Tag: Field Training Programs

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- A firearms instructor in southern Massachusetts has been assigned to other duties after his gun accidentally went off while he was teaching a class on weapons ...

The most powerful influence for maintaining a culture of integrity within a patrol division is the role-modeling of line supervisors. FTOs are line supervisors. Conversely, one of the most devastating, ...

DULUTH, Minn. --Duluth's Thin Blue Line has gotten a lot thinner. Forty officers and support staff assigned to the Duluth Police Department challenged themselves to lose weight and get healthier. ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- As part of a sweeping overhaul of their use-of-force policies, Austin police officials will soon begin requiring officers to document more actions, including when they point their ...

PICHER, Okla. -- Crews and search dogs hunted Sunday for survivors or bodies in piles of debris after tornadoes and storms a day earlier killed at least 22 people in ...

VENTURA, Calif. -- Members of the Simi Valley Police Department SWAT Team are headed to a national competition this month in Colorado, where they will train and compete alongside some ...

The annual International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) Conference was held last month in the Chicago, Ill., area and drew more than 800 officers from around the world, ...

There was a time when the most common police sidearm was a Smith & Wesson Model 19 revolver, a phone call away from home base meant fishing a dime out ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Demonstrating a frisk, Sgt. D.F. Pace moved his hand along Martin Klepac's belt before his fingers slipped into Klepac's right pants pocket."Whoa!" shouted several Philadelphia police officers observing ...

Time is one of man's universal equalizers. You can't save it. You can't borrow it. And, although on occasion it seems to slow or speed up, the atomic clock is ...