Search and Rescue
The community caretaking doctrine requires the court to balance individual privacy interests and the need for the caretaking activity
Court authorizes warrantless entries into homes and seizures of persons and firearms when officers have objectively reasonable belief public safety is in jeopardy
Bodycam video shows the officers using a battering ram to break down the door of the suspect’s apartment
Officer Neraasen received the hospital’s Pediatric Life-saving Award for helping a 1-year-old girl named Miracle
Officer Bill Wise was one of the first on the scene Tuesday night
Officer Sean Peek, a 15-year veteran of the department, was later found unresponsive at his home
A 5-year-old girl thanked the officers for ‘saving Christmas’ by helping Santa’s ‘reindeer’
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said the drone will be valuable in recovering evidence from the water and checking to see if people are trapped in a submerged vehicle
Here’s our latest roundup of stories about cops doing good across the nation
The girl was on a small raft when a gust of wind pushed her hundreds of yards from the beach
The boaters are clinging to their overturned boat in the Gulf of Mexico when Cpl. Mitch Bollenbacher rides up
First responders rescued a 2-year-old child who remains on life support; a 15-year-old died
Detective Gilcrist will be receiving his agency’s Life Saving Award
The officer was on his way to work when he saw heavy smoke and heard dogs barking from inside the home
“I got the feeling I needed to search the subject again.”
Dashcam footage shows the officer calmly performing back thrusts to clear the baby’s airway
FLIR’s range of thermal imaging monoculars distinguish objects and people by their heat signatures, even in broad daylight
The mother says her daughter would have surely drowned if not for the officer’s quick actions
Officer Cory Radke found one dog sitting frozen on the couch, while firefighters found another under a bed
A mother on the second floor was unable to evacuate, leading her to drop her son to police officers below
A suicidal man in San Diego drove off the cliffs with his two daughters in the car, plunging into the ocean below
The 12-foot-tall Mine-Resistant Ambush Resistant vehicle has been previously deployed to extricate individuals affected by shoreline flooding
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department worked with an animal rescue organization to build a pen and rescue the dogs
The man started a fire and spelled out ‘HELP’ with sticks to alert authorities he was stuck on a remote island
The close-call rescue occurred the morning after the city’s coldest day of the year
Both strip searches and visual body cavity searches incident to arrest must be supported by a reasonable suspicion the suspect is concealing contraband
Lawyer: If the $205,000 settlement is not approved by city council next week, suit will go to trial
The two officers had to pull the woman through the window as the car’s engine burned
The troopers worked in the dark and rain to pull hiker to safety, footage shows
How to leverage nontraditional resources to assist law enforcement operations
When taking custody of a prisoner from another officer or facility, immediately conduct a thorough search of the prisoner
After helping save teens during a water rescue, the LEO helped save a man from a speculated heroin overdose
