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“It’s a community policing effort where we introduce ourselves, through these cards, to whoever we can hand them out to,” Wilkes-Barre Police Chief Joseph Coffay said
Phishing, extortion and data breaches led more than 859K complaints to Internet Crime Complaint Center
Amid a whiplash of staffing changes, several NIOSH employees received a notice labeled “Recession of Previous Notice of Reduction in Force”

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The workers wouldn’t have arrest powers or the authority to carry a service weapon
Embattled DA Chesa Boudin instead urged the mayor to put more money into housing and treatment programs
The goal of the standalone station is to reduce response times for medical calls
The Tulsa Firefighter’s Union and the city are in arbitration over pay raises
The ruling means that union employees will lose pay if they do not receive a first shot by the deadline
The new rules cover rig availability now that two services are licensed to operate in Decatur for the first time since 2014
Since the start of this fiscal year, councilmembers have paid more than $1.5 million in extra LAPD overtime
The mobile crisis intervention class is planned to run three times a year with cohorts made up of participants from municipalities, nonprofits and community groups
New legislation will allow deputies to volunteer for overtime shifts
Rep. Rachel Talbot Ross, the sponsor of a bill being drafted, intends to create a statewide working group to assess EMS needs