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Live-fire training in teams Comments

Let's start practicing team gunfighting skills to magnify our effectiveness when deadly force is required. ...

Bulletproof wheels on way for Tex. Special Ops team Comments

By Judy Sheridan The Weatherford Democrat PARKER COUNTY, Texas — Parker County Commissioners authorized the purchase of a BATT (Ballistic Armored Tactical Transport) AP SWAT vehicle for the Weatherford-Parker ...

SHOT Show 2012: The Compact Ballistic Control Shield Comments

One of the many booths to which I paid a visit during my time at SHOT Show 2012 in Las Vegas this week a company called Critical Safety Equipment. I had seen some information cross my desk at some point ...

How an Okla. cop was saved by his body armor Comments

POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY, Okla. — On August 18th, Deputy Joe Leeds pulled over a mid-model Chevy pickup after the truck ran a stop sign. As he approached the vehicle from behind, a white, male passenger ...

How to buy personal shields Comments

By Rick ArmellinoAs understood and practiced by legions of shield users across many centuries of brutal warfare - lightweight and portable shields are excellent tools that protect warriors conducting close ...

St. Louis Police Department to outfit patrol cars with cameras Comments

By Patrick M. O'Connell St. Louis Post-DispatchST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Police Department will be outfitting 20 patrol cars with in-car camera systems, becoming the latest metropolitan department ...

How to buy ballistic shields

Shields have been around since the beginning of combat. As gladiators stood in front of their combatants holding their shield, law enforcement officers encounter threats while holding the modern equivalent. ...

Exterior vests: The new look and feel of body armor

Whether they admit it or not, some police don’t wear body armor. What would make an otherwise fastidious officer compromise his safety on the streets? Turns out, basic lack of comfort is to blame. ...

Edison cops are first to fully deploy ballistic shields Comments

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Austin facility names heroes of UT rampage

Related article: Protecting citizens from killers takes bravery, aggression and speedBy Denise Gamino The Austin American-StatesmanAUSTIN — The people who risked their lives to stop Charles Whitman's ...

Fl. man gets 20 years for shooting at deputy

By Michael Scarcella Sarasota Herald-TribuneBRADENTON, Fl. — Larry Boyers knew there was a deputy sheriff in his carport when he fired twice through a screen door in a brazen attempt to kill the ...

Air Force missile launch crew fell asleep

Related articles: Cop fatigue: Serious issue or fact of life on patrol?, A tactial physician writes on the risks posed by officer fatigueBy Lolita C. Baldor and James MacPherson The Associated Press WASHINGTON, ...

How (and why) to invite a SWAT team into your home

Editor's Note: The following article by Susan Perry first appeared on MinnPost.com and is printed by permission of the publisher. By Susan Perry MinnPost.com A SWAT team prepares to enter the Scolls' house. ...

Arming campus cops is elementary Comments

Jim Lanzi, the Crime Prevention Coordinator for the Department of Public Safety at Princeton, filed an anonymous complaint (his identity was later revealed) against the school with OSHA in which he stated – rightly so in our view – that by not allowing campus police the ability to carry guns, the university has created a workplace safety hazard. But OHSA sided with the University’s contention that “Princeton Township and Borough police will be there when needed and on-campus public safety officers still do not need guns” according to a report in the Times of Trenton. ...

PoliceOne Member Photo of the Week: Deploying CS gas Comments

Members of the Aiken P.D. (South Carolina) special response team move under the cover of a ballistic shield with left side rifle cover on a hot summer day. Officers were approaching residence to deploy ...

LAPD brace for potentially volatile May Day

By Joel Rubin and Anna Gorman The Los Angeles TimesLOS ANGELES — On a warm morning earlier this month, about 600 Los Angeles police officers gathered in the empty parking lot at Dodger Stadium for ...

'Taking the shot' for public safety

Many deaths or serious injuries to average citizens would be prevented if armed and hostile individuals were killed when the first legal opportunity for a clean shot was presented.

Yet the public at large seldom benefits from the same level of personal protection afforded to VIPs and law enforcement personnel. Instead they're often left to fend for themselves until the potential killer goes "active" and becomes fair game for aggressive law enforcement action. ...

Mich. chief coordinates rural response plan

The Flint Journal CLIO, Mich. — Don't let the city's small size fool you. Clio may be only 1.2 square miles, but its police department and top cop James McLellan have big ideas about leading an effort ...

Amid violence, N.Y. troopers to get better equipment Comments

State Police get stronger body armor and handguns. mew equipmentThe Newark Star-Ledger ALBANY, N.Y. — Following a year when a half-dozen troopers were shot, two fatally, State Police are getting ...

Okla. officer saved by bulletproof vest

The BA officer was shot during a domestic disturbance in which a woman also was wound Jeff Billington Tulsa World, Okla. BROKEN ARROW — Officer Zach Schatz looks at things a little differently after having ...