Few questions...

[VandersysCHP]

Hi everyone. I have been thinking of some questions and have found a few that I am not sure the answer of. Any help would be appreciated.

1) Hypothetically, if you graduate from the Academy, and are assigned on patrol duty in the standard duty car, do you get to choose which version(s)? I have noticed some CHP vehicles with sirens on top and some in the back windows. Pretty minor question, but I always thought the sirens mounted on the top of the car looked better.

2) How fast (MPH) can the Crown Victorias go if you pushed it all the way?

3) It is after your shift, and you are tired. Can you drive your police vehicle to your home and park it? Or must you park it in the CHP office parking lot, and get into your civilian vehicle? (This one is kind of interesting to me, I think it would be nice to drive it to your house if you wanted.)

4) How does getting gasoline work? Do you just have a credit card the CHP give you, and it is on them? (They pay?)

5) Can you carry more than your duty firearm in your car? (Pretty pointless I know) For example, can you have your standard duty firearm with another backup pistol? (Besides your AR15 of course)


Sorry, it is kind of long. :neutral:

Thanks for everyones insight.

-V

[G-Man]

Hi everyone. I have been thinking of some questions and have found a few that I am not sure the answer of. Any help would be appreciated.

1) Hypothetically, if you graduate from the Academy, and are assigned on patrol duty in the standard duty car, do you get to choose which version(s)? I have noticed some CHP vehicles with sirens on top and some in the back windows. Pretty minor question, but I always thought the sirens mounted on the top of the car looked better.

2) How fast (MPH) can the Crown Victorias go if you pushed it all the way?

3) It is after your shift, and you are tired. Can you drive your police vehicle to your home and park it? Or must you park it in the CHP office parking lot, and get into your civilian vehicle? (This one is kind of interesting to me, I think it would be nice to drive it to your house if you wanted.)

4) How does getting gasoline work? Do you just have a credit card the CHP give you, and it is on them? (They pay?)

5) Can you carry more than your duty firearm in your car? (Pretty pointless I know) For example, can you have your standard duty firearm with another backup pistol? (Besides your AR15 of course)


Sorry, it is kind of long. :neutral:

Thanks for everyones insight.

-V

1. The siren speaker is mounted to the front pushbumper, if you mean the lightbar... it all depends on where you work.

2. Really fast, the supercharger and cold air intake gets those suckers up there pretty quick.

3. It depends on the office. Personally, I turn on the cloaking device and sit in the local park and ride until my next shift.

4. Mere gasoline won't create the 1.21 jigowatts of power we need to run down bad guys.

5. Sure, I trunk mount my bazooka personally. It becomes cumbersome carrying it around in an ankle holster.

[VandersysCHP]

1. The siren speaker is mounted to the front pushbumper, if you mean the lightbar... it all depends on where you work.

2. Really fast, the supercharger and cold air intake gets those suckers up there pretty quick.

3. It depends on the office. Personally, I turn on the cloaking device and sit in the local park and ride until my next shift.

4. Mere gasoline won't create the 1.21 jigowatts of power we need to run down bad guys.

5. Sure, I trunk mount my bazooka personally. It becomes cumbersome carrying it around in an ankle holster.

1) Yeah, I mean lightbar, sorry. :surprised:
2) Thanks.
3) :think:
4) :cool:
5) :shock:

[ChippieWife]

Hi everyone. I have been thinking of some questions and have found a few that I am not sure the answer of. Any help would be appreciated.

1) Hypothetically, if you graduate from the Academy, and are assigned on patrol duty in the standard duty car, do you get to choose which version(s)? I have noticed some CHP vehicles with sirens on top and some in the back windows. Pretty minor question, but I always thought the sirens mounted on the top of the car looked better.

2) How fast (MPH) can the Crown Victorias go if you pushed it all the way?

3) It is after your shift, and you are tired. Can you drive your police vehicle to your home and park it? Or must you park it in the CHP office parking lot, and get into your civilian vehicle? (This one is kind of interesting to me, I think it would be nice to drive it to your house if you wanted.)

4) How does getting gasoline work? Do you just have a credit card the CHP give you, and it is on them? (They pay?)

5) Can you carry more than your duty firearm in your car? (Pretty pointless I know) For example, can you have your standard duty firearm with another backup pistol? (Besides your AR15 of course)


Sorry, it is kind of long. :neutral:

Thanks for everyones insight.

