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Standardized Law Enforcement Funeral Protocol

The death of a member of the police community is a sad time for the department and family of the deceased, for the residents of his or her jurisdiction, and for his or her peers at other agencies. Whe...

Products & Services

June 2006 – Products & Services Acxiom Insight Acxiom Insight provides information and analytics that help Americans protect themselves, their businesses, and their communities from risk. Wh...

Criminal Justice Reform

The Prison Rape Elimination Act: What Police Chiefs Need to Know

The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) was signed into law (P.L.108-79) by President Bush on September 4, 2003. The goal of PREA is to eradicate sexual assaults in all "correctional" facilities in the...

Community-Police Engagement

Neighborhood Emergency Assistance Team

The Neighborhood Emergency Assistance Team (Neat) program in Taylor Mill is a community partnership where citizen volunteers are trained to assist the police department in the event of large-scale inc...

Leadership

Strategies for Successful Team-Building Workshops

The military has understood it for quite awhile and the private sector knows it too: organizational success is dependent upon teams. No management fact is more obvious and no concept more critical. In...

IACP

Survivors’ Club

The Police Chief magazine normally publishes this column in each issue, but a number of factors precluded us from including the column this month. Please use the back button on your browser to return ...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: Traffic Enforcement in Roadway Construction Zones

It is said that in Illinois there are two seasons: winter and road construction. It seems that once the snow melts, motorists in Illinois and elsewhere in the United States can rarely find a roadway t...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Supreme Court Refuses to Expand Section 1983 Liability

For the second time in 16 years, the U.S. Supreme Court has found that government generally does not have a federal constitutional duty to protect citizens from third parties. The June 2005 decision c...