always search your prisoner--GRAPHIC!

[Lady Cop]

made the rounds of many police/sheriff depts.

(a story today reminded me of this,
story in post 2)

2003
The Sheriff's Department has disciplined sworn personnel who took custody of a man who shot a deputy and then killed himself with a hidden gun at the sheriff's headquarters last month. How many were disciplined and the nature of the punishments were withheld.
"We are not at liberty to say," sheriff's spokesman Chip Patterson said Friday.
The incident was investigated by the sheriff's Internal Affairs Division and "appropriate disciplinary actions" were taken, he said.
San Bernardino police apprehended Ricardo Alfonso Cerna of San Bernardino on Dec. 19 after he shot Deputy Michael Parham in Muscoy. Custody was later transferred to sheriff's deputies.
Parham had tried to stop Cerna on West Adams Street near California Street for unknown reasons, but Cerna sped away. Cerna got out of his car after a short chase and fired at Parham as the deputy drove up, critically wounding him..
While waiting to be questioned at the sheriff's Central Station, Cerna shot himself with a .45-caliber handgun he had hidden in his pants.
Parham, 31, of Rancho Cucamonga, spent about a week at Loma Linda University Medical Center recovering from stomach wounds. He declined to comment Friday.
The Sheriff's Department launched an investigation into Parham's shooting, Cerna's suicide and the procedures that deputies followed when they took custody of Cerna from San Bernardino police.
In a video shown to reporters, Cerna was seen sitting inside a sheriff's interrogation room for 13 minutes before he pulled out the handgun and shot himself in the head.

GRAPHIC VIDEO

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/16765/

[Lady Cop]

JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) – Two Jonesboro police officers are on administrative leave after a suspect reportedly shot himself while handcuffed in a patrol car.

Chavis Chacobie Carter, 21, of Southaven, Mississippi, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to police records.

According to the police report, Carter was a passenger in a pickup truck that was stopped just before 10 o'clock Saturday night on Haltom Street.

Officer Keith Baggett said while he searched the vehicle, Officer Ron Marsh questioned and searched Carter. He reportedly found "some marijuana" and several new plastic baggies on Carter.

According to the report, Officer Marsh ran Carter's information through dispatch and learned that he was wanted on a warrant out of DeSoto County, Mississippi.

After confirming the warrant, Baggett said Marsh had Carter "exit the patrol unit, placed him into handcuffs, searched him a second time then placed him into the back seat of the patrol unit."

While he and Officer Marsh walked back to his patrol unit, Officer Baggett said a car passed and then he heard "a loud thump with a metallic sound." At the time he believed the vehicle had run over a piece of metal on the road.

After questioning and releasing the other two men, Officer Marsh reportedly returned to his unit while Officer Baggett said he prepared to leave the scene. He then heard "several thumps" on his trunk and saw Officer Marsh motioning for him.

Officer Marsh reportedly said Carter had shot himself.

The two officers opened the rear passenger side door and found Carter in a "sitting position slumped forward with his head in his lap." Officer Marsh said there was a large amount of blood on Carter's shirt, pants, seat and floor. He also said Carter's hands were still cuffed behind his back. A small caliber handgun was reportedly found beside him.

Seeing that Carter was still breathing, Officer Marsh radioed for an ambulance and a supervisor. Carter was taken to St. Bernards Regional Medical Center where he later died of his injury.

Officers Baggett and Marsh are on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

[Lady Cop]

HPD: Inmate Hides Gun In Fat Layers

August 6, 2009

HOUSTON -- A nearly 600-pound man was able to hide a weapon for more than a day while he was in custody, police told KPRC Local 2 Wednesday.

"Obviously the system broke down," Harris County Detention Major Mark Kellar said. "Theprocedures didn't work as they were designed to work."

Houston police said George Vera, 25, was arrestedAug. 2 and taken to the city jail. He spent a day there before being transferred to theHarrisCounty Jail. After being there for 14 hours, going through intake procedures, he was taken to the showers, the final step before going to his cell. There, Vera told police he had a9mm handgun on him, along with 2 clips. :shock:

"If a person has a weapon, narcotics, anything of danger, itshould have been found before he winds up in the county jail," said Kellar.

Kellar said Vera should have been searched at least three times before getting to the jail.

Vera weighs nearly 600 pounds and the gun was allegedly hidden between fat layers.

cadets are trained how to search morbidly obese people.

"We teach officers to lift up and look under," Blankinship said."The officer may not have arrested anyone this big before."

Blankenship said that system clearly does not always work.

"They can be so big, basically short of strip searching or searching cavities, theycould miss something like this," said Blankinship.

The Houston Police Department and Harris County Sheriff's Office are doing internal investigations to figure out how this could have happened.

Blankinship said they should also change the way officers are trained to search morbidly obese inmates, maybe adding hand-held metal detectors.

[Duchess]

That made my lip curl. *ick*

[Carsman]

That deputy was one lucky SOB!

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Thats just plain nasty

[Lady Cop]

re: post 2 ^

police recreate shooting
In the video, an officer played the part of Chavis Carter, a Southaven, Miss., man who died from a gunshot wound to the temple on July 28 despite being frisked twice by Jonesboro police officers. Carter was black and both of the officers who arrested him are white, a dynamic that has generated suspicion among some members of the city's black community.








story & photos:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...e-car.html