Salem councilors face union pressure to reverse vote keeping convicted killer Kyle Hedquist on police oversight board after missing background check.

Nine area high school students participating in the four-day Waukegan Police Department’s Youth Citizen Police Academy.

Police Chief Robert Gillespie told city officials and audience members during a Nov. 5 City Council meeting that the Police Department is still accepting applications for the Community Police Academy,

Seattle Police Officers Guild President Mike Solan said on Sunday that the city's LEAD program represents "suicidal empathy" and will increase death and decay on streets.

To police is to maintain law and order, but the word derives from polis—the Greek for “city,” or “polity”—by way of politia, the Latin for “citizenship,” and it entered English from the Middle French police, which meant not constables but ...

The man’s brother is accused of giving drugs and money to someone he thought was a county jail employee. It turns out that person was a cop.

The incident unfolded after police received a 911 call from a man reporting that a person inside the house had a knife, authorities said.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — New Haven’s police chief abruptly retired following allegations he stole money from a department account, Mayor Justin Elicker announced Monday. The Democrat said Chief Karl Jacobson admitted he took money from a city fund that compensates confidential informants for helping police solve crimes.