This is done in one of two ways. Within a twelve month period, an Officer must detect, stop and capture six different stolen vehicles and their respective drivers. Each time an Officer reaches this level of achievement, they are given another award. This pin has a different color combination than the standard 10851 pin. This pin has a slightly different design than the other pins.
Some Officers can go an entire career without earning a pin.
A sharp eye, and an inquiring nature can locate stolen vehicles wherever they might be. Traffic comes in many forms and permutations. When the volume of vehicles gets to be greater than the roadway can handle, a traffic jam develops. Traffic Control can take the form of Traffic Breaks, Round Robins, closing a lane with cones or flares, or positioning an Officer in a lane to direct traffic. Traffic Breaks, and Round Robins help to slow down freeway traffic, thus lessening the chance of a crash.