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Leadership and Management: Fraternal Twins in Law Enforcement

Leadership and management are concepts regularly used in organizational change and reform literature. This is particularly evident in police settings, and, oftentimes, the two concepts are (mis)unders...

Leadership

Leadership and Trust

Leadership is “the ability of an individual to influence [emphasis added], motivate, and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organization.” Influence is concep...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Highway Safety Initiatives: Leadership in Traffic Safety

Law enforcement agencies—regardless of size, jurisdiction, and location—are responsible for ensuring the safety and security of the roadways by conducting traffic enforcement. While the primary ac...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: Choosing the Right Occupational Police Physician

Law enforcement agencies seeking a physician to refer their officers and recruits to or seeking to hire a police physician for their agencies must understand the important differences between general ...

IACP

Police Week 2016

Each year during Police Week, communities across the United States hold memorial services in remembrance of police officers who have made the supreme sacrifice for their communities. Also durin...

President's Message

President’s Message: Policing’s Leadership Moment

In September 1962, then-U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at Rice University in Houston, Texas, challenging the people of the United States to collectively support a mission to send a man s...

Product Feature

Product Feature: K-9 Units: Training and Protection Key to Keeping Dogs and People Safe

Anyone who has seen a K-9 team in action—and, these days, that’s just about anyone in law enforcement—knows that it doesn’t take a human to be a hero. Police department leaders regularly ex...

Index to Advertisers

April 2016 Index to Advertisers

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