The sun had not yet risen Wednesday when Mesa detectives gave Alex Reyes an early morning wake-up call with a firm fist pounding the door.

Some East Valley law enforcement agencies have tightened training practices and policies since the death of Scottsdale police Sgt. Thomas A. Hontz during a training exercise in Gilbert a year ago today.

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The state Auditor General's Office says the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control should take "stronger action against repeat and serious violators" of state liquor laws.

A group of Guadalupe residents began planning for a future without the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office on Sunday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has signed up 55 state and local law enforcement agencies to help enforce immigration laws, including an Arizona country sheriff under investigation for racial profiling, the Homeland Security Department announced Friday.

Bill Richardson:  The problem: Arizona has become a destination for organized crime activities linked to the Mexican drug cartels. Because of the growth of organized crime, our state has become a destination and major transshipment point for drugs and illegal immigrants, just two of many profit centers for organized crime. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates 80 percent of crime is linked to organized crime groups.

Want to be a teacher? Or a firefighter? How about police officer or a judge? Likelihood if you take any of these jobs is you’ll work for the government.

Gov. Janet Napolitano wants up to 60 DPS officers certified by the federal government to enforce customs laws — a move that would give officers the authority to stop vehicles headed into Mexico and question the occupants.

Gov. Janet Napolitano wants up to 60 DPS officers certified by the federal government to enforce customs laws — a move that would give officers the authority to stop vehicles headed into Mexico and question the occupants.

Not very long ago, the only recourse available to law enforcement officers whose lives were endangered by suspects would be to respond with deadly force. You come at a cop with a demonstrated intent to kill or cause serious injury and that cop would have no alternative but to fire a lethal bullet.

State legislators moved on two fronts Tuesday to bar politicians and the agency chiefs they appoint from blocking law enforcement officers from enforcing immigration laws.

American Indian tribes need additional federal funding to improve their law enforcement efforts across the state and country, tribal leaders told two U.S. senators during a special field hearing of the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Monday.

No neighborhood or even rural area is exempt from gangs, a coalition of law-enforcement agencies reported Thursday while pledging to renew efforts to clamp down on what they believe is becoming a more organized and diverse crime problem.

Phoenix-based federal immigration agents will be deputized Monday by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office so they can enforce state laws.

A Senate panel voted Thursday to fire a warning shot of sorts over the heads of federal law enforcement agencies: Don’t come around here unless you get local OK.

A Senate panel voted Thursday to fire a warning shot of sorts over the heads of federal law enforcement agencies: Don’t come around here unless you get local OK.

April 12, 2005

Vowing to hold law enforcement accountable if a new immigration law is misused, Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday issued an executive order to the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board to develop training to properly implement the law.

Widespread public interest in getting local police more involved with federal immigration law should not become an unfunded mandate that usurps local control to focus on a problem that’s not even a crime.

Arizonans generally support the concept of local police officers enforcing federal immigration laws, but their support is fractured deeply along political and racial lines.