(TNS) — Wichita police are wanting to test a virtual reality training simulator and a new Taser, with plans to implement them department-wide if the tests are successful. Officials from Arizona-based ...

Despite recent gains, the department is still about 400 sworn officers short of its ideal staffing level of about 2,600 ...

The Canton Repository has been following three of Canton City’s police cadets for their first year on the job. Today’s story − the second in the series − looks at the cadets' training at the ...

Interagency rivalries and a boastful culture can undermine leadership credibility and distract from core responsibilities like officer development and public trust. Effective leadership is measured by ...

Long Beach’s new police training academy is almost complete, city officials said this week — and is set to open next year. The new facility will allow the Police Department to train 100 recruits at a ...

Until Earl McGhee was hired in 2018, Dodge County, Wisconsin, had never had a Black sheriff’s deputy, so when the county sent him to a police academy at a local technical college, McGhee wasn’t all ...

All people have biases, and most of the time that is a good thing. When faced with a choice for a dessert to eat, I am biased to choose peanut butter pretzels over Jell-O, and that bias has ...

The Erie Bureau of Police ramped up its efforts over the past year to draw a more diverse pool of candidates to job opportunities on the 173-member city police force. Those efforts appear to be paying ...

Ronald Donat’s longtime dream of becoming a police officer was in jeopardy. The 41-year-old struggled to stand after completing a flurry of pushups, sprints and pullups in the notoriously grueling ...

Claim: 'Police training in Wisconsin is 21 weeks. A cosmetology license takes 40 weeks.' Police are under a national microscope after a Kenosha, Wisconsin, officer repeatedly shot a Black man in the ...