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Officer Safety During Police-on-Police Encounters

Concerns about officer safety often center on procedures, tactics, and equipment. Topics such as dynamic entry, arrest and raid plans, pursuit, vehicle positioning and approaches, firearms, less-letha...

Traffic Safety

Combating Impaired Driving

One estimate puts the costs for traffic crashes at $230 billion each year in medical expenses, lost productivity, property damage, and related costs. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...

Education & Training

Digital Multimedia Evidence Processing Laboratory – Training

For many television viewers and forensic science enthusiasts, shows like CSI and the spin-off television shows CSI: Miami and CSI: New York are fun to watch and, with their various characters and stor...

Traffic Safety

SAFE Driving—The Role of the Chief

Traffic collisions take more lives and end more careers for law enforcement officers than any other event—felonious or accidental. According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (N...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Bryan v. McPherson—A New Standard for the Use of Electronic Control Devices?

In December 2009 the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided Bryan v. McPherson decision that has inappropriately led some people to believe that the law regarding the use of elec...

IACP

IACP Foundation: Foundation and NUCPS Partner for Free Training

In early 2009, NUCPS donated to the IACP Foundation a full course of their 10-week SPSC class to be administered in the Louisiana gulf region....

Crime & Violence

Making Crime Prevention a Priority

Two incidents changed Kenosha's crime prevention efforts from a part-time activity to a full-time assignment....

Education & Training

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Designing the Annual Training Curriculum: A Team Effort

Collaboration is the key to planning successful, effective annual training. Effective collaborators include risk managers, prosecutors, community members, advocacy groups, and officers themselves. Acc...