Focus Forward

Head Up. Focus Forward.  

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Training pounded it in your head – situational awareness is paramount. In the game, your head is up and your eyes are everywhere. You’re well aware one of the most difficult places to stay attentive to your surroundings is in your patrol car.

Situational awareness becomes second nature on patrol, but the real challenge comes when you write crash reports and traffic tickets. Accurate, comprehensive documentation is required, but so is keeping your eyes on the occupants of the car you have pulled over, or the angry motorists involved in a crash. Easier said …

It was tougher when you hand-wrote reports and traffic summons. Keeping your head up, your eyes everywhere, putting pen to paper while seated in a car, was problematic. It was somewhat risky, but you did it anyway.

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L-Tron is offering a free magnetic mount with your 4910LR purchase. That’s a $29.50 value. With more than 40,000 L-Tron scanners in patrol cars around the U.S. every mag mount installed means that many more safe moments.        

With the 4910LR, you can keep your head in the game. But like many things in life, as you adjust to technology, little hiccups get in the way. 

Like keeping the damn scanner in one place.

Sliding the 4910LR into the provided microphone-style dashboard clip, particularly while stressed, wasn’t easy. The back of the scanner is just different enough from your mic to frustrate you and every other officer using it.

Eventually the clip bent, came off the dash, or simply “disappeared.” From then on, every time you sit in the patrol car at the beginning of your tour, it’s a crap shoot where you’ll find the scanner. Under the passenger seat? Wrapped around the spotlight? Who actually thought it was convenient to hang it from the rearview mirror?

Or perhaps you don’t use the scanner often. “What driver's license scanner?” you ask. “4910LR? Oh, THAT thing. It’s around here somewhere. How did get on the floorboard? Damn, it’s stuck again under the seat; wonder what else is living under there?”

In the middle of a crash investigation or traffic stop isn’t the time to wonder. You give the cord a yank to fish it out from wherever it’s hiding. It pops out and hits whatever is in its way. Maybe you. Mission accomplished. Until next time.

Next time comes too soon. One more yank of the cord. It’s stuck. One more pull. Damn. The cord pops off the scanner. How are you going to explain THAT to the boss?

Sound familiar?

Let us save you some frustration. Just like the 4910LR gave you the ability to better maintain situational awareness, L-Tron wants to eliminate the problem of not knowing exactly where the scanner is. We make it so easy, you’ll do it without looking.

You know how great the 4910LR is. Durable rubberized housing, red output targetable beam, officer-resistant cord, integrated technology that reads even the most faded barcode on license or registration.

Us enabling you to keep the 4910LR within reach, without thinking, or looking, makes the nation’s number one license reader even better. With the introduction of the 4910LR magnetic mount last year, L-Tron found yet another way help keep Officers’ heads up and aware; another way to get them off the side of the road and back on patrol.

Made with a magnet so powerful, you can literally throw the scanner at the mag mount and it’ll stick (although we don’t recommend it). Without looking, all you have to do is get the 4910LR close and it practically secures itself.

The 4910LR Magnetic Mount was designed for cops, from the voices of patrol officers looking for a simple mount everyone would use. Since the 4910LR and its predecessors hit the market, police officers reported back to us that some attempts to hang the scanner on the microphone-style clip failed. Retired police officers on the L-Tron Law Enforcement Support Team told us the scanner design is just different enough from the more-frequently-used radio mic, that muscle memory doesn’t work.

So, L-Tron engineers went to work and designed a proprietary mount as durable and dependable as the 4910LR. Kidding aside, the mag mount is much more than just a place to hang a scanner; it actually enhances officer safety on two fronts. The first is not having to look for an errant scanner saves time spent on the side of the highway where police officers are most exposed. The second is more immediate. It reduces distraction.

Grabbing the 4910LR and putting it back without looking keep officers’ eyes on situations around them. And with the litany of gear inside a patrol car, its one less thing a police officer needs to worry about kicking around, particularly if involved in a pursuit or crash.