 Early detection is so important in the treatment of breast cancer. The number one risk factor is age. As women get older, some feel they don't need mammograms anymore. They do. Please make an appointment today. It just might save your life. Recently, Pikeville Police Department enrolled in an extensive tactical training program. Every officer graduated with the knowledge needed to better handle life or death situations. Pikeville Police Chief Michael Riddle offers more on how the training has improved the local law enforcement. After the tragic events that took place in Allen, I went to our city officials and city manager and I said, you know, I think that we would benefit from some more tactical training. You know, just if nothing else to make us more prepared for a situation that we could someday face similar to what they faced in Allen that day, but also just to make us be able to better serve our community and be safer and, you know, help each other as far as that goes. We had people here that may approach a situation differently just because of the way they were trained. But now that we've got everyone that's all had the same training, whether you've got a 20-year veteran that shows up with a one-year rookie, so to say, they both have the same training and should have the same tactics to handle that situation as a teamwork, you know. Riddle says this is only the first phase of their training. While it has been tough, every officer is committed to being more prepared to face new dangers every day. Any extra training that you can put yourself through, other than, you know, what you may already be required to take is always going to be better prepared to face these situations like that, you know, like they might have seen that day in Allen or what we might face tomorrow. You never know what you might face and we plan to continue on with this. You know, this is only phase one of three just in this training that we've undergone and we hope to just keep continuing it. For one, it makes us safer. It betters our chances of getting home at night. It betters our chances of helping someone that might be in a life-or-death situation and it makes us to better protect each other. So anything that you can do, you know, training-wise that makes you safer is a plus for not only the members of the department but the communities we serve. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.