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As the 2015 IACP/DuPont Kevlar Survivors’ Club initiative wraps up and 2016 begins, the IACP reflects back on program changes and the successes achieved with an eye toward the year to come. A signif...
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Sleep is an absolute necessity. Although the amount of sleep required for good health varies from one person to the next, there is no dispute that the lack of quality sleep takes a heavy toll on a per...
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Contemporary law enforcement faces an ever-growing collection of challenges. Among these challenges is managing the seeming contradiction between calls for the demilitarization of police departments a...
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fferent opinions abound about the proper term for a veteran of the U.S. military. Can they be simply referred to as “veterans,” or are they better defined as “military veterans” or “combat v...
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Each year, hundreds of highway responders—law enforcement, fire, rescue, emergency medical services (EMS), tow or recovery, and others—are seriously injured or killed while working in or near movi...
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While there are many factors that affect the cost of medical care for injured employees, there is no getting around the fact that health care costs are rising and are often the largest single expense ...
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“Even one police suicide is too many. And too late.”
The above words are the opening text of a brochure that was circulated at the 121st Annual IACP Conference and Exposition in Orlando, Florida,...
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The California Highway Patrol (CHP) lays claim to a sobering truth: the agency has suffered 225 line-of-duty deaths since being founded in 1929. Over that same period of time, nearly 15,000 ...
