Sentences with phrase «armed officer on»

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said there was an armed officer on duty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School at the time of the deadly shooting, but the officer never encountered the suspect.

The school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, did have an armed officer on duty at the time of the incident, but they were not near the shooting when it occurred, according to media reports.

«With an armed officer on duty in the school, such an attack may be deterred, or at least terminated quickly and hopefully without loss of life.»

Carl Heastie, speaker of the Democrat - controlled Assembly, is against the proposal and pointed out that having a trained armed officer on the premises didn't prevent last week's slaughter.

The armed officer on duty at the Florida school where a shooter killed 17 people never went inside to engage the gunman and has been placed under investigation, officials announced.

While police officers may at times play a role in responding to school violence — as a school officer did in Maryland last Tuesday — stationing permanent armed officers on campuses comes with significant negative consequences and is also not the most effective way to prevent school violence.

Not exact matches

Turner announced a curfew on Tuesday night, extending from 12 a.m. to 5 a.m. Wednesday, amid reports of looting, armed robberies and people impersonating police officers.

«We should be focused on arming law enforcement,» said Mr. Scott, who has proposed helping school districts pay for an armed police officer or sheriff's deputy at every school, and for every 1,000 students in large high schools.

Galvano said senators want to examine ways to protect schools that don't have resource officers - often armed law enforcement officers - on site.

He was wearing what appeared to be a Junior Reserve Officers» Training Corps shirt from the school with an eagle logo on the arm.

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The armed police officer on the Douglas campus never encountered him, police said.

The «Father» of the Nation, being the United States of America is quoted saying; «The General is sorry to be informed — , that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.»

Sentry is an organization based out of the Enough Project and Not on Our Watch and its mission is to «disrupt and dismantle the networks of military officers, government officials, businessmen, arms dealers, bankers and other enablers who benefit financially and politically from Africa's deadliest conflicts,» according to its website.

Orland Park police hosted two training classes open to law enforcement officials around the region and hired former Olympia Fields police chief and law enforcement instructor Jeff Chudwin to give Orland Park officers guidance on legal and practical issues presented by the law, such as politely but quickly asking whether a driver is armed during a traffic stop, Kenealy said.

Senate Republicans on Monday backed a package of school safety and security bills that would provide funding for armed resource officers and added technology.

Still, in Albany, the gun debate has mirrored the national discussion on the issue as Republicans have sought measures that would provide more armed school resources officers as well as metal detectors to bolster school safety.

The deceased officer, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama of the 5th Infantry Batallion (5BN) at Burma Camp in Accra who was the commanding officer of troops on detachment duties in the area, was attacked and killed by a mob that mistook him for an armed robber.

Dan - Ali noted that the passing out of another set of officers to the Nigerian Army came at a period when the country was consolidating on the gains of counter-insurgency operation, adding that «the Nigerian Armed Forces, as you are aware, have been involved in an extensive combat against insurgency and terrorist groups.

trader from whom Captain Maxwell Mahama bought snails, was the one who informed the assemblyman of Denkyira Obuasi that the young military officer was an armed robber, after she had seen the sidearm of the now deceased officer as he took money from his pocket to pay for the snails, police have told journalists at a joint press conference with the Ghana Armed Forces at the Police Headquarters in Accra on Friday, 2 armed robber, after she had seen the sidearm of the now deceased officer as he took money from his pocket to pay for the snails, police have told journalists at a joint press conference with the Ghana Armed Forces at the Police Headquarters in Accra on Friday, 2 Armed Forces at the Police Headquarters in Accra on Friday, 2 June.

According to the police, without verifying the identity of Captain Mahama, the assemblyman and armed townsfolk accosted the military officers, gave him chase, shot at him, and eventually pounced on him using crude weapons such as cement blocks, clubs, among others, until he died around 10 am on Monday, two hours after he started a 20 km jog.

The architect of the uprising, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, was arrested and hauled before a court martial, but before the dust could settle on the issue, a group of officers and men from the Ghana Armed Forces, on June 4, 1979, seized the reins of power and ousted the SMC.

Republicans on Tuesday emerged from a closed - door conference to not rule out new gun control measures as well as backing funding for school security upgrades, such as metal detectors and armed resource officers.

