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Last year the agency decided to create a combined community and officer wellness program, putting one professional who was already on staff in charge of helping officers on emotionally disturbed person calls and with their own mental health.
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The reading program has aided the Bibb County School Police with outreach to the community, and it plans to expand its elementary school presence to include more officers.
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Chief Jesse Evans leads the Acworth PD and has established a special program for crime victims. Acworth PD is the only law enforcement agency that employs a dedicated crime victim advocate.
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Four police officers had to be extricated from their vehicles, according to police. Fire officials said three of the officers were critically injured.
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Larry Scirotto, 50, filed a federal lawsuit in March seeking damages approaching $10 million for what he called breach of contract and wrongful termination.
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A Pine Bluff, AR, police officer sustained minor injuries Thursday when the officer’s patrol vehicle came under fire at an apartment complex. The shooting happened exactly three years after one of the department's detective was fatally shot by a fugitive.
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Two Portland, OR, officers were injured early Friday morning when a car occupied by two burglary suspects slammed into their patrol SUV. The car that struck the 2023 Ford Police Interceptor Utility had been reported stolen the day before.
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Thursday around 10:35 p.m., a woman entered the public area of the Bristol Police Department (CT) lobby and fired multiple rounds into an office window inside the lobby. Police say the office area was unoccupied at the time, and none of the rounds penetra
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Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is asking police to get tough on drugs but, according to an executive order he issued this week, for the first time in the city’s history diversion, rather than jail, will be the preferred way to deal with individuals caught us
Read More →"It just allows you to have more of a normal life, and work overtime when you want to work it, not because the City’s making you work it," FOP President John Catanzara said.
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