June 6 Membership Meeting Minutes
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 Investigator Carl Green...
View ArticleNot only is HPOU not on the same page as DA Ogg, we don’t even read from the...
When he left the Harris County DA’s Office recently, Kim Ogg’s outgoing first assistant made it clear he couldn’t “anticipate or adjust” to each aspect of Ogg’s transformation philosophy. Ogg succeeded...
View ArticleHPD Bike Relay to Boston underway June 25
The HPD Bike Relay Team’s 38th annual fundraising ride got a stupendous sendoff at the HPOU on June 25 with dozens of well-wishers present to demonstrate moral support. The ride raises funds and...
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HPD’s eldest K9 demonstrates ‘the old dog’ still uses common scents to thwart...
Let’s throw out some well-used HPD clichés. Sita in a rather majestic pose at the Houston Police Memorial. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks when the old ones still work. And: If an “old dog” might...
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Three Patrol Officers of the Month save evasive suspect who was about to...
The Houston Police Officers Union recognized three men as HPOU Patrol Officers of the Month for their successful efforts to save a suspected car thief who had dived into Greens Bayou in order to evade...
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Like mother, like daughter – every department needs a ‘Cat’ and a ‘Jaz” but...
There is an old saying, applicable to HPD and countless other places and professions. It goes: Like father, like son. Well, in the police department of the nation’s fourth largest city, the old saying...
View ArticleObituaries of HPD Family Members
BOONE Retired Data Entry Operator Tawanda Marie Boone Passed away on Thursday, May 23, 2019, at the age of 57. She joined the Houston Police Department on June 23, 1980. Throughout her whole career...
View ArticlePolice Officer Shot and Killed While on Duty at the Railway Crossing-Unknown...
EOW: August 4, 1911 On Friday morning, August 4, 1911, at approximately 3:30am, Officer John Morris Cain was on patrol duty as a Houston Police Officer. Officer Cain’s assignment, a very dangerous and...
View ArticleObsessive Compulsive Disorder: Without treatment, it’s a life-long heartbreak
Fighting OCD with logic is as useful as spraying air freshener on an oil spill, says psychologist Tamar Chansky. These behaviors simply make no sense, like David Beckham’s insistence on having an even...
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Balloon sinuplasty offers relief for chronic sinusitis sufferers,...
Dr. T. Greg Borski, M.D. Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialist Kelsey-Seybold Clinic – Berthelsen Main Campus Recurring sinus infections aren’t much fun. For some sufferers, nasal irrigations and...
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HPOU honors Vieira and Serrano as Patrol Officers of the Month
HPOU’s Luis Menendez-Sierra, left, presents Patrol Officers of the Month honors to Officers Lucas Vieira and Thomas Serrano in the June general membership meeting. Photo by Gary Hicks The HPOU...
View ArticleHPD Hispanic History: Early days saw the city using height requirement to...
Editor’s Note: The celebration of the 40th anniversary of the HPD Chicano Squad brings to mind the early history of Hispanics in HPD. The following was selected from Houston Blue, the history of HPD by...
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Beauty, brains and doggie breath: see BARC’S latest dogs up for adoption!
Here is a picture of one of the latest Paws & Patrol duos – Officer I. C. Pinzon with Gracie, whom BARC officials say “knows how to sit and strike a pose. She was gracious enough to lend us her...
View ArticleWhat’s A Cop To Do?
The populace, press, and politicians cry foul when an officer uses necessary or reasonable or justifiable force. What should an officer do when a subject fails to comply with lawful orders or evades...
View ArticleCity Council to recognize 40th anniversary of HPD Chicano Squad formed in 1979
The Houston City Council will honor the original members of the HPD Chicano Squad at its Aug. 20 meeting with a proclamation in the presence of five of the six original members of the squad in...
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Five-digit badges: How an HPD rookie went from No. 1 to No. 10000
Rookie HPD Officer Rooel Gonzalez went from No. 1 to 10000 in nothing flat. The end of this slick numbers story ends over his heart where his Houston police badge was pinned at the graduation ceremony...
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HPD History: Chicano Squad pioneered crime-fighting concept that the...
Forty years ago marked a transitional year in the history of policing in Houston, Texas. More and more police reports were being filed but the cases were going unsolved because of a language barrier....
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An opioid update: Some good news but the fight continues
Dr. Lisa Garmezy Naloxone, the drug that reverses opioid overdoses, can be had at CVS for $89 without insurance or $50 with it. Because a physician somewhere approves its use, no prescription is...
View ArticleAugust 1 Membership Meeting Minutes
OPENING Joe Gamaldi called the meeting to order with the Pledge of Allegiance. Reverend Vincent Johnson led the prayer. DEDICATION Ken Nealy read the meeting dedication for Sergeant Bruno Soboleski...
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