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Trainingby William HarveyOctober 3, 2013

The Chief Trainer

You are a chief or sheriff. Get real and train with your officers. You should be one of the first enrolled in your defensive tactics and subject control training classes. Your attendance and participation will speak to all, and what it will say is this stuff is real and it's important.

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Technologyby Devallis RutledgeOctober 2, 2013

Video and You

If you aren't speaking and behaving at all times in public the way you want to appear when you're uploaded on YouTube, you could have some unpleasant surprises in store.

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Trainingby Amy Winter and Chris BrownOctober 2, 2013

Investigating Identity Theft and Car Rental

Loyalty rewards programs offered by certain rental car companies are designed with convenience in mind—in one case, all too convenient for a car thief. By using fake credit cards and stolen drivers' licenses, a woman in Orange County, Calif., engineered the theft of 42 rental vehicles in 2012 from a major rental car company.

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Technologyby David GriffithSeptember 27, 2013

E-Citation: A Force Multiplier

Few advancements in law enforcement technology have had more impact nationwide than electronic citation. The technology has been on line a little more than a decade, and e-citation systems are now in use by federal, state, county, and municipal agencies. And they all sing its praises.

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Trainingby Jon AdlerSeptember 26, 2013

Disability Pay: Adding Insult to Injury

Our injured federal officers are humble, honorable Americans who sacrificed to serve our great nation. Yet certain members of the Senate opt to ignore the sacrifice of these men and women, and now attack their means to survive.

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Weaponsby A.J. GeorgeSeptember 25, 2013

Police Product Test: SureFire M600 Ultra Scout

The previous model had a maximum output of 120 lumens, the new one produces 500 lumens. That means the new Ultra Scout cannot only clear a room, but also light up a target at 100 yards.

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Weaponsby A.J. GeorgeSeptember 25, 2013

Police Product Test: Etymotic Electronic Earplugs

One of the most innovative features of the EB15s is what Etymotic calls "adaptive attenuation." This feature lets the electronic earplugs gradually and automatically adjust to continuous loud noises such as crowd noise, sirens, and continuous gunfire.

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Patrolby David GriffithSeptember 25, 2013

The Tactical Maglites

Introduced earlier this year, the Mag-Tac line consists of two lights: a patrol model and a tactical model. Both lights are mid-sized, five inches long and one inch in diameter, feature Cree LEDs, and are constructed of aircraft aluminum.

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Patrolby Dean ScovilleSeptember 21, 2013

Shots Fired #100: Anywhere, USA

For our 100th "Shots Fired" article, I'm going to step outside the normal formula of our concept and talk about some things I've learned and some heroic officers I've had the honor of interviewing.

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Trainingby Amaury MurgadoSeptember 20, 2013

Dealing with the Deaf

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) makes it very clear that hearing impaired people are entitled to the same level of service from law enforcement officers as anyone else. So it's your job to accommodate people with hearing loss.

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