Officer Safety & Wellness
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Police chiefs have a constitutional and moral duty to protect and serve their personnel and communities. Busy police chiefs want the very best expertise in training in order to accomplish this mission...
Traffic Safety
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In 2009, more U.S. law enforcement officers died in the line of duty in traffic-related incidents than were killed by firearms or any other single cause of death. This was not a statistical anomaly; 2...
Officer Safety & Wellness
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In 2009, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) experienced 112 fewer preventable, on-duty collisions when compared to 2008. The OPP has made tremendous progress when it comes to reducing serious collisi...
Terrorism
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On September 11, 2001, the nature of threats to public safety changed. The country came to realize that there was a much greater probability that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) could and would be u...
Officer Safety & Wellness
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Law enforcement is safer today than it was even as little as one decade ago. With strides in equipment, body armor, vehicle design, and safety tactics, to name a few, the profession has improved its a...
Officer Safety & Wellness
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We understood on the proudest day of our professional lives—the day we took the oath of office—that we might die in the course of discharging our sworn responsibilities. But even if we seriously p...
Officer Safety & Wellness
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The IACP wishes to acknowledge the following officers, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their communities and the people they served. We extend our prayers and deepest sympathies to their families,...
Officer Safety & Wellness
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On October 1, 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy signed into public law a joint resolution of the 87th Congress (Public Law 87-726) designating May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day in honor of fede...