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Law enforcement officers face increasingly dangerous conditions on our roadways.

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Statistics from the National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Fund

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show that law enforcement officers face a higher risk

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of death and injury traveling to the scene of an incident

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than at the actual scene itself.

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In fact, vehicle-related collisions are the leading
cause of death for law enforcement officers.

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Unfortunately, more officers were losing their lives behind the wheel of

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a automobile than any other area of law enforcement.

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And so, we knew that we had to figure out a way to change things.

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We had to figure out a new approach.

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The Department of Homeland Security’s
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

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and the Science and Technology Directorate’s
National Urban Security Technology Laboratory,

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recently partnered together to implement and validate a new driver training program

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that has been created for law enforcement officers.

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During the duration of the training, NUSTL collected data

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and will later conduct analysis to determine the effectiveness of this program.

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This is the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

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We are the entity that trains our partners,

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whether it's criminal investigators, uniformed patrol officers,

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or our land management personnel.

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The training program that we just initiated is
Law Enforcement Operations Driving Skills,

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LEODS for short.

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LEODS is basically a concept where we take

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patrol aspects of law enforcement driving,

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we put them into this training program

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so we're better preparing our officers
whenever they go out into the field environment.

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We teach them vehicle handling skills, skid control and recovery

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collision avoidance, situational awareness, and emergency vehicle operations.

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We're here to do driver training.

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Non-emergency training was when we were just learning the corners of the car,

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trying to park it knowing where we are and making sure we're not hitting anything.

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The emergency training, teaches us stopping at intersections

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and clearing them before we proceed

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and being aware of other vehicles on the road
while driving and responding to incidents.

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NUSTL has been attending all the classes and recording any observations

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any concepts that are easy to teach or easy to learn, anything that's more difficult

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By collecting and analyzing all the data

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we can also find anything wrong with the current one

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and offer suggestions for future iterations of the course.

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A lot of people don't get the chance to do this in the civilian world

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so it's a great opportunity to learn some valuable skills

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and learn how to be a better driver in general.