Sentences with phrase «armed officers»

It is unacceptable to propose spending money on firearms and additional armed officers in schools while refusing to invest in resources that will promote student safety.

Besides putting armed officers in every school, the initiative by the state sheriff's association would shift the cost from local taxpayers to the state.

And even if they had, how could anyone anticipate opening the front door and being met with multiple armed officers for no reason?

Often, «no - knock» search warrants are conducted, during which armed officers enter an individual's home without warning.

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.

These numbers support the notion that the presence of armed officers positively impacts the school environment.»

The state Sheriffs» Association also called for more state aid for armed officers at schools.

The deputy prime minister backed the home secretary, Theresa May, who called for disciplinary action against the representatives of the Police Federation who met Mitchell a month after an altercation with armed officers in Downing Street in September last year.

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.

ONE POLICE PLAZA — The NYPD is beefing up security to monitor expected record - breaking crowds for this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade — including adding hundreds of heavily armed officers from its newly formed counterterrorism unit.

Others, including Sheriff Murphy and Warren County Sheriff Bud York, support the use of retired law enforcement officers as an economical way of getting well - trained armed officers into schools.

A small army of heavily armed officers and detectives investigate the assassination of police officer Miosotis Familia.

The budget provides $ 7 million to increase the state allotment for school resource officers from $ 35,000 to $ 50,000 per high school, designed to cover the actual cost of hiring armed officers to patrol those schools.

I was reminded of this when I heard the Prime Minister's recent announcement about additional armed officers to help counter a Paris style attack on the streets of London.

Armed officers continued moving students at Utica College to a secure location on campus late this afternoon, hours after the school received a «real, credible threat» of violence earlier in the morning, officials said.

The district since at least 2004 has had two to three part - time armed officers from the Suffolk police department's Sixth and Seventh precincts assigned to district buildings.

The dairy farmer, John Collins, who attended the news conference with Cuomo, said that armed officers raided his farm in Rome, N.Y., last week to arrest one of his workers.

Unseating Lowey is not the world's easiest task, but Rosen, a retired Arm officer and businessman, is seen as the GOP's best shot at doing in so in decades.

It points to a similar situation in Merseyside where violent crimes committed with guns rose by 62 per cent during the period between 1997 and 2006 when 15 per cent fewer armed officers were on the streets.

The calls for more armed officers in schools is one side of the many argued nationally about gun control in America following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 which claimed the lives of 17 people.

Syracuse, NY — Onondaga County Sheriff Gene Conway said he supports a statewide initiative to provide armed officers in every school.

As armed officers scoured the area around the prison, some wondered if Matt and Sweat's escape might have been derailed if the prison had gone into a full scale lockdown after a June 1 melee among three dozen inmates in an exercise yard.

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.

When I showed my ticket to a ticket controller she exclaimed to me: «Police arm your officers with a taser, «This Is New», a work by Tino Sehgal, 2003».

Uniformed, armed officers cost $ 200,000 a year, and an insurance policy of $ 100,000 a year includes coverage for its staff with access to firearms.

Amanda Edwards - Berlingeri, a senior who was inside the first classroom that gunman Nikolas Cruz entered, said she thinks arming officers with SR - 15s gives a false sense of security.

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Collins tells 7 Eyewitness News that he is also going to start having one armed officer at all of his public events.

A couple of months after Cherry Hill School District hired armed officers to patrol its two high schools, parents say they feel a better sense of security.

«The mayor was concerned by reports about the use of armed officers but has been reassured by [Met commissioner] Sir Paul Stephenson there is no intention of using armed police in routine manner,» she said.

Tuesday morning's press conference was supposed to be about the holiday season, and how Cuomo was directing his various police forces to flood New York City's transportation facilities with armed officers.

The association, led by Wayne County Sheriff Barry Virts, urged lawmakers to provide funding for armed officers in 4,500 public schools and 2,000 private schools.

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.

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.

If they are challenged by an armed officer it is their inability to rationalise what is happening that will put the officer in a difficult position.»

Melissa Falkowski, a teacher at Stoneman Douglas, noted that an armed officer was on campus at the time of the carnage, but doubted arming educators would have helped.

Legislation to put an armed officer in every New York City school passed the Republican - controlled state Senate last year, but didn't pass in the Democratic - controlled Assembly.

Opponents of the plan point out that an armed officer didn't stop last week's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

What isn't clear yet is who would foot the bill for placing an armed officer at each of the more than 6,700 public and private school buildings.

What isn't clear yet is who would foot the bill for placing an armed officer...

The porous and exposed nature of most mobile money points is an eyesore, that is true but in the words of Accra Regional Police Commander, DCOP George Alex Mensah «The banking sector is such that there is a law that without the presence of an armed officer you can not open a bank so at the banks, if by 8.

And the only issue I've been fighting for at the end of session was getting an armed officer at the entrance to every school.»

«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.»

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.

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 only way to assure that every student has the protection of an armed officer in close proximity is for the state to provide a reliable funding stream for SROs.

Armed officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service are all over Ejigbo to ensure that foreigners do not participate in the voting exercise.

That means no chief constable, let alone a minister, would be ever able to tell an armed officer how to respond to the specific scene before them.

Mitchell had told the federation representatives that he had sworn in the presence of the armed officers in Downing Street but had not described them as plebs.

The officers issued their statement on the grounds that Mitchell had failed to give a full account of the Downing Street incident in which he allegedly called an armed officer a «fucking pleb» after he refused to allow the then chief whip to wheel his bikes through the gates.