Mobile AL July 15 2022 Alabama’s largest public school system is looking at ways to beef up security, from creating its own public safety division to adding more than six times the current number of school resource officers to arming the dozen officers that already patrol the halls in Mobile County Public Schools. An update […]
Gresham OR July 15th 2022 Three metro area school districts may not have school resource officers this coming fall because of a staff shortage at the Gresham Police Department. The school districts that will be affected are Centennial, Gresham-Barlow and Reynolds. The City of Gresham said it needs to send officers who are currently in the School […]
St Paul Minn. July 15 2022 The method a security guard used to restrain a panhandler outside the Grand Ole Creamery in St. Paul last Wednesday night drew scrutiny from a crowd of onlookers, with some witnesses claiming the guard’s use of force and the way he pulled on the man’s hair was excessive. The interaction […]
Dallas TX July 15th, 2022 – Dallas detectives hope you can help identify three masked men who robbed a Fox gas station and wounded a security guard in a shootout. The video is very clear. Police hope the public can help unmask the robbers. The shooting happened at the Fox gas station in the 5000 […]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. July 14th, 2022 A security officer was carjacked while on-duty in Annapolis on Wednesday, according to police. Anne Arundel County Police say the incident happened at the Westfield Annapolis Mall, located at 2002 Annapolis Mall, around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. The victim, who police say was on-duty working as a security officer at the time, […]
Richmond VA July 14, 2022 One of the country’s largest operators of armored security trucks has become one of the latest targets of a class action under Illinois’ biometrics privacy law, as employees claim Brink’s Inc. has improperly required them to scan their fingerprints to verify their identities when they access the secured rear of the […]
PHILADELPHIA PA July 14 2022– United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Jerry Collins, 42, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 5 years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Gerald A. McHugh for his role in a broad daylight armed robbery of an armored vehicle containing […]
Henrico VA July 14 2022 Henrico County Public Schools will request a budget amendment of more than $5 million for security camera upgrades in schools. The request comes after the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting in May that killed 19 children and two adults as well as what county leaders have called an increase in youth […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. July 13 2022— A suspect accused of shooting a Memphis, Lights, Gas & Water (MLGW) security officer on Monday, July 11 tried to evade police, but he was captured and led away in handcuffs. Police were dispatched to the MLGW facility at 1180 Tupelo Street at 11:13 p.m. The security officer told police […]
Sandy Hook CT July 13th 2022 The U.S. Fire Administration has received notice of the following firefighter fatality: Chief William “Bill” Halstead, Sr. Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company Sandy Hook, CT On Friday, July 8, 2022, Chief William “Bill” Halstead, Sr. responded to a motor vehicle accident and an automatic alarm. Upon his […]