Law Enforcement Articles
Child Abductions and AMBER Alerts
My name is Jennifer Price-Lehmann, and I am currently the program manager for the AMBER Alert training and technical assistance program with the National Criminal Justice Training Center at Fox Valley Technical College. Prior to that, I was the director of special...
Americans held Captive and Rescued in Kenya
This article was written based on an interview with Óscar Grajales, a Special Agent with United States Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service. Agent Grajales was interviewed from San Jose, Costa Rica. He is the Assistant Regional Security Officer for...
Passing the Police Hiring Process
This article was written with the assistance of Police Officer Javier Acosta who has been with the San Jose Police Department for close to 24 years. He is currently assigned to the department’s recruiting unit which hires for 3 academies per year with 50 recruits each...
SWAT – Armored Vehicle and K9 Training – Part 3
This article was written with the assistance of George Creamer and Rich Diliberti, owners of Integrated Tactical Concepts which provides training for SWAT teams throughout the United States and internationally. ARMORED VEHICLE TRAINING The types of armored vehicles...
SWAT – Hostage Rescue and Active Shooter Training – Part 2
This article was written with the assistance of George Creamer and Rich Diliberti. George Creamer worked for a large metropolitan sheriff's department in the Southern California area for almost 32 years, with just over 15 years with the SWAT team. Rich Diliberti has...
SWAT Training-Behind the Scenes – Part 1
Get the Inside Story on what SWAT Teams are, how they are used, the training they have, and what each role is of a SWAT Tream member.
Diplomatic Security Service
I am Patrick Mills and am currently the Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service's Chicago Field Office covering 13 states in the Midwest region. I decided to enter federal law enforcement in my early 20s because in a previous life I had been a...
Cold Case Detective
Stuart Somershoe is a cold case Detective with the Phoenix Police Department. Detective Somershoe discusses one of the sadist cold cases he has worked in his 24 years of law enforcement, identifying the body of a young girl who was the victim of a homicide.
Detective and Hostage Negotiator
My name is Timothy Fay. I am a Detective and Digital Forensic Examiner and Hostage Negotiator for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office in Palm Beach County, Florida. I think I was extremely interested in law enforcement from when I was very young. My hero growing up...
How Homicide Detectives Really Solve Cases
My name is Louie Aguilera and I'm a homicide detective for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Homicide Bureau. My career path in law enforcement goes back to probably the late '70s, when I was about seven or eight years old, as far back as I can remember....