Trending Topics
Marcou-P1.jpg

Lt. Dan Marcou

Blue Knights

Lt. Dan Marcou is an internationally-recognized police trainer who was a highly-decorated police officer with 33 years of full-time law enforcement experience. Marcou’s awards include Police Officer of the Year, SWAT Officer of the Year, Humanitarian of the Year and Domestic Violence Officer of the Year. Additional awards Lt. Marcou received were 15 departmental citations (his department’s highest award), two Chief’s Superior Achievement Awards and the Distinguished Service Medal for his response to an active shooter.

Upon retiring, Lt. Marcou began writing. He is the co-author of “Street Survival II, Tactics for Deadly Encounters.” His novels, “The Calling, the Making of a Veteran Cop,” “SWAT, Blue Knights in Black Armor,” “Nobody’s Heroes” and “Destiny of Heroes,” as well as two non-fiction books, “Law Dogs, Great Cops in American History” and “If I Knew Then: Life Lessons From Cops on the Street.” All of Lt. Marcou’s books are all available at Amazon. Dan is a member of the Police1 Editorial Advisory Board.

LATEST ARTICLES
Police unions traditionally protect officers financially — during these hard times, those unions can work on getting those officers as much life saving survival training as possible
Because of their equipment, many SWAT officers survive the violent attacks but find themselves on the long mend
Jared Lee Loughner is truly a never-been-seen-before aberration — something that has never been done before in history
Preparing for that moment when a person like Jared Lee Loughner opens fire in your immediate vicinity involves both hardware and software — solid hardware on the hip and sound software between your ears
Governor Richardson’s decision should be applauded — pardoning the killer of six New Mexico LEOs would have been an insult to their memory
Maintain a level of awareness and preparedness that makes you dangerous to those criminals who would harm you or those you are sworn to protect
Because the hands kill, your hands have to be more prepared to be more deadly than your adversary
There are greeting cards for graduations, weddings, retirements, birthdays, illnesses, and every conceivable circumstance — but no words penned by Hallmark for the wounded warrior
These 12 stories are but a few of the many examples of how ‘ordinary’ police officers in this country are called upon every day to do extraordinary things
Dane County SWAT did an excellent job of slowing things down, establishing a perimeter and communications with the suspect, whose actions demonstrated he was dangerous