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Patrol
9 Ways to Improve Coordination With Helicopter Units
Read these nine pointers for patrol officers to improve your working relationship with the sky patrol during pursuits, surveillance or other joint missions.
July 19, 2010
As a tactical flight officer, Pasadena (Calif.) PD's Brad May handles the police work, while pilot Sgt. Mike Ingram flies the chopper. Photo by Paul Clinton.
Patrol
Dealing With Citizen Complaints
Once you realize that it's not personal, complaint response becomes a process not a confrontation. The key to dealing with any complaint is showing respect. By respecting yourself and others, everything else will fall into place.
July 12, 2010
Best Pactices 1
Patrol
How to Use a Strobing Flashlight
The one thing I can tell you is that many of the students who arrive for my classes with their strobing lights ready to go are often not aware of the pros and cons of strobe light deployment.
June 29, 2010
Low Light 1
Patrol
How to Defend Against a Rifle
In this defensive tactics video, SenseiNinja2 demonstrates how to defend against a suspect pointing a rifle from the front and behind.
June 9, 2010
Pol Rifledefense 1
Patrol
How to Use a Strobing Flashlight
POLICE
Strobes have become extremely popular on police flashlights, but this tool has its pluses and minuses. The one thing I can tell you is that many of the students who arrive for my classes with their strobing lights ready to go are often not aware of the pros and cons of strobe light deployment.
May 31, 2010
Pol Whitepaper Cover 6
Weapons
How to Clear a Jammed 1911 Pistol
A balky 1911 .45 ACP is brought to heel by a young tactical officer who possesses great skill at executing a "tap and rack" maneuver to overcome a weapon malfunction. Worn out feed lips or other magazine issues often cause these malfunctions.
May 27, 2010
Clearing1911 Vid 1
Patrol
How's Your Poker Face?
Men are all too transparent. They stare, they ogle, they salivate. They wouldn't know subtlety if it came up and bit them on the ass. And that's true when they see criminals.
January 7, 2010
Special Units
How to Decipher Gang Graffiti Codes
The Collective Eye offers this tutorial on how to understand gang graffiti symbols, handshakes and codes, using as an example the distinction between People versus Folks in the Chicago-area gang lexicon. Excerpted from The Heart Broken in Half, an anthropological documentary about a Chicago street gang, the Latin Kings.
December 30, 2009
Decipher Graffiti Vid 1
Vehicles
How to Become a Police Helicopter Pilot
Read this how-to guide for sworn officers in larger departments who dream of one day joining their agency's airborne unit.
December 30, 2009
Image via San Diego County Sheriff's Department.
Weapons
How to Quickly Reload Your Revolver
Mike Larney of the ProArms podcast demonstrates the FLETC reload for the revolver as he was taught when he was an officer with the NYPD. You'll need a speed-loader for this one.
December 13, 2009
Revolver Reload Vid 1
Patrol
Interfacing With the Mentally Ill
This 1960 documentary, "Booked for Safekeeping (Part I)" was made to train officers to help mentally ill and confused people. The film advocates that mentaly ill people be held in the least restrictive environment possible, particularly not in a jail cell unless absolutely essential. The film points out that there are often inadequate facilities and services to deal with such people, and that is why the job falls to the police.
December 3, 2009
Mentally Ill Vid 1
Patrol
PR-24 Side-Handle Baton Tactics
SenseiNinja2 offers two ways to assert yourself with the PR-24 side-handle baton to fend off an attacker. In the initial move, he advises that you "don't stand flat-footed; charge into it." Use the other hand to grab the suspect's hands or wrist immediately after the block to prevent them from using the back end of a weapon to attack you.
December 1, 2009
Pr 24 Baton Vid 1
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