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Building a Better Workforce Through the Use of Pre-Employment Psychological Evaluations

Recruitment of a quality workforce takes an enormous amount of time, effort, and expense. A smart approach to this process in law enforcement includes multiple information sources that ultimately coal...

From the Director

From the Director: COPS Office Expands Its Services and Resources: Striving for Collaborative Reform and Constitutional Policing

As the Office of Community Oriented Police Services (COPS Office) enters its 20th year of outreach and assistance to the field of law enforcement, I am honored to have been designated by the attorney ...

Drugs & Alcohol

Data Collection on DUIs More Critical Now than Ever

On the evening of January 10, 2014, a truck slammed into a Colorado State Patrol (CSP) Ford Crown Victoria, pushing it into a CSP Dodge Charger. The driver of the truck was arrested and charged with d...

Recruitment & Personnel

Enhancing Recruitment Efforts Nationwide through K–12 School Partnerships

For careers in public safety, an all-too familiar challenge lies in the need for more efficient, cost-effective recruiting and hiring processes. This issue may be most pressing in law enforcement. In ...

Technology Talk

Technology Talk: Five Ways to Leverage Location Data

Location data is ubiquitous, and nowhere is its use more important than in law enforcement. From criminal investigations to operational planning and officer safety, few tools provide value across a po...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Legal Considerations in Adopting Officer Wellness Programs

Wellness programs come in a variety of styles. There are programs that provide employees with the option to receive a service or benefit, such as biometric screenings, health risk assessments, fitness...

Product Update

March 2014 Product Update

The Police Chief keeps you on the cutting edge of law enforcement technology with monthly product announcements. Items about new or improved products are based on news releases supplied by manufacture...

Products & Services

March 2014 Products & Services

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 collea...