Officials said the cameras will also improve evidence collection, preparation of reports or court testimony, and training of cadets and troopers.
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Lindsay Dragon, the executive director of a local support group Parenting Autism United, believes the ID cards will be especially beneficial for adults with autism who may not be aware of the harm they can cause in an interaction with police officers.
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Still armed with a .22 caliber rifle stolen from a homeowner's garage this week, Cavalcante tried to crawl away through the brush and escape from the tactical units closing in, officials said. Then a K-9 bit him and held him down.
Read More →According to Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Megan Ammerman, an officer was serving a warrant when the subject of the warrant opened fire.
Read More →“Let me be clear: Pennsylvania state troopers support the Juneteenth holiday. But for Gov. Wolf to use his platform to further push a false narrative that police are racist murderers is nothing less than the worst kind of political pandering," said David Kennedy, president of the Pennsylvania State Troopers Association.
Read More →The suspect, Koby Francis, 22, has managed to elude arrest for a full week since the shooting of Officer Gerasimos "Jerry" Athans, 32, outside the McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Police Department. A $15,000 reward is being offered for Francis's arrest, and an all-hands-on-deck search for him has spread out to multiple states.
Read More →Police in Pennsylvania cited a woman for violating the state's "stay-at-home" order—meant to slow the spread of coronavirus—because she went out for a drive in her personally owned vehicle over the weekend.
Read More →A gunman who barricaded himself inside his house after shooting a Pennsylvania State Police trooper was shot and killed after a 14-hour standoff.
Read More →The merger of the Cheswick Borough and Springdale Township’s police departments in Pennsylvania will create the Allegheny Valley Regional Police Department—the first such merger in that state in nearly a half decade.
Read More →Pennsylvania State Police are being sued by the family of a drug suspect who was killed when he was run over by a bulldozer used by a trooper during a 2018 pursuit and search on public land.
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