Month: August 2006

Cybercrime
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Kansas Internet Crime Initiative

With the advent of the Internet there has been increasing pressure on law enforcement to investigate computer-related crime. Such investigations typically cross jurisdictional boundaries and require t...
Education & Training
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Lakewood, Colorado

Since Lakewood, Colorado, was created as a city in 1970, it has required bachelor's degrees for all entering officers, who are referred to as agents. Lakewood was among the first departments in the na...
Ethics
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Measuring Professionalism of Police Officers

For the past several decades, there have been efforts to increase the education requirements for law enforcement officers. Newspaper, magazine, and journal articles cite numerous studies whose finding...
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Multnomah County, Oregon

IMGXYZ1358IMGZYX he Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office is believed to be the first nonfederal major law enforcement agency in the United States to require baccalaureate degrees for entry-level sw...
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North Dakota Highway Patrol

IMGXYZ1363IMGZYX he North Dakota Highway Patrol consists of 186 full-time employees of which 136 are sworn officers. Seventy percent of officers have bachelor’s degrees, 18 percent have associat...
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Product Update

The Police Chief keeps you on the cutting edge of law enforcement technology with monthly product announcements. For free in-depth information, visit http://www.theiacp.org/pubinfo/pc/ and insert the ...