Command Staff - Chiefs / Sheriffs
The Command Staff - Chiefs / Sheriffs topic gives police leadership news and information to help them lead their troops. This topic also gives the patrol officer an avenue to prepare themselves for a rise through the ranks.
A message from a homeless man shows a police chief how to move forward from despair to purpose and prioritize his employees’ wellness
The timeless wisdom from history’s great leaders can guide law enforcement toward a more responsive, accountable and community-oriented future
If you’re policing in a community where the thin blue line has been erased by policymakers, then it’s time to discuss this theory as part of the solution to the problem
Despite commanding the largest Sheriff’s Department in the nation, Baca has always been willing to do the work of those in the lower ranks
The viral video was just the beginning of what would become a nearly six-month hiring process that would end with the selection of Lee Dobrowolski as Hillsboro’s soon-to-be police chief
Office has been using the technology since 2007 to book inmates and ensure they’ve caught the correct person
Two Tommy guns from 1928 will be traded for 88 new Bushmaster rifles for the department
James Craig said time spent in LA and Maine where gun permits are more easily obtained made him realize that is why they are safer
As this holiday season draws to a close and the year 2014 begins, officers in Detroit and elsewhere won’t miss a beat
Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson scheduled a news conference for Monday morning to release updated information about a shotgun attack on a suburban Denver high school
Oakland’s Interim Chief Sean Whent was in an unmarked Tahoe with his spokeswoman when they heard the radio call
Chief Michael Kehoe sent a letter to the town police commission and to 12-year veteran Thomas Bean last week
The now-Lieutenant Bill Moton, who will be appointed chief, says taking the job is ‘a way to give back’
Mayor Tom Henry announced Monday the appointment of Garry Hamilton, a 19-year veteran with the department, as the new police chief of Fort Wayne
Kevin Jones acted reasonably when he dropped a 70-year-old woman to the paving as she resisted arrest
There have been hundreds of these disruptions since 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder recently told an audience of police chiefs
Brimfield Township Police Chief David Oliver took to Facebook to challenge the rapper after he compare his job to policing
Claire Davis, 17, was shot in the head at point-blank range and remains in critical condition; she was believed to be a random target
Surrounding schools are on lockdown as authorities investigate; police believe the gunman killed himself
The chief intimidated patrons at a bar where an anti-police song was playing, displayed inappropriate political bias on separate occasion
Jesus Huerta was searched and cuffed before he somehow shot himself in the cruiser’s backseat
Yes, the jolly old man is fictional (Sshhh, don’t tell the kids!), but law enforcement brass can draw a number of corollaries and apply them to real-world management situations
From hostage situations to drugged-up lunatics to little lost teddy bears, it’s all in a day’s work
A lower court overturned the conviction and death sentence of a man who admittedly killed a Kan. sheriff
Jarrett Daniel Stallings, 24, was booked on a complaint of using an electronic device to threaten or harass officials
Chief Richard Pruitt said the 23-year-old student had wrestled away the officer’s baton and hit him with it before the officer got it back
The investigation into corruption and civil rights abuses led to the arrests Monday of 16 of the 18 defendants
The impact smashed the patrol car’s windshield, leaving the deputy with cuts on his arm and glass in his eyes
Changing light bars and signals remotely helps keep La Grange officers on the scene, not in their cars
The small department shares one police vehicle, the chief hopes this fundraiser will help to purchase two more
