Delaware state police to ditch VHS
Delaware State Police plan to start replacing VHS surveillance gear in 350 patrol cars with digital video cameras.
The state’s congressional delegation secured an earmark of $500,000 for a pilot program of 70 cameras last year and another $1.5 million this year for the rest of the agency’s patrol cars.
Sen. Tom Carper visited the State Police Museum on Monday to announce the federal contribution.
Typically, cameras are used to document traffic stops and field sobriety tests and to monitor officers to ensure professionalism.
Videotapes must be changed every eight hours, labeled, taken to evidence rooms and logged. But images from digital cameras are passed wirelessly to a server and may be called up by date or other identifying information.
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Speedy recovery!
These ss’s are from the Weather Channel’s story of the Brooklyn Heights (OH) officer who was thrown over the side of the bridge when a car crashed into him while he was helping a stranded motorist last month. He is recovering from his injuries and hopes to be back to work soon.
Get well soon, Lt. Lambert!
STORY
Thanks for letting me know about the story, BG!
And NO, I don’t usually watch the Weather Channel. Hell, I didn’t know they carried anything but the weather!
Mill Creek Cops save suspect caught in brier patch from drowning
Mill Creek police report that officers saved a teen who was a shoplifting and hit and run suspect from drowning.
Police went to a Shell service station in the 3400 block of 132nd Street Southeast at 1:12 a.m. Monday after shoplifting and a hit and run accident were reported.
Two juvenile males stole beer, then hit a car as they left in a black SUV.
Officers stopped a black SUV near 132nd Street Southeast and 35th Avenue Southeast. The passenger got out and ran.
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Head of NYC Cops & Kids gets outpouring of support to keep boxing program alive
Ring the bell!
When the owners of Flatbush Gardens, the quality, affordable apartment complex in East Flatbush, read a story that appeared in this space in January about a former narcotics detective named Patty Russo, of NYPD Boxing, who runs NYC Cops & Kids, they reached out to him.
The PAL, in its infinite wisdom and lasting meanness, closed all the boxing gyms in New York, including ones that Russo ran in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and Park Hill on Staten Island.
Since his appointment in 2006, PAL head says Felix Urruita PAL had gone through a “paradigm change.” He says boxing insurance costs too much. That certain corporate funding streams complained that boxing was “barbaric.” That “old school” boxing guys aren’t accountable to the PAL “corporation.”
PAL’s decision to downsize boxing left an awful lot of inner-city kids who’d chased dreams in the squared circle of truth out on the street, where gangbangers fight with knives and guns instead of gloves.
It made zero sense.
Shot officer in good spirits, calls fellow cops ‘heroes’
Officer Robert Salerno
The young cop who was seriously wounded yesterday in a Bronx shootout hailed his three partners as “heroes” for jumping to his aid.
Lying in his hospital bed, unable to speak because of a tube down his throat, Officer Robert Salerno jotted down on a notepad to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly: “The other guys are heroes,” as he also sketched out exactly what happened inside the housing project when he was shot by a crazed gunman.
“He drew a diagram showing the apartment, showing the bedroom, showing where he was and when he was hit, when he went down [the other officers] had to go into the line of fire to save him,” Kelly said after visiting the cop this morning at Lincoln Hospital.
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