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January 6 2006 - Top News
Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation, parent company of Smith & Wesson Corp., announced it has filled an order from the Patrick County (Va.) Sheriff's Department for the company's new Military & Police (M&P) series of polymer pistols.
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January 6 2006 - Top News
According to news reports from The News Tribune, KOMO News 4, and KIRO News 7, police in Kent, Wash., used a Taser device to end a seven-hour standoff with a man barricaded in an apartment. The man was arrested and booked into the Kent city jail on suspicion of domestic violence.
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January 6 2006 - Top News
France will create a special police force to ensure security for railway passengers after a band of marauding youths robbed and sexually assaulted train travelers in southeast France, the interior minister said Wednesday.
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January 6 2006 - Top News
In Macon County, N.C., deputies and U.S. Marshals took Christopher David Lunz into custody Tuesday afternoon, with an Asheville television-news crew pointing a camera at the action. The 38-year-old Lunz was wanted in Pinellas County, Fla., as a suspect in the death of his father, 59-year-old David James Lunz of Palm Harbor Fla.
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December 29 2005 - Top News
Each year the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) recognizes the extraordinary efforts of law enforcement officers who have successfully resolved cases involving missing or sexually exploited children.
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December 29 2005 - Top News
The Citizen Soldier Foundation provides active status citizen soldiers with financial, residential, and social programs nationwide. This year's devastating hurricane season has required a lot of help for tens of thousands of such people in need.
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December 29 2005 - Top News
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) released a report today showing that more than four years after 9/11 the federal government still does not have working systems for getting law enforcement officers the information they need to identify terrorists and to thwart their plans.
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December 29 2005 - Top News
German police on Thursday captured two men suspected of stealing from 15 cars and two garden sheds by following their footprints in the snow for several kilometres (miles).
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December 22 2005 - Top News
A House-Senate Conference Committee has approved the Digital Television and Public Safety Act as part of the Budget Reconciliation conference report, which provides for $43.5 million to implement the Enhance 911 Act that was signed into law last year.
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December 22 2005 - Top News
A “Parking Ticket Santa Claus” has been spreading cash as well as Christmas cheer around the English city of Birmingham, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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December 22 2005 - Top News
Public safety supplier Quartermaster will be giving away free merchandise to customers who attend the grand opening events at its new store in Las Vegas.
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December 22 2005 - Top News
The Performance Institute will hold the 2006 National Summit on the Methamphetamine Epidemic January 18 to 20 in Las Vegas. The event is designed to help law enforcement agencies further Meth prevention and interdiction efforts with best practices from across the country.
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December 16 2005 - Top News
This year’s TREXPO West conference will convene at the Los Angeles Convention Center March 14 with a keynote address by security and counter-terrorism expert J. Kelly McCann.
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December 16 2005 - Top News
Fewer than five percent of prisoners nationwide are currently enrolled in college classes, according to a new report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy. The report includes recommendations to increase prisoner participation in postsecondary education as a means to reduce recidivism by providing inmates with career skills.
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December 16 2005 - Top News
The International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA)2006 Conference and Expo is scheduled for April 25–26 in the Chicago suburb of Arlington, Ill.
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December 16 2005 - Top News
The U.S. Postal Service will issue a commemorative stamp honoring the local broadcaster-initiated AMBER Alert Plan, a program dedicated to the rapid recovery of abducted children. AMBER (America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) Alerts have been credited in the successful rescue of more than 230 abducted children nationwide.
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December 8 2005 - Top News
A non-profit organization founded and run by San Jose police officers will host a holiday celebration for children being treated for cancer in the California Bay Area.
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December 8 2005 - Top News
The streets of Sanford, Fla., just got safer thanks to two new four-legged “officers.” Local landscapers The Girard Companies donated two K-9s—a Labrador retriever and a German shepherd—to the Sanford Police Department’s K-9 unit.
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December 8 2005 - Top News
The 1995 Honda Civic was the vehicle most reported stolen in 2004, according to a nonprofit group that reports insurance crimes.
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December 8 2005 - Top News
A federal appeals court has agreed to hear an appeal from death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther convicted in the 1981 murder of a white Philadelphia police officer.
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December 1 2005 - Top News
During the period 1993-2003, juveniles ages 12-17 experienced average annual rates of nonfatal violence that were about 2.5 times higher than the rate for adults, according to a Department of Justice report.
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December 1 2005 - Top News
The Taser Foundation has launched its annual fundraising drive for the families of law enforcement officers who have been killed in the line of duty. And two groups have pledged to match donations in the month of December up to $100,000.
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December 1 2005 - Top News
The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to halt the scheduled execution of convicted killer Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the Crips gang founder who became an anti-gang activist while in prison and whose supporters claim has redeemed himself.
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December 1 2005 - Top News
"Push hard, push fast" next time you give CPR to someone having cardiac arrest, say new, simpler guidelines in a radical departure from past advice. Putting the emphasis on chest compressions instead of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the American Heart Association now urges people to give 30 compressions instead of 15 for every two rescue breaths.
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November 23 2005 - Top News
The Federal Government is an important source for official publications dealing with criminal justice and law enforcement. From key statistical reference works to hands-on investigative manuals, the U.S. Government Printing Office has a variety of published information useful to law enforcement professionals.
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