South Carolina

One deputy fired a blank round from his simulation firearm, then a colleague shot back with a loaded gun

Deputy Sarah Merriman, a Special Response Team operator with the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, is seen during tactical training

Bill passed to lower minimum hiring age brings a new detention deputy to Lexington County

Mount Pleasant officers pulled Tamara Palmer over for suspicion of drunk driving after she hit the curb multiple times and failed to stay in the lane

Last year, a bill was signed into law to lower the minimum age for detention deputies from 21 to 18

Leon Lott serves as Richland County sheriff and S.C. State Guard commander

Richland County (S.C.) Sheriff’s Department Corporal Peter Hart describes what makes RCSD’s Special Response Team unique

When the suspect was asked about why he assaulted the officer, he said: “It’s Thanksgiving. I didn’t have anyone to spend it with. I might as well take it out on y’all”

Involuntary manslaughter charges were dropped against Deputy Joshua Bishop, who was in the van and didn't realize until it was too late that another deputy was risking their lives

"I consider it a tragedy that I have deputies that have to get government assistance to support their family," writes Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott

Maria Yturria becomes the first Hispanic officer to hold the second-highest rank in the Richland County Sheriff’s Department's 200-plus-year history

Master Police Officer Tyrell Owens-Riley was a member of the Columbia Police Department for more than 7 years

"When you take a 2,500-pound bullet and you ram a deputy who is standing at the apex of a door, this is the end result. Period," the sheriff said

C.J. Warner, now 21, told Sheriff Leroy Ravenell he always wanted to become a police officer – and he kept that promise a decade later

The law creates new standards for training, conduct and accreditation of law enforcement in South Carolina