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Mayor-Elect Suzanne LaFrance’s new police chief appointment comes about 2 1/2 months after Mayor Dave Bronson named Bianca Cross as chief. The incoming mayor did not keep Cross in her position.
Read More →Chief John Swick, of the Middleport Police Department, is believed to be the longest-serving chief in New York. He finally retires this week, capping a career that started in 1978.
Read More →An officer on patrol in New Haven, Connecticut, heard screams from the water and responded to find a man who police said was trying to drown his children. The officer saved both small children, and they are now recovering.
Read More →New information reveals a Seattle police officer terminated in May violated departmental policies. The Office of Police Accountability investigated claims that the officer had made race- and sex-based comments during an off-duty dispute.
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At Tuesday’s ceremony, Detective Sumit Sulan received a standing ovation from fellow officers as NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban placed the medal around his neck for fatally shooting cop killer Lashawn McNeil.
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"I tried my best to open up the top of the bag and this tiny little snout came through the top of the bag," Officer Glickman said. "I couldn't get the rest of it open. I took my knife, cut the bag open and that's when five more puppies came flooding out."
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At approximately 1:30 p.m., Officer Shawn Paradis and Officer Matthew Monaghan were on patrol on the Mystic River on “Marine One”—the Groton PD’s patrol boat—when they received a distress call from a sailboat in the area of Fishers Island, New York.
Read More →"With the incredible upside potential benefits of artificial intelligence, there is a downside: criminals will use the technology to commit crime,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.
Read More →The NYPD scaled back its facial hair requirements in 2020, following a class-action lawsuit filed by Masood Syed, a Muslim officer who was suspended for refusing to trim his 1-inch beard down to the department-mandated maximum.
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The sheriff says multiple cars run from deputies every day, and this new initiative will serve as a message to abide by the law.
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