Dan Pasquale is an officer with the Tracy (Calif.) Police Department. He spends his spare time writing for PoliceMag.com
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Dan Pasquale is an officer with the Tracy (Calif.) Police Department. He spends his spare time writing for PoliceMag.com
Quiz time! What is the size of a two-dollar pad of paper but contains the entire value of your police career inside of it? Answer: Your city and department personnel files.
Read More →Be prepared for things to go south on every contact you make. You never know when you’ll need to take chase or pull your gun at a moment’s notice.
Read More →Like any other common task, accident investigations can become a bit routine for most patrol officers. Important details can be inadvertently missed as we try to finish up to get to the next call.
Read More →There is a saying in law enforcement, "We deal with 10 percent of the population 90 percent of the time." And whoever said it first had to be a patrol officer.
Read More →One of the most ignored aspects of our work is report writing. But it shouldn’t be. Whether we are patrol officers or investigators, we write reports each and every day. And these reports stay with us from the day we write them all the way through the court process and beyond.
Read More →Officers can become too reliant on the new technology to do their job, and can easily forget that an officer’s job is still 90 percent common sense and know-how.
Read More →While the old standby techniques certainly have their place in today’s police work, technology and new improvements have created some exciting new ways to track criminals and solve crime.
Read More →By remembering and practicing a few little techniques, we can keep crime scenes as clean as a rookie’s uniform.
Read More →So, the next time that radio buzzes with an officer asking for help, resist the urge to pick it up and answer. Just head that way and get there.
Read More →Car stops are a daily occurrence for most patrol officers. Whether in a big city or out in the country, a traffic stop is at the very root of what we do. And like most activities that we consider “routine,” we can get a little complacent on traffic stops and put ourselves on “auto pilot” without even realizing it. That’s a bad move on our part.
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