Detective Magness honored as Investigator of the Month For her work...
The HPOU awarded its Investigator of the Month honors to Detective Loren Magness of the Adult Sex Crimes Unit in the December general membership meeting in connection with her investigation of a brutal...
View ArticleSoftball Report: Narcotics wins winter softball title ahead of Northeast,...
The Houston Police Midnight League ended its fall season on Dec. 18. The league initially began the fall season with eight teams but lost two after the first five weeks of the season were rained out....
View Article2nd ATO Top Cop Hero’s Gala set for March 30
A year ago after Assist the Officer Foundation’s first-ever Top Cop Hero Gala the ATO board promised an even better production this year. It looks like ATO will make good on that vow. This year’s gala...
View ArticleFamily Support Project: First-ever Shop with HPD Blue Heroes A giant...
Months of planning by the Houston Police Family Support Unit (HPFSU) and several generous donations resulted in our hosting a most successful First Annual “Shopping with HPD Blue Heroes.” A day to...
View Article1st Annual Blue Heart Award goes to renown Resourceful fundraising auctioneer...
The Houston Police Family Support Unit (HPFSU) was honored to present their 1st Annual Blue Heart Awards in December 2018. The Blue Heart Award is our way of saying “Thank You” and recognizing an...
View ArticleHard work and devotion to memories of fallen heroes Went into future Eagle...
The reaches of the HPD Blue Family extend comprehensively throughout Houston and the rest of the world. So it was no big deal when Rhett Seagler and Richard Duffy became friends in private school. To...
View ArticleEagle Scout Project: Sgt. Seagler’s son Rhett repurposes red oak and...
Ever-observant Rhett Seagler has been coming to work with his dad, Sgt. Terry Seagler, for a number of years now and noticed that the HPD Museum on the first floor of 1200 Travis lacked places where...
View ArticleWinterbottom helps fellow veterans in HPD take the hill of paperwork to get...
Andy Winterbottom was a proud U. S. Marine before he proudly wore the title of a Houston police officer. Winterbottom has always felt the call to help, whether it’s his country as a Marine or...
View ArticleThings got worse in ’18: America saw A 12 percent rise in law enforcement deaths
THAT DREADFUL END-OF-THE-YEAR STATISTIC was on the news right before New Year’s Eve – the annual tabulation of American law enforcement officers who gave their lives on duty for the people they serve....
View Article2019: Legislature, Prop B Fight and DWIs
As 2019 kicks off, so does the 86th Texas Legislature. Now if you were following last session closely, namely pension legislation, it can be a whirlwind experience with constant changes and updates. We...
View ArticleSpecial Report: Violence against HPD has happened too often over many decades
There have been a number of individual years in which it seemed that an extraordinary number of events of violence were committed against the officers of the Houston Police Department. From 1860 to...
View ArticleHouston Police VFW Post 6010 awards scholarship opportunities to HPOU...
In conjunction with the nationwide Voice of Democracy Scholarship awards for Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Houston Police Post 6010 made a significant contribution in December as it hosted five...
View ArticleClassroom arms the subject of this year’s essay topic in annual scholarship...
The HPOU Education Committee has announced the topic and deadline for application for this year’s scholarships awarded to the graduating seniors who are sons or daughters of Union members. Each...
View Article2nd ATO Top Cop Hero Gala will honor HPD’s Investigator and Patrol Officer of...
Likely the most exciting highlight of the 2nd Assist the Officer Foundation Top Cop Hero Gala on March 30 will be the revelation of the Patrol Officer and Investigator of the Year award winners. The...
View ArticleHPOU Mentor Award: Officer Bui made the HPD pitch, recruited a dispatcher who...
Officer Nghiep Bui jokes around with his fellow HPD officers on a regular basis. So he wasn’t taking seriously the phone call and text he received from two wise-guy friends who heard his name called at...
View ArticleHPOU Legal’s Huffman gathers child sex crime data showing that the Internet...
Child predators succeed at a much higher rate if they groom their victims online instead of in person, according to a study that will be presented to the 31st Annual Crimes Against Children Conference...
View ArticleFiery Crash Victim: Mayor and City, Chief and officers continue prayers for...
Officer John Daily was expected to undergo regular operations “for the next several months” in the wake of a fiery Christmas Eve collision with a suspected drunk driver on Telephone Road, his twin...
View ArticleAt last we see Justice done for Officer Elston Howard
ON THE CHILLY NIGHT OF JAN. 30 IN HUNTSVILLE’S DEATH HOUSE Houstonians and members of the Houston Police Department saw justice done. Robert Mitchell Jennings paid the ultimate price for killing HPD...
View ArticleIt’s great to see the mayor, the chief, the Union on the same page when it...
PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT GETTING ON – OR OFF – the “same page. Today the HPD hierarchy, the Union and the mayor of Houston can truthfully say they are on the same page. Witness the January...
View ArticleHPD officers are professionals, not careless or trigger-happy
Now that we are a month into 2019, the statistics from 2018 are starting to roll in. The numbers are once again showing what we all already knew – that when it comes to using lethal force police...
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