Fallen Heroes: Officer Dawn Erickson
Christmas Eve 1995 Dawn Suzanne Erickson was born in Belleville, Illinois, on January 15, 1973. Her parents were David and Beth Erickson. She graduated from Westbury High School in southwest Houston...
View ArticleRecognizing the long route to healing from grief
Editor’s Note: This column first appeared three or four years ago. The Badge & Gun, ever mindful of the stress and grief resulting from the devastation from Hurricane Harvey, is reprinting this...
View ArticleObituaries of HPD Family Members
BROWN Mr. Alga V. Randall passed away on Saturday, November 4, 2017. He is the father of Police Officer Tasharra S. Brown, assigned to the South Central Division. A private burial was scheduled in...
View ArticleThank You Notes to HPOU
HPOU, The family of Bobbie Gene Lott acknowledges with deep appreciation your kind expression of sympathy. Thank you for the plant and for keeping us in your thoughts. Love, The Lott Family The post...
View ArticleThanks for this opportunity; Now let’s set our 2018 priorities
Thank you! As I sit to write my first “President’s Column” for the Badge and Gun, I am overwhelmed by a sense of honor and gratitude. Let me say that being elected president of the Houston Police...
View ArticleHPOU December 7 Membership Meeting Minutes
OPENING Ray Hunt called the meeting to order with the Pledge of Allegiance, then a prayer by Bishop Corey Davis. MEETING DEDICATION Joe Gamaldi then read the meeting dedication for Officer J.D....
View Article2018 HPOU Scholarship Information
It is that time of year again, the HPOU is releasing the 2018 scholarship applications. If you are a dependent of an active or retired member in good standing with the HPOU please submit an application...
View ArticleHPD Boxing: Battle of the Badges
Come join us and the HPD boxing team on February 10th, 5pm at the Knockout Factory on Navigation for the First Annual “Battle of the Badges”. Tickets are $15 and are now available at 1600 State St,...
View ArticleHPOU January 4 Membership Meeting Minutes
OPENING Joe Gamaldi called the meeting to order with the Pledge of Allegiance. Ken Nealy read the meeting dedication for Officer Leon Griggs who died in the Line of Duty on Jan 31st, 1970. Rev. Corey...
View ArticleUnion works with Emergency Aid Coalition to hand out $100 Kroger gift cards...
Teamwork and an HPD connection resulted in 175 officers and civilian personnel adversely affected by Hurricane Harvey’s flood waters to each receive $100 Kroger gift cards for groceries just in time...
View ArticleHPOU to host Jan. 25 713 Ministries fundraiser
HPOU will play host to the annual fundraising efforts of the 713 Ministries, founded by HPD Senior Police Officer Lloyd Anderson, the evening of Jan. 25 at the Breck Porter Building. The 713 Ministries...
View ArticleOfficer Anderson’s 713 Ministries program going Strong after eight years of...
Several decades ago, Houston had only two area codes. First there was 713, which initially served the growing number of phone numbers all around the city. Massive growth led to a second area code, 281....
View ArticleStill time to get tickets for ATO’s Feb. 3 Top Cop presentation
Excellence in policing is the name of the game in the Houston Police Department – a prime reason why Assist the Officer Foundation (ATO) with the support of the Houston Police Officers Union and First...
View ArticleNavidad en el Barrio (NEED) is the dream-come-true of retired HPD Sgt. Izzy...
The Charitable Christmas Organization known as “Navidad en el Barrio” (translated as Christmas in the Neighborhood) began at the Houston Police Storefront located at the Ripley House community center...
View ArticleUkraine police learning ‘Westernized police traditions’
HPD Sgt. Ron Pinkerton said HPD’s training of the new Ukraine patrol police went many steps further than planned. Besides learning the SRG routines, the classrooms of new police who were “trained to be...
View ArticleHouston officers travel thousands of miles to train Ukraine officers in...
It can be said that the elaborate and effective training programs of the Houston Police Department extend 5,982 miles from 1200 Travis and the HPD Police Academy. That distance by commercial airliner...
View ArticleKristi Schiller: Meet the law enforcement advocate whose vision and drive...
While recently recalling a special Christmas past, Kristi Schiller flashed her wide trademark smile and detailed why 2018 was starting out as a Happy New Year. Schiller’s biography lists – among many...
View ArticleArrest of DPS trooper’s killer entailed hundreds Of officers and a K9 with a...
The influence of HPD officers stretches throughout Houston, the state of Texas and the rest of the world outside. This is one story about that widespread sway. It entails Houston police, football,...
View ArticleEditorial: Start the New Year right with a wise resolution: Support HPOU PAC
THE BEST ADVICE FOR THE NEW YEAR IS TO END YOUR membership in one particular minority group – the group of officers that make up the 30 percent of Union membership who do not contribute to the HPOU...
View ArticleHPOU 2018 Endorsements
State Offices Governor Greg Abbott (R) Lt. Governor Dan Patrick (R) Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) Texas Supreme Court Justice Jeff Brown (R) Senator John Whitmire (D), District 15 Senator Joan...
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