March 2006 - Police Chief Magazine

Communications: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Missing Persons Hotline

In the chaos caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, more than 5,000 children were separated from their loved ones. Such separations are traumatic for children, parents, and guardians alike, and rarely...

Technology

Communications: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

The lack of interoperable wireless communications systems has been plaguing public safety organizations for decades. An October 2002 sniper shooting spree underscored the critical role interoperabilit...

Technology

Communications: When All Wired and Wireless Telephone Circuits Are Busy

The accessibility of traditional landline telephone circuits and cellular-type mobile services is critical to public safety personnel, particularly in times of major events when the public and emergen...

Technology

Advances & Applications: March 2006

Alaska City Uses Zebra Printer to Make Photograph Identification Zebra announces that city administrators in Skagway, Alaska, use the company’s P420i printer to produce identification cards for ...

Legal

Legislative Alert: Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Released

On February 6, the Bush administration released its proposed budget for fiscal year 2007. Overall, funding levels for assistance programs that are primarily designed to assist state and local law enfo...

IACP

IACP Announces Information Technology Conference: Grapevine, Texas, June 5-9, 2006

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Law Enforcement Information Management (LEIM) Section invites IACP members and nonmembers to participate in the 30th Annual LEIM Training Confe...

IACP

IACP News: March 2006

New IACP Training Course Terrorism Tactics and Countermeasures: Homicide Bombers This course is designed for command staff and police administrators assigned the responsibility of developing departmen...

Investigations

Identifying the Missing

Two of the more difficult kinds of cases for a criminal investigator to handle are those related to missing persons and those involving unidentified human remains. Not surprisingly, the two often go h...