Police Officers only.....?

Question

Is their really a Blue Code that officers follow. It might be called something else, not sure, but I was curious. If a Police Officer pulls over an off-duty fellow officer, or another officer from a different juridiction, are they treated any differently? Just curious, and are many reprimanded for giving special privileges to other officers if the Superiors found out about it.

Thanks for your responses.

Answer 1

I have occasionally written officers for traffic infractions and been written by other officers for the same thing.

Last year we had officer fired for getting a DUI.

Sometimes I give officers a break, just like I give firefighters, ER staff and active duty military breaks, and sometimes I don't.

My personal rule of thumb is a moving violation gets some discretion, while DUIs etc don't.

What you find with supervisors in law enforcement, is that they only thing they don't like is the boat being rocked. Thus I had a beat partner who got in S**t for writing a deputy from another jurisdiction a ticket when the Sheriff complained, and another guy on my team reprimanded for cutting a break to a cop from a different city for the same charge when the media found out.

Answer 2

Of course we're not going to treat a fellow officer the same as an ordinary Joe shmo.Speeding,DUI etc.Police are exempt.Who Polices the Police.Think about it.

Answer 3

I could have sworn that I heard they have a special hand signal...but I don't know if that's changed or not.

Answer 4

its the thin blue line...I'm sure its also called other things too.  Yes we help each other out just as anyone in any other job would do but not only for each other,  I know we also tend to help out fire fighters, military and Drs in the hospital in our town, you never know when you may need them