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Information Vs. Intelligence: What Police Executives Need to Know

It is more vital than ever that law enforcement executives have every available tool to maintain public safety in their communities. Intelligence is one of the tools that must be used to achieve publi...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Involuntary Movement May Create Arrest

Use of the investigative detention, or Terry stop, allows officers to detain people based on only reasonable suspicion but requires great care to ensure that the investigative detention does not evolv...

Community-Police Engagement

Latino Academy

Northern Kentucky has seen a rapid rise in the Latino population over the past five years. The 2000 census showed a 3 percent Spanish-speaking population. This is a baseline estimate but may not repre...

Community-Police Engagement

Law Enforcement Response to Persons with Aphasia

Although aphasia is little known, it is fairly common. Officers are more likely to come into contact with people with aphasia than with people with Parkinson’s disease, cerebral palsy, multiple scle...

Community-Police Engagement

Law Enforcement Volunteerism

Law enforcement volunteers perform service for a department without promise, expectation, or receipt of compensation for services rendered. They include interns, chaplains, reserve officers, Explorers...

Line of Duty Deaths

Line of Duty Deaths: 10/2/2004—10/29/2004

“They will be remembered—not for the way they died, but for how they lived.” ...

IACP

Legislative Alert: Senate, House Committees Approve Changes to First Responder Funding Formulas

The House Homeland Security Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee approved competing bills to change the formula by which antiterrorism grants are distributed to ...

IACP

Los Angeles Hosts the 111th Annual IACP Conference

Nearly 15,000 attendees gathered last month in Los Angeles for the 111th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The membership adopted 13 resolutions....