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KENS-TV
The sheriff of Guadalupe County said incorporating license plate readers and credit card machines on select patrol vehicles has improved his department's ability to enforce warrants and collect unpaid traffic fines. Since March 2014, the sheriff's office has outfitted three of its vehicles with the high-tech camera system, which takes pictures of license plates on passing cars and runs them through a database.
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KENS-TV
In order to better prepare University of Texas' 600 sworn campus police officers to respond to sexual assault cases and shift "the culture in law enforcement's approach to sexual assault," the school system is implementing a training program.
The 170-page document, "The Blueprint for Campus Police: Responding to Sexual Assault," was created by the UT System Police and UT Austin's Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.
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Waco Tribune-Herald
The cities of Lorena and Woodway each approved money to equip their police departments with body cameras, with the help of a state grant. Lorena Police Chief Tom Dickson spoke to council members about the $4,108.75 project that would enable the department to equip four full-time officers with body cameras, plus technology to store footage. Lorena will buy the equipment, then the state will reimburse 75 percent of the $4,108.75 cost through a grant program starting this year. After brief discussion about privacy rights and the responsibilities of the department, the Lorena City Council agreed during its most recent meeting to support the grant process to purchase the cameras.
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KCBD-TV
Jacob Pauda, 30, has been indicted by a Lubbock Grand Jury, charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend. Police say they responded to the 3300 block of Itasca Street on Feb. 8 around 2 a.m. for a report of a domestic disturbance. When officers arrived, a woman told them her boyfriend, Pauda, picked her up and brought her to his home. The woman told police he started pacing back and forth and she asked him if he had been using drugs. The woman advised police that Pauda uses cocaine.
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KDFW-TV
A photograph of a Frisco police officer helping a homeless vet found along the side of the Dallas North Tollway has gone viral online. A picture was taken Tuesday night after the officer took the man to get a hotel room and used his own money to pay for the homeless vet.
A welfare check on the man sitting on the side of Dallas Parkway brought Frisco Police Officer Brandon Ferrante to a busy stretch of road on Tuesday night. When Ferrante arrived on scene he didn't find a guy sitting out by the frontage road. Instead he found him several yards away, holding onto a barbed wire fence. Ferrante said the man looked exhausted. Ferrante found out the man was a homeless veteran who once served as a combat engineer. Ferrante, whose dad was in the Air Force, felt compelled to help.
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Former sheriffs, including a former SAT president, help TAC Risk Management Pool members reduce their law enforcement operations liabilities. See consultant territories online. MORE
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KSAT-TV
License plate readers are popping up more often, possibly because a law passed by the Texas Legislature last year allows them to be tied to mobile payment systems. The defenders recently showed how the Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office uses LPRs to spot vehicles flagged with warrants. Now, the KSAT-12 investigative team is looking into why the city of Kyle decided to opt out of using LPRs.
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The Associated Press via KWWL-TV
The nation's top law officer called for dialogue with the tech industry, but also turned up the heat on Apple for refusing to help the FBI unlock an encrypted iPhone used by an extremist mass killer in San Bernardino, California. Attorney General Loretta Lynch spoke as top officials of the FBI and Apple were testifying on the same topic before Congress. Meanwhile, a courtroom collision is looming over Apple's challenge to a federal court order that the company says would make all iPhones vulnerable to hacking by government authorities and criminals alike.
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Officer.com
Panic is a killer. Panic stops your smooth cycling of OODA Loops — the human decision making process that we all complete repetitively each day. In a conflict situation, having your OODA Loop lock up means, at best, a lack of efficient action or, at worst, a fast loss. Watch, listen and learn about the importance of avoiding panic.
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PoliceOne.com
Your next foot pursuit may be just around the corner. To win these encounters, it is good to look at these real world-obstacle courses as a seven-stage event, broken down as follows.
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