Springfield Police K-9 competition going strong, 16 years running
6 years running in Springfield, a chance Saturday for some of the hardest working, four-legged members of the police force to show their stuff.
Saturday, June 18th, 2011, the Springfield Police Department’s K-9 Unit held its annual police K-9 competition at Springfield High School’s Silke Field.
Featuring police dogs from across Oregon including Springfield, Deschutes County, Bend, Corvallis, Lake Oswego, even as far as Morrow County, the annual event is a chance for officers to show off their animals.
Animals to demonstrate skills in timed events like an agility course, area search, handler protection, fastest dog and suspect take-downs.
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Lower Paxton police officers, residents honored
Lower Paxton Twp. supervisors and the police department recently presented awards.
Supervisors honored two residents with civilian support awards. Maria Ramirez was eating dinner with off-duty community service officer Charles Grubb when they noticed an elderly woman in distress. The woman, 66, became unconscious after choking on a piece of food. They provided emergency care until the arrival of emergency services. The woman survived.
A second award was presented to Leslie Rehm, who was driving and noticed an elderly man on the ground. She stopped her car, called 911 and began administering CPR to the man, who was in cardiac arrest. She continued emergency care until police and emergency services arrived.
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Canadians lead dramatic rescue of U.S. police from edge of Niagara Falls
Two park police officers await rescue on the Niagara River, near the brink of the Horseshoe Falls on June 18, 2011.
A Canadian helicopter pilot and a Niagara Parks police officer were part of a dramatic rescue that pulled two American cops from a boat stranded at the brink of Horseshoe Falls on Saturday.
The vessel in distress — a New York State Police jetboat — got lost in heavy fog on the Niagara River while out on another rescue mission, officials said.
Blinded by the fog and unable to determine how close they were to the edge, the two U.S. officers threw the boat’s anchor overboard and waited for help, police said.
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Minnesota state trooper from Hibbing honored
Minnesota State Trooper Travis Pearson, an eight-year veteran from Hibbing, has received the honorable mention award as Minnesota’s police officer of the year.
The award, given earlier this week at a ceremony in Alexandria, was presented by the Minnesota Peace and Police Officers Association.
Pearson was honored for his roll in a tragic shooting incident on June 12, 2010, after an estranged husband was actively shooting into a house where a woman and her two young children resided.
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Police camps in South Bend trigger interest for aspiring officers
Fifteen-year-old Kayla Smith decided she wanted to be a police officer when she was 8 years old.
Sgt. Matt Blank
A future Hott Cop in the making?:)
This week, she got a taste of real life in the South Bend Police Department. Smith was one of 21 participants in the department’s police camp for high school students interested in law enforcement.
“I wanted just to find out who the police officers are and what their job is,” she said. “I want to be a patrol officer. I like adrenaline rushes.”
Lt. Dick Powers organized the weeklong camp at the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge in South Bend.
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Bethlehem police to raise funds for new K-9
After 11 years of sniffing down bad guys and finding hidden stashes of drugs, Madjo needs to step down, Bethlehem police say.
Although the sleek 13-year-old German shepherd shows little sign of slowing down — he still easily leaps into open vehicle windows — his handler, officer Jon Isaac, said retirement is near. Most police dogs typically last about nine years.
In this time of lean budgets, K9 officers learned last year that the city wouldn’t be able to pay for another dog. So officers are doing fundraising themselves and hope to get $12,000 to buy another patrol and narcotics dog.
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Officer Sengbusch Goes Home
After months of recovery, multiple surgeries, and painful rehabilitation, Buffalo Police Officer Gary Sengbusch, 30, left ECMC Friday afternoon headed for home.
However, there was one important stop Sengbusch wanted to make first. After leaving the hospital, he made a brief stop to see his fellow officers at the “C” District.
Officer Sengbusch was off-duty when he was critically injured on February 25th in a car accident. Police say his vehicle was struck by another vehicle driven by Anthony Thompson, 22, of Buffalo. Police say toxicology tests revealed that Thompson was drunk at the time of the accident. Thompson was arrested and faces multiple charges, including vehicular manslaughter after one of his passengers, Honey Ransom, died.
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SWAT team sharpens skills at competition
The best sharp shooters Gaston police agencies have to offer were chosen and taken to the Southeaster Regional SWAT competition to see which out of 14 teams from four states are best.
The Gastonia Police SWAT team traveled to Harrisonburg, Va., on June 8 for the two-day competition in target shooting, hostage rescues, practice officer rescues and an obstacle course. They came in second place overall.
Capt. Steve Duncan with Gastonia Police Department went along to supervise and said the SWAT team had never been to the competition before.
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Incoming Franklin County sheriff was Karnes’ protege
Franklin County’s incoming sheriff can really say he knows what the job takes.
Sgt. Zach Scott’s resume includes interrogating one of central Ohio’s most notorious serial shooters, being shot in the foot while kicking a door down in an LSD raid and going undercover to approach drug dealers. But the longtime deputy has developed a reputation as someone who cares as much about the victims as he does about catching the criminals.
The Franklin County Democratic Party picked Scott as the sheriff last night. However, he won’t replace acting Sheriff Steve Martin until he is sworn in later this month.
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