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| 09.01.2008 |
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Public Service | Police: Law Enforcement Notebook
The Personality Quotient Prior to going into the aviation section, I had as my first official partner the field training officer I was assigned to when I got out of the academy. I doubt if any sworn officer thinks back on that experience as a...
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| 07.01.2008 |
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Law Enforcement Notebook
TFOs: The Unsung Heroes Yes, I’m guilty, albeit unintentionally. Even though most of my columns are intended for every member of a law enforcement helicopter crew, I have never written anything exclusively about the tactical flight officer (TFO). That...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Catching Some ZZZZs
PUBLIC SERVICE | POLICE If you thumb back through your old issues of Rotor & Wing, you’ll find a column I wrote about overnight tours ("Surviving the Late Shift," September 2004, page 57). In it, I talked about the various ways pilots and...
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| 03.01.2008 |
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Law Enforcement: Losing Support? Your Views
PUBLIC SERVICE | POLICE Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I direct your attention Rotor & Wing’s November 2007 issue, page 56, where you will find my views on the direction administrative support for law enforcement aviation is headed. I wrote that...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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Police Aviation vs. NIMBY
Here’s the scenario: Your police department has either decided to start a helicopter unit or wants to move an existing one to a new location. Let’s say you find an airport or tract of land that fits the bill, both in terms of location and price...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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Law Enforcement: Are We Losing Our Support?
AS SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW, I finally retired after 27 years of police service. I could spend an entire column talking about how strange the transition from part-time writer and full-time pilot to the reverse has been, but that will have to wait for another day...
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| 09.01.2007 |
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Law Enforcement Notebook: Proactive Patrolling
OKAY. LET’S SAY YOU’RE AIRBORNE. You’ve warmed up your moving map, cooled down your forward looking infrared (flir) device, and you’re all hyped up for another action-packed airborne patrol. The only problem is there isn’t squat...
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| 09.01.2004 |
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Law Enforcement: Surviving the Late Shift
Shift work can be torture when your eyelids get heavier than a cement retaining wall. You fall asleep while telling yourself not to fall asleep. Then, somewhere around 3 o'clock in the morning, you realize why sleep deprivation has been used throughout...
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