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Law enforcement agencies face growing demands for real-time decision-making in increasingly complex environments. For the Spokane County, Washington, Sheriff’s Office (SCSO), meeting those demands r...
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Police officers may encounter acts of violence, threats, harassment, or property damage that appear to target someone based on their race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or ...
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In today’s digital age the threats facing police agencies extend far beyond the streets they patrol. Police chiefs have long prepared for natural disasters, civil unrest, and critical incidents, but...
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Adopting a data-driven policing strategy, coupled with building a culture of community-oriented policing, has significantly enhanced public safety outcomes in our jurisdiction.
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Effective police leadership sits at the crossroads of policy, law, and politics, where poorly drafted policies can have as much impact as poorly argued cases or poorly considered legislation. For tod...
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Police Chief keeps you on the cutting edge of law enforcement technology with monthly product announcements. Items about new or improved products are based on news releases supplied by manufacturers ...
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One challenge in modern policing is recognizing issues before they go awry. The time has come to embrace the reality that all of society’s problems cannot be resolved by a single call into dispatch....
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Police officers are intimately familiar with the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.1 The terms contained in that amendment—and how judges interpret those terms—dictate how officer...
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Professional Profile Why did you join the IACP? I joined the IACP in 2010 because I wanted to expand my knowledge of policing outside of my town and state and be part of the larger conversation about ...
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With over 8,000 credentialed drug recognition experts (DREs) in the world, many agencies have a well-established DRE program with several DREs in their employ. But there are also many more agencies t...
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In 2021, a simple question from a school resource officer in Hingham, Massachusetts, sparked a movement no one could have predicted. The Hingham Police Department reached out to the Plymouth County Di...
