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This year, the IACP welcomed attendees from across the globe to the 2025 Impaired Driving and Traffic Safety (IDTS) Conference in Chicago, Illinois, on August 4–6. The event brought together more th...
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Complex military operations have one point in common with large-scale drug trafficking enterprises: they rely on swift and secured communications.
The massive development over the past 10 years of ...
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In 2023, there were over 1,500 drug-impaired drivers for each certified drug recognition expert (DRE) in the United States. Research has shown that a 10 percent increase in driving under the influence...
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Ten years ago, an article appeared in the September 2015 issue of IACP’s Police Chief magazine that would introduce a new word into the U.S. police and justice lexicon: deflection. Eventually, the...
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The expansive U.S. rail network—long a symbol of economic development and connectivity—is increasingly being exploited for the transportation and distribution of illicit narcotics. Rail transit sy...
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Drug trafficking is a highly complex, transnational, and constantly changing criminal practice, posing continuous and substantial challenges to public security forces. This is a phenomenon that direct...
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In the battle against synthetic opioids, the spotlight is often on the United States, where fentanyl devastates communities, driving record-breaking overdose deaths and overwhelming police and public ...
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In 2018, Ohio had the fifth highest age-adjusted drug poisoning (overdose) mortality rate in the United States, with 39,257 suspected fatal and nonfatal drugs poisonings (13–14 fatal poisonings a da...
