<h1 class="entry-title">Category: NEPBA Police Updates</h1>

Technology-driven transparency is key to more productive policing

By Gerald Whitman, Denver Chief of Police (Retired) The first minutes at a crime scene are the most important in the fact finding and investigative process. Collecting “just the facts” is not enough, police must rapidly collect witnesses’ personal observations and perceptions of an incident to gain a better understanding of what really happened. Once […]

Pokemon Go smartphone game leads woman to body in river

Associated Press RIVERTON, Wyo. — Authorities in central Wyoming are investigating after a woman playing the popular smartphone game Pokemon Go found a man's body in a river. Shayla Wiggens told the Riverton Ranger newspaper that she spotted the body in the Wind River near the city of Riverton on Friday while playing the new […]

Mo. police say teens used Pokemon Go to rob victims

Associated Press O'FALLON, Mo. — Police in Missouri say four teens robbed victims after luring them to a specific location using the new Pokemon Go smartphone game. Police said Sunday that four teens used the game to draw victims to a spot in O'Fallon, just outside of St. Louis, and then robbed them. The recently […]