Tag: Handling Prisoners

Patrol

Charity Provides Free Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Training to Patrol Cops

“A blue belt level of knowledge is a night-and-day difference from someone who has no experience in jiu-jitsu. It's not even a fair fight at that point."

June 28, 2022

Patrol

Federal Prisons Suspend Visitations to Inmates Due to Coronavirus

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has temporarily suspended visitation to inmates in all 122 federal correctional facilities across the country.

March 16, 2020

Patrol

Lawmakers Denounce Plan to Transfer GITMO Detainees to U.S. Soil

The Major County Sheriff's Association sent a letter to the president to express their opposition to the plan. The letter states, "Detainees, deemed too dangerous to release, should not be brought to the homeland where they will pose a threat to the local communities we serve."

May 3, 2016

Patrol

Alternative Restraint Bench

Prisoner Bench

The Alternative Restraint Bench is now available from Prisoner Bench LLC in lengths from 3 feet to 8 feet.

October 30, 2015

Patrol

Arizona Departments Open Joint Jail

The Gilbert-Chandler joint holding facility in Arizona opened for business December 1, 2014. This new jail is a collaborative effort between the Gilbert Police Department and the Chandler Police Department, designed to increase efficiency, better utilize resources, and save money.

December 3, 2014

Patrol

Video: Handcuffed Man Shoots at Denver Police Officer

A man arrested for weapons violations managed to shoot at a police officer from the back of a patrol car in a Denver police substation parking lot.

May 14, 2014

Patrol

Video: Pa. Cops TASER Cuffed Man In Jail

Family members and the attorney of a man arrested for public intoxication and resisting arrest have questioned an officer's use of a TASER while he was being held at the Millvale (Pa.) Police station.

January 7, 2013

Patrol

Suspect Opens Fire In N.J. Station, Wounds 3 Officers

A man who was arrested for stalking a former girlfriend overpowered a Gloucester Township (N.J.) Police officer during processing Friday morning and shot three officers inside the station before he was shot and killed.

December 27, 2012

Patrol

Restraints

When you're transporting suspects or prisoners, you need the right tools to keep them from causing problems. View our photo gallery of these 11 restraints that include traditional handcuffs, zipcuffs, control straps, chains, and an immobilization system.

April 18, 2012

Patrol

Stabbed Ark. C.O. Was Checking Inmate for Contraband

Sgt. Barbara Ester, 47, was investigating a report of an inmate wearing an unauthorized pair of tennis shoes when she was stabbed multiple times at the East Arkansas Unit near Brickeys.

January 22, 2012

Patrol

Video: Michigan Man Escapes Cuffs, Squad

A 26-year-old suspect can be seen wriggling free from his handcuffs and climbing out of a locked West Bloomfield Township (Mich.) Police cruiser in a raw video released by the department.

September 14, 2011

Patrol

Mich. Man Escapes From Squad

A prisoner escapes from a West Bloomfield (Mich.) Township Police squad car, after wriggling free from his handcuffs.

September 14, 2011