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EMERGENCY VEHICLE OPERATOR’S COURSE
EVOC. A familiar term to any cops anywhere. This training for us was usually once a year, and several different police agencies
in the county participated during the event, which lasted several days to accommodate all the officers working all the different
shifts. Each department had several officers who were trained and qualified as EVOC instructors.
Our regional EVOC course was at the Bremerton International Airport, which had an old unused airstrip behind the newer
airfield. The airstrip was surrounded by woods and had some side roads connected to it.
The instructors would set up several hundred orange traffic cones and taller stanchions to outline lanes and courses, which
would either be high speed or low speed. The course layouts would be changed a little every year to keep things interesting.
The high speed courses would stretch about a mile long on the straightaway and in addition to swerving around the cones it
would also include high speed chases with instructor officers playing the bad guy role in cars that had been confiscated from
drug dealers and converted to police use for thrashing on the track.
