Brandon, Manitoba, Canada Brandon Police Service, 4 Dec 2020

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From YouTube: Take a tour of a Brandon Police Service patrol vehicle

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Have you ever wondered what is inside a police vehicle? Want to know why police lights are red and blue? Watch today’s video to find out the answer to these questions and more! Cst Hamm and Cst Latreille take you on a tour of a Brandon Police Service patrol vehicle.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, constable hannah brandon police service. Here you requested it and.

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Here it is today we're going to do a tour of the random police service police vehicle. Follow me.

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All right, so uh this is what most of our patrol vehicles look like at the branham police service.

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And one of the first things you notice on the exterior, obviously is the paint job.

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In 2010, we began transitioning all of the patrol vehicles to black and whites for visibility.

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Reasons it's easily identifiable as a police car in the traditional uh black and white colors.

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Another uh feature that you'll notice along all of the patrol vehicles is a.

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Wheat sheath across this serves two purposes: uh one uh for visibility and.

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Two to signify our status as the wheat city, if somebody is watching us uh not.

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From brandon, you may not be aware of that: that's why we have the wheat on the vehicle.

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Moving to the front of the vehicle, you'll notice that most of the patrol vehicles have this big.

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Bumper on the front here it's called a push bumper and it's just another safety feature to.

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Help keep us safe inside the vehicle, there's also more lighting on the outside here for visibility.

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Purposes and to help clear intersections so another feature that you'll see on most of the.

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Patrol vehicles on the driver's side here is a spotlight and this is uh manipulated inside.

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Of the vehicle uh the driver can rotate this. It's the high power led spotlight to help us.

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Look for uh suspects or if we need to find house numbers or something like that in the dark.

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It's a very handy tool moving to the top of the vehicle. Obviously we have the overhead emergency.

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Lights very important: if you see red and blue lights approaching that you pull your vehicle.

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Over to the right hand, side of the road and stop because that vehicle uh will be trying to get to.

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An emergency and might be trying to help one of your loved ones. Some of you may be wondering why.

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Police lights are red and blue. One of the reasons being is that red lights are more visible during.

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The daytime and blue lights are more visible at night, so by using a combination of the red.

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And blue, uh regardless of the time of day, helps alert drivers. Another interesting feature that.

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You may not be aware of uh is the amber lights on the back, occasionally, you'll see a police car.

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With this uh amber directional arrow and whatever direction the the amber light is going, is the.

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Direction that the police officer would like your vehicle to go so they may be blocking a.

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Lane, maybe there's a vehicle broke down or maybe there's a vehicle pulled over, uh but.

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That's the idea with the amber directional arrow. If you see that follow the direction of the arrow.

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All right, it's uh it's a little cold out here and my camera's starting to freeze up. So let's move.

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Someplace a little bit warmer and I'll. Take you on a tour and show you the inside of the vehicle.

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We are at the board of works, we're going to do a walk through of the cruiser, and I have with me a.

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Special guest to help me with that everybody constable latre uh work in the traffic unit.

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And I've been uh with the brandon police service for almost 12 years. Here is the uh the police car.

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With all its glory, it's uh you know painted pretty nice. We won an award years back for.

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How nicely we decorated our police cars uh but uh yeah when I'm getting ready for work, I'll kind of.

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Do a quick walk around to make sure things are all top notch, nice and clean and ready to go.

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So uh I'll hop in here this is where we work for 12 hours a day. We uh we have our computer here.

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Our dispatching system, where we receive the calls for service, we can look at the details and do.

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Queries look at maps and do a lot of actually really cool things that allow us to do our job.

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Even better now that we have technology.

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Over here we have our radar unit. This is the counter. This is what would display target speeds.

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And the patrol vehicle speed and then over here on the left is the most important part of that.

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System is the actual radar head and that's what is uh doing all the fancy science to.

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To detect vehicles that are uh that, are you know speeding over here? We have our.

