November 2003

Highway Safety Initiatives: November Safety Belt Mobilization: Show Some Restraint!

If your agency has not already initiated safety belt enforcement programs for the holiday season, its time to get started. "High-visibility enforcement" and "sustained enforcement efforts" are key con...

Technology

Overcoming Information Sharing Obstacles and Complexity

Information sharing—it sounds so easy. After all, information is at the heart of most criminal justice and law enforcement activities. Investigations are all about capturing facts, analyzing those f...

Victim Services

Police Approaches That Improve the Response to People with Mental Illnesses: A Focus on Victims

Police officers routinely provide the first line of crisis response for situations involving persons with mental illnesses. These calls for service are common (they constitute between seven and 10 per...

Recruitment & Personnel

Studying Public Perceptions of Police Grooming Standards

Many law enforcement agencies have long had policies or regulations regarding grooming standards for police officers. These agencies have argued that strict grooming standards are necessary to ensure ...

IACP

Survivors’ Club: November 2003

The IACP/DuPont Kevlar Survivors' Club® pays tribute to those deserving officers who have avoided serious or potentially fatal injuries through the use of any kind of body armor. This column is dedic...

Technology

The CAMStat Service Delivery Initiative

To the credit of the many men and women of the Denton Police Department, community oriented policing has been the standard in Denton, Texas, since 1987. Community oriented policing empowers police off...

Technology

The FBI’s Intelligence Capability

Intelligence has always been a core competency of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), organic to its investigative mission; however, it has not been an enterprise-wide activity. The importance ...

Technology

The IACP Information Integration Planning Model

During the height of the Washington, D.C.-area sniper investigation in October 2002, investigators received a reported 142,000 calls from the public with tips and leads. For years the FBI's Rapid Star...