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When you make a traffic stop and decide a citation is warranted, do not get emotionally involved with the ticket.  Conduct your investigation of the incident.  Memorialize the facts on the ticket and in your comments on the back of the ticket.  Then present the ticket for a signature to the motorist. 

Explain the reason for the ticket and have them sign it.  If you can, sell them the ticket, let them know of any other violations they committed that you did not write them up for, so they know you are not being unreasonably harsh.

Tell the motorist how to pay the ticket, if they have to go to court, tell them were the court is located.  Let them know they can fight the ticket, but don't become confrontational and tell them to "Tell it to the judge."  Keep your conversations professional and focused on the violation.  The comments on the back need to be enough for you to remember the incident for the next couple years; that's what the SGT Says.