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Texting to 9-1-1 in Black Hawk County Consolidated Communications

owa’s Black Hawk County Consolidated Communications Center (BHCCC) broke new ground in 2009 in an effort to better serve its citizens. Realizing that there had been an increase in text messaging amo...

Education & Training

The Caruth Police Institute: A Comprehensive Approach to Staff and Leadership Development

On December 4, 2008, the Dallas Police Department (DPD) began a unique crime-fighting partnership with two local universities whose resources are helping the department to develop more effective polic...

Policy

Update on the Prison Rape Elimination Act

National standards released in June 2009 by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (NPREC), pursuant to the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA), apply to police departments operating t...

Technology

Technology Talk: 34th Annual IACP LEIM Training Conference and Exposition

The ever-escalating pace of converging technologies (audio, video, and data) has increased pressure to acquire new technology to meet the ever-growing demands placed on public safety agencies. Always-...

Leadership

A Guide for Optimizing Organizational Efficiencies: Efficiency-Led Management

Law enforcement agencies around the United States have been experiencing reduced operational funding as a result of the country’s current financial crisis while demands for service have remained con...

President's Message

President’s Message: A Sign of Support for Officers Who Serve in the Military

The law enforcement profession attracts a special kind of person. As police chiefs, we have the privilege of working with some of the finest individuals in the world—individuals who have at their fo...

IACP

Legislative Alert: Administration Releases Proposed Budget for FY 2011

On February 1, the Obama administration released its proposed budget for FY 2011. The budget serves as a statement of the administration’s funding and policy priorities, and represents the starting ...

Products & Services

Advances & Applications: March 2010

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...