For rescuing trapped victims on two separate occasions, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) has announced the selection of Officer Timothy Tonkin of the Suffolk County (N.Y.) Police Department as its Officer of the Month for December 2008.
Read More →Using an operational tattoo shop as a business front, the Richmond County, Ga., Sheriff’s Office Gang Task Force conducted undercover investigations to reduce gun sales by local street gangs.
Read More →The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) has announced the selection of Senior Officer Specialist Melissa Foy of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) as its Officer of the Month for October 2008 for saving a colleague who was being stabbed by an inmate.
Read More →The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) has announced the selection of Police Officer III Andrew Taylor of the Los Angeles Police Department as its most recent Officer of the Month.
Read More →Officers from the K-9 unit of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, brought home two awards from the National Narcotic Detector Dog Association seminar held earlier this month in Angleton, Texas.
Read More →Former police officer Francine Giono Janik of Whitehall, Mont., was recently selected as the first recipient of an all-expenses-paid "Hero Hunt" for part of TruckVault's upcoming television series, "TruckVault's Xtreme Hunts."
Read More →Held on May 12 during National Police Week, this year’s Top Cops awards ceremony honored law enforcement officers from Alabama, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Carolina and Virginia, Rhode Island, and Tennessee who went above and beyond the call of duty.
Read More →For use at military and law enforcement funerals, the Ceremonial Bugle plays “Taps” by itself. It works through the use of a small cone-shaped device that’s inserted into the bell of a real bugle. It plays a high-quality rendition of Taps that is nearly indistinguishable from an authentic bugler. The device is an alternative to a CD player and gives families a better visual remembrance of the tribute to their loved one.
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Orange County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Deputy Jennifer Fulford had a lot on her mind on May 5, 2004. Having just paid for her wedding dress, the logistics of her nuptials were weighing on the 31-year-old deputy as she began her patrol. There was still so much to do, and time was a precious commodity.
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In these days of the Columbine High School shootings and countless other similar tragedies involving youngsters, we often allow these violent acts to overshadow the good deeds that young people perform in communities across the nation, each and every day.
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