Posts Tagged ‘officer safety & awareness’
Tests expose worrying flaws in France’s anti-drone system for 2024 Olympics
The anti-drone system Parade has been especially developed to protect the Parisian skies throughout the July 26-September 8 Olympics and Paralympics. But various French media report that the system performed worse than expected during a March exercise. “On two of the sites where Parade was tested, it didn’t work as well as expected. Put in…
Read MoreUK ‘Swatting’ hostage hoaxer led police to shoot man in US
A UK hoaxer whose fake call to police in the US led to the shooting of an innocent man by officers believing they were dealing with a hostage situation, has been spared jail. Robert Walker-McDaid, from Coventry, rang a terrorism hotline in Maryland, prompting a Swat (special weapons and tactics) police unit to be sent…
Read MoreUS 911 emergency call line outage resolved in some areas
Emergency services on the 911 telephone call line were restored late on Wednesday in parts of the United States, officials said, following a widespread outage across all of South Dakota and in parts of Nebraska, Nevada and Texas. Officials in South Dakota, Nevada and Las Vegas said 911 services had been restored, but without identifying…
Read MoreLawmaker Says Crash Of Semitrailer Into Public Safety Office In Texas Was ‘Intentional’
A suspect is in custody after a commercial vehicle crashed into a Texas Department of Public Safety office in a rural town west of Houston on Friday injuring multiple people. Three people were airlifted with critical injuries and three others were transported in serious condition after the vehicle, which was stolen, intentionally crashed into the…
Read MoreEx-military member charged with crashing into FBI office had online links to QAnon, report says
The ex-military member who federal authorities say drove his SUV into a barricade at the FBI office in Atlanta on Monday had online ties to QAnon-related content and appeared to be a supporter of former President Donald Trump, according to an open-source investigation by the group Advance Democracy. Ervin Lee Bolling currently faces a count…
Read MoreSuspect arrested after vehicle crashes into gate at Atlanta FBI field office
A suspect was arrested after ramming an entrance gate to the FBI’s Atlanta field office Monday afternoon in an attempt to gain entry to the facility, bureau officials said. The suspect, who has not been named, got out of the vehicle and was arrested. He is a Navy veteran from South Carolina, according to two…
Read MoreMiddletown ‘sovereign citizen’ gets prison for guns inside Langhorne-Yardley Road home
A “sovereign citizen” who rejects government authority and drew the attention of Middletown police, neighbors and motorists passing his Langhorne house was sentenced from 28 to 56 years in state prison Wednesday for illegally possessing a cache of high-powered firearms. At his trial in Doylestown, Bucks County, authorities testified about discovering the high-powered firearms that…
Read MorePolice Track Down Escaped Idaho Prison Gang Member And Accomplice, Say Pair May Have Killed 2 On Run
Police on Thursday arrested two white supremacist gang members — an Idaho prison inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape — following an attack on corrections officers at a Boise hospital, and investigators are looking into whether they killed two people while on the run. Skylar Meade, the escaped inmate, and Nicholas Umphenour, the…
Read MoreCalifornia man sentenced to life for ‘boogaloo movement’ killing of federal security guard
A Northern California man who was part of the loosely organized anti-government “ boogaloo movement ” was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in the shooting death of a federal security guard and wounding of another. Robert Allen Justus was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, the Bay Area News…
Read MoreIdaho police search for escaped inmate and accomplice after ambush at Boise hospital
A white supremacist Idaho prison gang member and an accomplice remained on the loose Wednesday after the accomplice staged a brazen overnight attack to free the inmate as he was being transported from a Boise hospital, police said. Police identified the man suspected of shooting two corrections officers during the ambush as Nicholas Umphenour. A…
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