ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The city government in Albany, New York, has agreed to pay a $200,000 settlement to a woman who was raped in November 2017 after a botched police response to a 911 call.
The Take It Down Act, which seeks to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called ‘revenge porn’ online, is heading to President Donald Trump's signature after its bipartisan passage in congress ...
Answer questions for non-emergency or low-level emergency calls Step by Step on How to Become a Fire and Police Dispatcher 1. Earn a High School Diploma When you are in your teen years, it is important to complete all of your education and earn a high school diploma. This will set you...
28, who had been playing video games at home with her 8-year-old nephew. Dean was responding to Jefferson’s home after a neighbor had called a nonemergency line around 2 a.m. to say he had noticed an open front door.
maintenance or another reason for system downtime. This was not the first time a department of the Georgian government has experienced a cyber incident in recent memory, the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) and the Lawrenceville Police department were also hit by ransomware earlier in the...
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The referenced section would allow for checkpoints when officers are acting in accordance with a warrant, when there is probable cause to arrest or search, or when they are acting under emergency circumstances, etc. In other words, it would rightly restrict the practice only to cases in which...
Dramatic body camera video captures the moment a police officer rescued a toddler from a submerged carJason GainesAssociated Press
If emergency services personnel didn’t simply dismiss the accident as a ‘run of the mill’ crash, an experienced and well-trained Paramedic and crash scene investigator should have asked the same questions. What part of the vehicle or non-vehicle object impaled and instantly killed the ...
A safety plan could involve obtaining a protective order, asking law enforcement to patrol the victim’s neighborhood or helping her access emergency shelter. Springfield Police Major Vance Holland, the department’s investigations commander, told CNN he did not know for certain if a safety plan wa...