Mike Wood

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• Instructor-to-student ratios for firearms training

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  Many variables have to be considered when you’re trying to determine the staffing requirements for firearms training

• Revolver 101: Unloading double-action revolvers

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  There’s a lot of officers who’ve only handled their issued firearm and could use a little training on how to safely unload revolvers

• Maintaining your Glock pistol

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  What you need to do in order to keep your Glock pistol running well

• Readers respond: What is the state of firearms maintenance in law enforcement?

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  Agency leaders have a responsibility to their people and the public to ensure officers have safety equipment that will actually work when the chips are down

• Defend the house: Protecting police buildings and personnel

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  Police leaders must act to protect these valuable resources ‒ and the personnel within ‒ from the violence of the mob

• Lessons from the Norway terror attack

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  It was estimated that 1 in 4 Norwegians knew someone who had been directly affected by the deadliest attack in Norway since World War II

• The argument for the modular police sniper rifle

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  Police sniper teams are better equipped with a rifle that can field two different calibers to meet the demands of increased overwatch assignments and conventional SWAT operations

• Crowd control: The value of a four-officer car

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  This setup maximizes firepower, mobility, efficiency and safety

• 5 important lessons about firearms maintenance

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  Your lifesaving emergency equipment won’t work properly if you don’t maintain it

• 10 things cops need to know about fire

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  It would be convenient for police to say, “Fire is the fire department’s problem,” but that’s often not the case

• Lessons from the 1980 Norco bank robbery

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  The past speaks to us, if we only listen, and teaches us critical lessons about dealing with highly mobile killers

• Rapid response: The Nova Scotia active shooter incident

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  A highly mobile killer went on a 60-mile, 12-hour spree that ended with 18 killed, including an RCMP constable

• How to disassemble the Mossberg 500/590-series shotgun for cleaning

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  Whether your shotgun is used to launch buckshot or beanbags, you need to keep it clean and ready for service

• The Newhall gunfight: 50 years later

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  Every officer in uniform today is the beneficiary of the lessons taught to us by the Newhall officers

• 7 more tips for tactical movement

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  These tactics and techniques have a broad application and are useful for many patrol scenarios

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