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KABB-TV
Judge's orders can direct Bexar County Deputies to find and bring to court almost anything and anyone. One of the hardest types of writ of attachments, as the orders are known, is those involving children in the middle of a custody fight. For Deputy Camacho and Deputy Antu, of the Civil Process Unit, the most important part of their mission is finding children and delivering them safely to where the judge has specified.
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KCEN-TV via USA Today
The McLennan County Sheriff’s office and a bomb squad used a water cannon to breach a suspicious device found under a bridge. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives blasted water on the container found just outside Rosebud off Farm to Market Road 1963. Flammable liquid and shotgun shells were found inside the container, according to Sheriff Parnell McNamara. He said the IED was designed to blow shrapnel and would have been "extremely dangerous" had it gone off.
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The Texas Tribune
A New Orleans-based appeals court says the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's restrictions on beard lengths and religious head garments for inmates violate federal law. Muslim inmate David Rasheed Ali, 33, sued the correctional agency to be allowed to grow a "fist-length" beard and wear a knit skullcap in accordance with his beliefs. Prison rules don't allow for a fist-length, or four-inch long, beard and only permit religious headwear in inmates' cells or during religious services. Rasheed is serving multiple 20-year sentences in the Michael Unit in Tennessee Colony in East Texas for arson, aggravated robbery and criminal mischief in 2001.
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WCMH-TV
A photo captured on a Texas deputy's body camera shows the true power of mother nature. The Panola County Texas Sheriff's Office posted the photo showing the exact moment a lightning bolt struck the ground just a few hundred yards away from where the deputy was standing.
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Officer.com
You can’t be claustrophobic if you want to work for the U.S. Border Patrol’s Tunnel Entry team — the unit that explores underground drug-smuggling passages near the U.S.-Mexican border. To prove they don’t freak out in tight spaces, prospective confined-space rescue technicians, or "tunnel rats," have to wriggle through a two foot-wide pipe for about 20 yards before they can join the squad. "You know right off if it’s playing with someone’s mind," said Lance LeNoir, who leads the five person squad. "It takes some psyching up, to say the least, to do the job."
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WXMI-TV
The Kent County Sheriff's Office in Michigan is looking to add to its ranks and is turning to the public for help to do it. Faced with dwindling "traditional" funding opportunities, the Kent County Sheriff's Office is hoping to expand its K-9 unit through crowdfunding donations. "Grant dollars are drying up, they are fewer and further between right now, especially for these types of programs," said Sheriff Larry Stelma. "There's a tremendous strain on general fund dollars too."
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The Baltimore Sun
Recruitment remains a major problem for the Harford County Sheriff's Office in Maryland, as the agency joins others in struggling to fill jobs during a difficult time for law enforcement nationwide, Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler told the County Council during review of his 2017 budget. The recruitment difficulties are not because of any special requirements for job candidates coming from the Sheriff's Office. It is simply more difficult to find people "who have lived a morally correct life" than he has ever seen, Gahler said. He also blamed the "general perception" of law enforcement with the fact that "minority recruitment of females and blacks is way down across the board."
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By Bambi Majumdar
 The Sarasota Police Department in Florida recently received 160 mobile trauma kits to enhance the safety and survival of both the community as well as SPD officers. In any active-shooting scenario, they can now quickly render aid to victims. Trauma training and crisis management are high on the priority list for police departments across the country. Like Sarasota PD, more departments are putting them down as a must-have in their upcoming budgets and annual plans.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
Daniel Baker of Rancho Bernardo, California, has been wearing a device about the size of a garage door opener around his neck since shortly after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2014. The 82-year-old retiree who once owned several barbecue restaurants in East County said he feels a certain peace of mind about having the item on him at all times, even though he knows it tracks his every move.
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