April 2005

2003 SARS Outbreak: The Response of the Toronto Police Service

With advances in technology, communications, and travel, the concept of a global village has become a reality. Time and distance no longer insulate or isolate people from events in other countries and...

Investigations

A Chief’s View: Identity Theft: Resources for Police

Identity theft seems to be on everyone's radar screen. A 2003 study by the Federal Trade Commission found that identity theft affects almost 10 million consumers a year. Most states have enacted their...

Technology

Advance & Applications: April 2005

California Agency Acquires New Mobile Computers HP announces that Roseville, California, police officers will soon be riding in police vehicles equipped with enhanced technology specifically designed ...

Leadership

Are You Practicing Common Sense Leadership?

Alvin Toffler was right a few decades ago in Future Shock. The Information Age is overloading us all-especially those who are at the top and in charge of an organization's mission, success, and welfar...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Police Use of Force: The Problem of Passive Resistance

Passive resistance is a civil disobedience technique that reflects a philosophy of nonviolence, personal suffering, and sacrifice of self. Such notable persons as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther Ki...

Technology

Communications: 800 MHz Public Safety Rebanding: A Solution for Commercial Mobile Radio Service Interference to Public Safety Radio Systems and Its Effect on Public Safety Agencies

Starting later this year, and continuing for the next several years, many public safety radio communications systems will be required to modify their radio frequencies as part of a Federal Communicati...

Technology

Communications: DHS’s Safecom Releases Tool for Creation of Statewide Public Safety Communications Plans

The Department of Homeland Security's Safecom Program and the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility (OIC) today announced the availability of the Statewide Communications Interoperability Plan...

Technology

Communications: Radio Narrowbanding: It Is Now the Law as FCC Issues Final Rules

The local and state public safety community has been requesting additional spectrum from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) since the 1960s, as wireless communications has become a larger and...