Tag: Narcotics

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 ...

My October column dealt with confidential, reliable informants. Along with a model policy and procedure for department personnel using informants, the article also provided information on the use and audit ...

Quality room clearing and search training can take place in a structure that s simple and inexpensive in design and construction. In my October column, I discussed how to construct ...

Although anyone who provides information to the police (complainants, victims, witnesses, etc.) can technically be considered an informant, this article deals specifically with confidential informants (CI). For this article, a ...

Early in my undercover career, I shot and killed an armed assailant. In the immediate aftermath of this traumatic encounter, I paused and focused with tunnel vision on the dead ...

With an obvious kinship to Heckler & Koch's successful Universal Self-Loading Pistol (USP), the simply named HK .45 is a marriage of the USP and the firm's more streamlined P-2000 ...

Show me an officer making many good, prosecutable cases on a routine basis, and I will show you an officer utilizing criminal intelligence and information. Show me an officer networking ...

It's been 17 years since the publication of Contact & Cover: Two-Officer Suspect Control, which I co-authored with now-retired Lieutenant John Morrison of the San Diego Police Department (SDPD). I'm ...

The popular crime-fighting TV series America's Most Wanted now sponsors digital billboards to track down fugitives. Launched in the Cleveland area, seven digital billboards display information about David " Daddy ...

Last month's article, the first in a series on basic criminal investigation principles, examined probable cause the essential justification for every police arrest, search and seizure. The article addressed the ...