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Bobby Egbert

Bobby Egbert

Bobby Egbert

Bobby Egbert is a retired Port Authority police officer, a 9/11 first responder veteran and the public information officer for the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association.

Exploring a new path toward officer wellness

Exploring a new path toward officer wellness

Dr. Peter Killeen is paving a new path toward police officer well-being, wellness and resilience by introducing his 21-Day “Call to Action” Coin Challenge to police recruits. Killeen’s program, part […] Read More

Safety pin

Safety pin

A constant companion that never left me

I was walking through a Washington, D.C., hotel lobby dressed in my Class A uniform during Police Week 2002. I was on my way to the National Peace Officers’ Memorial […] Read More

Keys

Keys

The Kid, just out of the academy, was walking a foot beat with his training officer, Linc, in an inner-city, midtown precinct. Linc, a 20-plus-year veteran, taught rookies the way […] Read More

When policing becomes personal

When policing becomes personal

I think every cop has had the experience while working an incident of coming to the realization that something is personal. Mine was on an early December morning about 15 […] Read More

Little red Corvette

Little red Corvette

I spent the majority of my first 10 years working foot patrol in the Port Authority Police Department’s Port Authority Bus Terminal Command, known as the BT, in New York […] Read More

The Deuce

The Deuce

Policing in New York’s uncensored underbelly

Summer in Midtown was hot and muggy, adding to the tension always penetrating New York City’s crack, AIDS and crime epicenter in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I was […] Read More

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