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Training
Training Accidents
No one keeps complete nationwide statistics on law enforcement training accidents, but they are a significant cause of death and serious injury in the line of duty. Most training accidents share one common trait: They could have been prevented.
April 15, 2013
Training
The Tragedy of Training Accidents
When an officer is shot and killed in a training session, odds are some other officer pulled the trigger. The result is devastating for the officers of the agency involved and for the friends and families of both officers.
April 15, 2013
Blogs
Training
February 3, 2011
Patrol
Special Report: Preventing Training Tragedies
In this issue of
POLICE
magazine, we address one of the greatest pressing concerns of police executives and law enforcement: the growing number of serious accidents and even deaths in police training.
December 31, 2002
Weapons
Preventing Training Tragedies: Friendly Fire
Of all training accidents, police officers shooting each other in simulation drills are the most tragic. They are also the most difficult for some officers and civilians to comprehend.
December 31, 2002
Training
Safe Training in a Troubled World
Every year around a half dozen law enforcement officers die in training accidents. While some of these deaths are related to fitness and health issues---for example an officer that dies after suffering a heart attack during a training run---there are at least two or three that die as the result of firearms or other use-of-force incidents while training.
June 27, 2007
Vehicle Ops
AZ Chief Sends Officers to Driving School After Series of Minor Accidents
The chief of the Casa Grande (AZ) Police Department has decided to send all of his patrol officers back to driving school following a series of minor accidents involving the agency’s vehicles.
August 2, 2017
Training
A Full-Scale Faux City for Force-on-Force Training
The College of DuPage had Cubic Corp. create the high-tech tactical village at the college's 66,000-square-foot Homeland Security Education Center in the western suburbs of Chicago.
April 9, 2013
Training
14 Ways To Make Training Safer
One of the mottos of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) is "When safety is taken for granted, take injury for granted."
April 15, 2013
Vehicle Ops
MPRI Sells 12 Driver Simulators to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
MPRI today announced that the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) has purchased 12 PatrolSim IV driver simulators. The simulators will be used to provide basic training to uniformed police and land management professionals.
December 15, 2008
Training
Smaller Departments Require Greater Training Needs
The smaller-town first responding officer follows a case from patrol to prosecution. They gather evidence, prepare warrants, perform interviews, and present it to the district attorney. It's their case from 911 call to courtroom.
April 15, 2013
SWAT
The Value of Tactical EMS Training
When responding to violent events such as an active shooter, after we've neutralized the threat, we can extend our life-saving abilities by managing and treating the damage done by the perpetrators.
July 21, 2013
Patrol
2004 Line-of-Duty Death Toll: 154
A total of 154 law enforcement officers died while on the job in 2004, according to statistics compiled by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) and Concerns of Police Survivors from reports until Dec. 24.
December 29, 2004
Patrol
Two NYPD Officers Killed in Separate Off-Duty Accidents
Katarzyna Erario, a three-year member of the force from Manhattan’s 33rd Precinct in Washington Heights, was hiking with a male friend in Minnewaska State Park Preserve on Monday when she fell about 50 feet through a hole in the ground.
May 5, 2015
Special Units
Center for Domestic Preparedness Offers Toxic Agent Response Training
How long will it take before terrorists have weapons of mass destruction? The answer isn't clear. But preparing emergency response personnel to meet the threat head-on starts at the CDP's COBRATF—the Chemical, Ordnance, Biological, and Radiological Training Facility in Anniston, Ala.
May 10, 2009
Patrol
Florida Police Train to Patrol Beaches on ATVs to Reduce Crime
Officers with the Miami-Dade (FL) Police Department recently took part in a training event in Key Biscayne during which they became certified to drive ATVs on beaches and other outlying areas in order to respond to calls for service.
August 23, 2018
Vehicles
LAPD Evaluates Driver Training with Patrol-Car Choice
The Los Angeles Police Department has yet to choose its Crown Vic replacement patrol car, but that hasn't kept the agency's emergency driving trainers from discussing changes in how recruits are trained behind the wheel.
March 21, 2012
Special Units
Police Officer Line of Duty Deaths Decreased
An 11-percent decrease in line-of-duty deaths in 2005 compared to the same time last year can be partly attributed to increased use of bullet-resistant vests, say two law enforcement groups.
July 13, 2005
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