matrixsuperadmin, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Mobile Biometric Devices: What the Future Holds

Mobile biometric devices are providing benefits to law enforcement and homeland security field agents who use biometric collection to identify people during field operations in near real time. The use...

From the Director

From the Director: NCIS Uses New Techniques to Fight an Old Crime

While maritime piracy has existed for hundreds of years, the current criminal situation off the coast of Somalia has escalated dramatically. In 2010, pirates attacked more than 200 commercial and priv...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Are Red Light Cameras an Effective Crash-Reduction Solution?

Picture a young family leaving a large suburban shopping mall in a late model SUV after an afternoon of shopping for summer clothes for an upcoming vacation and enjoying pizza and ice cream. As their ...

IACP

Proposed IACP Constitutional Amendments

For the last 118 years, the IACP has strived to identify, serve, and address the needs of its membership and the law enforcement profession. Its success and stability in meeting this mission is a test...

Products & Services

August 2011 Products & Services

Where do the good ideas come from? In this column, we offer our readers the opportunity to learn about—and benefit from—some of the cutting-edge technologies being implemented by law enforcement ...

Products & Services

September 2011 Products & Services

Community-Police Engagement

Engaging the Public and Protecting Agencies and Personnel on Facebook and Beyond

In November 2009, the Roanoke, Virginia, Police Department launched a Facebook page as part of a crime prevention initiative known as the Safer City Roanoke campaign. The goal was to decrease incident...

Line of Duty Deaths

September 2011 Line of Duty Deaths

"They will be remembered, not for the way they died, but for how they lived." The IACP wishes to acknowledge the following officers, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their communities and the peop...