Tag: Non-Sworn Personnel

Patrol

Philadelphia and FOP Agree to Use More Civilians Within PD

Duties that will be reassigned to civilians include traffic enforcement and ticketing abandoned cars.

November 16, 2022

Patrol

Oregon Mayor to Propose Deployment of Unarmed "Officers"

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler plans to bring a new policing pilot program before the City Council to deploy non-sworn and unarmed "officers" who would be "engaged in the community in non-emergency calls, so that's things like property crimes, break-ins," he said.

December 3, 2018

Patrol

Non-Sworn Assistants Help Phoenix Police Stretch Patrol Resources

Police assistants respond to calls such as to file reports for car accidents, thefts, burglaries or criminal damage that do not involve a suspect at a scene or another potentially dangerous situation.

February 21, 2018

Training

Video: LAPD Launches Paid Training Program for High School Grads

Through the Pledge to Patrol program – also known as the Associate Community Officer Program or A-COP – more than two dozen high school graduates will be working part-time for the Los Angeles Police Department as a way to train the next generation of police officers.

November 28, 2017

Patrol

Video: Suspect Dead After Shooting Wife and Off-Duty AZ Officer

A suspect allegedly shot his wife and an off-duty Arizona police officer, both of whom are Casa Grande Police Department employees, then took his own life.

September 7, 2017

Training

Civilian CSIs

Law enforcement agencies are finding a blended approach of utilizing civilians as CSIs provides the best of both worlds.

September 5, 2017

Patrol

Video: Shots Fired at Civilian Employee of California PD

The community services officer was filling out paperwork on a stolen vehicle as he waited for a tow truck around 2:15 p.m. when someone began shooting at him, police said.

March 10, 2016

Patrol

Friend, or Foe…Or, Neither?

I couldn't help but note how the absence of supervisorial intervention had played out for others elsewhere; how their failure to stem some cancerous problem exacted ever greater tolls later. What might have culminated with a written reprimand or a punitive day off instead ended up being the irrevocable loss of careers, families, and freedoms. A few employees ended up taking their lives.

January 19, 2014