Tag: Officer Safety

Over the past several years, the number and frequency of force-on-force scenarios run in even the smallest agency have increased quite a bit. Initially constrained to those agencies and units ...

Some of you may have suffered that sinking feeling of realizing you busted down the door of the wrong house. Your mistake was innocent, but it's unpleasant apologizing to a ...

Have you ever taken a whitewater rafting trip? Usually, they're a mixture of some degree of nature's beauty mixed with a high level of exhilarating speed and danger. They always ...

You've done everything right so far. You inquired from dispatch about prior call history and whether weapons are involved. You parked a couple of houses from the residence. You made ...

Boating or marine law enforcement officers love the water. Why else would you choose a profession where you enforce laws from a vessel?

The Safety Training Association Representing San Bernardino County (STARS) and the San Bernardino/Riverside Counties Terrorism Early Warning Group (TEWG) will hold the two-day Terrorism Early Warning Group Conference for first ...

“Where’s your paperwork?” I ask this question of many of my students during the practical phases of my 5 Day Reality Based Training instructor school. Far too often, trainers who ...

What gets you sued gets you hurt. It s that simple. Use-of force and motor-vehicle operations remain the high-risk areas of law enforcement. Look at the reports of officer injuries ...

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 ...

We still lose a couple of officers a year in simulated force-on-force training. These accidents occur because live weapons are somehow introduced into the training area, which happens for one ...