December 2023 - Police Chief Magazine

The Power of Mentorship

Law enforcement agencies, much like the international corporate world, recognize the need to implement succession planning, maybe now more than ever. In the corporate world, 67 percent of businesses r...

Education & Training

Drug Impairment Training for Educational Professionals

According to the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health conducted by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 133.1 million people in the United States, ages 12 and older, repor...

Education & Training

Collaboration in the Mountains

A terrorism incident at an athletic event, a 60-car crash, a ski area accident with numerous casualties, a swiftly moving urban interface wildfire—each of these sounds like a bad day with long-term ...

Criminal Justice Reform

A Recovery-Oriented Model for Community Policing

At the Winthrop Police Department in Winthrop, Massachusetts, officers work a schedule of four days on and four days off. Shifts are 10 hours long, and the jurisdiction’s patrol officers have learne...

Community-Police Engagement

Joint Efforts, Maximized Results

It’s generally accepted these days that public safety is not an issue for just the police but needs to involve as many stakeholders as possible. In a world in which the idea of public safety has br...

IACP@Work

IACP@Work: Getting People Home Safe

As many as 50 percent of individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD), such as autism spectrum disorder (autism), and 60 percent of individuals with dementia, such as Alzheimer’...

Policy

Getting the Right Work into the Right Hands

“This is 911, what is your emergency?” “My neighbor assaulted me again; I’m injured and scared—I don’t know if he is coming back.” When this call comes in, who responds? Police to ...

President's Message

President’s Message: Proactive Partnerships for Problem-Solving

Partnerships are the cornerstone of everything we do as law enforcement. There is a diverse array of organizations police can partner with in pursuit of enhancing public safety, and thinking creativel...