by Calibre Press | Feb 8, 2024 | Calibre Analysis, Calibre Press Commentary, Defensive Tactics, Education, Instructor Insights, Law Enforcement Today, Officer Feedback, Officer Safety & Survival, Patrol, Tips, Training, Use of Force
In last week’s Calibre Press newsletter, Instructor Kelly DeVoll discussed the critical importance of scanning while engaged with a subject. Kelly’s “priority of scan” sequence is hands, waist, face, head-to-toe. Numerous officers wrote in to share their own thoughts....
by Jim Glennon | Jun 29, 2021 | Calibre Analysis, Officer Safety & Survival, Patrol
In 2004 while I was a lieutenant with 25 years on, I backed up two of my patrol officers on a shoplifting call. A man grabbed a bottle of vodka off the shelf of a liquor store and walked past a store employee who informed him that he would have to stop and pay for the...