Brian O'Hara
speaker
314 appearances
12 recordings
12 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 30 Jan
Brian O'Hara’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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where law enforcement cannot avoid those situations from occurring.
The concern is, as a professional, to try and prevent our people from getting into that situation in the first place so that we're not unnecessarily creating the risk unjustifiably.
The number one is you don't place yourself in the path of the vehicle.
That's like traffic stop 101.
You don't do that.
Absolutely.
And then the other one is, what exactly is the mission here?
Because if this person isn't the target of a preplanned enforcement action, then what are we doing?
Are we trying to de-escalate and try and resolve the situation?
Are we trying to take an enforcement action and enforce some law here?
Or what exactly is the goal?
Well, I can only speak to conducting the traffic stop from my perspective as a police officer.
What is our policy?
What is our training?
Number one, you approach the driver, you introduce yourself by rank, by name, by what agency you work for, and you tell the person, explain why the person is being stopped.
You do these sorts of things to try and ensure, number one, to identify yourself, but to try and ensure that
a level of professionalism and to try and deescalate.
If the person asks you a question that's reasonable, you respond to it reasonably.
That is the expectation.
My recollection is that there was not... I didn't see any of that.
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