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One of the primary responsibilities of anyone in leadership is to ensure all members of the organization are committed to a common purpose. Leaders know where they’re going, and they ...

My first experience with an ankle holster was the 1971 Academy Award-winning movie The French Connection. I was in high school at the time and hadn’t even thought about a ...

Faced with shrinking budgets and uncertain financial futures, many departments have started to keep vehicles in service for longer periods of time. Although this may seem like a cost-saving measure, ...

Call it a kind of occupational hazard. Computer-aided dispatchers are pushed daily to be flawless performers in a high-wire juggling act where there’s no room for error and no safety ...

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The call from a co-worker came in the evening and the person calling didn’t normally call during off-hours. Not a good sign. She said there’d been an accident and an ...

It’s a simple enough scenario. A police department dispatcher receives a 9-1-1 call, but the caller hangs up as soon as the dispatcher asks what the nature of the emergency ...

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The Goshen (Ind.) Police Department formed its honor guard team in January 1999. This was one month after the death of Officer Thomas Goodwin, the only Goshen officer to die ...

It’s no longer astounding that an officer in a patrol car has the ability to receive a dispatch call or access a subject’s arrest record via computer. For most officers, ...