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How To Start a Tactical Team

There are plenty of behind-the-scenes preparations needed to form a tactical team. It's not just gathering a group, getting fancy tactical dress, and heading out for some shooting.

Photo courtesy of William Harvey.

Women in Law Enforcement

5 Tips for Joining a Specialty Unit

Female officers may encounter resistance when they apply to join special units such as SWAT, K-9, narcotics, internal affairs, or crime prevention units. To help those hoping to break into these units, PoliceMag.com is launching a Web-exclusive, multi-part series offering strategies to reach this goal.

Photo by Yuda Chen.

Police Links: Spring Surprises

March is the month that ushers in the Spring season. It's also known for being unpredictable. It's no wonder then that this March has brought with it all manner of surprising stories, including a police dog that fired a gun and a suspect delivered to police by none other than Batman.

An Oklahoma woman hid a revolver in an unusual place. Screenshot via KFOR.

P25 Systems: Harris Corp.'s Enhanced Failsoft with Security

The term "failsoft" refers to any failover condition that causes a digital trunked radio system to not trunk. This is most commonly caused by a loss of the control channel that subscriber radios use when communicating to the towers to assign a resource.

Harris Corp.'s XG-75 single-band radio incorporates the Harris P25 systems Enhanced Failsoft with Security mode technology. Photo courtesy of Harris.

ALS To Open Tactical Training Center

AMTEC Less-Lethal Systems (ALS) is on track to open a tactical training center this summer in Perry, Fla., to offer less-lethal training to law enforcement, corrections, and military personnel.

Site graphic courtesy of ALS.

Good Cops, Bad Cop, Whatcha Gonna Do

It's been said that a truly good cop could have worked any era in law enforcement and done quite well. When my mind revisits those cops that I used to work with, around, and to varying degrees tolerated, there are two groups that stand out predominantly for their diametrically opposite approaches to patrol.

Photo by Kelly Bracken.

L.A. Sheriff's Super Puma Helicopters

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has completed a nearly $60-million overhaul of its helicopter fleet that brought 18 new Eurocopter helicopters, including three Super Pumas.

Photo courtesy of American Eurocopter.

'Evil Evan' Ebel and the 211 Crew

The 211 Crew is a white-supremacist prison gang. The loosely structured group had its early formation in the Denver County Jail, and its members included a wanna-be rapper and white inmate whose crime partner was black.

Photo courtesy of Colorado DOC.

Lessons from the Onion Field

"How could this have happened?" The answer is found when you realize that in the past half century you have had the benefit of improved tactical training that came at the cost of the blood and minds of officers like Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger.

Photo by Greg Meyer.

Alaska's Village Public Safety Officers

To help keep the peace in Alaska's tiny indigenous villages, the state deputizes rural peace officers known as village public safety officers, or VPSOs.

VPSO Sgt. Dan Decker patrols Ekwok. Photo courtesy of Alaska DPS.

The Officer Survival Creed

"The will to survive, to survive the attack, must be uppermost in my mind. Therefore, preparation and not paranoia is the key to my survival. To survive I must be aware, be alert, be confident, be deceptive, be decisive, and be ready. I must expect the unexpected and do the unexpected."

Photo courtesy of Long Beach (Calif.) PD.

Remington Recalls LE 00-Buck Shells

Remington Arms has issued a recall for several lots of its reduced-recoil law enforcement 00-buck ammunition, according to an announcement on the company's website.

Photo courtesy of Remington.

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