Hiring young COs doesn’t mean relaxing standards or assuming every candidate from the same generation has identical needs By Gary Cornelius for Corrections1.com Corrections agencies are facing a difficult staffing reality. From 2019 to 2022, the number of people working in state correctional systems declined by 10%, reaching its lowest level in [...]
Why Forgetting Can Make Firearms Training More Effective Research shared by Officer.com suggests forgetting is not always a flaw in human memory and might help police officers and firearms students retrieve the right information and make better decisions under pressure. By Keith Hanson What to Know Forgetting is not inherently [...]
NEW “OPERATIONALLY CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENTS” STUDY NEEDS YOUR INPUT! Calibre Press instructor Dr. Richard Hough, a Professor of Practice in the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology at East Tennessee State University, is spearheading an important new study focused on better understanding how officers perceive the effects of operationally constrained environments [...]
Working Dog Magazine on Tracking and Trailing: Beyond the Find In a 2026 double-blind mantrailing study, teams reached the wrong person more than twice as often as the correct target. During the scent-discrimination trials, teams located the correct person in 9 percent of searches and an incorrect person in 19 [...]
Missouri Department of Public Safety hosts regional incident management training courses designed specifically for active attack and critical incident response New courses from the ALERRT Center for first responders and response agency leaders are approved for POST Continuing Law Enforcement Education training credit JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Public [...]
While very few citizens will ever encounter the risks and situations that we face on the job, many of the principles that keep us safe in uniform can be applied to civilian life. By Lt. Mike Dice, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (Florida), ASP Trainer since 2015 | Officer.com Survival [...]
Working Dog Magazine: Delayed Gratification and Detection Accuracy Impulse Control Before Commitment Detection accuracy is often discussed through odor recognition, drive, reward, and search stamina. Those pieces matter, but they do not explain every clean find or every false response. A dog also has to manage the urge to answer [...]
What fentanyl’s WMD classification means for field detection and response protocols By Michael Brown | American Police Beat iStock.com/smartboy10 Following executive presidential actions in 2025 designating certain cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) and classifying fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals as weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), the federal [...]
A week after a gathering of local youths devolved into violence, leading to 22 arrests, the Tampa Police Department organized a free “Teen Takeover With a Purpose” for young people to enjoy food, games and music with officers and other adult mentors in a safe, positive atmosphere. (Tampa P.D.) By [...]
ByRoy Shay for Homeland Security Today.us As the 2026 FIFA World Cup unfolds across North America, millions of spectators are filling stadiums while billions of viewers around the globe tune in to watch the matches. It is the largest sporting event ever held on the North American continent, and it requires an unprecedented level of coordination [...]
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