September 2025

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The Many Layers of Transnational Auto Theft

Transnational crime, defined as illegal activities that span across national borders, has been a persistent global issue. Historically, transnational crime was limited to smuggling activities or illic...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Harnessing Technology for Meaningful Change

A detective starts their shift not with a stack of paperwork but with a login. Their dashboard lights up with overnight updates: a witness statement from patrol, forensic results flagged for review, a...

Tech Talk

Inside the FBI/CJIS: The N-DEx System’s Batch Search

Containing more than a billion searchable criminal justice records, the National Data Exchange (N-DEx) System can empower investigators to connect the dots between seemingly unrelated records to solve...

Index to Advertisers

Ad Index: September 2025

The advertisers in this issue can help equip your department with the most efficient tools available today! Always mention Police Chief when contacting our advertisers....

Investigations

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Disrupting the Network

In recent years, the term “human trafficking” has garnered a considerable amount of attention across a variety of spaces. Law enforcement agencies across the United States have started to make it ...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Investigating Transnational Pig Butchering

In 2025, “pig butchering” does not necessarily result in pork chops and bacon. The term now describes a sophisticated cybercrime that combines long-term psychological manipulation with fraudulent ...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: Every Agency Needs More DREs

In 2023, there were over 1,500 drug-impaired drivers for each certified drug recognition expert (DRE) in the United States. Research has shown that a 10 percent increase in driving under the influence...

President's Message

President’s Message: Confronting the Evolving Landscape of Transnational Crime

The global landscape of crime is more complex, adaptive, and dangerous than ever before. As police leaders, we face a rapidly shifting threat environment shaped by technological innovation, geopolitic...