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

Ariz. Senate OKs bill to let retired officers carry guns in bars

Associated Press PHOENIX — An Arizona Senate committee has passed a measure that would allow retired police officers to carry firearms into bars. Republican Rep. Sonny Borrelli sponsored the measure that would allow retired sheriffs and police officers who served at least 10 years and were honorably discharged to carry their firearm into bars and […]

Should the first response to active killers be warning shots?

Author: John StanleyIn the Spring 2015 issue of CATO News (the official publication of the California Association of Tactical Officers), CATO President Sid Heal published an article titled, “Autopsy of an Active Shooter Incident.” The article takes the reader minute by minute from the bang of the first shot to when the shooter is found […]

Texas officer who fatally shot felon to be fired

Author: John StanleyAssociated Press SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man while helping serve an arrest warrant last month is to be fired, the department announced Tuesday. "Officer John Lee has been issued a contemplated indefinite suspension for placing himself unnecessarily in a tactical situation wherein […]