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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 22, 2022

Long Island Agency Asks NYPD for Help After Cyber Attack Cripples 911 Center

The NYPD is providing five additional call operators per tour to help handle the volume of calls. Once a call is received, instead of inputting the incident into a computer, the calls are made to dispatch officers.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 22, 2022

VirTra Receives Orders Worth $9 Million from 2 Federal Agencies

The orders consist of VirTra’s flagship V-300 and portable V-100 simulators, recoil kits and magazines, V-Threat-Fire devices and other accessories. Service plans are included as well as training and installation.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 16, 2022

5 Officers Injured in Training Explosion

Several emergency vehicles, including at least two fire trucks, swarmed a large field near SCI - Phoenix in Skippack Township just after 11 a.m. Thursday.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 16, 2022

Commercial UAV Expo Surpasses Prior Records with 232 Exhibitors and 4,100 Registrants

“The turnout was monumental,” said Lee Corkhill, group event director at Diversified Communications (organizer of the Expo). “We surpassed every expectation this year. With a 74% increase of verified registrants over last year and a sold-out exhibit floor."

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Inside the Badge by Doug WyllieSeptember 16, 2022

Citizens Video Recording Police Should be Part of Training

The nexus of cellphone videos, social media posts, and anti-police sentiment will ensure that an increasing number of police-citizen contacts will be either broadcast live on the Internet, recorded for later consumption, or both.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 14, 2022

Minneapolis Use-of-Force Numbers Increase Because of Handcuff Policy Change

The new policy added new categories for reporting certain holds, joint manipulations, nerve pressure points (touch pressure), handcuffing, unholstering/display of a weapon, verbal threats to use less-lethal weapons, less-lethal weapon pointing, verbal threats to use deadly force and firearm pointing, according to the policy.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 14, 2022

Veteran Ohio Officer Dies on Way to Work

Sgt. Nicholas M. Hunter had served with the Parma PD since 1993. He was promoted to sergeant in 2003.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 13, 2022

Cincinnati FOP Demands Reinstatement of Officer Suspended Over Racial Slur

“Police officers shouldn’t use racial slurs,” FOP President Dan Hils said. “But it is the absolute height of stupidity to suspend Detective Reese who kept his cool so well in the face of a drunk, white teenager screaming threats and repeatedly calling him and another black officer the n-word."

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 13, 2022

CO Deputies Rescue 2 Women from Car Crashed in Reservoir

The incident happened around 11 p.m. when the driver mistakenly went down a boat ramp on a foggy night.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 12, 2022

Suspects in Killing of Off-Duty TX Deputy Constable were Out on Bond for Murder Charges

Ahsim Taylor Jr. and Jayland Womack, both 20, were booked in the Harris County Jail for the Aug. 28 shooting death of Harris County Precinct 3 Deputy Constable Deputy Omar Ursin, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.

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