November 2006 - Police Chief Magazine

Advances & Applications

New Mexico Selects Sagem Morpho for Statewide Fingerprint System Sagem Morpho Inc. announces that the New Mexico Department of Public Safety awarded the company its contract to provide its new statewi...

IACP

Changes Occurring in the 21st-Century Training Environment

In April 2006 the IACP Education and Training Committee asked me to serve as the guest editor for the November 2006 issue of the Police Chief magazine with a focus on training. The objective is to bri...

Policy

Conducting an FLSA Audit

One of the best ways to reduce a municipal employer’s exposure to claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is to conduct periodic self-audits. This will help detect problems before they beco...

Legislative Alert

Legislative Alert: Congress Clears Homeland Security Funding Bill before Election Recess

Before leaving for a pre-election recess, the House and Senate both approved the conference report for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill. The bill (H.R. 5441)will decrease total f...

Education & Training

Emotional Intelligence in Policing

In any policing controversy—excessive use of force, racial profiling, police suicide, discourtesy—separating human emotions from that controversy’s cause is difficult. An officer’s emotional i...

Education & Training

Ethics Training for Police

Every day, police professionals decide and act while balancing competing and conflicting values and interests, frequently with incomplete or inaccurate information, often in highly emotional and dynam...

IACP

IACP News

New Members of the 2006–2007 IACP Board of Officers Joseph C. Carter was sworn in as president of IACP during the 113th annual conference (please see the November 2006 issue of the Police Chief maga...

Technology

IACP Technology Technical Assistance Program (TTAP) Update

The combination of critical changes in police responsibilities (homeland security, counterterrorism, community policing) and continued advances in technology require an innovative approach to supporti...