Tag: Active Shooter

Twenty years in law enforcement between two agencies. Work ranging from that of rural deputy sheriff, to multi-jurisdictional narcotics task force detective, to police sergeant in a metro area of ...

The Police Officers Safety Association s (POSA) newest training program, Active Shooter and 4th-5th Generation Warfare How to Minimize the Loss of Life as Crime and Terrorism Blend, is available ...

"Knowledge is power".Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597

On average, we suffer 165 line of duty deaths each year, but these figures typically don't include officers who perish due to suicide. I'm not passing judgment on organizations such ...

The murderous acts of twisted gunmen continue. In my state at Northern Illinois University (NIU), students came under deadly attack. A brother officer told me his daughter was in the ...

Not long ago, I received a call with a request for information related to the AR-15/M-16 weapon system from good friend Mark Schlegel of FTF Tactics.

Ogden (Utah) Police Department Master Officer Ken Hammond was recognized at the 2007 IACP Conference by apparel vendor The Force (formerly Horace and Small) as the 2007 winner of their ...

Don't think for one moment an assignment that allows you to do law enforcement in plainclothes is any safer than any other law enforcement position. Not only do you still ...

This article will inform the ballistic-shield operator how to safely and effectively deploy a shield. But first, a caveat: The tactical element is responsible for effective and safe tactical decision-making. ...

In the early 1970s at my agency, we worked without portable radios but carried .30-caliber M1 carbines. We had a chief who knew weapons and ammunition, and he understood the ...