From the Lexipol Team In public safety, where the demand for resources often outpaces budgets, public- and private-sector grants have become an important way of funding a variety of initiatives. Police departments, sheriffs’ offices, fire departments, emergency medical services (EMS) and corrections agencies all face the daunting challenge of [...]
The Department of Justice has launched the Seventh Annual Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in Community Policing. This award recognizes individual state, local, or tribal sworn, rank-and-file police officers, deputies, and troopers for exceptional efforts in innovations in community policing, criminal investigations, and field operations that have proven effective [...]
The 2024 COPS Hiring Program is a competitive grant program designed to provide funds directly to law enforcement agencies to hire new or rehire existing career law enforcement officers to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Anticipated outcomes of the CHP program awards include engagement in [...]
By Ron Martinelli, Ph.D. for Calibre Press ========== Editor’s note: In an article shared with Street Survival Seminar attendees, longtime trainer and use-of-force expert Dr. Ron Martinelli explains what he calls his 10 Laws of Defensive Tactics. After reading Ron’s sage advice, feel free to e-mail your own advice for fellow officers to: editor@calibrepress.com. We [...]
CISDs help responders deal with on-the-job trauma; recent cases put peer support group counseling confidentiality in doubt By Emily Hitchings from Police1.com Each day, across the United States, first responders risk their own safety for the welfare of the communities they serve. In addition to bodily harm, public safety [...]
In photo U.S Rep. Josh Gottheimer and State Police officials look at real time car theft information being shared by New Jersey police departments in Newark, one of three State Police Real Time Crime information centers in the state on Friday, His bill would replicate this center nationally and [...]
By Ken Wallentine for Lexipol United States v. Ronquillo, 2024 WL 972215 (10th Cir. 2024) After receiving a tip from a confidential informant (CI) about drug sales from a residence, investigators watched the house and saw multiple persons enter the residence, stay for a few minutes, then leave. The CI made two [...]
Reprinted from Calibre Press Training Network By Steve Albrecht The uncomfortable truth about this job is that a highly traumatic event can appear before you during the first hour of your first day in the field. And while you may have been able to successfully cope with the first [...]
Reprinted from Calibre Press Training Network Just days ago, a PBS NewsHour segment claimed that more than 1,000 people died between 2012 and 2021 “after police used physical force that is considered non-lethal.” The piece cited batons, CEWs, physical restraint techniques and chemical agents as the “non-lethal” elements involved. “The death [...]
The Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in community policing in the category of “Field Operations for an agency serving over 250,000 residents” was awarded to both Deputy Tanya Garcia and Deputy Esteban Hernandez with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Texas. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today announced the [...]
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