K-9 Officers Inducted In Reading
Reading has some new police officers in town, and they’ve got four legs!It was graduation day for three K-9 police officers Sunday.
The dogs and their owners are also making history for the department. Its the first time a woman and a Hispanic officer will be part of a K-9 unit.
The officers have been training for months.
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Despite Progress, Police Chief Still Struggles
The next few months of warmer weather will be crucial for Jody Weis, whose job running the police department is as close as it gets to “Mission Impossible” in Chicago.
Ever since he took over the department in early 2008, Superintendent Weis’s assignment has been to calm police officers who are angry at many things, including working without a contract since 2007 and a federal misconduct prosecution that put a Chicago policeman in prison with a 40-month term.
Morale problems facing the chief will not be helped by a federal arbitrator’s recommendation Friday that the police get a 10 percent raise over five years, far less than the 16 percent Mayor Richard M. Daley offered during contract talks in 2008.
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Greensboro Officers Raise Money, Chicken Dance For Special Olympics
A group of Greensboro Police Officers traded in their guns to become part of one local restaurant’s wait staff Saturday night.
The officers became “celebrity waiters” at Red Robin in Greensboro. The Tip-a-Cop Fundraiser helps collect money for the Special Olympics.
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Polygraph expert named Md.’s top trooper
Gary L. Bachtell has been named the 2009 Maryland State Police Trooper of the Year.
Bachtell has been a state trooper since 1985, when he graduated at the top of his state police academy class. After serving on patrols and then as an investigator, he was reassigned to the polygraph unit in 1998 and has excelled in his role there.
Last year, he created a post-conviction sex offender testing program to implement a new Maryland law requiring sex offenders on parole and probation to take periodic polygraph tests.
Nearly 100 percent of Bachtell’s polygraph interviews in 2009 led to confessions, police said. Among those confessions was that of Clarence Meyers, a Western Maryland man who was convicted of setting a house fire in February 2009 that killed his girlfriend’s two daughters, ages 12 and 15.
Scholarships honor Illinois State Trooper Brian McMillen
The CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT ORGANIZATION at the University of Illinois Springfield will sponsor a free throw-a-thon to benefit a scholarship named for an Illinois State Trooper who died in October 2007.
The first annual BRIAN McMILLEN FREE THROW-A-THON to benefit a scholarship honoring McMillen will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 24, at the Student Life Gym on the UIS campus.
A 2005 graduate of UIS with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, McMillen was an Illinois State Trooper who died when his patrol car was involved in an accident with two other vehicles outside Illiopolis while he was en route to a bar disturbance
He had served with the Illinois State Police for eight months.
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Cleveland cops have mixed reactions to chief’s stern memo
Cleveland’s rank-and-file police officers have mixed reactions to the directive from the chief ordering cops to do their jobs or consider another profession.
The notice from Chief Michael McGrath has been the talk of the department this week, numerous officers said Friday. The sternly written order, issued April 9, is still being read at roll calls across the city.
The Plain Dealer polled 12 police officers Friday on the condition of anonymity to gauge how McGrath’s notice was taken.
The message should resonate with those who aren’t pulling their weight, several cops said. Others believe the directive was misguided and only serves to turn the public against the police.
One officer agreed with the chief but feared the notice could negatively impact how the public perceives all officers. He said police officials can only do so much to get their message through to the ranks.
“This gets us upset, especially the guys who work hard everyday,” he said. “But there are some officers who are just lazy.”
But another disagreed.
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