Tag: Law Enforcement
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Alum achieves goal of becoming law enforcement officer
Weapon drawn, preparing to apprehend a criminal, Blake Blanscett’s first-ever traffic stop turned into a situation you would only see in the movies. Blanscett is a police officer for Midland Police Department. He began working for the department as soon as he graduated from South Plains College in 2017. Blanscett started as a student in […]
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Students learn active shooter survival techniques
To show students what it is like to be in an active shooter situation, Chief Castillo put students in different scenarios.
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New Texas law ends texting while driving
Imagine being on the scene, looking at a wrecked vehicle belonging to a loved one.
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Math, law enforcement student receives Burnside Scholar Award, scholarship
by BRANDI ORTIZ//Associate Editor The Burnside Scholar Award was recently given to a South Plains College student. Rachel Sarkis, a sophomore Math and Law Enforcement Technology major from Lubbock, received a $1,000 scholarship from the Texas Community College Teachers Association. In 2002, the TCCTA established the Burnside Scholar Award, an award named after the first executive […]