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Multiband Radio Enables Dynamic Communications Interoperability

When police officers pursue suspects across jurisdictional lines, relaying information to partner agencies through a dispatcher wastes precious minutes. Likewise, when firefighters respond to an apart...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: Could Changing Our Ways Mitigate Officers’ Traffic Deaths?

In terms of in-the-line-of-duty deaths, U.S. law enforcement officers have not fared well in 2010 and 2011. After suffering in 2009 the fewest in-the-line-of-duty deaths since 1959 (116 versus 109), t...

Products & Services

October 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...

Technology Talk

Technology Talk: Computer Crime and Digital Evidence: What Every Police Chief Should Know

Name one major crime that has nothing to do with digital evidence. This is a difficult task since digital media has entered every aspect of modern life, as it has also entered the lives of criminals....

IACP

October 2011 Halloween Safety

The IACP and the National Confectioners Association joined forces in 1982, establishing the Halloween Candy Hotline to assist law enforcement officials and poison control nationwide in the event of su...

Legislative Alert

Legislative Alert: Congress Reaches FY 2011 Budget Agreement

As part of the recent budget agreement between Congress and the Obama administration, the fiscal year (FY) 2011 funding levels for several critical law enforcement assistance programs were reduced. In...

Product Update

October 2011 Product Update

The Police Chief keeps you on the cutting edge of law enforcement technology with monthly product announcements. For free in-depth information, visit us online at http://www.naylornetwork.com/iac-nxt....

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Critical Incident Review Board: Creation and Refinement

Now that almost every cellular phone has a camera, scrutiny of law enforcement is higher than ever before. Sites such as YouTube can broadcast the actions of law enforcement worldwide within minutes o...