Highway Safety Initiatives: Trunk Packing: A Matter of Officer Survival

Those officers assigned to fleet cruisers often are frustrated, to say the least, when they pop their cruisers’ trunks at crash scenes to find no road flares. More often than not, they see, untethered, such motley items as crowbars, fire extinguishers, first-aid kits, jacks, loose ammunition, measuring devices, shovels, shotguns, and tire irons. They may or may not complain to their supervisors, who may or may not address the issue. However, regardless of the supervisors’ responses, this situation undoubtedly will recur.