Officer Safety First

Destination Zero is designed to help law enforcement agencies improve the health and safety of their officers. Here, you can research other successful or promising officer safety and wellness programs, check out the resources they are using, and get help identifying what you’ll need to begin your own risk management initiatives.

It’s been proven that wearing a hi-vis vest on scene can help keep you from becoming a struck-by statistic. Not bad for some bits of ugly, yellow, reflective cloth.

LEO Near Miss is where law enforcement officers can anonymously share their personal near miss and the lessons they learned from it, which can help everyone do their job safer. It also strengthens the database used to identify patterns that lead to better safety and security practices for officers everywhere.

Sure, it’s OK to not wear your seatbelt so you can exit your vehicle faster; just ask one of the 38% of officers killed in auto crashes who weren’t wearing theirs.

The Emergency Responder Safety Institute created the Responder Safety Learning Network. It’s your connection to free responder safety training that includes a certificate equivalency of completing the National Traffic Incident Management Responder Training Program. You’ll also find information and resources to keep you up to date on national rules, regulations and trends related to safe roadway incident operations.

Fostering a culture of safety on the roads is a key aspect of the work the Federal Highway Administration Office of Safety does. This includes highway safety awareness and education programs that make a difference in protecting officers. You can also learn how adding incident clearance and roadway clearance times along with secondary crash information to your incident reports can help drastically improve data-driven safety analysis.

Our Mission is to influence law enforcement culture by providing innovative training and awareness, through presentations social media, and webinars on identifying the leading causes and current trends in preventable line of duty deaths and injuries.

OK, a webinar won’t keep you safe in the same manner, say, wearing your seat belt would, but they are great for learning more ways to keep you and your fellow officers from being hurt or killed at a traffic scene.

Laser Technology, Inc. (LTI) helped establish the Officer Safety First program as part of a commitment to support those who have dedicated their lives to helping keep our roads and highways safe. The idea behind the program and the site is to give law enforcement officers and their departments a single place to go to connect with safety information they can actually use. We sort through the huge collection of documents, reports and articles that are out there and pass along only those that are easy to apply or that have the greatest potential to save officers’ lives.