From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office: (Bel Air, MD – February 6, 2014) – The Harford County Sheriff’s Office is once again offering Harford County residents the opportunity to attend the annual Citizens Police Academy – a 15 week program designed to provide residents with a better understanding of the Sheriff’s Office and its operations […]
Harford County Sheriff’s Office Now Accepting Applications for 2013 Citizens Police Academy
From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office: The Harford County Sheriff’s Office is once again offering Harford County residents the opportunity to attend the annual Citizens Police Academy – a 15 week program designed to provide residents with a better understanding of the Sheriff’s Office and its operations and to foster a partnership between the Sheriff’s […]
Harford County Sheriff’s Office Citizens Police Academy, Week 15: Firearms Training System and Graduation
The weight of the Glock 9mm feeling strange in my hand, my partner and I step out of our patrol car. The call came in for an individual lying on the cement in an aqueduct near a busy overpass. A pair of tunnels under the road stretching away to the right, we approach the prone […]
Harford County Sheriff’s Office Citizen’s Police Academy Week 14: Youth Services Division, Self-Protection Strategies
There has never been a school shooting in Harford County—but in the last 10 years, there may have been at least one close call. Speaking before the Harford County Sheriff’s Office Citizens Police Academy Tuesday night, DFC Khalid Mitchell related a story which occurred years ago at C. Milton Wright High School. Mitchell has been […]
Harford County Sheriff’s Office Citizens Police Academy, Week 11: Community Policing, Gang Suppression
It’s the centerpiece of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office’s Community Policing Unit, a large RV trailer which tours the county, stocked with information about public safety. It’s manned by experienced deputies eager to answer citizen’s questions. It’s a giant, physical representation of the agency’s efforts to prevent crime before it happens, and to present a […]
Harford County Sheriff’s Office Citizens Police Academy, Week 10: Internal Affairs, Emergency Driving Operations, Hostage Negotiation
Over the last few years, dozens of complaints made against Harford County Sheriff’s deputies and investigated by the agency’s internal affairs bureau have been sustained, and resulted in responses ranging from re-training to disciplinary action. But none of those cases were the example chosen to present to the Citizens Police Academy class May 8. Strangely, […]
Harford County Sheriff’s Office Citizen’s Police Academy Week 9: Emergency Operations Center
A creaky-looking leather chair. A large easel with a map of Harford County. A worn, wooden desk, on which rests a rotary phone, a tube radio, and a reel-to-reel recorder. Yesterday, this was the county’s emergency operations and dispatch center in downtown Bel Air. Today, the center occupies a low-slung building in Hickory, a decades-old […]
Harford County Sheriff’s Office Citizen’s Police Academy Week 8: Harford County Detention Center
Even on the other side of a massive steel door, the music of cell block C roars over the voice of Captain Mike Gullion. The inmates in the maximum-security block are “jamming,” in the words of Captain Tanya Jackson. Through a tiny, darkened portal in the door, it’s impossible to see what they’re jamming on, […]
