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Legislative Alert: IACP Meets with Senior White House Officials and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Throughout the year, the IACP Executive Board—the elected leadership of the IACP, representing the full spectrum of police executives from across the United States and around the globe—advocates a...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: Building Healthy and Resilient Law Enforcement Families in Bend, Oregon

How many times do officers decide against discussing their daily activities with their family for the sole purpose of wanting to protect them from all the negativity and toxicity a job in law enforcem...

Technology Talk

Technology Talk: Eight Tips for Designing and Using Smart ID Cards for Police Officers

In an era of skilled fraudsters and hackers, police executives everywhere face growing security challenges. One of the most basic challenges is ensuring that officers’ photo ID cards cannot be forge...

IACP

IACP Through the Years: Youth Violence in America: Recommendations from the IACP Summit

Reinforcing its commitment to foster effective responses to violent crime, the IACP assembled over 80 practitioners and scholars on April 24–26, 1996, in Arlington, Virginia, to address a growing fa...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court, in District of Columbia v. Wesby, overturned a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and held that the officers had probable cause t...

Technology

Considerations in Employing Video Technology into a Law Enforcement Agency

Technological advances in law enforcement have made video a critical component of an officer’s day-to-day tool kit. Video sources in law enforcement include traffic cameras; privately owned video su...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Collaborative Partnerships and the DNA Testing of Unsubmitted SAKs

For many years, recommendations have been made for law enforcement agencies to form collaborative working relationships with local academic institutions. The benefit of these collaborations to law enf...