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The Torfino Metal-TEC 1400 is a silent vibrating weapons detector small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Silent vibration will not alarm the subject being searched (or others around them) that a weapon has been detected. It alerts the officer to weapons, razor blades, handcuff keys, and even small pieces of metal foil that may contain drugs from inches away.
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The Seeker Plus from MSE Group detects ferrous and non-ferrous metals with 360-degree continuous detection and pin-point detection. It has adjustable sensitivity, a 10-inch probe, and durable, tough ABS construction.
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Adams Electronics’ model AD11-V has the simultaneous audio/visual alarm facility standard on all the company’s handheld metal detectors. But it also has the ability, via a two-position rocker switch, to switch the detector to either standard "audio/visual" setting or "vibration only” mode. This feature gives the AD11-V the ability to alert the operator of a potential weapon silently.
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Notwithstanding the explosion of youth criminality, the court has largely continued to treat juvenile offenders in a more lenient and paternalistic fashion than adults.
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In smaller agencies, policy manuals—if they existed—were just a few policy statements. Now there are multiple bound volumes that no officer can be expected to memorize, let alone understand. — Tom Aveni, Police Policy Studies Council
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In your search warrant affidavits, your reports, and your testimony you have to lay out the basis of your suspicions and justify every detention, arrest, search, seizure, entry, and use of force.
Read More →Evidence discovered during a search incident to an arrest supported by PC is not suppressible in the majority of state courts.
Read More →The general rule-of-thumb is to try to get a warrant whenever possible. On the other hand, if you can seize evidence without engaging in a search, you don't need either a warrant or any exception.
Read More →There are four ways to make a lawful entry into a private home. Notice that "entry incident to outdoors arrest" is not on the list of lawful ways to get inside a residence. In three separate cases, the U.S. Supreme Court has held such entries to be unconstitutional.
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The patrons are also suing in federal court, claiming that the officers violated their civil rights and searched them without probable cause.
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