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NYPD Commissioner William J. Bratton has announced all NYPD officers get to be on vacation for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Starting at 3pm December 24th police officers will go off duty and will not return to duty until 7am on December 26th.

The Fire service has been deeply rooted in tradition, for decades fire apparatus has been red adorned with gold lettering, in the 1970’s some departments experimented with “Lime Green” which was more of a safety yellow, was said to improve the recognition of fire apparatus in traffic thus preventing accidents and injuries. This trend sparked the great red/yellow debate.

Last year in Illinois a medical cannabis pilot program was created by legislation and signed into law by Gov. Pat Quinn. Now the Illinois police officer standards board is issues a policy to police chiefs, “officers shall use cannabis on duty”.

The Norse County Sheriff is making headlines for his controversial agreement with anti police political groups. In the wake of multiple use of force incidents across the US some question why we can’t have unarmed police like the cops in the UK have.

Traditionally the police response to 9-1-1 calls has been to send the closest available unit to handle whatever emergency has presented itself. But this is about to change with a pilot program being developed by the South Diego Police Department.

Are you sick of never getting that awesome photo of yourself at a fire scene because touch screen phones don’t work with gloves on? Well ProDex gloves has been listening to firefighters and created a new glove with touch screen tips.

A document leaked from a source inside the FBI shows that ISIS has been backing anti police groups to weaken the trust Americans have in local law enforcement. The theory being that mistrust in the police should lower the likelihood of someone tipping off police to the terrorist plans.

It was announced yesterday that the Obama administration would start a review of police use of military surplus. This review has caused many police chiefs to be angered by blatant hypocrisy of the systems and quotas they are forced to meet.

On Sunday players for the St. Louis Rams came onto the field with their hands up. This has become an anti-police symbol to signify police murdering people. The NFL players did this in response to the Grand Jury Decision in ...

The city water dept is claiming that the fire department is using too much water at fire scenes. This overuse of water is causing the water dept to have a budget shortfall and look bad in the eyes of the city council