detector to tell them when the police a...

• Seatbelt safety

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  When on patrol, I always wear my seatbelt. However, there are times when it is tactically necessary to take it off. I take it off whenever I am checking behind a business or going through an alley ...

• Driving straight into the Kill Zone on purpose? No problem!

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  By Chuck Remsberg, Police1 Senior Contributor 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 thing yo...

• LDV Vehicle Testimonials

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  https://go.praetoriandigital.com/?target=art_RAvClm0h0hN1kCUo&source=pct_ijjWySa2zXVzq04l Chandler Police DepartmentWhen the Chandler Police Department decided to have a Mobile Command Center built...

• How to...Buy a Mobile Command

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  Unit By Melanie Hamilton Build a vehicle that meets all of your agency’s needs, and it should serve your community for years to come. They may seem like big, expensive hunks of metal on wheels, but...