I learned to hate Sunday mornings.  It wasn't getting up at 4:30AM to deliver the Sunday paper.  The problem was the dogs.  In the early 1970s, when I was a paperboy, the newspaper came on weekday evenings, Saturday afternoons and Sunday Mornings.  People's dogs were much better behaved Monday through Saturday. At first, I thought the dogs were better behaved because during the week their owners were home.  But it was more than that.  I have often seen that painting of dogs playing cards.  I was convinced that the dogs did indeed get together on Saturday nights and got all liquored up.  They were mean, hung-over drunks on Sunday morning.  I devised ways to avoid most, but there was one dog - a huge German Shepard I called She Wolf who had taken my delivery of the paper personally. 

Sergeant Andrew G. Hawkes

Many moons ago at the ripe old age of 19, I began my law enforcement career. I was still too young to become an officer so I became a dispatcher while I waited to go to the police academy. I figured I'd do the "easy" job of dispatching before becoming a cop and doing real police work. It sure didn't take me long to realize that being an emergency telecommunications operator is no walk in the park. The two years I dispatched was probably the toughest, most stressful two years of my 19 year career to date.

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Highlighting the theme, "When Seconds Count...," this event will provide real-time, threat-based training for law enforcement, fire service, EMS/Medical, Emergency Nursing, Homeland Security and other disaster communities.  Responders attending TAK-Response can expect the training and information exchange necessary to perform their jobs in the most critical situations.

 

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My name is Charlie Brune and I am the law enforcement program manager for NIJ's Federal Excess Property Program. I have spent the past 39 years in Texas as a commissioned law enforcement officer and retired in 2002 as a captain in the Texas Rangers. Prior to entering the law enforcement field, I spent three years with the U.S. Army, which included a combat tour in Vietnam and service as an instructor in small arms for the Allied Officers Training Detachment in Fort Knox, Ky. On Sept. 1, 2009, I was hired to be the law enforcement program manager for the Federal Excess Property Program.

Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained by lack of adequate resources, sound policies, and national support. It is clear that change and advancements, both systematic and scientific, are needed in a number of forensic science disciplines to ensure the reliability of work, establish enforceable standards, and promote best practices with consistent application. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward provides a detailed plan for addressing these needs and suggests the creation of a new government entity, the National Institute of Forensic Science, to establish and enforce standards within the forensic science community.