Posted: 6/19/2009 7:04:32 AM EDT
| No nefarious purposes here, just genuinely curious. I live near the Florida/Georgia border so see a lot of DOT and "State Officer - Department of Agriculture" cars on I-95. Other than the labels on the sides of the cars, they look almost identical to a regular police car (same model, light bars on the top, etc). Questions: Are these guys authorized to make traffic stops on non-commercial vehicles for things like speeding? Are they even considered LEOs? |
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No nefarious purposes here, just genuinely curious. I live near the Florida/Georgia border so see a lot of DOT and "State Officer - Department of Agriculture" cars on I-95. Other than the labels on the sides of the cars, they look almost identical to a regular police car (same model, light bars on the top, etc). Questions: Are these guys authorized to make traffic stops on non-commercial vehicles for things like speeding? Are they even considered LEOs? not a leo but the short answer is yes. |
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No nefarious purposes here, just genuinely curious. I live near the Florida/Georgia border so see a lot of DOT and "State Officer - Department of Agriculture" cars on I-95. Other than the labels on the sides of the cars, they look almost identical to a regular police car (same model, light bars on the top, etc). Questions: Are these guys authorized to make traffic stops on non-commercial vehicles for things like speeding? Are they even considered LEOs? not a leo but the short answer is yes. Thanks, GeorgiaBII, and everone else. Like I said, no nefarious purposes. I'm not really a "speeder", but I'll keep up with the traffic flow. Just one of those out-of-the-blue questions that pop into my head during my long commutes. |
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Most of them could probably somehow "justify" a stop.
This reminds me of an incident we had back when I lived in AL where a game warden stopped an individual for driving irratically. The GW ended up shooting and killing the guy because he thought the suspect was reaching for a gun...the suspect was unarmed. |
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No nefarious purposes here, just genuinely curious. I live near the Florida/Georgia border so see a lot of DOT and "State Officer - Department of Agriculture" cars on I-95. Other than the labels on the sides of the cars, they look almost identical to a regular police car (same model, light bars on the top, etc). Questions: Are these guys authorized to make traffic stops on non-commercial vehicles for things like speeding? Are they even considered LEOs? not a leo but the short answer is yes. Thanks, GeorgiaBII, and everone else. Like I said, no nefarious purposes. I'm not really a "speeder", but I'll keep up with the traffic flow. Just one of those out-of-the-blue questions that pop into my head during my long commutes. The chance of an aggie officer doing that are miniscule. DOT guys are more likely to. I know a bunch of them in Ga and they have said you need to do something really stupid to make it worth the bother. |