Training Police Family Members, Part 1

From: Law & Order | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Give us the tools and we will finish the job. Sir Winston Churchill, 1941.

Does your agency offer training programs to the families of officers on the issues relating to being a family member of a law enforcement officer? Should it even consider such a program? If a program was offered, what topics should be presented? Certainly, "personal safety" would be at the top of the list, or should it be?

Are officers' family members ever in a high-risk encounter, or is this issue non-existent? Consider an incident that occurred in Mariana, FL in January 2007. Mellie McDaniel was driving home after ...

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