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Technology

Alarm Industry Steps Up to Reduce False Alarm Calls through Enhanced Call Verification

It is no secret that responding to false alarm calls places an undue burden on police resources and affects agencies' responses to more serious calls. There are a number of effective strategies that h...

Policy

Drug Legalization: Why It Wouldn’t Work in the United States

The issue of drug legalization is a complex one. Most Americans do not favor it, yet there is a strong and very vocal lobby in the United States that feels that legalization would be the proper course...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Is the Miranda Custody Standard Different for Juveniles?

According to a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Yarborough v. Alvarado, the Court further clarified the concept of custody in determining whether Miranda warnings are necessary when a juv...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Highway Safety Initiatives: Back to School, Safely

Every summer, every holiday season, and during every national mobilization, you find it's time to intensify your agency's attention to traffic safety issues. But the key to an effective, results-orien...

Investigations

CCTV: A Law Enforcement Tool

The past decade has seen unprecedented growth in the deployment of closed-circuit television (CCTV) security monitoring systems. Nationally reported events, such as terrorist attacks and school and wo...

Drugs & Alcohol

confiscated packages of cocaine on tables

Drug Trafficking Murderers

In late 2001 the homicide rate in Saint Louis rose at an alarming rate. Police determined that the rate increase was not result of a surge in the number of crimes of passion or even acts of random vio...

IACP

Law Enforcement Jobs: August 2004

Police Chief Location: City of Highland, Illinois Deadline: Anticipated closing date is September 30, 2004 Police Chief Location: Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts Police Chief Location: City of Greer, S...