June 2007

Legislative Alert: IACP Calls for Strong Support of the COPS Program

In April 24, Edmund Mosca, chief of police, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, and chairman of the IACP Legislative Committee, testified before the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Subcommi...

Ethics

Police Protecting the Environment

A few years ago, the owner of a trailer park in Bedford, Virginia, was caught allowing the park’s sewage lagoon to discharge sewage into a branch of Sandy Creek, a tributary of the Roanoke River con...

IACP

IACP News

IACP Volunteers in Police Service Program: Five-Year Anniversary and New Resources The national Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS) program celebrated its fifth anniversary on May 30, 2007. The VIPS p...

Crime & Violence

International Illicit Trafficking in Wildlife

Combating terrorism and organized crime invariably comes high on law enforcement priorities. Although it may not be well known, there is ample evidence to show a strong link between organized crime an...

Product Update

Radar speed signs Information Display Company (IDC) announces SpeedCheck brand radar speed signs designed to slow speeders without increasing noise levels, impairing emergency vehicles, or causing oth...

Ethics

The Future of Police Image and Ethics

This article reviews highlights of the advances of professional policing in recent decades and illuminates the obstacles that continue to prevent the image of police from becoming more positive. Also ...

Investigations

Strategic Deception Revisited: The Use of Fabricated Documents during Interrogation—Permissible Ploy or Prohibited Practice?

Law enforcement officials understand that service in their profession requires character and values and not simply technical proficiency. One of these values is honesty, which requires an officer to a...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

The El Paso Intelligence Center: Beyond the Border

On a sleety, cold afternoon in mid-January, Mississippi Highway Patrol troopers stopped a freight truck on Interstate 10 in Jackson County for not displaying a U.S. Department of Transportation number...