Officer Safety Alerts     NOTE: This domain is not an official publication of the State of Utah, nor is the information here necessarily approved by the Administration or training department of the Utah State Highway Patrol.
    Safety alerts on this domain, UtahStateTrooper.com, are provided as an information source for officer safety, and are not to be considered approved procedure for officers of any department.
    Always follow your Department directives, SOP and controlling case-law judgements. If your SOP is faulty, defective, ambiguous, contradictory, duplicate standing laws or are unnecessarily restrictive for officer safety, then work with your chain of command or training personnel to improve them. Remember, a squad or division "policy" can deep-six you in civil court or administrative review, where higher laws may well have upheld your logical actions taken in the heat of the night.
    Remember; "If your department has problems, and you're not helping to solve them, then you may be part of the problem!"
    Now, read on, . . .and BE SAFE!!!
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