Wayne Parham is Senior Editor at POLICE Magazine and PoliceMag.com and has more than three decades of experience covering public safety and government.
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Wayne Parham is Senior Editor at POLICE Magazine and PoliceMag.com and has more than three decades of experience covering public safety and government.
Two Pennsylvania troopers were ambushed by a man with a rifle Thursday. Each trooper sustained two gunshot wounds, and one, despite being shot, applied two tourniquets to his wounded fellow trooper.
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Worchester Officer Enmanuel Familia lost his life trying to rescue a teen from drowning in 2021, and his family started a foundation to provide rescue floatation devices to officers. One of those, a Manny Tube, was used by police this week in Shrewsbury.
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School resource officers build relationships with students, preventing campus crime, and try to keep schools safer. They also have to be ready to respond without delay when a school shooter opens fire. What has changed since Uvalde?
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In the relentless heat of summer and even early fall in some parts of the country, officers face the important task of protecting their K-9 partners while working in sweltering temperatures. Recognizing changes in a dog’s behavior is the key.
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The State of Texas crafted a plan where law enforcement agencies can send officers to help cities in a disaster zone and the state covers the costs. One hundred officers have arrived to assist in Houston following Hurricane Beryl.
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Veteran law enforcement trainer John Bostain, president of Command Presence Training, shares how a healthy culture is the number one thing that can shape officer wellness in any law enforcement agency or department.
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Officers can’t always rely on help when wounded, so they should be able to apply a tourniquet to stop their bleeding, even while still taking fire. Ron Bartel shares some tips on how trainers can coach cops on such scenarios during training.
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When an officer is ambushed and under the threat of being killed, what would he or she do to survive? Retired Lt. Pete Ebel shares ways trainers can teach the proper mindset for officers to survive ambushes.
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Under a new California law, AB 2188, law enforcement officers are among workers who are protected against employer discipline or termination for using marijuana. But there are times when the new law could conflict with the 1968 Gun Control Act.
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The Houston Police Department found that 4,017 adult sex assault cases were not investigated after they were coded as "suspended due to lack of personnel." The chief said that is not acceptable and has shifted resources to look into each report.
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