November 2012 - Police Chief Magazine

Technology Talk: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

Today, many law enforcement officers have a limited ability to exchange images of wanted persons, missing children, and other critical information. For most agencies, these exchanges are now in radio ...

Crime & Violence

Animal Protection and Welfare Training Becomes Essential to Law Enforcement

If you are a Cheers fan, you might recall the classic line of the character Norm Peterson, a bar patron regular who declared, “It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and I’m wearing Milk Bone underwear!” ...

Education & Training

Armenian Police Officers Receive American Training in IACP Pilot Program

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), through funding from the U.S. Department of State International Bureau of Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL), Office of Criminal Justice Assi...

Legislative Alert

Legislative Alert: Congress Passes Continuing Resolution

Before Congress recessed, both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) that will fund the government through March 27, 2013. Typically a CR will authorize fundi...

Leadership

Educating the 21st Century Cop Developing Blue Courage and Practical Wisdom

Sergeant Chip Huth’s special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team had just successfully arrested an armed felon in a Kansas City, Missouri, drug house. The suspect was brought to the porch of the house a...

Legal

Chief’s Counsel: Ethics and Professionalism: No Lying, Cheating, or Stealing

All police chiefs want to communicate to their employees some sort of ethical standard. But how does a chief create a culture that not only embraces ethics and professionalism but also establishes the...

Crime & Violence

Every Gun, Every Time

Fatal shootings of police officers reached a 20-year high in the middle of 2011.1 Police chiefs must commit to identify and eliminate the sources by which violent offenders obtain firearms used to tar...

IACP

In Memory of Chief Richard C. Clement, 1923–2012; IACP President, 1975–1976

Richard C. Clement, a past president of the IACP, died August 14, 2012. He was 88. Clement grew up in Toms River, New Jersey, and was a graduate of Toms River High School. He earned his bachelor’s d...