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• Video: Special Units from Phoenix PD Show Off Capabilities at Children’s Hospital

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  VIDEO: Special Units from Phoenix PD Show Off Capabilities at Children’s HospitalLast week officers from the Phoenix Police Department’s Special Assignments Unit, Bomb Squad, K-9 Unit and Air Support Unit performed demonstrations for the patients at Phoenix Children's Hospital. 
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• Phoenix PD Fights Opioid Epidemic on Multiple Fronts

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  The Phoenix Police Department is fighting the opioid epidemic with a multi-faceted approach to the problem, including enforcement, treatment resources, education, and a prescription medicine turn-in program.“One of our biggest challenges right now is related to the opioid epidemic that has struck families and communities across the nation,” says Phoenix PD Chief Jerri Williams. “Like many of these communities, Phoenix has not been immune to the dangers presented by abuse of pre
  
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• Driving Trends in Public Safety Communications

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  Mobile data has become an integral public safety communications tool. As technology has evolved, America’s first responders have come to rely on commercial wireless services to share important data, but have been hampered by systems that are incompatible and unreliable. These services can be woefully inadequate to address the mission-critical communications needs of our public safety agencies. As a result, they are often unable to share critical information. This compromises their effectiv
  
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• Video: OR Pursuit Ends with Suspect Driving into River

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  VIDEO: OR Pursuit Ends with Suspect Driving into RiverA police chase in Oregon this week ended with a fleeing suspect driving off a pier at full speed into the Columbia River.Timofey Erofeeff, 27, was allegedly trespassing at a marina in Astoria, Oregon, according to the Daily Astorian, when a vehicle pursuit was triggered.The chase ended when Erofeeff drove his truck right off the end of a pier. Police estimated he was driving 45 mph at the time he launched into the river.According to Clat
  
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• Video: “Make-A-Wish” Granted by AZ SWAT Team

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  VIDEO: “Make-A-Wish” Granted by AZ SWAT TeamRaiden Aguilera's wish is to one day be a SWAT operator. On Dec. 7, the Arizona Department of Public Safety's SWAT team made his wish come trueThe SWAT team went above and beyond what Raiden and his family expected for their Wish Day. Starting at the AZDPS hangar, the team showed him the different planes and helicopters used by the department. Then it surprised him with a full mock mission. Raiden&nbs
  
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• NYPD Setting Up Unprecedented Event Security for New Year’s Eve

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  More officers, more bomb-sniffing dogs and more police snipers than ever are being deployed by the NYPD for New Year’s Eve to protect the 2 million spectators expected to cram Times Square to usher in 2018, department leaders said Thursday.NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said counterterrorism planners are heeding lessons from recent terrorist attacks, including three in Manhattan since September 2016.Beginning at 11 a.m. Sunday, crosstown traffic is to be shut down from 37th to 59th
  
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• FL Police Employee Gives Girl Shoes Off Her Feet

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  An employee with the Pensacola (FL) Police Department (PPD) gave the shoes off her feet to a girl who simply admired them.Tara Spencer works for PPD as Chief Tommi Lyter's administrative assistant.Last week, she helped organize PPD's annual Christmas party. Thanks to a donation, 73 kids received gifts, WEAR TV reports.On Thursday, she returned to Pensacola Village Apartments to drop off presents to kids who couldn't make the event.The James family was the first stop. They reminded her of her upb
  
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• Disciplinary Board Rules Chicago Officer’s Fatal OIS Unjustified

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  Chicago police disciplinary officials have ruled that an officer was unjustified in the fatal 2015 shooting of a baseball-bat clutching 19-year-old and an innocent bystander.The Civilian Office of Police Accountability determined that Officer Robert Rialmo unjustifiably shot Quintonio LeGrier and 55-year-old Bettie Jones while responding to a domestic disturbance on the West Side on the day after Christmas two years ago, according to documents obtained by the Tribune through an open records requ
  
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• Cleveland Officer Fired Over Fatal OIS

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  A police officer accused shooting and killing an unarmed burglary suspect in 2015 has been terminated from the Cleveland Division of Police.Alan Buford was acquitted earlier this year of negligent homicide after fatally shooting Brandon Jones, 18, outside a store on March 19, 2015, Fox 8 Cleveland reports.Buford and his partner confronted Jones as he was leaving the store with a bag of stolen cigarettes, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office said.Cleveland police said the officers got into a s
  
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• AL Officer Ambushed in Car, Shot in Arm Near Suspected Drug House

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  A Birmingham, AL, officer was shot in the line of duty just before midnight Thursday. The officer was sitting in a police cruiser while he was working a tip about a potential drug house.An unknown suspect reportedly walked up to the cruiser and fire a shot in the cruiser. Police were able to locate the getaway car, but the suspects were not inside the vehicle.The officer was shot in the arm and is out of the hospital this morning, ABC 3340 reports. 
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• 2 NYPD Officers Suspended Over Response to Welfare Check on Woman Found Dead

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  The NYPD has suspended two officers who responded to check on a Brooklyn woman who was later found dead in a stairwell.The officers, who are assigned to the 77th Precinct, were initially called to the home on Sterling Place in Crown Heights to check on 22-year-old Tonie Wells, but didn't find anything and left.Their actions, including whether they actually checked on Wells, are now under investigation. The department said the initial welfare check call came in at 8:40 a.m. Different officer
  
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