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Inside the Badge is a collection of blogs offering unique insights and perspectives from the Law Enforcement Community
Inside the Badge is a collection of blogs offering unique insights and perspectives from the Law Enforcement Community
A handful of veteran attendees share some advice that can help newcomers—and even some "old hands"—maximize time and energy spent at the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association Conference and Expo in St. Louis next month.
Read More →By creating more scenario-based problem-solving training—that is spaced out over time, incorporates challenges and obstacles, randomizes required actions, and allows for exceptions in all of the above—trainers can make great strides in developing skills, abilities, and expertise in their trainees.
Read More →With a single trigger pull resulting in only one deployed probe—necessitating a second trigger pull to hope to achieve neuromuscular incapacitation (NMI)—there will certainly be some serious training implications.
Read More →With people now relying on technology, increasingly investigators can uncover a wealth of possible evidence through forensic analysis of electronic devices, including cellphones.
Read More →Officers will tell you “what” happened, as they should, simply based on the fact that you asked. But in my experience the more important question is, “Why did this happen?”
Read More →Scott Wyatt, president of Busch Protective USA, says an injury to law enforcement officers will more likely come from someone striking them in the head with a bat, or throwing a brick, or having something fall and hit them in the head during an operation. Europeans introduced blunt trauma testing of helmets back in 2009.
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