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Partnering for Progress: Maine law Enforcement Online Training Initiative

During the past five years, the Maine Chiefs of Police Association (MCOPA) has led an effort to implement an online component within Maine’s overall public safety training delivery system. Using fun...

Investigations

Predictive Policing: What Can We Learn from Wal-Mart and Amazon about Fighting Crime in a Recession?

In the current economic climate, police departments are being asked to do more with less. In some localities, significant budget reductions are requiring police managers and command staff to consider ...

Terrorism

Regional Cooperation, Planning, and Operational Integration: Preparing for a Mumbai-Style Attack

A group of focused, prepared attackers carried out a multipronged terrorist attack in multiple locations in Mumbai, India, in November 2008. The question for American officials is could it happen in A...

President's Message

President’s Message: The Year Ahead—November 2009

This is my first message to the readers of the Police Chief magazine. As I start this most memorable journey in my law enforcement career, I do it humbly....

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Thirteen Ways to Lose a Labor Case

In dealing with public employees, chiefs must keep in mind all of their state’s applicable collective-bargaining law’s bargaining requirements. There are few changes involving or affecting working...

Training Rural Responders: The Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium

IMGXYZ2808IMGZYX Photograph courtesy of the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium sing distance learning technologies and the latest teaching techniques, the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium (R...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Highway Safety Initiatives: Training Supports Traffic Safety Programs

Two of the key ingredients needed to implement a successful traffic safety effort are proper planning and close supervision. Therefore, the traffic supervisor has a critical role in the overall traffi...

Products & Services

Advances & Applications: October 2009

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...