BEAUMONT, Texas January 17 2020 Security officers for facilities in the CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Health System will now carry firearms, one of several changes to better equip the team. The team completed months of training and are certified by the state to have the weapons as ‘Level III commissioned security officers.’ A ceremony is set for […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky January 13 2020 A hospital security officer finds himself as a patient in the same emergency room he works to protect. John Fremow said he was born to protect and serve. “I was in the National Guard, was a Desert Storm veteran, was over in the Persian Gulf War,” Fremow said. “I served 21 […]
SAN ANGELO TX Jan 11 2020 Police arrested a San Angelo man at Shannon Medical Center after he hit two hospital security guards Tuesday, according to an arrest affidavit. On Jan. 7, police responded to the call of a combative patient at the Shannon Emergency Room in the 100 block of East Harris Street. Upon arrival, […]
Dallas TX Jan 10 2020 A man was shot and killed by Veterans Affairs officers at a hospital in Dallas Wednesday night, police said. Police officers opened fire on the man who was armed with a knife at about 10:22 p.m. at the Veterans Affairs Hospital at 4500 S. Lancaster Road. The man was at the hospital […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. January 6 2020 The Fort Wayne Police Department and several agencies responded to what they called a “suicidal threat” in the parking lot of Fort Wayne International Airport Saturday. Police officers were first called to the area around 12:04 p.m. Members of the SWAT team were called out as well. Police gave the all […]
Walla Walla WA December 31 2019 Last week’s front-page story on Providence St. Mary Medical Center regarding its adding a K-9 (as in dog) to its security team might have been a bit puzzling for some. Some wondered if it was necessary and the answer is definitely it is. St. Mary Medical Center added a K-9 […]
West Des Moines IA December 29 2019 An intoxicated West Des Moines man was arrested early Christmas morning after he allegedly assaulted a West Des Moines EMS paramedic and a Methodist West Hospital security staff member. Bradley Dean Kramer, 57, of 225 Prairie View Dr., #7221, West Des Moines, was charged with assault on persons in […]
Carson City NV Dec 28 2019 A 60-year-old transient was arrested Tuesday, Dec. 24, in the 1600 block of Medical Parkway for alleged battery of a protected person, a felony, a Carson City sheriff’s deputy report says. Douglas Allen Harnden was placed into custody after the incident at Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center. According to […]
New York City NY December 16 2019 With active shooter situations sadly happening more and more, and, at places that are least expected: like grocery stores, shopping plazas, churches and hospitals, but police officers who work for some of the busiest hospitals around the city tell PIX11 they don’t have the proper training or equipment […]
LOUISVILLE KY December 14 2019 A Kentucky man is accused of kidnapping his newborn child’s mother from outside a hospital at gunpoint and threatening to “smoke” her and her family if he learned she was “hiding behind police.” Anthyun L. Mask, 18, was arrested Monday and has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and third-degree terroristic threatening, […]