The Precision Intervention Technique, or PIT maneuver, is a driving technique designed to stop a fleeing motorist safely and quickly by hitting the fleeing car at a specific point on the vehicle, which throws the car into a spin and brings it to a stop. When executed by a trained officer at slow speeds on [...]
With artist John Sheppard making light of the lack of ballistic protection on some government small boats, we thought it might be time to offer our solution. You’re on a small boat chasing a go fast off the coast of Nicaragua when one of the suspects decides prison isn’t in his future and pulls a [...]
San Diego’s Examiner is reporting the city of San Fernando has been forced to settle with a USCG Reserve Boarding Officer after he filed a civil lawsuit for battery, false arrest, and civil rights violations. The suit was brought after San Fernando Police Officer Marshall Mack stopped Diaz in his vehicle to determine the status [...]
Every MLEO considering self defense at one time asks if a boat moving to ram their own can legally be considered a deadly weapon. Here’s your answer from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1985 Luis Gustavo Gualdado, Domingo Fernandez, and Francisco Morales, were attempting to smuggle a large quantity if cocaine into Miami, [...]
Bangkok Post – One Chinese fisherman died and two others were missing after their trawler collided with a South Korean coastguard ship Saturday and capsized, officials and reports said. Four coastguard officers were also injured as they tried to arrest the crew of the Chinese boat for illegal fishing off South Korea’s Eocheong island in [...]
A boat ambushed from an on shore position with no opportunity to return fire. Makes you realize the vulnerability. Stay vigilant out there. Two civilians were killed while a soldier and a civilian were wounded when the pump boat they were riding in was attacked by suspected members of the New People’s Army in Las [...]
India Times – A sudden decision to test 29 high-tech bullet-proof speedboats, which were ordered by the Indian government post-26/11, revealed that they were not bullet-proof after all. Mumbai police tested the bullet-proof capability of one of the boats, prior to US president Barack Obama’s recent visit to the city. Gunshots from a self-loading rifle [...]
Vividly illustrates the importance of properly venting a vessel’s void spaces prior to doing any maintenance. We’re hoping for a speedy recovery of the involved worker. KLEWTV – An explosion at Riverview Marina in Idaho sent one man to the hospital. It happened just before 4 p.m. Lewiston Fire Battalion Chief Kevin Kalbfleisch said an [...]
Here’s a letter written by the proud father of an active duty petty officer that was published in a Winter Haven, FL newspaper. We’re proud of him too Mr. Blakeslee. News Chief – William Blakeslee is a petty officer in the U.S. Coast Guard, stationed at Clearwater, FL. (On Oct. 26) William was in a [...]
Self defense blog Low Tech Combat has a great post that tries to pull lessons from several real knife attacks reviewed in their article. Working on the water, where knives are present and prevalent on every vessel, especially those operated by commercial and recreational fishermen, maritime law enforcement officers need to be aware of the [...]
A gunman fired at a U.S. Coast Guard recruiting center in Woodbridge late Monday or early Tuesday, and investigators are trying to determine whether the attack was related to a recent series of shootings targeting U.S. military facilities in Northern Virginia. Also Tuesday, Sgt. Kim Chinn, Prince William County police spokeswoman, said forensic analysis has [...]
Lee Daniel Renfro did more than illegally drive past a guard station and onto the Port Angeles Coast Guard base earlier this year. Undetected, the Forest Grove, Ore., Navy veteran made it past a second watch shack at 5:30 a.m. March 28, then boarded the 210-foot cutter Active. Renfro strolled into the Active’s commanding officer’s [...]
Haiti’s neighbors are concerned about the nation’s cholera outbreak spreading, and are stationing additional law enforcement, military, and medical personnel at airports, seaports, public docks, and beaches to detect and respond to any potential import of the disease. But is it all necessary? Cholera is dangerous. Nearly 300 Haitians have died and over 4,000 were [...]
Here is a little nugget from Safariland’s website that EVERYONE who has a weapons belt should be doing. When I travel, I always ask folks about PMS on their holsters, to which I pretty much get shoulder shrugs and blank stares. When you finish at the range, personal or work, the first thing you usually [...]
In my job, one of the most common topics that comes up usually starts with “what if”. We all know the what if. What if I am attacked by a ninja with throwing stars, what if he has a bat and is getting ready to throw it at me, what if there is a pack [...]
Dug this story out of an AFP article covering some recent attacks in Yemen by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). No doubt a targeted killing associated with a published hit list of fifty-five Yemeni law enforcement and security officials in Abyan, a city neighboring the port in Balhaf. If we find any more [...]
For more than 20 years now, a concept called the 21-Foot Rule has been a core component in training officers to defend themselves against edged weapons. Originating from research by Salt Lake City trainer Dennis Tueller and popularized by the Street Survival Seminar and the seminal instructional video “Surviving Edged Weapons,” the “rule” states that [...]
In the original post on this story we stated the US Coast Guard stresses trailering safety to its officers for good reason. Below is an example of the consequences when it isn’t. A civilian employee of the Barrie police department has been charged after a dinghy flew off a trailer two weeks ago in the [...]
