July 2005

President’s Message: Voice Your Support for the Patriot Act

Even before the September 11 attacks, law enforcement professionals realized that immediate and significant updates to existing laws related to surveillance, information sharing, and evidence collecti...

Product Update

The Police Chief keeps you on the cutting edge of law enforcement technology with monthly product announcements. For free in-depth information, visit http://www.theiacp.org/pubinfo/pc/ and insert the ...

Products & Services

Ad Index: July 2005

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Traffic Safety

RCMP Traffic Services

Every year some 3,000 Canadians are killed and more than 200,000 are injured in traffic collisions. One-third of these casualties occur in RCMP jurisdiction. Traffic crashes are one of the leading cau...

Traffic Safety

Reductions in Alcohol-Related Traffic Deaths

In 2003, for the first time since 1999, the United States experienced a reduction in alcohol-related fatalities. There were 511 fewer alcohol-related traffic deaths in 2003, compared with 2002, which ...

Traffic Safety

Police officer giving sobriety test to young man to see if he is driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Police cruiser is out of focus in the foreground.

Sobriety Checkpoints: Doing More Checkpoints with LESS

To the Fairfax County Police Department's Traffic Division it was clear: a comprehensive impaired driver enforcement program had to include sobriety checkpoints. It was also clear that conducting sobr...

Traffic Safety

Sobriety Checkpoints: An Effective Tool to Reduce DWI Fatalities

More than 17,000 people die and half a million are injured every year from an entirely preventable cause of death, alcohol-related crashes. That's one death every half hour. Research shows that the be...

Tech Talk

Technology Talk: Purchasing a New CAD or RMS Soon?

The information-sharing capabilities of law enforcement agencies across the United States vary as much as the agencies themselves. Some have the resources and staff to implement and support highly tec...