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November 2008 - Product Patrol
Pistol Ammunition
RUAG Ammotec
RUAG Ammotec offers a wide range of cartridges for pistols and submachine guns of caliber 9mm Luger. This ammunition convinces not only by its high precision, but also by its reliable functioning in all common weapon types. With its SINTOX ignition charge free of heavy metals and the lead-free projectiles as key technologies, RUAG Ammotec is a leading developer and producer of ammunition free of pollutants.
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Features
Patrol handcuffing techniques vary by department policy and individual officer preference. The goal should always be simple and direct: Get the handcuffs on the suspect. However, being prepared with a handcuffing strategy and technique will improve your confidence on the streets.
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Greg Amundson
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Features
The latest in concealable armor provides comfort and flexibility while still offering the protection you need from everyday dangers on the job.
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Melanie Hamilton
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Features
The good old days of being able to kick down doors, port windows, and throw flash bangs as officers run through a house are over. The modern theories of SWAT tactics now depend less on the old style dynamic entries on every warrant service. Instead, more teams are implementing the concepts of surround and call-out, limited penetration, wait and take down, sustained negotiations, and other similar tactics.
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Eugene P. Ramirez
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Features
My first experience with Airsoft guns wasn’t good. I wanted to use them at the 1994 World Freefall Convention to create an indoor shooting arcade to give bored skydivers something to do when it got cloudy. So I rented a booth, bought Airsoft models of an M16, a CAR15, and an MP5. Then I set up a firing range in a tent and started counting the money I was going to make at five bucks for 200 shots.
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Kenneth R. Murray
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Features
With an unlimited supply of public safety emergencies facing communities today, it’s never too late for police to plan ahead. It’s a simple but powerful precaution and one that more law enforcement agencies are taking to heart in the post-9/11 world.
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Bryn Bailer
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Features
You have many opportunities for training outside of your agency. But how do you tell which classes are suitable for you and whether what you learn in those classes will work on the street?
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Dave Young
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Features
Like most rape investigations, the Tantra Lake serial rape case began with the terror and tears of a young woman who was being attacked by a man. It ended after years of complex and difficult work by the detectives of the Boulder Police Department.
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Chuck Heidel
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Columns: Editorial
There was a time when the journalists in this country were in touch with the ideals and beliefs of the public. Today, the grandchildren of those journalists use their talents to reveal our war secrets to the enemy, to demonize our soldiers and cops, and destroy our national morale.
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David Griffith
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Columns: Editorial
Officer Darren Bristow of the Tulsa (Okla.) Police Department came close to avoiding the entire episode. But isn’t that usually the case? It’s the cop who stays an hour longer than he’d planned…It’s the patrolman who swaps shifts to get a day off…It’s the trooper who decides to make just one more t-stop before calling it a day who ends up having a really bad shift.
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Dean Scoville
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Columns: Editorial
Consider the following scenario: You are off duty in a neighborhood bar dealing with a belligerent drunk. You can’t leave. You’ve tried to calm the situation with words, and he’s still coming at you. You’ve called 911 and on-duty officers are on the way. But the guy attacks you.
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Adam Kasanof
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Columns: Editorial
I drove from my home in Tucson to the SHOT Show in Las Vegas this year—it’s a scenic drive that takes a little more than seven hours. Entering the city, I passed a large police motorcade that was just beginning on the other side of the highway.
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Mike Detty
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Columns: Editorial
It seems many manufacturers are determined to cover all of a user’s needs in one tool. However, if your overloaded pocket tool is roughly the size of a Snap-On mechanic’s box, the odds are it will be too cumbersome to carry all the time. What is needed is a knife and tool you can easily carry that still provides you with all the basics.
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Scott Smith
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Columns: Editorial
Never mind the headlines and the editorials proclaiming that the Supreme Court did away with the knock-and-announce requirement for execution of search warrants in the recent case of Hudson v. Michigan. The court did no such thing. What the opinion did away with was the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule for knock-notice violations.
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Devallis Rutledge
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Columns: Editorial
Each July in Cheyenne, Wyo., when the rodeo comes to town, it bursts forth with all the pent-up energy of a bucking bronc released from the chute. After all, Cheyenne Frontier Days, a celebration focused around the worlds largest outdoor rodeo, is the culmination of nearly a year of preparations by volunteers who live in the close-knit community.
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Bryn Bailer
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Columns: Editorial
One of the basic concepts we have been using for decades now is Col. Jeff Cooper’s “Color Code of Mental Awareness.” I am sure you are familiar with this system, which says you should be in a condition of awareness of at least “Yellow” when on duty. Yellow could be described as a broad external awareness of the environment where you are processing whatever you see.
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Dave Smith
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