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Iowa City and Johnson County are taking part in a pilot program that will aim to develop a protocol that will serve as another response to 911 or other crisis line calls typically handled by local law enforcement. -
The county in Texas Hill Country accepted the funds from the state following last summer's deadly flooding on the Guadalupe River. Neighboring Kerr County accepted a similar state grant this week.
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By responding to 911 calls involving mental health crises with a specialized team including a clinical social worker, the program cut hospitalization rates. Permanent funding may be on the way.
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McAlester Fire Chief Brett Brewer said he thinks it will be safer if all of the city’s fire investigators are armed.
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State police estimated almost half its roughly $1 billion budget is spent providing coverage to municipalities with no local police.
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The device is useful when deployed to assist fugitive apprehension efforts, to locate at-risk people, to locate missing children, or to provide search and rescue support.
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Information has become critically integral in curtailing terrorism efforts, particularly as so-called home-grown violent extremists have effectively broadened places where attacks might occur.
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Jewish community centers in St. Paul and St. Louis Park, Minn., were evacuated and temporarily shut down after bomb threats earlier this year.
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The North Liberty Fire Department responded to 1,137 calls for help in 2016, an 11 percent increase in a year.
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In the Friday judgment, Judge Elaine Kaplan ruled in favor of the First Responder Network Authority, granting it the ability to move forward with the procurement process.
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The issue affected customers in Florida, Georgia, Texas, Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee.
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'The needs we have are real and not imagined, and certainly go much further than just having a rifle and pistol range.'
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The system tracks where trains are, constantly feeding the computers in the locomotive cab with information about how fast the train should be going and what is happening on the tracks ahead.
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After the Aurora theater shooting in July 2012, EMS and law enforcement changed how they approached active shooter situations.
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The administration has threatened to withhold federal grant money from so-called sanctuary cities and counties if they don’t comply.
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Pensions were capped at $100,000, salaries cut by as much as 12 percent, saving the city more than $100 million in labor expenses.
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A compensation study is expected to be finished soon and could help justify a pay raise for officers.
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A two-decade-old program the feds want to expand -- which delegates immigration enforcement authority to some local officers -- has all but disappeared from California.
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The department's policies and procedures are not publicly available, and police officials would not detail the portion of the body camera policy that prohibits them from releasing the video.
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Doña Ana County Sheriff Enrique Kiki Vigil said his deputies will enforce New Mexico laws and statutes, not federal immigration laws.
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The installation of hundreds of cameras in 20 neighborhoods around the city is one of the cornerstones of Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s security plan.
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