DETROIT POLICE OFFICER DIES, NEEDED TRAFFIC SAFETY VEST

Hello

Was DPD Officer Charles Armour - wearing a reflective traffic safety vest?????

Officer Armour was being treated from what at the time was said to be non-life threatening injuries. He sustained the injuries after a wrong way driver hit him last week in Greektown as he directed traffic.....WXYZ TV

I was hit by a driver - in full uniform, behind a double line of road flares, with my all of my oscillating, alley lights and spot light on...I sustained serious injuries - officer thought I was dead at the scene...I have tried to get DPD to give all officers - reflective traffic safety vests since then - 1991....and traffic wands..They have not provided all officers with vests...A reflective traffic safety vest may not have saved PO Armour, in this case, but all uniformed Detroit Police Officers should have the vests, safety should be the first concern - especially at accidents scenes or directing traffic. (Belle Isle officers most definetly need vests).

I dont believe that PO Armour had a vest - available to him...DLM

David:

Please, be informed before you go off and write something that's not factual. ANSI 207, PublIc Safety Vests. There are exceptions to the rule. "Exceptions for Emergency Responders" It reads Due to "comments from State and local police, national police organizations, and the State DOT's" the original publishment in the federal register includes exceptions for law enforcement officers working in potentially adversarial or confrontational roles. This includes traffic stops and searches. Officers are still required under 23 CFR634 to wear highl-visibility clothing during other times, such as "directing traffic, investigating crashes, and hadling lane closures, obstructed roadways and disasters within the right-of-way of a Federal-aid highway." The language for this exception can be found in the second column of page 67797 of the publication in the Federal Register Vol.71, No. 226. Our Officers have vests that do traffic or traffic enforcement and or traffic accident investigations. Vests are available on request.

Bernie.

PO Armour, is a Detroit Hero, he was doing a dangerous job, in a dangerous City - He served the public and he deserves and will get a Heroes funueral...May God Bless him and his family...DLM