Camryn Nethken, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Spotlight: Running Toward Future Growth

Jon Matthews, a sergeant with the Greensboro Police Department, left the profession after serving for 10 years in order to become a full-time youth minister. Although he thrived in his pastorate for m...

Technology

Inside the FBI/CJIS: Working Together to Keep Guns from Prohibited People

The FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is used to search available background information about individuals who are seeking to possess a firearm. Federal firearms lice...

Roll Call

Roll Call: Stephen Redfearn

When I became a division chief at my prior agency, I wanted access to all of the material, training, and conferences that the IACP provides. I knew that these things would assist me in my new role as ...

Exposition

Exposition: July 2024

Stay up to date on new products and advances in technology to ensure your officers are equipped with the tools they need....

The Brief

The Brief: Five Ways Human Resources Can Serve as a Vital Ally to Police Leadership

Does your police agency have a human resource (HR) ally in its corner? Like the ever-changing landscape of policing, the field of HR has also been transformed. Modern HR has evolved from the dated,...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Bringing Policing to the Sky

Whether for surveillance, search and rescue, disaster response, or transportation, aerial policing is utilized in agencies around the world to fulfill missions and enhance public safety. According ...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Protect and Serve

The first duty of any civilized government is to protect the life and property of its people through its military and justice functions.1 Policing’s first duty then is, and must be, to protect co...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: The Philadelphia Predictive Policing Experiment

A few years ago, predictive policing was all the rage. The term appeared with considerable frequency, companies offered expensive software options to police departments, and related sessions at the IA...