THE NEW A.T.A.C. SHIELD BOOT from 5.11 Tactical is designed to give law enforcement officers a reasonably priced tactical boot. The Shield portion of the name refers to the ANSI Z-41-level protective toe. I’m not a big fan of boots,...

Are you and your administrative staff tired of putting pencil to paper, spending hour after hour with graph paper, creating homemade spreadsheets to prepare the schedule for the upcoming shift? Or do you work with an equally hard-to-use Excel spreadsheet that...

This safety tip and the response first appeared on PoliceOne.com Tim Knowles, Humberside Police (United Kingdom) I have noticed something quite alarming among U.S. law enforcement officers when they make traffic stops on highways and during night hours. I base...

The world is always changing, but certain topics remain important to law enforcement officers, particularly the medical facts, devices and techniques they may need to save their own lives, or the life of a partner or other person injured in...

In the years ahead, model-year 2006 will likely be remembered as one of the strangest on record. After a decade of dominating the market with its Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, the only rear-wheel-drive (RWD) V-8 police sedan, Ford finds itself...

The September/October issue of Law Officer featured the first in a series of articles on fundamental and advanced criminal investigation techniques. The field is large, so I will concentrate on the more heinous crimes murder, robbery, sexual assault and the...

In May 1981, I was an energetic young patrol officer with almost 2 1/2 years of street-policing experience under my belt. I was a member of a progressive agency policing a city of approximately 500,000. I have to admit, at...

This column first appeared on PoliceOne.com "The best cops don't wait for things to happen. They make things happen on their own." That's Pat McCarthy talking, a 25-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department who now shares a remarkable treasure-trove...

It would be optimum if every American law enforcement agency owned a state-of-the-art firearms training facility, but for many reasons, that will never happen. Regardless of how much any given community supports its police department, few citizens want a firearms...

Early in my career, four state police officers were shot and killed in a gun battle with two heavily armed suspects in an event widely known as the Newhall Incident. After this heartbreaking event was scrutinized and analyzed in hopes...