A spate of security failures has led to the resignation of the Director of the U.S. Secret Service.

A Colorado State Trooper was seriously injured Wednesday morning during a wild pursuit through the Denver metro area that started after a red SUV with a...

The unions representing NYPD officers have joined the fight to install an independent inspector to monitor the agency and revamp its stop-and-frisk policy.

Video #3: Using Leg Strikes. POLICE Magazine has teamed up with The MMA Lab in Glendale, Ariz., to offer a series of training videos demonstrating defensive...

Thirty-seven. That's how many New York/New Jersey Port Authority Police officers came to work on Sept. 11, 2001, and never went home. More than 2 percent...

Two Baton Rouge (La.) Police officers have been given counseling after a heated exchange at a vehicle stop. One officer had pulled over the other while both...

If someone at work tells you something in confidence, it's still your job to share the information if warranted.

The department's sworn force peaked in 2001 at 6,900 officers. Since then, it has fallen to the current 6,600 and is expected to reach 6,400 in the next...

For more than two centuries, the U.S. Coast Guard has served diligently every day as America's leading maritime law enforcement agency.

Created using Meggitt Training Systems’ products and design assistance, the Suwanee (Ga.) PD training center is complete with a four-lane indoor...

PoliceTestSolutions.com's Police Career Development Center offers affordable career training courses for tomorrow's police leaders. If you are looking to...

Active shooter response gear is heavy and can change the way you perform, so you need to know how to compensate.

In the Southwestern U.S., a patrolman with about a year on the job was shot twice in the back of the head while transporting two robbery suspects in the...

The number of Memphis police officers out on sick leave continues to decline. The number fell to 499 Thursday afternoon, down from a high of 557 on Tuesday.

Topics covered in this 90-minute course will include how to conduct a buttstock conversion, replace a fire control group, replace a barrel assembly, upgrade...

The department is partnering with the University of the District of Columbia Community College as well as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African...

New Line Cinema has picked a reserve police officer to direct a new "Police Academy" and reboot the popular 1980s spoofs about a ragtag group of recruits...

There are arguments for and against law enforcement officers using closed-hand punches. It can be better to avoid hitting a suspect with your bare knuckles...

Video #2: Using Push Kicks. POLICE Magazine has teamed up with The MMA Lab in Glendale, Ariz., to offer a series of training videos demonstrating defensive...

When gunfire erupted at the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival in Las Vegas last October, Lauren Card fled from the sounds of the guns. Now, she has...

You can develop a great deal of strength in the weight room, but traditional barbell lifts won't help you to perform a real-life tasks on the job like...

One of the best ways to train law enforcement officers in a classroom setting is to chunk up material into quickly memorized bites. You can also...

I would later reflect on the odd incongruity of the K-9's toenails gently striking the tiles in the Junior High that we had just cleared. They were so...

Sometimes it takes a smack in the face or some other bad event to remind us of the great risks we take and make us appreciate surviving.

An Anaheim, Calif., police dog that was shot in the face Thursday while chasing probation suspects was able to eat under his own power for the first time...

When defending yourself, you should also be on the offensive. To do this successfully, all you need are two-and-a-half shapes to counter any attack. You...

Through the Pledge to Patrol program – also known as the Associate Community Officer Program or A-COP – more than two dozen high school graduates will be...

The Virginia State Police now require potential troopers to provide their social media accounts for review during an extensive background screening process....

Farrington and Deputy Fire Chief John McGinnis ran into the home and carried the man down a flight of stairs and outside. Read Full Story Here.

Meggitt Training Systems' new SafeZone fully interchangeable shooting stalls offer customization to create clear stalls, solid stalls, or a mixture of both.

As time went by, not only was PTSD diagnosed of war veterans, but of others who'd suffered some damage to their psyche as the result of being...

President Obama celebrated more than 40 stand-out law enforcement officers Saturday during a White House ceremony. The group included a Sikh Temple shooting...

A Bolingbrook, Ill., officer is being investigated by the department after video surfaced this week reportedly showing the officer playing video poker while...

Because police training is in the news we thought it was a good time to ask veteran officers and trainers how they would improve law enforcement training...

The new Springfield Armory XD Mod.2 Sub-Compact training pistol replica from Ring's Manufacturing is molded from solid blue polyurethane to differentiate it...

Tragically, the lives of many officers have been lost at the hands of suspects who attacked without warning as the officer attempted to apply handcuffs....

In law enforcement training we tend to focus only on how to draw a full-size service pistol from a duty holster. Let's look at some preferred techniques...

As police officers (and especially if you work corrections) in the United States or Canada, you have to ask this question: What would you do if you were...

The successful pursuit of a degree requires you to know what you want and to dedicate the resources in time, money, and effort to achieve your goals.

Has Miranda v. Arizona adversely affected criminal justice and public safety? Miranda has resulted in the inability to clear a...

Effective leadership can inspire employees to become invested in your agency, ensuring organizational success.

"My brother told me, 'If you want everyone to love you, join the fire department. If you want half the people to love you but half the people to hate...

Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan has stepped down from the department for medical reasons, he wrote in a letter to the force Thursday. Jordan, a longtime...

Minnesota law enforcement will now be mandated to take a minimum amount of crisis prevention training. It is part of a new law passed in the legislature and...

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You can protect LEOs' hearing with Troy Acoustics Corporation's state-of-the-art acoustics solutions.

Yee discussed helping an undercover agent get weapons worth $500,000 to $2.5 million, including shoulder-fired automatic weapons and missiles, and took him...

Tattoos have become very popular in the law enforcement and military communities. Officers who get inked often choose a tattoo of something that has great...

If Wiseman is right we don't all need to get certified as safety experts, we need to act certified. If every time you made a traffic stop you acted like...

The Seattle Police Department's interim police chief said Monday he will leave his post in May, citing a DOJ settlement agreement and monitoring plan as one...