January 2024 - Police Chief Magazine

Police Crime Lab Accreditation Initiative

Crime labs, also known as forensic science service providers (FSSPs), work with law enforcement to investigate crime scenes and collect evidence for investigations. They conduct testing on everything ...

Drugs & Alcohol

Forensic Laboratories as Drug Policy Partners

Publicly funded crime and forensic laboratories serve as repositories of extensive public health and public safety data, with the potential for utilization at the local, regional, state, and national ...

Traffic Safety

Operation Nighthawk Pairs Training and Enforcement

The Pennsylvania State Police introduced Operation Nighthawk during the summer of 2002. The program started as a simple two-day impaired driving training and enforcement experience for police officers...

Traffic Safety

One State’s Experience with Oral Fluid Testing

The statistics are out there. Fatal traffic crashes , which surged during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, continue to occur at alarming rates. Crashes caused by alcohol and drug impairment still ...

Tech Talk

Tech Talk: Insufficient Data, Delayed Responses

The United States’ emergency communications community faces a critical and urgent question: is the existing 911 system doing enough to ensure the safety of millions of citizens while adequately supp...

Exposition

Exposition: January 2024

Police Chief keeps you on the cutting edge of law enforcement technology with monthly product announcements. Items about new or improved products are based on news releases supplied by manufacturers a...

Focus on Officer Wellness

Focus on Officer Wellness: Becoming the Career

It is not uncommon for people in law enforcement to label their career as “a calling,” describing desires to help, serve, protect, or give back to their communities. Most people view the job, i...