April 2011

Police Chief magazine’s 2011 Buyer’s Guide includes more than 500 companies. Sixty-eight percent of Police Chief readers have executive-level purchasing authority, controlling an annual equipment budget of approximately $167 billion across the United States. Of those, more than 70 percent indicate they will purchase administrative products, weapons, computer hardware, training services, transportation, and investigative products within the next two years.

Articles

• Police Week 2011

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• Citizen Monitors, CCTV, and the Internet: A Combination to Consider

  By By Stephen S. Owen, PhD, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Radford University, Radford, Virginia; and Tod W. Burke, PhD, Former Police Officer, Howard County, Maryland, and Ocean City, Maryland, Professor of Criminal Justice, and Interim Associate Dean for the College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences at Radford University, Radford, Virginia

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• Law Enforcement’s Newest Weapon: Internet Scanning and Use of Social Media for In-Progress Crime

  By By Elle de Jonge, Chief Inspector, Dutch Police, County of Groningen, Netherlands; and Roy Mente, Chief Innovation Office, Royal Dutch Military Police, Netherlands

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• Closed-Circuit Television: Peoria’s Nuisance Property Surveillance Vehicles

  By By Steve Settingsgaard, Chief of Police, Peoria, Illinois, Police Department

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• Biometrics for Intelligence-Led Policing: The Coming Trends

  By By Thomas J. Baker, Consultant, Arlington, Virginia

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• The Los Angeles Police Department's Hydra Program: Command Officer Training for Critical Incidents

  By By Timothy J. Kalkus, Sergeant II, Hydra Program, Los Angeles, California, Police Department

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• Safeguarding U.S. Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Materials

  By By David Krupnick, Deputy Director, Office of Investigations, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.

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• Updating Ethics Training—Policing Privacy Series: Managing Risk by Reducing Internal Litigation

  By Thomas J. Martinelli, Adjunct Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Lawrence E. Shaw, Inspector, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Investigations and Forensic Science Program, Tallahassee, Florida
  For years, ethics trainers have taught that all illegal behavior committed by a sworn member is unethical, but that not all unethical behavior is illegal. Still, policy noncompliance involving departm...

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