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The City of Bendal has implemented a new ordinance allowing prostitution only if the working girls pay a commission to the city. This new ordnance has balanced the city budget but has also created some additional work for the city police.

Everyday CallTheCops trolls public safety workers with publishes fake, satirical stories. So for today (April Fools day) we are doing something a tad different giving you a funny video to watch.

The US Department of Justice has just unveiled the new official target to be used for all US Police officer firearms qualification shoots. This new target is being heralded by both Pro-Police and Anti-Police groups as a first step to ...

Indiana passed a religious freedom restoration act this week. The allows business to refuse service to gay people over religious feeling about homosexuality. The law does not allow EMS to refuse to respond to calls, but a loop hole allows individual medic to refuse services. In response now dispatchers have to ask if the patient is gay.

Chief Dan McDaniel is currently suspended from duty as the city investigates allegations of using his department to recruit for pyramid schemes his family works. The chief and his wife are distributors for multiple direct sales marketing programs. Allegedly a requirement of being a member of the FD is to sign up for one of their direct selling programs.

Officer Mike Brewster hit it big with a $1,000,000 lottery scratcher ticket. But now he has to give the money up because he purchased the ticket on-duty.Department policy has a section about profiting from on-duty activities.

The US Air Force will be retire the A10 thunderbolt soon. The plane with the nicknames of "Warthog" and "Tank killer" was designed for close air ground support missions. A mission that could be adopted for police use.

Police across the nation are reporting confusion with family due to the term “partner” being used. For police officers it is a term to indicate co-workers. But in the gay community it designates being in a romantic relationship.

Years ago many emergency workers used 10-codes to communicate over radio systems. In the wake of some disaster and terror attack responses these codes were abandoned to "normal speak" on radios. Now the federal government wants to bring the codes back.

Cost saving measures in construction are becoming more commonplace. A popular trend is the use of Lightweight Engineered Lumber truss systems to create larger places with less wood. Firefighters say this cost savings is dangerous, but one engineer says firefighters are wrong.