Washington DC September 3, 2023, Dozens of the District of Columbia’s Special Police Officers have been serving as armed protectors at schools and libraries without active licenses, according to a report. Fifty-five of the special police officers working across the District were found to have expired licenses as of Aug. 18, according to a review conducted […]
APPOMATTOX COUNTY, Va. August 23 2023 Another county has signed on to a resolution spurred by the death of a Wintergreen police officer. On Monday night, the Appomattox County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution in support of extending line-of-duty pay to families of private police officers. This started in Nelson County after Wintergreen officer Chris […]
Miami FL August 3 2023 Broward Schools may overhaul the way it runs its school police program, creating its own force of sworn officers rather than outsourcing to local law enforcement agencies. The school district already has a small police department known as the Special Investigations Unit, which handles employee investigations and some security services. But […]
Washington DC July 22, 2023 A special police officer providing extra security to help abate crime in the region’s transit system shot and critically injured a teenager who had himself shot a man, then exchanged gunfire with the officer Thursday night at the Fort Totten Metro station in Northeast Washington, according to a spokeswoman for […]
Atlanta Georgia July 5, 2023 Hearing screams, Destiny ran into a hospital room, where she saw a patient attack a nursing technician. As a senior nurse at the Northeast Georgia Health System, she was trained to de-escalate violent situations. However, on that day in Spring 2021, when Destiny intervened, the patient punched, kicked, and bit […]
Atlanta GA May 16, 2023 When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician. As a charge nurse at Northeast Georgia Health System, she was trained to de-escalate violent situations. But that day in the spring of 2021, as Destiny intervened, for several minutes the patient […]
Washington DC May 14 2023 A retired D.C. police lieutenant has been indicted for the death of a special police officer he shot in the chest during training in August 2022. Retired Metropolitan Police Lieutenant Jesse Porter was conducting a baton training session at the Anacostia Library. After the exercise Porter’s training group was posing for […]
Baltimore MD April 21 2023 Johns Hopkins Medicine & University has selected its first ever police chief following years of pushback. Branville Bard Jr. was named to the position on Thursday, after serving as Hopkins’ Vice President for Public Safety since August 2021. He takes over an agency that remains in the developmental and implementation stage. […]
Syracuse NY March 8 2023 A new police force is now in charge at Syracuse’s Hancock International Airport. The newly formed Syracuse Regional Airport Authority (SRAA) police department will be staffed by two full time employees—a chief and a captain—and 19 part-time officers. SRAA Executive Director Jason Terreri said he expects the change will give […]
Gadsden AL March 4 2023 All five campuses of Gadsden State Community College will be served by a new police department, Dr. Kathy Murphy, president announced. “This is the right thing to do for our students, our employees and our community,” she said. “We want to ensure that our students have the best college experience by […]