Camryn Nethken, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Perspectives: Sustain Leadership Development and Succession Planning

How do you sustain leadership development and succession planning in the current policing environment? We need to be innovative and flexible in our approach. This requires identifying an...

IACP@Work

IACP@Work: Search and Rescue

Law enforcement officers are often responsible for the search and rescue of persons who go missing, and they face various challenges when the missing individuals have forms of dementia such as Alzheim...

IACP@Work

IACP@Work: The IACP Efforts to Help Support Public Health–Informed Policing

A recent study of 4.3 million emergency calls to police departments found 80 percent of callers believed that police are the best—and at times, the only—public responders able to respond....

Focus on Officer Wellness

Focus on Officer Wellness: Shifting the Culture

Law enforcement officers are exposed to traumatic and stressful situations on a daily basis, often resulting in a cumulative, negative impact on their mental health. Research shows officers are at a s...

From the Director

From the Vice Dean: Making It Stop

“Hey Doctor—you pitched a shutout.” The text message came from the police commissioner shortly after we had left a public meeting known as Mayor’s Night....

The Brief

The Brief: Addressing Labor Trafficking in the United States

Labor trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of involuntary s...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Public Safety and Mass Demonstrations

Law enforcement executives and other government officials seeking abundant, clear, and practical crowd management research face disappointment due to scarce research findings on specific mass demonstr...

Tech Talk

Tech Talk: PAARI One2One Engagement to Recovery Program

Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....