Tag: How-To Guides: Page 18

How to Buy Rifle Optics

In days gone by, “rifle optics” referred to one thing: a telescopic sight with varying degrees of magnification. But today, rifle optics include a new class of aiming devices called combat optics, generally red dot sights.

December 31, 2006

How to Avoid Burnout

Burnout is a modern American pandemic. Almost anybody who works an office job in this country has, at one time during his or her career, experienced apathy and lethargy while on the clock.

November 30, 2006

How to Get Into SWAT Shape

Training for any agency’s SWAT team is physically, mentally, and tactically challenging. Add in long and changing shift work hours, family obligations, and not enough time in the day, and your goal of joining a SWAT team appears even more difficult. The goal of this article is to assist those police officers currently on the force in achieving the fitness level of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) officers.

October 31, 2006

How to Work with the Media

Before you have to work with the press, you should become thoroughly familiar with two things: the law as it applies to journalists, and your agency’s policies and procedures for interacting with members of the news media.

September 30, 2006

How to Investigate a Meth Lab

Navigating the dangers of cookers’ “kitchens.”

August 31, 2006

Informed Publishing NIMS Field Guide

Informed Publishing

Informed Publishing’s new NIMS: Incident Command System Field Guide gives access to critical key points of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) that can help you make decisions fast, and help make sure that NIMS compliance requirements are met. The 3x5-inch reference guide clearly and concisely outlines what you need to know about the NIMS. The guide has color-coded tabs and is tough, waterproof, and alcohol-fast.

August 31, 2006

Firepaw Recognizing Pet Abuse Book

“Silent Victims” is a book for those who come in contact with animal victims and perpetrators of animal abuse. It provides an overview of the most critical scientific and anecdotal findings about the factors surrounding animal abuse. The user-friendly book’s goal is to provide strategies for identifying abusers of animals and alerting the proper people to such behavior, which is often a precursor to violence against people.

August 31, 2006

How to Evaluate a Training Program

You have many opportunities for training outside of your agency. But how do you tell which classes are suitable for you and whether what you learn in those classes will work on the street?

July 31, 2006

How to Cope with a Shooting

One of the most stressful episodes an officer can face during his or her career is making the decision to shoot and dealing with the aftermath. Officer-involved shootings spawn a variety of questions, and many of them may be unanswerable.

June 30, 2006

Going Door to Door

In a major criminal investigation, getting off your ass and knocking on some doors is essential. In fact, it is a crucial element in the early stages of working an unsolved case. The area canvass-knocking on the doors of all the residences surrounding the crime scene-is one of the first tasks a lead detective should have on his lead sheet.

June 30, 2006

How to Crack Down on Street Racing

Street racing of automobiles has been an American tradition since the early 1950s and probably long before. It’s not hard to imagine the first owners of Model T Fords staring each other down as they ran their “Tin Lizzies” down the rutted roads of the early 20th century. But the hey-day of street racing was the “I Like Ike” era when kids in souped-up Chevys and Fords would race for car titles and teenage glory.

May 31, 2006

Fighting with a Carbine

Old West sheriffs and marshals often carried a Colt .45 called the Peacemaker. But that .45 had the limitations of all handguns, so savvy Western lawmen also kept a short-barreled repeating rifle like a Winchester in their saddle bags. They knew that in a real gunfight, a carbine is the real “peace maker.”

April 30, 2006

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