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Brownells Launches New Law Enforcement Website

Brownells, supplier of factory gun parts, gunsmithing tools, and accessories, has launched a new Website — www.Brownells.mil-le.com — focused on the special needs of military and law enforcement personnel.

March 15, 2006

Small Company Starts its Own Police Department

Sheriff's officials investigating the crash of a Ferrari in Malibu last month are asking how a small private transit company could create its own police department and allegedly hand out law enforcement identification to civilians, including the car's owner.

March 8, 2006

La. First Responders Must Find New Housing

Hundreds of hurricane evacuees who have been living on two cruise ships in New Orleans began clearing out Wednesday morning, while people on a third vessel in St. Bernard Parish spent the morning fighting to stay put.

March 1, 2006

Singer Mark Wills to Perform Benefit Concert for Families of Fallen Officers

The TASER Foundation for Fallen Officers and the Untouchables Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club announced that country music star Mark Wills will perform a benefit concert on Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. at TASER International headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz. The concert is part of Takin' the Ride Motorcycle Rally Event March 24-26.

March 1, 2006

Law Enforcement Museum Holds Film Festival

A three-day festival of law enforcement movies began yesterday at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Md.

March 1, 2006

New NTOA Grants Now Available

The National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) has made available several new grants starting February 2006 and ending June 2006. To be eligible for any NTOA grant, you must hold a valid NTOA team membership and fill out the applications completely and correctly.

February 22, 2006

Research Shows Tougher Seat Belt Laws Increase Belt Use

New York enacted the first statewide mandatory seat belt law in 1984. Now 49 states have some form of law requiring drivers and passengers to buckle up, and shows that they are having the desired effect. More and more motorists are wearing their belts.

February 22, 2006

Sheriff’s Office Returns Property After 29 Years

After being evicted in 1977, Mr. John Bayles then of Mission, Kansas and now of Toronto, Kansas had left behind property he didn’t know he had left. Once the moving company and emptied the apartment deputies searched the apartment for any remaining items and found $23.87 in U.S. currency, a silver dollar over 100 years old, several foreign coins, and commemorative coins. This money was logged and placed into the Johnson County (Kansas) Sheriff’s property room but never claimed. Until now.

February 7, 2006

National Law Enforcement Museum Receives $100,000 Pledge From San Bernardino County Safety Employees' Benefit Association

Reinforcing law enforcement's commitment to build the National Law Enforcement Museum, the San Bernardino County Safety Employees' Benefit Association (SEBA) recently pledged $100,000 in support of the national project. With the $100,000 commitment, SEBA becomes the second member of the Groundbreaking Society, an elite group of donors who will invest $100,000 or more between now and ground breaking in A Matter of Honor: The Campaign to Build the National Law Enforcement Museum.

February 7, 2006

5.11 Tactical Gear Now Available Under Homeland Security Grant Program

5.11 Tactical gear has been added to the Homeland Security Department’s Authorized Equipment List (AEL). The DHS has allocated more than $3 billion for U.S. grants to be used for domestic preparedness. Law enforcement and public safety departments can now apply for grant monies to pay for preparedness outfitting in specified 5.11 products.

February 7, 2006

Website Offers Interactive courses in Prescription Drug Investigation

A new interactive online training center is now available to aid law enforcement officers investigating prescription drug abuse cases.

January 18, 2006

Murder Suspect Gives Himself Up On Television

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.

January 5, 2006

Taser Ends Seven-Hour Standoff with Domestic Violence Suspect

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.

January 5, 2006

Foundation Delivers Aid to National Guardsmen and Reservists in Gulf Coast Area

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.

December 28, 2005

Conference on Methamphetamine Epidemic to Develop Solutions

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.

December 21, 2005

Keynote Speaker Named for March TREXPO West Show and Conference

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.

December 15, 2005

Heart Association Offers New CPR Guidelines

"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.

November 30, 2005

U.S. to End 'Catch and Release' at Mexican Border

The United States is closing a legal loophole which has allowed tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to slip into the country and join the estimated 11 million undocumented foreigners already here.

November 22, 2005

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