February 2006

Advances & Applications: February 2006

Florida County to Deploy New Mobile Crime Lab from LDV LDV announces that a mobile crime lab it designed and manufactured to be deployed on site at crime scenes was recently delivered to the Pinellas ...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Consuming and Applying Research Evidence-Based Policing

There are many good reasons why successful law enforcement executives will have to be consumers and appliers of research. They do not need to become researchers themselves, but they must use the resea...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Highway Safety Initiatives: Elements of an Effective Traffic Safety Initiative

Comprehensive law enforcement traffic safety programs have had lifesaving benefits for communities across the nation. Progressive departments have proven that police can increase safety belt usage rat...

Policy

Legislative Alert: House, Senate Approve Budget Reconciliation Bill with Digital TV Deadline

In December 21, the Senate narrowly passed a budget reconciliation bill (S. 1932) by a vote of 51-50, with Vice President Dick Cheney casting the tiebreaking vote. The $39.7 billion budget savings pac...

Crime & Violence

Hurricane Rita: Lessons Learned

Just a few days before the 2005 annual IACP conference opened in Miami Beach, Hurricane Rita skirted the Florida Keys as it strengthened from a category 1 to category 2 storm....

IACP

IACP News: February 2006

National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 23-29, 2006 Each April since 1981, the Office for Victims of Crime, in the U.S. Department of Justice, helps to lead communities across the country in ...

Education & Training

Operation LEAD: New Jersey’s Statewide Response to Louisiana in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

On October 11, 2005, the final platoons of personnel, vehicles, and equipment assigned to the Louisiana Emergency Assistance Deployment (Operation LEAD), returned to New Jersey....

Officer Safety & Wellness

Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu: The State of Delaware State and Local Law Enforcement Preparedness

Since the early 1900s there have been three flu pandemics in the United States that resulted in a significant loss of human life. Many health officials agree that it is only a matter of time before th...