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Training

Reserve Officers: For Love of the Job

At minimum, an LASD reserve officer's service will include logging 20 hours a month regardless of obligations posed by the reserve's regular job and family responsibilities. He may find himself working his own patrol car, standing guard in the cold along a parade route, or handling that "change of shift" report nobody else wanted.

March 3, 2014

Patrol

Tupelo Officer Wounded During Robbery Released from Hospital

Tupelo Police Officer Joseph Maher was released from North Mississippi Medical Center Tuesday morning, eight days after being critically wounded in a shootout.

January 1, 2014

Patrol

Police Kill Suspect Wanted in Miss. Cop's Death

Authorities said Sunday that a man who was fatally shot by a Phoenix detective during a bank robbery had been the subject of a massive manhunt after killing one Mississippi police officer and wounding another following a bank robbery last week.

December 29, 2013

Patrol

Miss. Officer Killed, Another Wounded During Robbery Response

Officer Kevin "Gale" Stauffer, 38, was killed during a robbery at BancorpSouth Monday. Officer Joseph Maher, 27, was injured and was at last check in critical condition, WAAY TV reports.

December 25, 2013

Patrol

Miss. Dep. Killed in One-Car Crash

A deputy with the Union County (Miss.) Sheriff’s Department died Wednesday night as the result of a one-car accident.

December 22, 2013

Patrol

Mississippi Officer Killed Deploying Spike Strip

Officer Keith Crenshaw, 52, of the Eupora (Miss.) Police Department was killed Wednesday after laying down a spike strip to stop a car being pursued by law enforcement officers.

October 23, 2013

Patrol

Miss. Officer Arrests Shoplifter, Suffers Heart Attack

Corporal Van Perry, 49, has transported the suspect to the police station on Aug. 28 and began to interview him when Perry suddenly collapsed.

September 8, 2013

Patrol

Miss. Officer Struck Removing BBQ Grill from Road

A driver struck and killed a Jackson (Miss.) Police officer Saturday as the officer attempted to remove debris from Interstate 55. Officer Bruce Jacob, a five-year veteran, died after he was transported to the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

July 21, 2013

Training

Indicted Ex-Miss. Chief Faces New Charges

A former Mississippi police chief arrested in March for allegedly demanding cash or property from suspects in exchange for leniency faces nine new counts, the FBI announced Friday.

May 19, 2013

Patrol

Partner Fired At Suspect Who Killed Miss. Detective

The partner of a Jackson (Miss.) Police detective fired a round at the murder suspect who killed Det. Eric Smith in a third-floor interrogation room earlier this month.

April 15, 2013

Technology

Video Shows Fatal Assault on Miss. Detective

Interrogation room surveillance video captured the killing of a Jackson (Miss.) Police detective by a murder suspect, as more details emerged about the line-of-duty death.

April 7, 2013

Patrol

Miss. Detective Remembered As Devoted Dad

Jackson (Miss.) Police Detective Eric Smith loved his two sons and displayed a memorabilia shrine to his favorite NFL football team in his home, friends of the slain officer told the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.

April 4, 2013