A new mobile application from IACP helps officers in the field deal with recovered and stolen firearms. Stolen Firearms Recovery App Link

Don’t forget, the COPS CHP applications are due March, 22, 2012. According to the release from the COPS Office, only agencies that were not funded or partially funded in 2011 will considered. COPS Office Link

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By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS – The Rev. Kevin Billiot had never done any police work until April, when he was appointed chief of the department in little Montgomery, near the Kisatchie National Forest in central Louisiana. He found himself dealing with numerous complaints that his two full-time and three part-time officers had been rude to or even mistreated people. He applied to the Rural Law Enforcement...