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.
Troopers using Twitter, Facebook for ‘A Day with Washington State Patrol’
On Wednesday, Washington state residents can do a social media ride-along with state troopers for “A Day with the Washington State Patrol.”
Starting at 6 a.m. and ending at midnight, Washington State Patrol troopers are using Twitter and Facebook to journal their daily activities, allowing people to get an inside look into a day in the life of a state trooper.
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It’s another Tactical Pants CONTEST!!
Jeanette from Tactical Gear News notified us about a contest they are running.
All you have to do is …………..Name Those Tactical Pants….which leaves me out because I couldn’t identify ANY of them.
Here’s hoping you’re better at this than I am!
PC’s ‘Best Friend’ Obi The Dog Injured
Awwww, poor pup!
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A police dog is recovering after being struck by a brick in the Tottenham riots and suffering a fractured skull.
Three-year-old German Shepherd Obi was with trainer Constable Phil Wells in the midst of the violence last weekend when he was hit by one of the many missiles aimed at police.
Constable Wells said the incident was “very emotional” and that seeing Obi struck was like watching his “best friend and colleague” injured.
He said: “Obi is trained in public order, and that may be dispersing a crowd or pushing them back.
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Broward County Sheriff’s Office Launches New “BECCA” Program That Delivers Critical Info For EMS
A new program designed to help EMS responders obtain critical health information quickly during a medical crisis has been implemented by the Broward Sheriff’s Office “BSO” in Broward County Florida.
Named after 5-year-old Weston resident Rebecca Hyman, the Broward Emergency Critical Care Assistance (BECCA) program was developed after her parents, Seth and Danielle saw the need for quickly providing Becca’s complex medical history to firefighter/paramedics during an emergency. During a visit to the ER in 2010, the Hyman’s vented their frustration to Dr. Nabil El Sanadi, the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Broward Health, as well as the EMS Medical Director for BSO, and Capt. David Erdman with Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire-Rescue.
Highway Named for Fallen Officers
A memorial highway named for three St. Petersburg Police officers killed this year in the line of duty will be dedicated Monday morning.
Florida State Sen. Jack Latvala (R-Clearwater) and Rep. Jim Frishe (R-St. Petersburg) will unveil the first of two permanent highway memorials honoring Sgt. Thomas J. Baitinger, Officer Jeffrey A. Yaslowitz and Officer David S. Crawford.
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