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• Former Orlando Chief Elected Orange County Sheriff

  08-11-2018 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesFormer Orlando police Chief John Mina was elected Orange County’s next sheriff Tuesday night, defeating two opponents to replace Mayor-elect Jerry Demings as the county’s top law enforcement official.Mina will now lead the largest law-enforcement agency in Central Florida, with a $250-million budget and about 2,600 full-time employees, the Orlando Sentinel reports.Mina, 50, ran as an independent in a three-man field and campaigned primarily on his four-year ten
  
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• California Sergeant Killed in Mass Shooting Spoke with Wife Before Responding

  08-11-2018 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Ventura County, CA, sheriff’s sergeant killed in the mass shooting at a Thousand Oaks bar Wednesday night was on the phone with his wife when he got the call about the incident.Sgt. Ron Helus, who spoke to his wife multiple times during every shift, told her “I’ve got to go handle a call. I love you. I’ll talk to you later,” Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said Thursday.Helus, a 29-year veteran of the sheriff’s office, arrived at Borderline Bar &
  
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• Washington Agency Prohibited from Selling Confiscated Rifles

  08-11-2018 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Spokane (WA) Police Department will no longer be able to sell the rifles it confiscates after the Spokane City Council approved a new law requiring the department to destroy guns instead of auctioning them.Councilwoman Candance Mumm, said police should be focusing on preventing crime and not generating revenue from confiscated fire arms sales. Citing an Associated Press investigation from earlier this year, she said many of the guns police have sold across the state have ended up as evidence
  
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• North Carolina Chief Resigns Over Controversial Video

  08-11-2018 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Asheville, NC, Police Chief Tammy Hooper will resign, according to a city announcement. Her resignation comes after a tumultuous half year set off by revelations of an officer's controversial use of force on a pedestrian that drew national attention and local outrage.Her resignation from the Asheville Police Department will be effective Jan. 2. Hooper will pursue consulting opportunities, the announcement from interim City Manager Cathy Ball said.Hooper was hired in 2015 to overse
  
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• Nashville Votes to Create Citizen Oversight Board

  08-11-2018 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Voters in Nashville have approved an amendment to the city's governing document that creates a new citizen-led panel to oversee the actions of police. A coalition of social justice activists called Community Oversight Now led the push for the new panel as way to create a check over alleged claims of racial bias and other controversial actions of police, the Tennessean reports.The Nashville Fraternal Order of Police, the city's police union, mounted a well-finan
  
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• ICE Agent Dies of 9/11-Related Cancer

  08-11-2018 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Dennis McCarthy has died from cancer contracted due to his exposure to toxic substances following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City, New York.Agent McCarthy responded to help secure the site of the destroyed U.S. Custom House at the World Trade Center site in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. He remained at the scene to assist with search and recovery efforts.Special Agent McCarthy had served with Homelan
  
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• Dubai Police Training to Use Hoverbike Flying Motorcycles

  08-11-2018 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   Police officers in Dubai are training on flying hoverbikes with four propellers to help them fight crime from the skies. Police believe the S3 2019 hoverbike, designed by Hoversurf of California, will help them reach hard-to-access areas when they respond to emergencies.   The hoverbikes will be in action by 2020 with two crews already learning how to pilot them. "Currently we have two crews already training and we're increasing the number," said Khalid N
  
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• Sheriff's Sergeant, 11 Others Killed in California Bar Shooting

  08-11-2018 15:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Ventura County (CA) Sheriff's sergeant was killed responding to a mass shooting at a popular bar in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks Wednesday night. Eleven people were killed. The suspected shooter is also dead.According to Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean, the slain Ventura County SO sergeant and a California Highway Patrol officer arrived on the scene at the Borderline Bar and Grill within three minutes of the call coming in and made entry into the establishment because they “
  
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• Texas Officer, Former Chief Arrested in Connection to Double Homicide in New York

  08-11-2018 00:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  A second Texas police officer was arrested Tuesday in connection with a double homicide in New York last month, reports the Dallas Morning News.Sunray police Officer Bron Bohlar, 34, and former Sunray police Chief Timothy Dean, 32, are charged in the fatal shootings of 24-year-old Amber Washburn and 28-year-old Joshua Niles in their Sodus, NY, neighborhood.Officials also charged Dean's wife, Charlene Childers, 25, who has two children with Niles. He had gained custody of the children just days b
  
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• 8 Ohio Deputies, 2 DEA Agents Hospitalized for Possible Fentanyl Exposure

  08-11-2018 00:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Deputies from the Cuyahoga County (OH) Sheriff's Office were hospitalized Wednesday for precautionary measures for fentanyl exposure, Spokesperson for Cuyahoga County Mary Louise Madigan confirmed.At 5:30 a.m., deputies were responding to a residence in Rocky River for what appeared to be a raid involving DEA agents, reports News 5 Cleveland.A total of eight deputy detectives from the sheriff's office and two DEA agents were transported to Fairview Hospital to be checked for exposure to fentanyl
  
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