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By Lt. Josh Kyle
My chief was livid and put the training section on notice. Over the last couple of years training injuries at the Riley County Police Department had been on the rise and recently a sergeant had reported an injury to his knee after a defensive tactics (DT) class. The message was clear - if the sergeant's knee was seriously injured then draconian actions were going to be taken; including the possibility of terminating the entire defensive tactics program. Later that morning the chief stopped me again and gave me the bad news. The sergeant's knee was indeed seriously injured and it was the direct result of DT training. The training section had until mid-afternoon to prepare for a meeting where all options would be on the table.
For some time now I suspected that takedown moves were getting officers (and possibly) suspects injured both in training and in the field. In fact several months earlier I myself had received a serious concussion during scenario training after a takedown move was applied while I was pretending to be a suspect. At the time of my injury the culprit was thought to be a lack of proper safety equipment. I ordered the equipment, made certain it was used during training and moved on - lesson learned. However, those of us in training could no longer ignore that training injuries were persisting and they were costing us money, lost time and serious injuries to our employees.
Going into a high-stakes meeting without information was a recipe for disaster. I could not walk into this meeting with excuses and guesswork. I had to take an honest look at our DT program. I had to get the hard facts.
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DALLAS - Cancer is the second leading cause of death among U.S. men. While tobacco use and poor diet remain the largest contributors to cancer mortality, there is growing evidence that obesity and low levels of cardiorespiratory fitness may contribute to cancer mortality as well. A new study from The Cooper Institute published January 15, 2008, in Obesity, reports on the relation between cardiorespiratory fitness levels, different measures of body fatness and cancer mortality in men.
Lead researcher and Director of Professional Education Stephen Farrell, Ph.D., studied 38,410 men who completed a comprehensive baseline physical examination at Cooper Clinic in Dallas. "This study shows that sedentary individuals of all body fatness levels should strive to become at least moderately fit in order to decrease their risk of cancer mortality," said Farrell.
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By John Reid & Associates
If the agents involved in the recent Colombia incident are interrogated, should the investigators tell them they have evidence that they don't really have? It depends on a number of considerations.
Earlier this year a case was reported in which a detective doctored a crime lab report to use as a prop during an interrogation. While the suspect did not confess, the detective's tactics spurred legal questions regarding the use of deception during an interrogation. The legal twist was that even though the report used as an interrogation prop was manufactured by the investigator, it was based on factual verbal information provided by the crime lab. In other words, the manufactured evidence contained truthful information that incriminated the suspect but the report was not a bona fide report from the crime lab.
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Val Van Brocklin The bad news. Not too long ago I was asked to do a training titled Leading During Difficult Times. I asked my contact person what she thought the top 3 challenges or concerns of those attending were. I heard what I'd been hearing across the nation: - Budget cuts
- Hiring freezes
- Forced furloughs
- All resulting in chronic staffing problems which result in a whole other list of problems
I murmured commiseration and summarized, "You mean - doing more with less." She replied, "Haven't you heard? It's now 'Doing everything with nothing?'" Clearly I was behind the challenge curve of the times, which might best be summed up with a 2010 news article describing Arizona police officers laying one of their own to rest. article continues > |
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