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Bill passed to lower minimum hiring age brings a new detention deputy to Lexington County
State senate bill tries to deal with the shortage of officers by changing only the minimum age
The chief said he was forced to make a difficult decision after the department has seen six officers depart and a lack of new recruits
Sheriff also said the FBI had determined Robert Bates didn’t violate suspect’s civil rights
Some of the records seem to indicate reserve cop was proficient in firearms and dozens of other training courses
William Ramirez was driving to his boat-maintenance job Tuesday morning when he spotted a cop on the ground, trying to take cover as a man fired at him
Said in interview that characterizations of him as a wealthy donor who paid to join the force are “unbelievably unfair”
Tulsa County employs about 130 reservists, who are given less training than regular deputies
A sheriff’s deputy who can be heard in a video cursing at a suspect who later died was unaware that a volunteer deputy had shot the man
Robert Bates, an insurance executive who was volunteering on an undercover operation in Tulsa, accidentally shot Eric Harris on April 2
In almost every agency where a reserve officer program exists, there are simply not enough full-time cops in the regular ranks to meet the citizens’ demands for police response — the reserves fill the gaps
Move may set up a repeat clash with Mayor Bill de Blasio about the headcount of the nation’s largest police force
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