More than 100 police officers, some heavily armed in camouflage uniforms, searched neighborhoods near Central Michigan University on Friday for a 19 - year - old student suspected of killing his parents at a dormitory and then running from campus.

The officer whose name has been given us Captain Maxwell Mahama was lynched by residents on suspicion of being an armed robber.

In what the presidency called» surgical operation» against some judicial officers, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the President reserves his highest respect for the institution of the judiciary as the third arm of government.

I like the idea of having an armed officer in the school building... otherwise there isn't much that can be done to a crazy person intent on injuring school children.

On Long Island, Miller Place schools last week hired four ex-NYPD officers as armed guards.

The embedding three Oneida County Sheriff's deputies and an armed Oneida County Probation officer to accompany county Department of Social Services caseworkers on home visits.

For instance, in April 2016 when an EFCC Liaison officer at the National Assembly presented a plaque to Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekeremedu, the EFCC under Magu descended on the legislative arms with uncouth castigation (link2).

Details are emerging about how Denkyira - Obuase township and its surroundings have virtually turned into a ghost town following the killing of the army officer who was said to be jogging Monday morning before he was accosted and lynched because the townsfolk claimed he was on an armed - robbery operation.

The officers, who have been treated and discharged from the Police Hospital, were among several police officers who fell prey to the attack launched on them by officers from the Northern Command of the Ghana Armed Forces.

The Senate's Republican leaders want new funding for armed officers in schools while the Assembly's Democratic majority favors new restrictions on firearm ownership.

The New York State Sheriffs» Association this week called on the Legislature to include funding in the next state budget for at least one armed school resource officer at every grade school and high school, which could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The deceased, Captain Maxwell Mahama, an officer of the 5th Infantry Battalion, is said to have been on his daily jogging routine on Monday [May 29], when some angry youth of the town attacked him, allegedly on suspicion of being an armed robber.

Beginning Thursday, the Department of Public Safety's officers who are armed — 36 of the 42 — began wearing a body camera on duty at all times.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday approved the extension of the registration of Biometric Verification Number for men and officers of the Nigeria Armed Forces, to enable them access their salaries.

Officers of the Ghana Armed Forces bade an emotional farewell to Major Maxwell Adam Mahama on Friday as the slain soldier was laid to rest.

Mistaken for an armed robber because he had a pistol on him while going on jogging, the army officer was lynched by men, women and children.

«He appeared to have one of the officers in an armlock, he put his arm around the officer's neck, and the other police officer was on top of him,» Grew told ITV.

Rather than conduct a rigorous enquiry into how a military officer whose entire career had been in the army, could afford those purchases, the Minister of Defense in a statement published in Vanguard Newspapers on June 27, 2016 dismissed the issue as «the allegations was part (sic) of attempts by unpatriotic elements to distract the leadership of the armed forces from the successes of the war against terrorism...».

When Miller began to fight back, slamming her gate on an officer's hand, one officer tried to subdue her, briefly wrapping his left arm around her neck, according to the video released by former City Councilman Charles Barron.

Major Mahama, an officer of the 5th Infantry Battalion, was said to have been on his daily jogging route on May 29, 2017, some residents of the town attacked and lynched on suspicion of being an armed robber.

Suspected armed robbers raided the police station, attacked the officer on duty and freed seven cell inmates.

The armed robbers set the inmates who were in cells free after shooting the officer on duty to death.

The Defence and Police Officers» Wives Association (DEPOWA) has built a Skills Acquisition Center in support of the widows of fallen members of the Armed Forces killed by terrorists in the ongoing war on terror.

On Thursday, several uniformed State Troopers were dispatched nearby, and the Senate's cadre of sergeants - at - arms (mostly retired law enforcement officers themselves) asked people to sign in.

DAILY POST recalls that a policeman had on Thursday morning shot and killed the Army officer, who was in mufti after mistakenly tagging him an armed robber.

An operative of the Department of State Services (DSS) Mr. Williams Obiora has told a Federal High Court in Abuja how armed soldiers resisted the attempt by officers and men of the DSS to carry out a search on the house of a former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col Sambo Dasuki in 2015 for alleged unlawful arms possession.

The New York State Sheriffs» Association is calling on lawmakers to include funding in the state budget to provide at least one armed school resource officer at every grade school and high school in the state.