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The Patrol Issues topic page offers news, commentary, analysis, and tactical tips that will help prepare police officers for life on the thin blue line. Suspect contacts, witness interviews, foot pursuits, citizen complaints, angry sergeants, and endless report writing are day-to-day activities for a patrol officer who knows that the “routine” is anything but routine.
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Columns

Driving simulators: Integration is key in officer training Travis Yates - Police Driving:
Safety Behind the Wheel

Driving simulators: Integration is key in officer training

Utilizing simulation in a blended fashion with real driving is key to improving offer safety behind the wheel - Full Story

Columns

Making the case for police training programs Ken Hardesty - Excellence in Training

Making the case for police training programs

Following the outcome of this case, Denver Police Department rapidly became — and continues to be — a model agency for both simulation training as well as live-fire perishable-skills training - Full Story

News

Crime in Philly down, officer-involved shootings up

Critics want more details of the rise in shootings; while police defend the ever-changing statistics - Full Story

News

Firemen rescue cop who tried rescuing cat in tree

Nearby schoolchildren watched as the officer climbed higher and higher after the cat, until he was stuck himself - Full Story

Videos

P1 Roll Call: Boston aftermath & lessons; 'Not Today' in Ft. Worth

For the week of April 26, Dave Smith recaps the Boston bombing manhunt, discusses the foiled Canadian railway terror plot, and discusses the 23% increase in LODDs so far in 2013 - plus, check out this week's 'Not Today' moment from Ft. Worth, Texas.

Exclusives

NJ police swear in ill boy as honorary officer

NJ police swear in ill boy as honorary officer

Cancer survivor and Bridgewater (NJ) Chief of Police Richard Borden knows what five-year old Malik Campbell, who has a rare form of cancer called Burkitt's Leukemia, is going through. He wanted to make the little boy's dreams come true. - Full Story

Exclusives

30 minutes from the Boston Marathon bombing

30 minutes from the Boston Marathon bombing

When I started the day, my central concern was whether or not my legs would carry me the full 26.2 miles — how trivial that worry was in the wake of the terror attack which would occur. - Full Story

Tips

The dictionary definition of policing

Years ago, a colleague of mine asked me to define the word policing. I told him it meant law enforcement.... - Full Story

Tips

Video: Positions of disadvantage: The mount position

In this video tactical tip — the second in a series of three tips related to working from positions... - Full Story Secure - Law Enforcement Only



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