Meeting Minutes for the February 7 Membership Meeting
OPENING Joe Gamaldi called the meeting to order with the Pledge of Allegiance. Rev. Corey Wilson led the prayer. DEDICATION Christian Dorton read the meeting dedication for Officer Louis Kuba who was...
View ArticleApplication update for Gary Gryder Scholarship Fund
Thank you for joining us for the Inaugural Gary Gryder Memorial Softball Tournament. This year we’re going to open the application submissions for the Gary Gryder Scholarship Fund EXCLUSIVELY to...
View ArticleAAPOL will expand eligibility for its community-based scholarship program
The African American Police Officers League (AAPOL) has expanded its scholarship eligibility program in its stepped-up effort at fundraising in order to award a record $12,000 in scholarships this...
View ArticleMom and Tom served by Murdock on Patrol gets visit from next Murdock on same...
An HPD father and son celebrated a badge ceremony by going on patrol together from North Shepherd Division. It happened on Feb. 21, the day Detective Sgt. Steve Murdock of the Homicide Division put...
View ArticleHPD Legacy: 4th generation of HPD Murdocks gets his choice of badges, picks...
The HPD roster has included one Murdock or another and twice there’s been two at a time – since June 5, 1945 – three fourths of a decade. Officially, the Murdock names on that Houston Blue list,...
View ArticleHOPA Update: HPD officers’ ‘buddy system’ includes many phone lines to...
The familiar story always bears repeating time and again, so we will repeat it here. The everyday job of a Houston police officer is always stressful, many times overbearing while taking its punishing...
View ArticleGround is officially broken for Fertitta Family Tactical Training Center; Get...
You’ve heard about it, you’ve read about it and by the end of this year you will be using the unique state-of-the-art facility to be known as the Tilman Fertitta Family Tactical Training Center at the...
View ArticleShoe Giveaway Afoot: Officers discovered from Harvey the need for athletic...
In the wake of the devasting Hurricane Harvey, HPD officers went the extra nine miles in flooded waters to help the Houstonians they serve in very special ways. While helping flooded-out families with...
View ArticleHFD District Chief: Paramedic’s letter to Chief Acevedo details courage at...
Editor’s Note: This is a copy of a letter sent to Police Chief Art Acevedo from a Houston paramedic. Chief Acevedo, My name is Christopher Chavez and I am a district chief in the Houston Fire...
View ArticleOgg’s Role in ‘Actually Innocent’ Finding a Disgrace
Ever since Alfred Brown was released from prison in 2015 and granted a retrial after spending 10 years on Death Row for the murder of Houston Police Officer Charles Clark, the expectation is that this...
View ArticleMeeting Minutes for the March 7 Membership Meeting
OPENING Joe Gamaldi called the meeting to order with the Pledge of Allegiance. Rev. Corey Wilson led the prayer. DEDICATION Ken Nealy read the meeting dedication for Officer Richard Calhoun who was...
View ArticleOfficer Hunt’s ‘Jokes and Justice’ fundraisers promote community interaction,...
Senior Police Officer Kevin M. Hunt has founded “Jokes and Justice,” a comedy and poetry showcase fundraiser. Hunt hosts this event twice a year at the Houston Improv. Geared toward an adult audience,...
View ArticleHPOU scholarship award winners To be honored at April 27 breakfast
HPOU Education Committee Chairwoman Rhonda Williams said 88 Union scholarship awardees will be recognized at an April 27 breakfast at the Breck Porter Building. Williams said the number represents the...
View ArticleHPOU sets up paw-nership with BARC; Paws and Patrol promotes pet adoption
The HPOU has implemented what might jocularly be called the one-officer/one-dog program that operates hand-in-paw with BARC, the city’s adopt-a-pet operation. An idea developed by the HPOU resulted in...
View ArticleHPOU’s ‘well-crafted’ financial seminars offer wit and wisdom for younger...
So you are in the early stages of your policing career in Houston and need basic financial advice. We’re talking questions such as: Should I finance a home at a 15- or 30-year loan? Should I buy a...
View ArticleAs we figured, changes inevitable in HPD body camera policies
I know it seems that every week we have new information regarding the body-worn cameras. Here’s the latest: there will soon be another policy coming out in the next few weeks regarding them. As many of...
View ArticleRecognize fight’s over – it’s not an officer’s job risk his badge to inflict...
While watching the national news on television the other night, the network was pleased to show what looked like a dash camera video of what happened after state troopers (not Texas DPS) had managed to...
View ArticlePosse plays host to 600-plus calf scramblers In this year’s Livestock Show &...
The HPD Calf Scramble Posse – out in full force again this rodeo season – put together another dynamite year at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, herding through more than 600 calf scramblers...
View ArticleDoes HPOU provide member benefits? Yes!
IN A CONVERSATION BETWEEN UNION MEMBERS LAST MONTH one member suggested that the Union doesn’t provide enough benefits. The second member said that flat wasn’t so and provided the proverbial “bullets”...
View Article2nd Annual Heroes Awards ceremony proves to be Another success, recognizing...
Assist the Officer Foundation presented its HPD Heroes of the Year awards during the second annual Heroes’ Gala on March 30. The sold-out crowd filled the ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Downtown and...
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