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For police and transportation departments, traditional parking enforcement exposes officers to risk, such as standing on busy roads to issue paper tickets or catching offenders in dangerous, congested areas. Modern technology changes this, reducing exposure, speeding processes, and limiting confrontations.
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The agency is down nearly 30 deputies. Sheriff Thornton posted a photo on Facebook of at least 17 unused patrol cars.
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The bill if signed into law would empower local law enforcement chiefs to impose curfews for up to 24 hours if there is “an imminent threat of any civil commotion or disturbance in the nature of a riot which constitutes a clear and present danger.”
Read More →Unlike the shorter police academies, future officers serve as apprentices or cadets for a two-to-three-year program involving comprehensive learning through years of field experience and classroom instruction.
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🚨 In this POLICE Coffee Break podcast, POLICE Senior Editor Wayne Parham and Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph.D., discuss moral injury as it relates to law enforcement. Brock is senior vice president and director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America.
Read More →As of last month, it employed 690 officers out of an authorized strength of 939, leaving more than a quarter of sworn officer positions vacant. Additionally, about 120 of the filled positions are recruits that have not completed training, according to the police department.
Read More →Chief Greg Allen joined the El Paso Police Department in 1978, starting off patrolling Central and the West Side. Throughout the decades, he moved up to the rank of deputy chief in charge of the Central and Pebble Hills regional command centers.
Read More →Officers would be paid the salary they had when they left but wouldn’t receive vacation time or any health, disability and retirement benefits.
Read More →The Madison, WI, Police and Fire Commission voted Monday to stop requiring credit checks of prospective police officers. The Commission said the measure was being taken in a step to increase diversity in the department.
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Justin McIntire, 46, had served as chief of the small Allegheny County town for four years. He reportedly was running after the suspect when he was shot in the head.
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Brackenridge Police Chief Justin McIntire was ambushed by suspect Aaron Lamont Swan Jr. in a shooting that left McIntire dead Monday night.
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