Articles Filed Under 'Plan Your Career'

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Crisis Intervention for Police Officers

Safe Call Now works with over 400 volunteers to help law enforcement officers, fire fighters and other emergency service workers navigate through any crisis that might challenge their lives and careers.

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Visual Listening with author Rik D. Middleton

Author Rik D. Middleton wrote the book at the urging of a friend who is with the Glendale California S.W.A.T. team

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Getting Broken in on the Job at C.O.P.S.

at the C.O.P.S. Spouses’ Retreat Tiffany explained, “I am here because my husband, George, age 23, went to work with the Phoenix, Arizona, Police Department one night and never came back.

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Line of Duty Death: A Widow’s Perspective

Join CopsAlive next Thursday July 30th for a live interview with Kelly Young widow of slain Denver Police Detective Donald “Donnie” Young (E.O.W. May 8, 2005). Detective Young was killed in the early morning hours on Mother’s Day 2005

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Keeping Your Edge - Homework for Cops

What are you doing to keep your edge as a cop? Sure you went through the police academy, you probably have some sort of annual retraining and maybe you even get some occasional roll call training, but what are you doing to keep your professional edge?

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

Successful Cop: Lt. Christopher A. Manos, CPP

He has combined his love for teaching children and his work in magic and has lectured on Child Safety and Crime Prevention in the U.S., Canada, Europe and the South Pacific. Additionally Chris loves to scuba dive and was recognized as a Platinum Pro 5000 diver

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

The Traumas of Law Enforcement - There is Hope!

As editor of CopsAlive.com I just finished attending the 3-day “Traumas of Law Enforcement” seminar put on by the Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) organization and despite the depressing nature of what is happening to our profession I left with a sense of hope that there are so many dedicated people out there making things better for those who come after them.

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Cops and Superstitions

Whether or not you are superstitious you can plan for success in life and your police career.

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Successful Cop: Chuck Rylant

Chuck Rylant has had success as a police officer and now he is also successful as a financial planner and owner of C.J. Rylant Wealth Management.

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

When Will You Retire from Your Police Career?

As a working cop have you thought about when you are going to retire? Maybe you have a fixed police retirement date that’s not within your control or maybe you can plan your own date but haven’t even started to plan for it yet. Maybe you are like many other police officers in that you [...]