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One Department’s Experience: CALEA Accreditation

The management of any police department is a challenge. The need to balance the expectations of the elected officials, the community, and the staff is something that can be both frustrating and reward...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Recovery Act Compliance—No Simple Matter

As counsel to law enforcement agencies, attorneys are presented with significant challenges that vary with time and are becoming increasingly complex. Nothing serves to demonstrate this trend better t...

Traffic Safety

SAFE Driving—The Role of the Chief

Traffic collisions take more lives and end more careers for law enforcement officers than any other event—felonious or accidental. According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (N...

IACP

IACP Foundation: Thoughts on Launching a Police Foundation

In these challenging economic times, some fortunate law enforcement executives have been approached by citizens who are both interested in public safety and philanthropically inclined. There are many ...

Crime & Violence

$3.2 million in stacks of one-hundred-dollar bills, seized from a transnational crime group.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Combating Bulk Cash Smuggling

On September 9 through 18, 2009, a joint operation between Colombian and Mexican law enforcement—based on information developed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—ultimately yielde...

Products & Services

Vehicles & Accessories

Law enforcement vehicles and accessories have seen significant change since the 17th Annual IACP Conference (1910), when Chief Beach of Waterbury, Connecticut, stated “All of these machines are be...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Bryan v. McPherson—A New Standard for the Use of Electronic Control Devices?

In December 2009 the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided Bryan v. McPherson decision that has inappropriately led some people to believe that the law regarding the use of elec...

Terrorism

DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis: Supporting the Front Lines of Homeland Security: Renewed Emphasis Designed to Improve Service to State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers

In April 2009, the H1N1 virus was at the peak of its first outbreak, and state and local partners were anxious to understand the local impact of the national outbreak and its implication for homeland ...