Sheriff Judd considering reality TV show
Hey, I’d watch it. I like him. UNLESS it’s done by those same cornpones who put together Southern Fried Stings. Then all bets are off.
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He’s known nationwide as the sheriff who cuts to the chase: “He left a trail of evidence that a blind man could’ve followed.”
He’s not shy, he doesn’t beat around the bush and now he could become even more high-profile than he already is.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd has been approached by a Lakeland-based production company that wants him to do a reality TV show.
Judd’s often sarcastic – but pointed – soundbites have been heard across the nation:
“You know, you can run, but you just go to jail tired.”
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Memorial service for fallen K9 Officer
Rest in peace, Hatos.
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One by one, each canine officer and his human partner filed past the picture of Hatos and the urn containing the fallen dog’s ashes.
Each dog, professional and alert, stopped briefly to pay respects to one of their own. Hatos, a nearly 3-year-old Belgian Malinois who worked for the St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s office, died Aug. 6 of heat exhaustion after pursuing two escaped juvenile inmates. On Friday, Hatos was memorialized just as any other police officer killed in the line of duty would be – with a ceremony befitting a hero.
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Kids and SWAT team members join forces on the water
One of the fastest growing team sports in the world is dragon boat racing
Some Orlando teens are taking a quick trip from Jones High School to a whole new world of paddles, boats and the open water.
After a brief warm up, these city kids are ready to do something that’s fairly new to them.
“Every time I have to tell someone what it is because they’ve never done it before,” said Antone Jackson, a Jones High senior. “So they’re always like ‘what is that?’”
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Cops thank Florida City man for saving coworker’s life
On the morning of March 4, 2009, Jeff Porter was working in the hardware department at the Florida City Wal-Mart when he heard co-worker Shenel Gibbs being yelled at by her boyfriend two aisles away. He saw the boyfriend grab her arm and shake it.
But he didn’t expect what happened next.
The man pulled out a gun and shot her seven times in the thigh, torso and buttocks.
How to remain a valued SWAT team member
During the course of our law enforcement career we begin at some point to develop an interest in SWAT. For some this feeling is present the day we are sworn to our position. For others, the feeling begins to grow a bit slower but soon reaches that same level, that level that makes or steers our career toward the desire to some day be titled “the best of the best.”
With this desire soon comes the hard work and dedication needed to reach that goal. The work activity, the positive six or twelve month personnel evaluations and all the positive contributions made during the evaluation process raise our hopes that some day we will be selected for SWAT. Not because in some administrators view it was our turn like children taking turns playing on the swing at the playground. But because, and I think an old commercial puts it so clearly, “You did it the old fashioned way-you earned it!” Nation wide less than one percent (1%) of all law enforcement officers is selected for SWAT.
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Lolla band keeps its promise to cops: Doughnuts, croissants, Danishes
The band Portugal. The Man kept its word and sent Chicago detectives dozens of doughnuts as thanks for recovering musical instruments and equipment stolen after the band’s appearance at Lollapalooza.
Bake For Me! Bakery & Café owner Joe Kapacinskas says detectives at the Homan Square police station were treated to chocolate, vanilla and glazed doughnuts. The band also had strawberry croissants and Danishes delivered Wednesday morning.
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Superstar policeman who rescued spaniel that broke its back
A policeman went beyond the call of duty to rescue a puppy who broke his back in a 15 ft horror fall.
Pc Phil Nunn made a makeshift spinal board out of a plank found in a skip after one-year-old spaniel Leo tumbled on to rocks.
After carrying him to safety and driving him to the vet, the practical PC even returned to the scene and retrieved the dog’s missing collar.
The dog’s owners Deb and Andy Coop and their daughter Emily, 15, had taken Leo for a walk from their home at Peel Brow, Ramsbottom.
Deb, 44, said: “Suddenly we noticed Leo wasn’t with us and then heard this yelp.
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Pictures of children handling SWAT team weapons causes outrage
Photographs showing children playing with SWAT issue automatic weapons at a police organised social event has caused outrage among residents.
Officers from Santa Rosa Police Department allowed children to handle the weapons as part of a community outreach show.
But Attila Nagy, a community organiser who took the photos, said he was worried about children getting over familiar with the weapons.
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SWAT teams partner, train together
More than three dozen officers from multiple agencies in Benton, Franklin and Walla Walla counties converged on Burbank’s high school Wednesday.
The specially trained members of the Tri-City and Walla Walla regional SWAT teams worked together to find and capture three armed suspects inside Columbia High School.
The simulated school shooting incident marked the end of a three-day joint training exercise — the first time both SWAT teams have trained together — and the beginning of a new working relationship between the two groups.
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