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MetLife Foundation Announces 2010 Community-Police Partnership Awards Program

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:29:00 -0600

MetLife Foundation and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) are partnering for the ninth year to recognize, sustain and share the work of innovative partnerships between community groups and police to promote neighborhood safety and revitalization.

Through the MetLife Foundation Community-Police Partnership Awards, MetLife Foundation and LISC identify and honor partnerships that exhibit tangible accomplishments in their efforts to advance the process, outcome, and evaluation of potent police-community collaborations. Awards will be given to functioning programs that have already demonstrated the impact of police‐ community partnerships.

Awardees will receive monetary grants ranging from $15,000 to $25,000.

Geocachers find trinkets and trouble

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:49:00 -0600

Hobby using GPS to discover hidden containers prompts additional police scrutiny

When the Loudoun County sheriff's deputy stumbled on the green ammunition can hidden in a Sterling drainage pipe, he did the right thing. He called in the bomb squad.

It turned out to be a false alarm. The bomb techs opened the box and found a few small trinkets, a notebook and a pen inside. It wasn't an ammo box at all. It was one of about 939,000 active "geocaches" worldwide.

Only 59 Percent of Police Agencies Require Officers to Wear Body Armor, Survey Shows

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:12:01 -0500

From the Police Executive Research Forum

Washington, DC - Nearly all law enforcement agencies report that they provide body armor to their officers, but only 59 percent of the agencies require their officers to wear body armor at least some of the time, according to a new report by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), a Washington, D.C.-based police research and consulting organization.

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Vice President, Attorney General Announce Recovery Act Funding to Support Law Enforcement

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:36:01 -0500

Recovery Act Funds to Add Police Officers to the Streets; Build Safer Communities

U.S. Senate Narrowly Defeats Conceal-Carry Measure

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:16:01 -0500

An amendment that would have allowed gun owners to carry their weapons across state lines fell just short of passage Wednesday in a vote that revealed deep divisions among the Senate's Democrats.

Supporters included all but two Republicans and 20 Democrats, but the vote of 58 to 39 in favor fell two short of the 60 needed to defeat a filibuster.

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Semifinalists Announced for 2009 IACP/Motorola Webber Seavey Awards for Quality in Law Enforcement

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:52:00 -0500

Two Virginia agencies make the cut: Richmond Police Department, for their project "GRIP - Gang Reduction and Intervention Program", and Purcellville Police Department, for their project "Engagement of our Community Youth"

Jointly sponsored by IACP and Motorola, the Webber Seavey Award is presented annually to agencies and departments worldwide in recognition for promoting a standard of excellence that exemplifies law enforcement's contribution and dedication to the quality of life in local communities.

Move Over Twitter; Step Aside Facebook. Nixle is for Real.

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:22:00 -0500

New communications service has signed up nearly 1,000 agencies in just a few months and the National Sheriffs' Association is communicating with conference attendees via Nixle.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Nixle, the latest entrant into the field of instantaneous communications, is making rapid strides with police and municipal agencies nationwide - not to mention the thousands of citizens who have signed up to receive vital public safety messages.

Guards Who Shot Back at Von Brunn Identified

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:26:00 -0500

The security guards who returned fire when a white supremacist allegedly gunned down their colleague at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday were a recently retired D.C. police officer and a former Marine, both of whom had worked at the museum only a few weeks.

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Security Guard Killed at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:06:00 -0500

A lone gunman known to authorities as a white supremacist shot and fatally wounded a private security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in downtown Washington today before being shot and wounded by guards who returned fire, officials said.

The wounded security guard and the gunman were both taken to George Washington University Hospital with serious injuries, police said.

Authorities later said the guard died in the hospital.

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FBI Releases Preliminary Annual Crime Statistics for 2008

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:40:00 -0500

According to the FBI's Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report released June 1, the nation experienced a 2.5 percent decrease in the number of violent crimes and a 1.6 percent decline in the number of property crimes for 2008 compared with data from 2007.

The report is based on information that the FBI gathered from 12,750 law enforcement agencies that submitted six to 12 comparable months of data to the FBI for both 2007 and 2008.