Tag: Drug Enforcement: Page 51

Patrol

M.M.C. Narcotic Identification Tests

M.M.C. International

MMC is the manufacturer of MMC Narcotic Identification Tests. There are many advantages to using the MMC Tests to detect narcotics. Because they don’t use dangerous liquid reagents or acid neutralizers, the tests don’t pose environmental risks.

February 28, 2007

Special Units

Street Corner Drug Dealing

It has been argued that drug use is a victimless crime. But you’re a cop, and you know better. You’ve seen the overdosed victims, the worried looks on parents’ faces. You’ve also seen the neighborhood deterioration. You know that as drug dealers move in, citizens have a diminished feeling of safety and legitimate businesses move out. This creates an environment suitable not only for drug dealing, but also prostitution, burglaries, robberies, rapes, and murders.

December 31, 2006

Patrol

Taking Back the Neighborhood

David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, had developed a new drug interdiction strategy, and he was trying to sell a police department into trying it. The frustrated officers of the High Point PD were willing guinea pigs.

October 31, 2006

Patrol

How to Investigate a Meth Lab

Navigating the dangers of cookers’ “kitchens.”

August 31, 2006

Training

Salt Lake City PD's Meth Initiative

Salt Lake City PD created the Methamphetamine Initiative, which brings together more than 30 public and private agencies to address drug rehab and meth-related property crimes, enhanced prosecution, environmental hazards and, of course, child endangerment issues.

June 30, 2006

Training

Hartford (Vt.) Police Department

Slicing through the rolling hills and quiet villages of Vermont’s Upper Valley are the dual black-ribbon roadways of interstates 89 and 91. Stretching from the Canadian border into New Hampshire and Connecticut, respectively, the robust thoroughfares form the backbone for travel in western New England.

August 31, 2005

Special Units

Tucson (Ariz.) PD's SWAT Team

Sgt. Robert Allen, weighed down in 50 pounds of tactical ballistic assault gear, has a reporter in his office, a lieutenant standing in the doorway, a ringing cell phone in one hand, and a three-wire mic at his left ear, listening to the Tucson Police Department SWAT team prepare for deployment.

July 31, 2005

Special Units

Head of the Class

The Center's mission is to provide no-cost counterdrug training and education to law enforcement and drug demand reduction specialists across the 18 northeastern United States spanning Maine to Virginia and west to Wisconsin.

March 31, 2004

Patrol

Morality Check

Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe in.

October 31, 2003

Technology

I See You

While running after a suspect, I charged around the corner of an alley and the guy hit me over the head, knocking my lights out. I really could have used a tool that let me see around corners that day. And now, today’s cops can have them: easy-to-use tactical video systems.

July 31, 2003

Patrol

Death Takes A Holiday

The murder rate has been dropping nationwide, and nowhere is it dropping faster than on the streets of America's formerly most dangerous cities.

May 31, 2003

Patrol

Search Patterns

Patting down a suspect is serious business and you can never be reminded enough of the hazards of doing it poorly.

April 30, 2003