-V

I can help with a couple of your questions.. :)

3. It depends. At this office, the Commerical officers take their vehicles home. On a couple occasions, my husband's sergeant has let him bring his unit home. Usually it was because he was already doing his debreifing and he got called out again, and our house is closer than the office. There are only 16 officers here, so they're pretty laid-back. When we were in LA, he never brought it back to the apartment. Most of the time, though, you're to debrief and drive your personal vehicle home. With all those goonies out there, I'm not sure you'd want everyone driving by to see a patrol vehicle outside... =/

4. At my husband's current office, and at his break-in office, each unit has its own credit card assigned to it for gas.


Hope that helps.....

[snowdog]

1) If you are the new guy/gal, you'll get whatever car is available which is most likely the one with the most miles. If you are lucky, only the heater works in the summer and only the a/c works in the winter. There are two versions of patrol cars: black and white or white and black, take your choice and don't complain.
2) 65 of course. That's the speed limit.
3) Sure, take it home and be sure to stop at the local In-N-Out to pick up dinner for the family. Or, meet your date at Denny's if you are single. Or both if you plan on promoting:razz: (OOps, did my thoughts slip out of my mind again? :tape:)
4) You gas up using the pumps at the office. Don't forget to have a 5 gallon can in the back of your personal truck so you can get some for the wife's car.
5) Of course we all carry a back-up gun. We want something that we know is going to work.
VandersysCHP, you made this way too easy and tempting. I just couldn't help myself.

[Mac]

Hi everyone. I have been thinking of some questions and have found a few that I am not sure the answer of. Any help would be appreciated.

1) Hypothetically, if you graduate from the Academy, and are assigned on patrol duty in the standard duty car, do you get to choose which version(s)? I have noticed some CHP vehicles with sirens on top and some in the back windows. Pretty minor question, but I always thought the sirens mounted on the top of the car looked better.
It depends on the office. Some have more slicktops (lights on the rear deck and a forward red spotlamp), while others have more light bars. Some have NONE of one or the other. If the office you work in has assigned cars, you drive what you get assigned until you have enough seniority to pick your car. If the office uses "pool cars", it's catch-as-catch-can.

3) It is after your shift, and you are tired. Can you drive your police vehicle to your home and park it? Or must you park it in the CHP office parking lot, and get into your civilian vehicle? (This one is kind of interesting to me, I think it would be nice to drive it to your house if you wanted.)
There are very few positions that allow you to take your car home - and most of them involve being on-call in some manner (resident post, investigator, etc.). In most offices, you park your car at the office and drive your civilian vehicle back & forth from home. There may be rare exceptions for unusual circumstances, but those are on a case-by-case basis.

4) How does getting gasoline work? Do you just have a credit card the CHP give you, and it is on them? (They pay?)
Many offices have their own fuel pumps. In other places, you fuel at public gas stations. Either way, the state pays to fuel patrol vehicles.

5) Can you carry more than your duty firearm in your car? (Pretty pointless I know) For example, can you have your standard duty firearm with another backup pistol? (Besides your AR15 of course)
This falls into the realm of both policy and tactical/officer safety issues, and won't be discussed publicly.

[David]

2. Really fast, the supercharger and cold air intake gets those suckers up there pretty quick. As the owner of a retired CHP 2000 Ford CVPI and very active member of crownvic.net, I just about fell off my chair! :lol:

5. Sure, I trunk mount my bazooka personally. It becomes cumbersome carrying it around in an ankle holster. Oh, for crying out loud. Why don't you just mount a M203 40mm grenade launcher on the forend of your AR-15? I'm sure it would be much more handy. :wink:

[x MAIT]

The best units are always parked in the overflow lot. The cloaking devices are left on so only senior officers who have been trained how to use it can operate these vehicles.

Some areas have assigned car programs. I ran the program for both ELA and SFS when I worked at those offices. The most senior officers had vehicles assigned to them and could drive the same car every day. The junior officers were assigned the vehicles with the highest mileage so that the vehicles could be run-out sooner.

1. Since you are the junior officer, you will be using whatever vehicle your FTO picks until you are on your own. Then you get what's left.

2. Obviously they can go as fast as you can push.

3. The vehicles are used on every shift, so you can't take one home. Once you get on motors, you can.:cool:

4. You have a state credit card, and most of the CHP stations have their own gas pumps.

5. This is an officer safety question and should not be addressed here. I will tell you that I did carry a backup phaser when I worked ELA.

[bcjack]

Many offices have their own fuel pumps. In other places, you fuel at public gas stations. Either way, the state pays to fuel patrol vehicles.

