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CONTENTS SPRING 2013 VOLUME 84 | NUMBER 1 ®


TRAINING SCHEDULES


2010 INSTRUCTOR AND OPERATOR


EDITOR IN CHIEF MISTY OELHAFEN, Harley-Davidson Motor Company Police & Fleet Sales, Milwaukee, WI


DESIGNER QUAD/GRAPHICS CREATIVE SOLUTIONS


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FEATURES 18 Inaugural Parade


20 Green Bay Police Department Motorcycle Unit


22 Seattle Police Department’s Motorcycle Drill Team


24 Osceola County, FL Sheriff’s Offi ce Motor Unit


DEPARTMENTS 4 FROM THE EDITOR


5 POLICE SKILLS COMPETITION 6 INTERNATIONAL


32 2013 POLICE OPERATOR AND INSTRUCTOR TRAINING


36 GALLERY ARTICLES


9 2 Countries, 12 States, 1 Cause


10 The American Police Motorcycle Museum


11 World Wide Association of Motor Offi cers


12 Courageous Conversations


14 News From Concerns of Police Survivors


15 A Perfect Partnership


16 Ballistics Testing for the Motorcycle Offi cer


30 Harley-Davidson® & Fleet Sales Reps


Police


33 Quaker Steak & Lube Raising Awareness for Safe Harbor


34 Cobb County Motorcade


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www.Harley-Davidson.com (click “Motorcycles,” then “Police Motorcycles”).


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HARLEY-DAVIDSON TO CELEBRATE 110TH


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Motor Co., Police & Fleet Sales. No part of The Motor Offi cer™


RIDE HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLES may be reproduced for any purpose in entirety


or in part without the express written consent of Harley-Davidson Motor Co. All photos submitted must be high-quality prints or digital fi les. To ensure quality, please provide at least 300 dpi resolution, 1200x1800 pixels or 1600x2400 (at least 4" x 6" in size) and a digital fi le size of at least 500k. To submit digital photos, please write them to a CD and mail. No scans please. All submissions become the property of Harley-Davidson Motor Co. and will not be returned.


Questions, comments, subscriptions, photos or news items may be submitted to the following address: Misty Oelhafen c/o Harley-Davidson Motor Company Police & Fleet Sales P.O. Box 653 – 3700 W. Juneau Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53201 E-mail: misty.oelhafen@harley-davidson.com


Certain equipment or accessories appearing in The Motor Offi cer™


, and of possible interest to our


readers, are not manufactured by Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Therefore, Harley-Davidson Motor Co. makes no warranty or recommendations, express or implied, with regard to such items. Law enforcement training exercises or situations described herein for use of traffi c offi cers should only be attempted by trained professionals. Harley-Davidson, Harley, H-D, the Bar & Shield, Road King, Electra Glide, and Sportster are among the trademarks of H-D U.S.A., LLC.


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Dealer. To fi nd yours, call


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Volume 84 Number 1 Spring 2013


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