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Are you challenging your muscles with strength and resistance training? Check out this poster to get some quick tips on how to improve your workouts with strength and resistance training.

Serving arrest and/or search warrants should never be considered “routine.” Intentional steps must be taken to increase safety and minimize the risk to officers, civilians, and subjects. This bulletin covers common safety issues with serving warrants and how to combat those issues.

Did you know that about 70 percent of our decision making is based and made by our emotional brain while only about 30 percent is made from the slow, intentional, choice-making part of the brain? In the law enforcement field, most situations need intentional thinking and actions, so learning how to properly take a “second second” can be the difference between a smooth interaction or devastation. Come listen to David Perry with the VALOR Officer Safety and Wellness Program; Chief Wayne Nero of the Georgetown, Texas, Police Department; and Director of Public Safety Alma Burke with the University of Southern California and get some tips about taking a “second second” and being more intentional in your actions.

The duty to intervene in a situation that involves excessive use of force by another officer is your responsibility as a sworn officer. Chief John Bouthillette, a lead instructor for the VALOR Program, and Mr. Bruce-Alan Barnard, a nationally renowned law enforcement legal educator, discuss the reality of what duty to intervene means for officers. You have no protection under the law for failing to intervene when you have the opportunity. You have a duty to intervene. Do not get caught in a moral or ethical dilemma.