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SPEEDCHECK RADAR SPEED SIGNS INCREASE WORK ZONE SAFETY

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February 2, 2010

SPEEDCHECK RADAR SPEED SIGNS INCREASE WORK ZONE SAFETY

Speed Displays Prove Highly Effective At Slowing Traffic

During Road Projects That Put Workers And Drivers At Risk

BEAVERTON, OR – February 1, 2010 – The city of Medford, Oregon has taken a huge step toward improving the safety of their workers. Given the dangers that speeding traffic often imposes on their work crews, the city’s public works department tried using a speedcheck radar speed sign during a particularly hazardous street repair project. The positive impact that the speed display had on slowing drivers and increasing worker safety was so dramatic that the city now regularly uses speedcheck radar speed signs to increase work zone safety whenever traffic speeds are an issue.

Tad Blanton, the field operations supervisor for Medford’s Public Works first considered employing radar speed signs after attending a demonstration given by Information Display Company, a leading manufacturer of traffic display technologies. IDC then loaned Blanton a portable display for a thirty-day trial period.

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2011 Brings a New Crown Victoria

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January 24, 2010

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Ford to Replace Crown Victoria in 2011

Ford Motor Company announced today it will produce an all-new purpose-built Police

Interceptor specially designed and engineered to replace the Ford Crown Victoria law

enforcement vehicle lineup in 2011. The new Ford Police Interceptor is being developed in conjunction with Ford’s Police Advisory Board, which provided input during the past 14 months on key vehicle attributes, such as safety, performance, durability, driver convenience and comfort.

The new Police Interceptor will be offered without interruption when production of the Ford

Crown Victoria ends in late 2011. “We have heard the repeated requests from the law enforcement community to continue uninterrupted support of the law enforcement community,” said Mark Fields, Ford’s president of The Americas. “Ford is answering the call with the new Police Interceptor – engineered and built in America.” Ford – which currently controls approximately 75 percent of the police pursuit vehicle business in the U.S. – has invested significantly in designing the purpose-built new police and municipal vehicles to meet the needs of these crucial customers.

The new Police Interceptor is designed to provide municipalities with reduced ownership costs through improved fuel efficiency, quality and the kind of durability police departments nationwide have come

to expect from Ford. “Ford’s commitment to the law enforcement community produced the Crown Victoria, the benchmark police vehicle,” said Lt. Brian Moran, fleet manager, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and a member of Ford’s Police Advisory Board. “This commitment has continued, and Ford has been working closely with the Police Advisory Board on developing the new Police Interceptor. I

am confident that the next-generation Ford police vehicle will meet the future needs of the law enforcement community and will set the new standard.” Ford plans to reveal the new model and provide full vehicle specifications in the first quarter of 2010 – in time for law enforcement agencies, police equipment manufacturers and upfitters to develop a transition plan from the Crown Victoria to the new product.

Each year, Ford sells approximately 45,000 police vehicles, making the Blue Oval the nation’s largest provider of police and municipal vehicles. “Ford long has supported our public servants with vehicles that work as hard as they do,” said Ken Czubay, Ford vice president, Marketing, Sales and Service. “We intend to build on this legacy with a new generation of municipal and police vehicles that set even higher standards.”

Source: Ford Motor Company

SuperVisor® and WingMan™ now available with TriCore™ Technology

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January 19, 2010

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SuperVisor® and WingMan™ now available with TriCore™ Technology

Code 3, Inc. announces their popular SuperVisor and WingMan products are now available with TriCore Technology.

Patented TriCore Technology, exclusive to Code 3, delivers more light output per watt than any other current halogen, strobe or LED lighthead. It is more than two times brighter than any other warning light available today.

SuperVisor is a low-profile interior light, contoured to fit against the upper interior of a windshield between the sun visors and glass. At only 2” tall, the SuperVisorblends in with the interior of the car and remains unseen until energized. A special housing prevents the lights from reflecting back into the driver’s eyes.

The WingMan is designed to fit in the rear window of patrol vehicles and is the perfect complement to the SuperVisor. Like the SuperVisor, it is just 2” tall, virtually undetectable from the outside and will not block the driver’s view of traffic.

Both SuperVisor and WingMan come in vehicle specific designs to provide a custom fit. Lightheads in the product can be independently wired in a variety of flash patterns. All TriCore modules are covered by a 5 year warranty and are available in red, blue, amber or white.

About Code 3, Inc.

Established in 1974, Code 3, Inc. designs and manufactures a complete line of emergency lighting and warning products for police, fire, emergency response, utility and industrial applications. Code 3, Inc. is a Public Safety Equipment Company.