The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office recently provided advanced training for its school resource officers (SROs). During teacher workdays and other non-school days, SROs took part in specialized ...

PLEASANTON, Calif. - The controversial Urban Shield training exercise for police and first responders continues Friday at the Alameda County Fairgrounds, but the focus of the program has shifted to ...

The Urban Shield law enforcement training program has been mischaracterized as merely a SWAT-team exercise and weapons expo. I was present during the meeting in 2007 when then-newly elected Alameda ...

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday to re-affirm its decision of two weeks ago to make sweeping changes to the controversial "Urban Shield" law enforcement training program.