March 2025

Product Feature: Uniformed Excellence

The significance of a well-crafted uniform is best captured U.S. football star Deion Sanders’ words: “If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you play good.” Although Sanders spoke of...

Tech Talk

Tech Talk: Multilayered Police Event Security

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS), more commonly known as “drones,” are both affordable and accessible—a dangerous combination for malicious actors who want to wreak havoc. While no one wants to thi...

The Brief

The Brief: The Evolution of Railroad Police in North America

More than 170 years ago, on February 1, 1855, Alan Pinkerton was contracted to create one of the earliest known railroad police agencies. He was tasked to respond … without delay … give their p...

Exposition

Exposition: March 2025

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...

Informer

Informer: March 2025

Research abounds on topics related to policing and criminal justice, and it can be difficult to sift through it all. Informer breaks down three studies for police leaders to help keep them up to date....

Focus on Officer Wellness

Focus on Officer Wellness: Night Shift Survivors or Thrivers?

The existing body of research on police officers working the midnight shift is grim. But the night shift isn’t going anywhere. So, rather than belaboring the well-known challenges of shift w...

Technology

Inside the FBI/CJIS: The CJIS Advisory Process

When the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division shares its cutting-edge investigative and identification services with U.S. police agencies, it doesn’t do so in a vacuum. The ...

Index to Advertisers

Ad Index: March 2025

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