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Technology Talk: Why Cybersecurity Should Be a Top Priority for Your Agency

In a little over a decade, from 2000 to 2012, the number of Internet users around the world increased 566.4 percent, growing from 360 million to over 2.4 billion. This growth resulted in societies tha...

Education & Training

Building a Crime Analyst: One Training Module at a Time

Surprisingly, there are many different responses to the question “What is a crime analyst?” The answers provided by law enforcement members will vary based on the different levels of need within t...

Ethics

Ethical Defensibility: Putting Police Ethics on Trial

A veteran homicide detective shared these sentiments recently after a training session and it gave pause in the post-training debriefing. The authors eventually had to acknowledge that in order to be ...

Human & Civil Rights

FLETC’s Role with The Blue Campaign: DHS’ Unified Effort to Combat Human Trafficking

Every year, millions of men, women, and children are trafficked in countries around the world, including the United States. It is estimated that human trafficking is almost a $32 billion per year indu...

Leadership

In Their Own Words: Police Chiefs Transition to Emergency Management Leadership

It is becoming increasingly common for police chiefs and law enforcement officers to take on leadership roles within emergency management. A greater number of police chiefs and those with long law enf...

Products & Services

November 2013 Advances & Applications

Where do all 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...

Line of Duty Deaths

November 2013 Line of Duty Deaths

Line of Duty Deaths “They will be remembered—not for the way they died, but for how they lived.” The IACP wishes to acknowledge the following officers, who made the ultimate sacrif...

Product Update

November 2013 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...