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Our controller for the uh the lighting system, so uh with a few quick uh switches.

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We can activate the lights or we can also activate the lights on the sirens.

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Right here, right up here, you'll notice, we have a in-car camera. Every time we activate the lights or.

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If we manually turn it on it'll record everything, we are doing and saying as long as our mic pack is.

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On and is on us it'll record everything we're also saying right behind me on the right you'll see we.

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Have two tools that allow us to get some dangerous work done uh here on the right, you'll see or on.

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Your left you'll see the carbine, which obviously is a lethal tool on the right of it. We have a.

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Less lethal shotgun is what we call it and again it's uh it's designed to deploy less lethal rounds.

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So both of them accomplishing a different task, but also both of them very important.

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To have in our toolbox and right beside me here we have an armrest, it looks pretty big and chunky, but.

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It's not just an armrest, it is also a printer. We use this printer to print out tickets whenever.

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We are, you know, catching violators and writing them. Tickets very handy tool right here, you'll see.

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A card reader and we'll use this to scan driver's licenses when we scan the information it goes.

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Directly to our tickets, which relieves us of some of the typing right above it, we have our.

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In-Car radio, which allows us to communicate with other members on the street and actually.

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Capability to communicate with other agencies, if we need to, let's uh have a look in the back seat.

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Hopefully, the only time you'll see the backseat of a police car we've got the windows tinted as.

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We open up back here, you'll notice, a little bit of a different configuration than you're used to.

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On the window, we have bars that are very strong, prevent.

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Prevent you know anybody who's in the back from kicking out the windows you'll see, there are no.

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Locks or handles on the inside of the door to keep the bad guys in next you'll see the.

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Interesting setup of the seat belt, but, as you can see, it makes it much easier for us to.

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Unclip and then clip the seat belt safely around the subject who may or may not be cooperating.

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So another feature you'll notice, that the seats are a molded plastic that you know are really.

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Made to contour somebody who has their arms behind their back with their handcuffs on so try to make.

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It as comfortable as possible next you'll, also see we have what we call the silent partner. It's.

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Our partner, that doesn't say anything, but they actually help us out quite a lot by keeping.

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Whatever's in the back in the back seat and keeping us safe while we're transporting people.

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That are in our custody. We've got the trunk area of the police car, where we keep a few other tools.

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uh Right up front, we have a case that has what we call breaching tools. These are tools that allow us.

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In an emergency to get access into a door a window, some quick way to get into where we want to go.

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Next you'll see very identifiable some pylons, each police car has about five or six of them.

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That we can use at a traffic accident right here. We've got a box that.

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Contains a lot of just supplies that we might need at any given.

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Collision scene or scene of a crime just to help us process any evidence that we have there.

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To the left, we see we have a fire extinguisher. All of our police cars have fire extinguishers for.

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Us to use in a hurry if we need to actually put out a quick fire, which has happened quite a lot.

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We have finally, what we call a stop. Stick. It's mounted on the back of the police car here.

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Or in the back of the trunk and again, the stop. Stick is used in a situation where.

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We're authorized to deploy it during a pursuit, and this will safely release the air from the.

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Tires of the vehicle that we're pursuing slowly deflate the tires and safely bring them to a stop.

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Some more very important tools of the trade is a basic first aid kit that we can get access.

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To the basic things that we might need to administer some first aid, and also we have.

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A fentanyl we just call it a fentanyl kit, it contains naloxone and safety equipment.

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If ever we need to get into an environment that might.

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Prove to be very dangerous, it might be contaminated with drugs, but specifically fentanyl.

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So uh that's the tour of the 2020 ford explorer.

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uh Police vehicle, uh thank you to constable latrey for giving that tour. I'm sure you guys are sick of.

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Seeing my face so it's nice to have somebody else uh jump on the video here. If you guys.

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Have any ideas for videos you'd like to see in the future leave a comment below.

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