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July 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 c...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT): Washington State’s Efforts to Reduce Collisions Involving Commercial Vehicles

Basic physics tells us that when a passenger vehicle is involved in a collision with a large truck—a vehicle used in commerce with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds—the like...

Community-Police Engagement

Protecting Officers Online, Off Duty: How Police Chiefs Can Safeguard Officers with Policy Guidance on Social Networking

The headlines have become far too common: “Facebook Photos Lead to Internal Police Investigation”; “Police Investigate Report of Officer Posting Photo of Dead Body on Facebook”; and “Cop Say...

IACP

Candidate for 2011 IACP Office: Ronal W. Serpas

I’ve proudly been a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and I am proud to be a Life Member. Together in the past two decades we have witnessed many great challenges and many...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Peer Support Teams Fill an Emotional Void in Law Enforcement Agencies

Psychologically healthy police officers are far more likely to provide high-quality, professional services to the members of their communities. Police departments make a significant investment in sele...

Officer Safety & Wellness

The Role of Psychological Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement

Police employers have a legal duty to ensure that police officers under their command are mentally and emotionally fit to perform their duties, and failure to do so can result in significant civil lia...

Traffic Safety

Serious about Seat Belts

The death or injury of a police officer as a result of a motor vehicle crash is as serious and costly today as it was 20 years ago. From economics on both state and local levels to the psychological i...

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...