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Deputies with the Orange County Sheriff's Office are getting the opportunity to see if wearing load-bearing vests—in lieu of traditional duty belts—helps them to eliminate or at least alleviate pain associated with carrying a lot of extra weight around the mid-section of the body.
Read More →Deputy Benjamin Nimtz's patrol vehicle crashed into a Toyota Tundra pickup truck at an intersection.
Read More →A Titusville man faces charges of aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer, fleeing and eluding, and resisting arrest after striking a Melbourne police officer with the side-view mirror of his SUV.
Read More →An officer with the St. Petersburg Police Department suffered minor injuries when his patrol vehicle was struck by another vehicle.
Read More →The Winter Haven Police Department posted images on Facebook over the weekend of its brand new K-9, a therapy dog named Miranda.
Read More →The driver—identified as 18-year-old Jamar Johnson—was in a vehicle attempting to elude deputies when he fatally struck a woman walking in a crosswalk, police say.
Read More →An officer with the Cocoa (FL) Police Department was off duty and preparing to get into the shower when he heard a traffic accident near his Titusville home.
Read More →The Tampa Police Department faced the wrath of anti-Trump Twitter followers after the agency's official Twitter account retweeted a post from Brad Parscale—President Trump's 2020 campaign manager—saying "#FourMoreYears" in response to actor Jon Voight's video praising the president.
Read More →A free Pitbull concert held last month raised more than $1 million for the family of Officer Kevin Valencia, who was badly wounded while responding to a hostage situation last year.
Read More →In January, Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Israel, citing problems with the Sheriff’s Office response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, in which 17 people were killed and 17 injured on Feb. 14, 2018.
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