September 2005

President’s Message: The Year in Review (2005)

The opportunity to serve as your president has provided me with one of the most challenging and rewarding opportunities of my law enforcement career. Thank you for your support of me over the years an...

Recruitment & Personnel

Ready or Not, Here They Come: The Millennial Generation Enters the Workforce

Members of the 102 million-strong millennial generation, those born between 1982 and 2002, have yet to make their full impact on the law enforcement workplace, but they will be the majority of new pol...

Crime & Violence

Sustaining Crime Prevention and Community Outreach Programs

Since September 11, 2001, homeland security issues have been law enforcement’s main focus. Proper and rapid response to terrorist acts moved to the forefront of everyone’s thinking, and federal fu...

Tech Talk

Technology Talk: IJIS Institute Forms Advisory Committee on Law Enforcement IT Standards

The IJIS Institute has announced the formation of a new committee designed to support the development of information technology standards for law enforcement agencies. The institute is a nonprofit com...

Drugs & Alcohol

The Role of the Law Enforcement Phlebotomist

rivers impaired by drugs or alcohol continue to plague highways and roadways in spite of the vigorous efforts of law enforcement agencies that are dedicated to traffic enforcement and of legislators w...

Tips on Police Leadership

Police executives of smaller agencies have to be generalists in police work and organization management. Their daily duties often combine those of a line officer, a first-line supervisor, a middle man...

Top Ten Trends: Traffic Enforcement

IMGXYZ886IMGZYX he field of traffic enforcement continues to change with the times, but some things never change. Traffic deaths continue to outnumber homicides in the United States by a factor of thr...

Youth

Written Policies for Responding to Children after a Parent or Caretaker Is Arrested

More than 2 million children have an incarcerated parent. In 2000 an estimated 7.3 million children had a parent under some form of correctional supervision (prison, jail, probation, or parole). Does ...