Ask any good, seasoned patrol officer the importance of maintaining your everyday equipment and you might get a response like “Do cars need gas to run? Or, does a marathon runner need shoes to run in?” Having clean, up-to-date equipment such as a charged Taser or a full can of OC spray is important, but…
The violent shooting outside a court in Milan, Ital, in early April 2015, in which three people were intentionally killed by the defendant, as well as earlier shooting some four months earlier at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, in which a surgeon was fatally shot by a former patient, as well as other…
Officers often use the term “hidden compartments” when referring to large loads of narcotics hidden inside of vehicles. The term is rather generic and I like to break the term down into more specifics. Hidden compartments can encompass both Hidden NATURAL compartments, meaning areas of the vehicle that are hidden from the naked eye but…
In the spring of 1999 a couple of my Task Force officers, along with myself, were sitting in our office writing reports and discussing several cases that we had just made. Suddenly our supervisor walked in and said “Boys I think we have a meth lab around here somewhere”. Wow, did we give him the…
Greg Ferency Based on combat observations and medical studies by the US and British military it is becoming apparent that methamphetamine use among the terrorist population is on a dramatic increase. Used as a strategic tool methamphetamine offers those in the Iraqi Area of Operations a whole new trend of issues that compromise the safety…
Sergeant Andrew G. Hawkes The average citizen, even the average patrol officer, often fails to realize what type of criminal element is driving down the interstate highways of our country. If you do not work highway interdiction, or as some call criminal interdiction then this element doesn’t really exist to you, all you see are…
Overview of the Current LAPD The City of Los Angeles currently faces a nearly $200 million dollar budget shortfall (Zahniser & Reston, 2010). The mayor has asked all city departments to review their operating budgets and make cutbacks to address and rectify the dire financial situation. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), with its…
BE THAT PERSON SHINE OR DIE KILL THE BEAST RECON NOW DONT LIE PRETEND KSA OR ELSE SMOKE EM OUT RECOGNIZE, DONT MEMORIZE IT AINT WALL PAPER CLOSE EM OUT THE RAMBLING MAN BE THAT PERSON The single biggest mistake that interviewees make is to interview for he position they already have. For instance, say…
(Part two of four part series on promotional examinations) In our first article we looked at five tactics for taking civil service multiple choice tests. These tips were classified as tactics because they were immediately deployable to the situation. Like field tactics, they are something you learn and then use when they apply. Studying…
You can increase your score on almost any multiple choice civil service exam or test by employing five simple “tactics for test taking.” In fact, it is likely that you could increase your final score by between five and ten percentage points by using these test taking tactics! That means if you studied enough to…
