Tag: Officer Safety: Page 32

Extracting Suspects from Commercial Aircraft Safely

The extraction of unruly or even dangerous criminals from crowded, commercial airliners is not an everyday occurrence for an airport officer, although it happens all too frequently.

December 31, 1999

SWAT Teams Need Strong Leadership

No police department would ever consider sending police officers onto the street without proper training or equipment to handle routine calls. Without hesitation, police department send their officers to state-of-the-art equipment. This is equally true when it comes to training and equipping high-risk or specialty units such as SWAT teams, gang units, repeat offender units and emergency response teams.

March 31, 1998

Caution: Handle All Subjects with Care

As a survival-smart officer you already know that prisoners can be dangerous. You are very much aware that every year American peace officers are murdered after taking offenders into custody. Attention to some basic officer survival skills aimed at the safe handling of prisoners can help keep you from adding your name to the bloody statistics.

October 31, 1996

Combative Subjects Require Special Care

Responding to calls involving violent, incoherent or uncontrollable subjects is never easy. Unlike rational individuals who can be taken into custody with little more than a show of authority, irrational subjects are extremely unpredictable.

June 30, 1996

Rail Accident Sites Offer Serious Safety Hazards

On Sept. 28, 1989, a fire truck from the Catlett, Calif., Fire Department was struck by an Amtrak passenger train as the truck crossed a rural railroad right-of-way while responding to a vehicle fire. The truck was totally destroyed, and two firefighters aboard were killed.

May 31, 1996

Staying Alive

In spite of all that is known about officer deaths — despite what officers have been taught in the academy and in-service training — all too often good cops are still killed because they forgot, they took a shortcut, they took an unnecessary chance or they were just plain lazy.

March 31, 1996

Making a "Routine" Pedestrian Contact

Tragically, examples of police killings are no longer rare. In all too many instances, a simple request for identification and compliance with lawful instructions has led to the murder of a law enforcement officer.

December 31, 1995

Page 32 of 32