The recent arrival of golden Labrador Thoreau makes Rhode Island the second state in the nation to have a police dog trained to sniff out hard drives, thumb drives, and other technological gadgets that could contain child pornography.
Read More →Five Rhode Island law enforcement agencies say they're still working out how to spend well over $100 million that's left from a $230 million settlement.
Read More →A Providence (R.I.) Police officer with strong ties to his community died Saturday night in a motorcycle crash while off duty. John Reposa, Jr., 43, struck a vehicle at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
Read More →The University of Rhode Island's Kingston campus was locked down at noon today in response to reports that a gunman was inside the university's Chafee Hall.
Read More →The North Providence (R.I.) Police chief launched an internal investigation after officers allegedly forced several teenage vandalism suspects to do push-ups as punishment.
Read More →A Rhode Island trooper arrested a subject who used the officer's TASER on her during a physical confrontation after a foot pursuit on Thursday.
Read More →Officer John Brown, a 28-year veteran, said North Providence police colonel John J. Whiting handed him $714. The chief is accused of stealing the money from a stripper's SUV that he had pursued.
Read More →A Providence (R.I.) Police officer has succumbed to injuries he sustained after crashing his police vehicle while responding as backup to a disturbance call.
Read More →Rhode Island law enforcement agencies plan to set up a statewide police training center, build a new headquarters, and replace aging vehicle fleets with a $230 million asset forfeiture windfall from Google.
Read More →A former Lincoln (R.I.) Police Department officer received a suspended sentence with 10 years probation for kicking a disorderly woman in the head outside a casino in 2009.
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