Traffic Stop

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Sometimes you do a traffic stop and the other driver does not stop where you told dispatch you were doing the stop.  If you can, update dispatch on the new location.  That's not always practical.  Sometimes you need to get out of the patrol car right away.  You can wait outside your patrol car and use your hand held radio to call in the new location.

What happens if you don't know for sure where you are?  There are several options at that point.  At first you should give dispatch as best of a description as you can about your location.  Two blocks north of 1st street.  Two blocks west of Main Street.  Three blocks north of the Jack in the Box.

Leave your overhead lights on so your vehicle is easier to see.  Turn your spotlight straight up so that it can be seen from a distance.  If you are really unsure about your location, you can ask the other drive to turn around and go back to a main street, or you could even just let them go.  Another violator will come along; that's what the SGT Says.