Tag: Agency Profiles: Page 2

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Sturgis (S.D.) Police Department

Every summer a department of 14 sworn morphs into a large multi-agency police force to accommodate the town’s annual motorcycle rally.

March 31, 2006

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Napa (Calif.) Police Department

Sometimes a schoolyard scuffle is just a simple fight. Sometimes it’s a clear cry for help from a kid battling bigger demons at home. And sometimes it portends more serious violence from a disturbed, future-felon-in-the-making.

February 28, 2006

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Conway (Ark.) Police Department

Cops in this Little Rock suburb have created a model program for reducing Christmas-time property crime.

January 31, 2006

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Boise (Idaho) Police Department

Clearly, the city needed to pay more attention to recreation on and around the river. In response, over the span of several years, Boise PD added four more full-time bike officers as well as eight school resource officers.

December 31, 2005

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Rio Rancho (N.M.) Department of Public Safety

Growing along with the city has been the Rio Rancho Department of Public Safety (RRDPS). In less than two decades, the city-with a growing population of nearly 70,000 residents-has watched as the public-safety agency experienced a staggering 455-percent increase in personnel resources.

November 30, 2005

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Nashville (Tenn.) Police Department

Last year, in addition to routine patrol duties, officers and their mounts worked more than 600 assignments and events, including NFL Tennessee Titans football games, funerals for fallen police officers, and visits to retirement homes and other community events.

October 31, 2005

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Appleton (Wis.) Police Department

The Appleton PD has received national attention for innovations in victim- and social-services-oriented sexual assault investigations, intercultural outreach to ensure services are fairly and effectively distributed to minority communities, and, most notably,  programs that address the real-life needs of its youngest residents.

September 30, 2005

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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

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9/11: Port Authority Police Department

Thirty-seven. That's how many New York/New Jersey Port Authority Police officers came to work on Sept. 11, 2001, and never went home. More than 2 percent of the agency's complement of 1,400 was killed in the attack, and to add insult to extreme injury, its headquarters were on the 67th floor of 1 World Trade Center.

August 31, 2002

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Texas Rangers

If ever a law enforcement group brought to mind truth, justice and the American way, it's the Texas Rangers.

December 31, 2001

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Dover (N.H.) Police Department

By looking to its past, the Dover (N.H.) Police Department has successfully adapted to the challenges of policing today.

October 31, 2001

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Henderson (Nev.) Police Department

The Henderson Police Department, with Acting Chief Mike Mayberry at the helm, is doing all it can to rise to growth-spurt challenges that come its way.

August 31, 2000