December 2007

IACP News

IMGXYZ1862IMGZYX Career Fair for Recruiting Police Officers The career fair coordinated by the IACP at the biennial National Law Enforcement Exploring Conference provides an excellent opportunity to r...

Community-Police Engagement

Planning and Managing Security for Major Special Events: Best Practices for Law Enforcement Administrators

Special events are important to local governments for many reasons, including the public enjoyment and sense of community they provide as well as the revenue they generate. Effective security, a criti...

Senate Approves C-J-S Funding

he Senate recently approved Commerce-Justice-Science and Related Agencies (C-J-S) appropriations, which funds the Department of Justice. The approved Senate version includes the following: $660 millio...

Investigations

Identity Theft Victim Recovery Starts with Local Law Enforcement Agencies

Identity theft has become a story of numbers: millions of victims, billions of dollars lost. But to police officers, that story comes person by person. Each of those victims has a story to share; each...

Law Enforcement Jobs

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Supplement to “Cold-Weather Training Issues”

What Is Cold Weather? The thought of cold weather often generates the image of an icy, wind-blown tundra laden with snowdrifts and ice. Although this vision definitely resembles some cold environments...

Line of Duty Deaths

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Community-Police Engagement

Managing the Message

Imagine a scenario in which a police department’s chief, public information officer (PIO), or patrol officer gives an interview with a television reporter about a recent incident. The department is ...