The association has listed three measures it supports and will grade lawmakers on this session, including state money to help small departments provide bullet-resistant vests, $1,220 a year in supplemental pay for officers at accredited departments.
Deputies said they located a loaded gun in the man's pocket and inside the Tahoe they found a backpack containing a large amount of counterfeit cash, brass knuckles and two clown masks. They also found badges, a helmet, a Mississippi State Police Department ID card and a Pearl River Sheriff’s Office key card, records show.
The move made Jackson, which has struggled to keep up with advances in high-tech crime-fighting, one of two dozen places in the country where police agencies inked deals this year with Fusus, a small Georgia company that aims to make it easier for American law enforcement agencies to build networks of public and private security cameras.
Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey shared a post on Facebook from John W. Hamilton, the father of Richland Officer Coty Hamilton, who said his son crashed into a tree and his patrol car burst into flames. John Hamilton said in the post that two officers pulled his son out of the burning vehicle.
An officer with the Mississippi Highway Patrol was reportedly injured in a vehicle crash that left his patrol car overturned beside the roadway on Saturday morning.
Lieutenant Troy Morris—a 27-year veteran of the Mississippi Highway Patrol who also worked part time for the United States Postal Service—was found shot dead in his delivery truck.
Deputy Dylan Pickle and Deputy Zach Wilbanks were transported to a nearby hospital where Pickle succumbed to his injuries.
A vehicle crashed into the Vicksburg (MS) Police Department early Thursday morning.
An officer with the Biloxi (MS) Police Department says he was "just doing his job" when he came to the aid of an elderly Louisiana woman and helped her return home safely to her family, but the family is showing gratefulness for the officer's actions.
The Lawrence County Coroner said that Deputy Robert Ainsworth and his wife Paula were killed in their home.
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