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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: |
April 29, 2008 |
Anton Slavich, Deputy United States
Marshal
Tyler, Texas (903) 590-1370 X 234 |
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Fugitive Task Force to Host Training for
Local Law Enforcement Agencies |
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The
Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force, sponsored by the United States
Marshals Service, is slated to hold two one day training seminars for state
and local law enforcement agencies in east Texas. The first seminar will be
held May 21, 2008 at the Collin County Community College in McKinney with
the second to be held on May 22, 2008 at the Tyler Junior College (West
Campus) in Tyler. The seminars will focus on cutting edge law enforcement
techniques for tracking down and apprehending violent criminals who are on
the run from the law and do not want to be caught. Law Enforcement Agencies
interested in sending personnel to this event should contact the U.S.
Marshals Office in Tyler at (903) 590-1370 X 234.
Fugitives are often the most dangers of all criminals because they know they
are living on borrowed time and they will do almost anything to avoid going
to prison. A majority of fugitives have been to prison before so the thought
of going back compels them to take chances that put law enforcement officers
and innocent people in harms way. This makes a fugitive training seminar
invaluable not only to local law enforcement agencies but to the community
as a whole.
The training seminar will cover all aspects of fugitive investigations from
initiating a fugitive investigation to tracking down and apprehending
international fugitives. Producers from the hit television show America’s
Most Wanted will also be on hand to conduct a block of instruction on the
procedures necessary to have a high profile fugitive investigation aired on
their program.
The Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force, formed in 2004, has offices in
Tyler, Sherman, Plano, Beaumont, Lufkin, Marshall and Texarkana. The Task
Force is made up of deputy U.S. Marshals and officers from several local law
enforcement agencies all across east Texas. The mission of the task force is
to combine the resources of the United States Marshals Service with state
and local agencies to provide an extremely effective network of
investigators dedicated to apprehending those fugitives that endanger the
public. |
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