Category: safety uniform

Police in safety vest stopped over seven hundred drivers

Last year, police officers on the roads stopped 708 drivers who were under the influence of addictive substances, of which 393 had a drink of alcohol, and 99 motorists exceeded one per mile, thus committing a criminal offense under the influence of addictive substance. Another 216 drivers had a drug-positive test.

 

Police officers in safety vest stopped two drunken drivers over the weekend. On Saturday, January 6, a 54-year-old man passed through Nipomo during the night. In his breath, the patrol measured 0.65 pro miles of alcohol. The next day, a 36-year-old cyclist was riding a bicycle ride in Remittal. The instrument display showed a 1.6-pound test on the breath test. Both drivers were banned from the next ride and now they will be mistaken for the offense.

 

How does road control actually work? Every driver of a motor vehicle is required to have the prescribed documents, including a valid driving license, a small technical passport from the car, a document proving motor third party liability insurance, a certificate of professional competence, a medical certificate (persons over 65 years of age). For roadside inspections, the patrol verifies the vehicle’s technical condition and may check required equipment, including: warning triangle, reflective vest, replacement electric fuses, spare bulbs, jack, wheel nut, spare wheel or tire repair kit.

 

Police in safety uniforms also conduct a breath test to detect alcohol. If the result is positive, it is repeated after five minutes to ensure the objectivity of the measurement. If a value of more than 0.24 per mile or the presence of drugs in the saliva of a driver is detected, a driving license detention procedure is initiated. The motorist is advised during the inspection that if he refuses to undergo an examination of influencing alcohol or other addictive substance, he commit an offense for which he is liable to a fine of CZK 25,000 to 50,000 and a ban on activity for up to two years.

 

Do you know when and how can a police stop you

Officers wanting to keep us on the road must follow strictly defined rules. However, there are also a few rules that we must remember about. The basic question is whether the police officer who wants to stop us is safety uniformed or not. In conditions of good visibility, he can order us to stop using a vehicle stopper (the so-called “lollipop”), or with a hand. If visibility is limited, it must be a lollipop or a characteristic flashlight with red light.

 

All instructions should be issued well in advance and in a way that allows the driver to notice them and respond to them. The procedure is similar in the case of a non-uniformed officer, but he can only stop us in the built-up area. However, this does not change the fact that an attempt to stop by someone without a uniform can arouse suspicion in us. If they are justified (we have the right to believe that it may be someone impersonating a police officer), we can ignore his orders, but we should immediately go to the nearest police station in order to clarify the situation.

 

Motorized patrol looks a little different – officers in reflective vest can then use sound devices (and give us commands through external speakers), light or signaling (similarly air patrol). Usually unmarked cars have behind the rear window placed strip allowing to display subtitles – in this way, police officers can give us the command to follow them (with the “follow me” command) to the place chosen by them, where stopping will be safe.

 

It is worth adding that all orders should be issued well in advance and in a way that allows the driver to notice them and react to them. Therefore, the police officer at the last moment jumps out of the roadside greenery and runs on the road in unacceptable situations. For obvious reasons, this behavior can lead to a dangerous situation on the road. The officer must give us time to notice him and stop safely at the place indicated by him. It can be designated with the appropriate sign with the inscription “stop, roadside inspection.” Such a place cannot threaten the safety of traffic and should not be subject to a ban on stopping. However, if necessary, the police officer may order us to stop in a prohibited place, but should activate the blue flashing light before starting the inspection.

 

When we stop, we should stay in the car with our hands on the steering wheel and wait for the officer to come to us (turn off the engine, turn on the emergency lights, and above all get off, only on a clear command). He should present himself and give the reason for the detention (it is unacceptable to start the control with questions or to guess what the reason is). The police officer can check our documents and the vehicle, as well as check the driver’s sobriety. However, a search of a car is possible only if the officer has reasons for it (for example, he received a report about a committed crime and a command to revise stopped vehicles).

 

Let us also remember that when a police officer in yellow vest wants to punish us with a fine, we can refuse to accept him (the case will go to court). On the other hand, if the officer behaves in a way that raises our doubts, we can record all control (when a police officer performs his duties, he is a public figure, and we do not violate his privacy) and file a complaint at the police station.

The security inspectors of the city armed with safety vest

“The attack on the Champs has shown that every uniformed agent is a target,” exclaims Nathalie Kosciusko, president of the LR group at the Paris Council. Faced with this observation, his political party wants to change the armament and safety uniform of the security inspectors of the city of Paris (ISVP), and will file a wish in this direction to the Paris Council which begins this Tuesday.

 

“Trained and equipped with lethal weaponry”

On April 21, a hundred security inspectors, on strike, had gathered in front of City Hall to demand a “development of their weapons.” At the call of the CFTC and the UCP (Union of Paris executives), this movement was intended to claim “at least initially a non-lethal weapons” for the more than 1,000 municipal officers tasked with combating the “incivilities” of everyday life. Currently they are equipped with a Tonka and a tear gas bomb “when terrorists are equipped with a weapon of war,” note Republicans.

 

Favorable for several years to an “armed municipal police”, NKM recovers from the security file and asks that the security inspectors can “without distinction wear a tactical bulletproof safety jacket“, that “the totality of the ISVP profits from a non-lethal armament, defensive bullet launcher (LBD) or electric impulse pistol “. Finally, the LR Group wishes that the “voluntary ISVPs be trained and equipped with lethal weapons”. Some political parties remain opposed to this development.

 

“It would be a disturbing rise in rank,” reacts David Billiard, co-chair of the Ecology Group of Paris (GEP). On the side of the municipal executive, we do not comment this wish but we recall the work in progress on the issue.

 

“We are not closed”

“We are not closed to the question of strengthening the armament to improve the mission of the agents”, one recalls to the city hall. After the strike movement of the agents, a delegation of agents was received at the office of the mayor. An administrator has been commissioned to study rapidly the conditions of any weapon allocation, lethal or non-lethal.

 

“We will work with the agents to assess the needs of their missions. We want them to do their job in the best conditions, “AFP Colombes Brussels, security assistant to the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, told AFP, recalling that the agents had already been equipped with bullet-proof safety vest.