A Silly Question - why not turn off all the flashing lights?

[BobM]

Our newer light bars have a switch to dim them

[peterb]

It’s hard to hear, too, enough as is, without all the additional racket!

Also, department policy dictates emergency equipment usage. If I got hit, or hit someone else, and did/didn’t have my emergency equipment activated, it could cause problems for me.

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My take would be that good policy would dictate use of appropriate emergency equipment, and train so that members could make those decisions. But “everything, all the time” is an easy default.

We used to give oxygen for everything, too......

Light is a powerful tool. It should be used correctly.

I’ve had to do patient assessment/treatment/extrication by the light of strobes and flashlights, but more often with the scence lit with work lights and pole lights. The difference is....night and day.

[Coyotesfan97]

Our newer light bars have a switch to dim them

We have the switch but it doesn’t work/not connected

[jnc36rcpd]

Siren boxes that can be programmed to shut down the siren when the cruiser is put in park are the greatest invention in the history of law enforcement.

[Lon]

I'm happy when the sirens get turned off upon arriving on scene

All our new cars have a kill switch that kills the siren when you put the car in park. Smartest thing we've done to our cars in years.

[UNM1136]

I frequently leave them on to guide Fire/EMS to a difficult to get to location. If they can drive to my lights, they can find me.

pat

[rathos]

hehe RCW, your Washington cop is showing....

This right here as well as State RCW may come into play.

[Hambo]

Pardon my silly question but watching some horrible incident on TV, I see rows of police cars, trucks, etc. The action is elsewhere or may even be over. However, the rows of vehicles all are flashing their lights. Is there a reason? I would find it distracting.

Thanks.

The electricity to run them is free. If it was part of the departmental electric bill we would not have been allowed to use them.

[Tom Duffy]

Because it allows blinded fire truck drivers to back into other fire trucks at night when clearing a scene and provides entertainment to us volunteer EMT types.

[EJO]

hehe RCW, your Washington cop is showing....