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Suspicious Activity Reporting: An Overview for Chiefs Engaging Untapped Local Law Enforcement and Private Industry Capabilities to fight Crime and Terrorism

Every law enforcement agency has an obligation to report suspicious activity and monitor suspicious activity reports made by other agencies. Fortunately, law enforcement executives can implement suspi...

IACP

IACP News: January 2010

IACP News: January 2010...

Crime & Violence

Thinking Like a Thief Is the Key to Crime Prevention

Understanding crime prevention starts with defining what is crime prevention in today’s world. That seems like an easy thing to define—“crime prevention” is the “prevention of crime”—but...

IACP

2009 IACP Awards

Click to view the PDF of the 2009 IACP Awards Photos by Convention Photo by Joe Orlando, except where otherwise indicated. Police Officer of the Year The IACP and PARADE magazine join forces to recogn...

IACP

2009 IACP Awards: Part 4

2009 Excellence in Police Aviation Award This year, three awards were presented by the IACP Aviation Committee and Bell Helicopter Textron: one to recognize an individual who holds a management or lea...

Crime & Violence

A Systematic Process for Creating Business Watch Programs in Private Organizations

Many police departments have developed successful Business Watch programs as part of their crime prevention community outreach initiatives. These Business Watch programs, like neighborhood watch progr...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Collection of DNA Upon Arrest: Expanding Investigative Frontiers

Katie Sepich was abducted, raped, and fatally strangled, then her body was set on fire and hidden in a town garbage dump on August 31, 2003. A minuscule amount of tissue recovered from Katie’s finge...

Legislative Alert

Legislative Alert: Congress Passes Omnibus Spending Bill

In early December, Congress passed a package of spending bills—or omnibus—that will fund government agencies through the end of this fiscal year, September 30, 2010. The omnibus includes funding l...