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With the advent of today's innovative roundup of specialty munitions, including high-velocity sabot slugs, less-lethal rounds, and the new generations of low-recoiling buckshot, the smoothbore has a new lease on life.
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Ottawa's provincial government announced that police tactical units will be allowed to use Tasers, according to The Ottawa Citizen.
Read More →Government agency computer systems are having a hard time keeping up with the influx of terrorist-related information since Sept. 11.
Read More →The mayor and police commissioner of New York City have sworn in the first class of NYPD recruits since Sept. 11, charging them with the difficult task of fighting everything from low-level crime to international terrorism.
Read More →An RV serves as the mobile memorial for Port Authority officers killed on Sept. 11, 2001. The first responders killed during the World Trade Center attack last year included the entire day shift of the New York and New Jersey Port Authority Police Department (PAPD).
Read More →Safetec's Body Fluid Clean-Up Kit contains everything you need for clean up and disposal of blood, vomit, and contaminated body fluids. It includes solidifying powder, gloves, pick-up scoop with scraper, odor mask, antimicrobial hand wipes, germicidal disinfectant with dry wipe, waste bags, and instructions.
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Every officer on the New Orleans Police Department knows instinctively when Carnival season begins. No one needs to check the calendar. It's in the air like the smell of alcohol and the laughter of excited crowds gathering on the streets of the Vieux Carre (the French Quarter).
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Since taking the law enforcement community by storm in the early 1980s, Glock has continued to grace the holsters of cops of every rank and service.
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The biggest problem is recognizing true cover and what isn't. There is a distinct difference between cover and concealment.
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Mobile computing technology is changing the way law enforcement officers approach their jobs. It has freed them from in-house report writing and the tedious business of conveying messages through a dispatcher. It puts state and national databases at their fingertips, thereby decreasing wait time for critical information from 15 minutes to as little as 10 seconds. And it has increased officer productivity by as much as 50 percent.
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