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A Multidisciplinary Approach Is the Key to Combating Child Sex Trafficking

The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) is often perceived as an international problem, happening in foreign countries like Thailand, Brazil, or Mexico. For the most part, Americans are ...

Victim Services

Police Psychologists as Consultants

Police psychologists are broadly and effectively utilized as internal and external consultants to law enforcement agencies of all sizes and jurisdictional scope in day-to-day and special operations. C...

Recruitment & Personnel

Consolidation Caveats

Many articles celebrate successful efforts at merging or consolidating police services. Not all such efforts result in a successful complete merger of departments, however, and it is important to exam...

Line of Duty Deaths

July 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 th...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Consolidation, Amalgamation, Regionalization: When Harsh Economic Realities Impact Police Agencies

There is a whole body of international research and reports about the many complex issues that focus on the escalating cost of policing as well as the pros and cons of amalgamations and restructuring ...

Terrorism

What Law Enforcement Needs to Know about Improvised Explosives

On February 22, 2010, terrorist Najibullah Zazi pled guilty to conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country, and providing material support to a fore...

IACP

Dan Rosenblatt Receives COPS Lifetime Achievement Award

Dan Rosenblatt, executive director of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, was presented with a Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) lifetime achievement award on August 1, 2011. ...

Crime & Violence

The Changing Face of Vehicle Theft

There is a common misconception that vehicle theft as a whole has remained unchanged in recent times, but nothing could be further from the truth. Vehicle theft has changed dramatically over the past ...