January 2008

IACP News

IACP and Bell Helicopter Excellence in Police Aviation Awards Now in its fifth year, the Excellence in Police Aviation Awards recognize initiatives to enhance aviation safety, prevent accidents, or im...

Leadership

Institutionalizing Mentoring in Police Departments

Mentoring is a mutually beneficial relationship in which a knowledgeable and skilled veteran officer (a mentor) provides insight, guidance, and developmental opportunities to a lesser-skilled and expe...

Law Enforcement Jobs

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President's Message

President’s Message: Law Enforcement Response to the Mentally Ill

As law enforcement officers, our duties require us to interact daily with a wide variety of individuals. Some are citizens seeking our assistance; others are criminals we want to apprehend; still othe...

Leadership

Lengthening Tenure by Following Proven Principles

To successfully navigate the professional and political landscape, new police chiefs require a detailed map, a quality compass, and often a seasoned guide to help them reach their destination: a long,...

Line of Duty Deaths

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IACP

Looking Beyond the License Plate

All of the efforts that police officers devote to reducing needless highway deaths and serious injuries resulting from traffic crashes and impaired driving bring them into contact with myriad citizens...

Procedural Due Process and the Determination of Just Cause

he Department of Commerce’s Statistical Abstract of the United States (1991) reports that 18 million persons are employed in 82,000 governmental organizations at the local, state, and federal levels...