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Patrol
Clandestine Meth Labs
About 20 percent of all meth labs are discovered due to an explosion. Besides the obvious immediate concerns associated with any structure explosion, meth labs create a special set of problems for law enforcement. Police must be aware of these concerns and have a plan in place to mitigate them.
December 31, 2008
Patrol
Contact with Meth Labs May Affect Cops’ Health
Law enforcement agencies across the country are seeing a frightening trend in the war on drugs, but this time it has to do with their own safety. Police officers who've come into contact with meth labs are getting sick and some are even dying.
March 15, 2006
Patrol
UT Officer's Cancer Death Ruled Line of Duty Because of Meth Exposure
Officer Trenton Halladay served in law enforcement for a decade at the Provo Police Department. For most of his career, Halladay worked on a task force responsible for busting countless meth labs that plagued Utah County in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
May 18, 2022
Careers
Indiana State Police's Meth Suppression Section
The Indiana State Police's Methamphetamine Suppression Section (MSS) seizes hundreds of meth labs a month. The troopers assigned to the unit encounter plenty of hazardous chemicals, dangerous "shake and bake" meth labs, and children living in meth-cooking environments.
July 18, 2013
Patrol
FLEOA, Vincent D'Onofrio Support Detox Program for Meth Cops
The Utah Meth Cops Project exists to treat law enforcement officers who have been repeatedly exposed to toxins in methamphetamine labs on the job. FLEOA invited project spokesperson Vincent D'Onofrio and FLEOA members who've gone through the treatment program to speak at the association's conference and raise awareness.
July 5, 2010
Special Units
Sheriff's Tactical Team Ends Six-Hour Standoff at Meth House
The SWAT unit's entry led the the arrest of William Bishop, 46, and the discovery of ammonia, batteries, drain opener, and other ingredients used to make methamphetamine in an outdoor storage shed.
April 7, 2010
Special Units
Federal Funding Cut Cripples Meth Enforcement
Police and sheriff's agencies have curtailed their enforcement of methamphetamine because they can no longer afford the clean-up costs associated with the labs, concludes an investigative report by the Associated Press.
August 10, 2011
Patrol
Arizona K-9 Unit Sniffs Out Huge Haul of Meth
A K-9 unit with the Pinal County (AZ) Sheriff's Office is being credited with helping with the seizure of 46 pounds of methamphetamine.
March 26, 2019
Technology
Iowa Police Want Changes in State Meth Law
Iowa narcotics officers are concerned that a loophole in a state law intended to limit access to pseudoephedrine could mean an increase in meth production.
October 8, 2007
Patrol
DEA: Meth Lab Incidents Rose 39% In Four Years
Meth remains a growth industry with heavy demand across the country that has required increasing law enforcement resources to handle. The increasing popularity of meth's cheap, euphoric high appears to be replacing more pricey street drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
November 19, 2012
Special Units
U.S. Gives $12M To Mexico To Combat Meth
Mexico's federal police will receive $12 million from the U.S. government to enhance enforcement of methamphetamine production by drug cartels, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced Thursday.
August 22, 2012
Special Units
Cold Pill Access Cut
Major drug stores across the country are putting over-the-counter cold medications out of reach of customers and limiting quantities sold to stem their use in creating methamphetamines.
January 29, 2004
Training
Salt Lake City PD's Meth Initiative
Salt Lake City PD created the Methamphetamine Initiative, which brings together more than 30 public and private agencies to address drug rehab and meth-related property crimes, enhanced prosecution, environmental hazards and, of course, child endangerment issues.
June 30, 2006
Special Units
Flavored Cocaine Alarms California Law Enforcement Officials
Setting off alarm bells and fears that the product is being targeted at a younger demographic, law enforcement officials in California's Yolo County say that a new type of cocaine is making its way into the U.S.—flavored cocaine.
June 21, 2007
Gangs
Gangs on Meth
The drug is dangerous to law enforcement in several ways. The chemicals utilized are highly toxic and volatile. Clandestine labs are often booby trapped against the police.
March 13, 2008
Patrol
How to Investigate a Meth Lab
Navigating the dangers of cookers’ “kitchens.”
August 31, 2006
Patrol
An Investigator’s Guide to the Methamphetamine Lab
The young children watched cartoons in the living room, while in the kitchen their mother dissolved cold tablets in a jar of denatured alcohol. She had closed up the house to keep the odors inside so her neighbors wouldn't call the police.
November 30, 2000
Patrol
Remember the Forgotten Fallen
Let's not forget our other brethren who work may have been less conspicuously gallant, but who have likewise paid the ultimate price years before their time.
January 5, 2011
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