Vandals targeted the Birmingham-area home of M. Miller Gorrie, the chairman of Brasfield & Gorrie, which is a primary contractor for the training center set to be built across 85 acres just outside Atlanta city limits in DeKalb County.
Marquis Kennedy was training in defensive tactics Friday when he let staff know that he was not feeling well. “He was immediately removed from the exercise and told to sit with a member of the training staff for further monitoring. A short time later, he collapsed,” the Arlington Police Department reported.
The chase for the suspect ended about two hours after the first of two reported shootings when Ontario's police watchdog says officers fatally shot the man, who had been tracked down to a Hamilton cemetery.
POLICE Contributing Editor Doug Wyllie discusses firearms training and training tools with Reactionary Gap (https://reactionarygap.com) founder and former Sparks, NV, Police Chief Steve Keefer.
Officials said Cadet Patrick Dupree collapsed after performing an exercise with other members of his recruit class.
Take a hint from our pilot friends. In an emergency, you need to be able to access all of your equipment without looking.
ILEETA Trainer of the Year Todd Fletcher talks with POLICE Contributing Editor Doug Wyllie about why officers should practice what they suck at.
Turning your police experience into instruction for other officers requires you to learn how to teach.
POLICE Contributing Editor Doug Wyllie discusses with Colin Gallagher why police should train to testify.
“Now they can accept what you have to say. If you just start talking, they're still in the moment that they just shot,” she says, as she continues to explain how the student should do most of the talking. “It is just like a police interview? We should be hearing more from them than they hear from us.”
POLICE Contributing Editor Doug Wyllie chats with Lon Bartel, director of training and curriculum for VirTra Systems.
FLETC became a VirTra customer in 2019 and was the first customer to receive VirTra’s ultra-high definition 4K simulation systems. VirTra’s systems are located at FLETC facilities in Artesia, NM, Charleston, SC, Cheltenham, MD, and Glynco, GA. The 59 single screen simulators are used to train thousands of federal Police officers and agents.
Arkansas State Police said the officer started showing signs of “medical distress” when he and other JPD officers arrived Sunday afternoon for training.
Bobby Cummings, managing principal at engineering and design firm Clark Nexsen talk to POLICE contributing editor Doug Wyllie about building police training facilities.
Some reports say as much as 75% of law enforcement shootings occur in poorly lit or dark areas, but many agencies fail to offer low-light firearms training.
In a close-up encounter with a suspect who is drawing a concealed weapon, you are unlikely to outdraw him, but you can outfight him.
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