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Good luck happens when preparedness meets opportunity. – Bret Harte Preparedness is strength and power. It is a police officer’s best means to prevent harm and adversity. It is his or her best offense and defense. For a patrol officer, preparedness can be the difference between a successful shift and one laden with stress, strain, and peril. It can be the difference between life and death. For patrol officers, deputies, and troopers, “preparedness” is synonymous with “survival.”

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Greenberg, S.F. (2017). Patrol Preparedness. In: Frontline Policing in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53565-4_3

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