In our “Beyond Off Duty Survival” class, we encourage officers to train their families to be able to assist them. As police officers, we often shy away from teaching our kids about our tactics, our weapons, and the general nasty nature of our job. However, you can easily train your family members to assist you in this type of situation. Realistically, you’re probably not going to walk around the house with your gun and handcuffs on all the time. This brings us to prevention and response. Police officers can also be found inadvertently through other family members (especially our kids), our off duty interests such as church or school, or even the old fashioned method of being followed home from work. Thanks to the Internet, it’s harder than ever to hide our identity, our home address, even what personal car we drive. We all know that we are relatively easy to find when we’re off duty. Fortunately, Sergeant Graham’s four year old son was not with him at the time. of the Missouri State Highway Patrol was shot and killed in front of his home on March 29 th, 2005 by a suspect who was under investigation by the sergeant for leaving the scene of a fatal accident.
Do you have a take-home squad car? Are you living in the same community where you are a cop? Do you work in an assignment, such as narcotics, gangs, probation, parole, or another where you could be targeted by a motivated offender? Sergeant Carl Dewayne Graham, Jr. Next, begin by realistically assessing the possibilities. Since then, over 200 American police officers have been killed taking action off duty. On November 8, 1858, Officer Robert Rigdon of the Baltimore, MD Police Department was assassinated in his home as retaliation for his testimony in the trial of the man who murdered fellow BPD officer Benjamin Benton. I admired not only her ability to contain a potential bad guy in her doorway, but how she had kept her family safe and secure…all in a day’s work for a crimefighting mom! But her incident raised a larger issue how do we keep ourselves, and our families safe at home?įirst of all, we must accept and understand that this threat has always been a part of police work. She was able to deal effectively with him, but as she reviewed her actions she wondered what she could have done better, especially because her kids had been playing nearby during the incident. He was not actually there to attack her, he had mental health issues and was looking for help, but she certainly did not know that at the time. Years ago, I received an email from a female crimefighter who was startled by a criminal with a knife who had approached her front door because her take home marked squad car was parked in her driveway.
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