Clean Your Weapon!

Ask any good, seasoned patrol officer the importance of maintaining your everyday equipment and you might get a response like “Do cars need gas to run? Or, does a marathon runner need shoes to run in?” Having clean, up-to-date equipment such as a charged Taser or a full can of OC spray is important, but…

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Chasing Speed

In the spring of 1999 a couple of my Task Force officers, along with myself, were sitting in our office writing reports and discussing several cases that we had just made. Suddenly our supervisor walked in and said “Boys I think we have a meth lab around here somewhere”. Wow, did we give him the…

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The Strategy of Preparing for Promotion

(Part two of four part series on promotional examinations)             In our first article we looked at five tactics for taking civil service multiple choice tests.  These tips were classified as tactics because they were immediately deployable to the situation.  Like field tactics, they are something you learn and then use when they apply.  Studying…

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