That's a load off my mind...I thought the Officer's all had to pay for their own gas!!!!!!!!:doh:

[Mac]

That's a load off my mind...I thought the Officer's all had to pay for their own gas!!!!!!!!:doh:
You mean they haven't started that yet with you guys, Chief? You know, budget crunch and all..... :think:




...gas prices being what they are these days, there'd be a heckuva lot less patrolling going on if we sprung for our own fuel!

[dw]

That's a load off my mind...I thought the Officer's all had to pay for their own gas!!!!!!!!:doh:It would be funnier if it wasn't so true... I remember when the budget crisis was going full-bore a few years ago reading something that came down from the Governor to all State employees. On it was a list of how to conserve energy and among the suggestions/requirements was to refrain from idling vehicles and drive at 55/65 for maximum mileage. "Sorry Sarge, I tried to write tickets today but Arnold said I had to keep it to 65 and I couldn't catch anyone." :cool:

[bcjack]

It would be funnier if it wasn't so true... I remember when the budget crisis was going full-bore a few years ago reading something that came down from the Governor to all State employees. On it was a list of how to conserve energy and among the suggestions/requirements was to refrain from idling vehicles and drive at 55/65 for maximum mileage. "Sorry Sarge, I tried to write tickets today but Arnold said I had to keep it to 65 and I couldn't catch anyone." :cool:

I remember that directive. It seems like a lot of chippies parked their cars along side of the road and worked speed that way and there weren't many of them moving back then.

[bcjack]

You mean they haven't started that yet with you guys, Chief? You know, budget crunch and all..... :think:


It has hit me personally. I was assigned a 2003 Ford F-250, crew cab 4X4 until someone discovered that I travel more than anyone else in our department (Disaster planning meetings, Fire Marshal meetings, Public Information Officer meetings...) and so I got moved into a 2007 Ford RANGER extended cab 4X2. I tried to cram all of the stuff from my F-250 into the RANGER...What a JOKE! 90% of my stuff is now in a storage room and I just hope I don't need it, 'cause I don't carry it anymore.:hitwall:

I did go from 7 mpg in the city and 13 mpg on the road to 10 mpg in town and 20+ mpg on the road. Also it is a helluva' lot easier to park!!!:badgrin:

[dw]

I remember that directive. It seems like a lot of chippies parked their cars along side of the road and worked speed that way and there weren't many of them moving back then.:lol:

[chp36]

It would be funnier if it wasn't so true... I remember when the budget crisis was going full-bore a few years ago reading something that came down from the Governor to all State employees. On it was a list of how to conserve energy and among the suggestions/requirements was to refrain from idling vehicles and drive at 55/65 for maximum mileage. "Sorry Sarge, I tried to write tickets today but Arnold said I had to keep it to 65 and I couldn't catch anyone." :cool:

You left out the part were we were told not to use the a/c in the middle of the summer. I am sure that was on received 100% cooperation. :rolleyes:

[futurechp]

3. It depends. At this office, the Commerical officers take their vehicles home. On a couple occasions, my husband's sergeant has let him bring his unit home. Usually it was because he was already doing his debreifing and he got called out again, and our house is closer than the office. There are only 16 officers here, so they're pretty laid-back. When we were in LA, he never brought it back to the apartment. Most of the time, though, you're to debrief and drive your personal vehicle home. With all those goonies out there, I'm not sure you'd want everyone driving by to see a patrol vehicle outside... =/

I understand about the not being sure if you'd want everyone driving by to see the patrol vehicle, but my neighbor was a chp officer who had the privilege to bring the vehicle home. I'll tell you what, that vehicle sure scarred some crime away from our neighborhood :cool:

[ChippieWife]

I understand about the not being sure if you'd want everyone driving by to see the patrol vehicle, but my neighbor was a chp officer who had the privilege to bring the vehicle home. I'll tell you what, that vehicle sure scarred some crime away from our neighborhood :cool:


We live in ana area that alot of LEO's live in. Lotsa Sherriff and police vehicles outside. When hubby's brought home his PV, it's garaged :) Just in case.

[bcjack]

You left out the part were we were told not to use the a/c in the middle of the summer. I am sure that was on received 100% cooperation. :rolleyes:

Wouldn't you just use 4/80 air conditioning in that case????

[chp36]

Wouldn't you just use 4/80 air conditioning in that case????

100 degree air at 80 is still 100 degree air blowing on a hot wool uniform. :cry:

[Mac]

100 degree air at 80 is still 100 degree air blowing on a hot wool uniform. :cry:
'Zackly. Not much relief there, especially when it's 100 degrees and 100 percent humidity!