law enforcement

The academy provides basic training to more than 600 Hoosier law enforcement officers annually and is the state’s only residential facility to house student officers who are in training from across the state.

The state’s highest legal office filed to dismiss a challenge Friday from a group of media entities to the state’s “buffer zone” law, which creates a 25-foot zone around law enforcement officers during certain activities.

Court documents say one officer leaned on the man's neck, cut off his breathing and began choking him. The other restrained the victim by holding onto his legs.  

The problem is that the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s office is in a staffing crisis. Chronically they don’t have enough confinement officers.

Twenty percent of IUPD officers are women, compared to just 12 percent in the rest of the country. Having a woman as chief is even rarer. Still, Lees sees room for improvement at IU.

Indiana is making changes to its Law Enforcement Training Board in an effort to improve training for police across the state.

Some of Indiana’s law enforcement agencies are changing the way they operate based on an outside review of the state’s policing policies and procedures.

Public health and public safety leaders gathered in Carmel to find ways to collaborate to address the opioid epidemic in Hoosier communities.