May 2012

Shave Seconds, Increase Safety: Innovative Deployment Practices for Critical Equipment Increase Officer Safety

Located on the central west coast of Florida, Saint Petersburg is Florida’s fourth largest city with approximately 250,000 residents. For nearly 30 years, police officers at the Saint Petersburg Pol...

Community-Police Engagement

The Benefits of Law Enforcement Advocates within the Denver Police Department

On 2003, the Denver, Colorado, Police Department partnered with the Denver Juvenile and Family Justice Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (DJFJ TASC), Colorado Judicial Branch, to create t...

Traffic Safety

Training the Future Leaders in Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Enforcement: The University of Maryland’s DUI Institute

Approximately 35 percent of the drivers killed in Maryland traffic crashes in 2010 died with blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) of .08 grams per deciliter or higher. In 2010, there were about 1.4 mil...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Ryburn v. Huff Affirms Police Decisions in Warrantless Entries

On January 23, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its headline grabbing opinion in U.S. v. Jones,1 requiring, under the Fourth Amendment, that law enforcement officers obtain search warrants to place...

Legislative Alert

Legislative Alert: 2012 Day on the Hill: A Great Success

In late March, the IACP held its biennial Day on the Hill in Washington, D.C. Held in conjunction with the midyear meetings of both the Division of State and Provincial Police (S&P) and the Divisi...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Creating a Culture of Safety

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) has always considered the safety of all law enforcement officers its top priority. To ensure safety in the face of numerous and varied threats,...

Leadership

Dealing with Downed Suspects: Some Lessons from the VALOR Project about How to Properly Manage the Immediate Aftermath of Officer-Involved Shootings

The U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance recently launched the Preventing Violence against Law Enforcement and Ensuring Officer Resilience and Survivability (VALOR) program, an initiative designed to enh...

Mental Health

Law Enforcement Suicide: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

Is suicide among law enforcement professionals a problem? Various sources report 300 completed police suicides annually.1 Other sources report that a law enforcement officer (LEO) is more likely to di...