<h1 class="entry-title">Category: NEPBA Police Updates</h1>

Photo: Red Robin server buys officers’ lunch after funeral for slain Ohio cop

By PoliceOne Staff POLARIS, Ohio — After Officer Steven M. Smith’s funeral, one server at Red Robin treated officers to their meal, NBC4 reported. A photo posted on Facebook thanks the Polaris Red Robin server identified as Jessica for her kind deed. The server wrote a note to the police with the hashtags “#weseeyou, #policelivesmatter, […]

Colo. school district arms security guards with rifles

Associated Press DENVER — A suburban Denver school district is arming its security staff with military-style semiautomatic rifles in case of a school shooting or other violent attack, a move that appears unprecedented even as more schools arm employees in response to mass violence elsewhere. The Douglas County School District guards are former law enforcement […]

5 ex-cops plead guilty in bridge shootings after Katrina

By Michael Kunzelman and Kevin McGill Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Five former police officers pleaded guilty Wednesday to a reduced number of charges in the deadly shootings on the Danziger Bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina and were sentenced to far less prison time than they originally faced. The officers were convicted by […]