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New technology constantly provides new challenges and opportunities for evidence gathering. The forensics unit of your department handles all the electronic data recovery for computers and cellular phones. By working ...

We're all issued a flashlight. Some of you who work days don't always carry it with you, but that's foolish—you never know when you'll have to search a dark cellar, ...

Call for Contributions for TASER Training CD

The International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) annual conference has become one of the premier events in law enforcement training. Held every year in the Chicago area, the ...

On April 27, Officer Lisa Beaulieu, 36, a six-year veteran of the Beaumont (Texas) Police Department and a former dispatcher, was struck and killed by a drunk driver while investigating ...

In these changing times, the challenges of attracting qualified applicants to forsake the gains of other careers to join the law enforcement community continue to grow. Agencies that in the ...

Criminal investigation requires extensive knowledge of the evidentiary value of the physical evidence associated with firearms. In the vast majority of homicide cases, the victim is killed with a gun. ...

Count Dracula always began his greetings with a half smirk, a slight cock of his head and a blood curdling, " Good evening." Like most of you, I've worked my ...

Setting aside all the public-relations stuff that's part and parcel of American law enforcement, your primary function as a street cop is to place yourself between the citizens you serve ...

One afternoon on the job as a new lieutenant watch commander, I prepared for the night watch roll-call assembly of our accident investigation division. A senior sergeant walked into the ...