Police Jobs & Careers
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The department has filled 22 of its planned 50 new civilian jobs, a move intended to free up LEOs to focus on crime
Greenfield officials accepted the police department’s recommendations on quickly hiring new officers
Mayor: “Who is going to put on a police uniform for $11 an hour when McDonald’s and Walmart pay more than that?”
When verbally attacked, we respond — under stress — with a verbal counterattack which escalates a situation that could have been easily handled without a barrage of words
In an article titled “Welcome to Post-Ferguson Policing” in the online version of the conservative magazine National Review, Heather MacDonald writes about the issue of deadly hesitation
We all are experts at change on the street, but when change happens inside the department, everyone seems to lose their mind
SWAT has no mother and no born-on date, but Daryl Gates has rightly been given the sobriquet “The Father of SWAT” for his forward-thinking about problem solving and saving lives in high-risk incidents
Certain training tenets work well for training academy cadets — or even seasoned patrol officers — but may not work quite as well when training SWAT officers
An off-duty officer was able to talk a man out of suicide
A speeding driver was angered the officer pulled her over and began to verbally assault the officer
State police and deputies are helping to catch the monkey
Baltimore’s payout follows several other million-dollar-plus payouts in recent years involving officer-involved deaths
The caller threatened to shoot officers who were alone
