An officer with the Grand Prairie (TX) Police Department was conducting a press briefing when his wife of 15 years surprised him after being deployed for six months in Iraq.
An officer with the East Greenwich (RI) Police Department died over the weekend in a skydiving accident in Connecticut.
An officer with the Riley County (KS) Police Department has been recognized as the Veterans of Foreign Wars State of Kansas Officer of the Year.
A newly minted officer with the Irving (TX) Police Department was stunned during her swearing in ceremony as her son—a member of the United States Army serving overseas—appeared at the facility to pin her star on her uniform.
An officer with the Berwyn (IL) Police Department who had been sent on a welfare check of a military veteran down on his luck decided to go above and beyond the call of duty and organized an effort to collect a variety of goods the man needed.
Officer Ken Foley, 57, was found unresponsive in his patrol vehicle after dispatch was unable to contact him via radio.
Evan Hafer, the founder and CEO of Black Rifle Coffee Company, said that his company will always "back the blue."
The Sacramento Police Department has waived the requirement for a college degree for recruits who are veterans of the United States military.
Gulf War veteran Gerald Baldwin told a Walker County Sheriff’s deputy he was trying to walk 100 miles from Cordova, AL, to Huntsville for a scheduled appointment with the Veterans Administration because his car was out of commission.
Veterans of America's military tend to make excellent police officers—they have baked into their very being a commitment to service, an unusually high level of discipline, an understanding of chain-of-command, and other qualities that police officers also share.