[Scan-DC] Reserve Officers in the DC area

[Jeff Krauss]

https://go.mpdconline.com/GO/GO_101_03.pdf
Reserve Patrol Officer Level I  A Reserve Corps officer who is 
granted full police powers by the Department and is authorized by the 
Chief of Police to carry a Department-issued firearm while on duty.

At 05:40 PM 4/14/2015, Ed Tobias wrote:
>This is off-topic but this old news guy needs to vent to the other 
>newsies on this list.
>
>WRC-TV's I-Team, trying to localize the story of the Reserve 
>Sheriff's Deputy who went for his taser and, instead, pulled his 
>gun, didn't investigate enough.  The story in the 5pm cast looked at 
>Montgomery and PG Counties, which don't use reserves, and at Anne 
>Arundle and Howard which do, but they're, apparently, unarmed.  But 
>NO mention of DC which, last I knew, not only uses reserves but a 
>Category 1 MPDC Reserve can be armed.
>
>How can a DC television station not include the DC Police in its 
>"investigation," especially since MPDC reserves can be armed (or, so 
>says the MPDC web site.  Dewey, still true?)
>
>Who's producing this stuff?
>
>Please forgive the rant.
>
>Ed
>
>Sent from my iPad
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