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Growing along with the city has been the Rio Rancho Department of Public Safety (RRDPS). In less than two decades, the city-with a growing population of nearly 70,000 residents-has watched as the public-safety agency experienced a staggering 455-percent increase in personnel resources.
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Cheyenne is a city with a relatively low crime rate, averaging one or two homicides a year, and is home to residents who seem to appreciate the work officers do.
Read More →Making an arrest, engaging in a traffic contact, and intervening on the scene of domestic mayhem are, statistically, among the most dangerous things you can do. Make an error in your handling of one of these and you should anticipate a really bad day.
Read More →Law enforcement agencies throughout the country are facing a major challenge in the recruitment of qualified peace officers. The baby boomer generation—many of them hired after service in Vietnam—is in the midst of retirement planning. Younger people are more skeptical about police work because of negative publicity and the allure of a rebounding economy with job offers from the private sector.
Read More →Tragically, the lives of many officers have been lost at the hands of suspects who attacked without warning as the officer attempted to apply handcuffs. Fortunately, there is a safer way to gauge a suspect's resistance while effectively controlling him.
Read More →NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, chief of the nation's largest police department, is quitting his high-profile job, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday.
Read More →An inmate who got into a scuffle with law enforcement officers in a courtroom in Northampton County was shot and killed by authorities after the inmate allegedly took a gun from a deputy and shot him, authorities said. The inmate had been transported from Raleigh for a court hearing.
Read More →San Jose's police union rejected a 3 percent raise and demanded the city double it to stem the exodus of personnel from the agency.
Read More →The National Equipment Register (NER) has released a guide to investigating theft of heavy equipment, available free to all law enforcement officers.
Read More →The Department of Justice plans to commemorate National Crime Victims’ Rights Week April 23-29, which pays tribute to crime victims and those who serve them.
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