Margaret White, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Great Ideas 2020: A Look Ahead at Education & Training

Law enforcement education and training continues to evolve due to diverse influences on facilitating social order and public safety. The continuous evolution of desired performance combined with the...

Investigations

Advanced Cold Case Support Team

The highly successful East Coast Rapist case combined investigators, crime analysts, and data managers to access a vast storehouse of data, later resulting in the identification of a violent ra...

Education & Training

Simulation Training for Police Commanders

In Singapore, simulation technology has been leveraged to develop a full suite of realistic facilities to specifically train commanders in various law enforcement and criminal justice agencies....

Education & Training

Emotional Intelligence for Policing Domestic Violence

The idea of emotional intelligence as a skill in policing has had little attention either operationally or in research. Nevertheless, in a recent study in England that explored the use of emotional in...

Education & Training

Recruiting and Developing Compassionate Officers

When I first began my law enforcement career eight years ago, like most eager and excited law enforcement recruits across the United States, I was taught laws in the academy so I could recogniz...

Community-Police Engagement

Diversity Engaged and Embedded Multicultural Community Policing (DEEM-COP)

The police departments of many states in India, such as the central Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, have developed protocols and tools for respecting diversity in terms of diff...

Education & Training

Pencil-to-Patrol Car Pipeline

Long past are the days of 200 people applying for one open sworn position at a police agency; the tides have changed to dozens of open positions with no qualified applicants to fill them. Recru...