Mike Williams’ Local Cop News: 01.13.08

January 12, 2008 05:57 AM •

Florida: The Venice Police Department has suspended two of its veteran officers without pay over the accidental shooting of a 5-year-old boy

North Carolina: A Lee County Sheriff’s deputy is in the Alamance Regional Medical Center after being shot during a drug bust.

Oregon: Region’s SWAT Team drills for danger

California: A man who allegedly choked a baby and dangled her over a second-floor railing at a motel before police shot him with a Taser was charged Thursday with kidnapping, child abuse and false imprisonment of a hostage.

Georgia: Standoff roommate not Tasered

Philadelphia: Police Exchange Gunfire With Car’s Occupants, Shooting 3

Arizona: Legal fight in K9 death targets deaths of Sheriff’s dogs

Arizona: Officer shot, wounded at drug suspect’s home

Arizona: Sheriff’s Department has deputized 76 federal agents

St. Louis: A pit bull was shot by an off-duty police officer from the St. Louis County community of Northwoods after the dog turned on its owner

Wisconsin: Pit Bull Owner Defends Dog After Child is Attacked. The dog’s owner denies any wrongdoing. “The dog noticed that finally it wasn’t another dog, it wasn’t an animal, it was a child -- and he let go on his own,” Holly Mertens says

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Mike Williams, TeamOne Network

Mike Williams is the Assistant Chief of the Chattanooga TN police department and a 33 year law enforcement veteran. He was a SWAT officer for more than 25 years and teaches Tactical Team Commanders Courses for Team One Network www.teamonenetwork.com Asst. Chief Williams is a member of the IALEFI Board of Directors (www.ialefi.com ) and is chairman of the editorial committee. He also produces the daily Police Related News electronic newsletter which goes out to over 2,000 police officers in the US, Canada, Australia and South Africa on a daily basis and the weekly IALEFI newsletter.