April 2008

IACP Foundation: A Primer on Purpose and Progress

ver the course of the last several months, the IACP Foundation has enjoyed an increased presence and prominence in the law enforcement community and with the IACP membership. This pattern of distincti...

IACP News

Spanish-Language Guide to the Crime of Human Trafficking: El crimen de la trata humana The Crime of Human Trafficking: A Law Enforcement Guide to Identification and Investigation is now available in S...

Information Sharing during the San Diego Wildfires of 2007

very year, as hurricane season winds down in the Atlantic, fire season begins in Southern California. Weather conditions bring high winds (the so-called Santa Ana winds) and higher temperatures that c...

Technology

Information Sharing in the Last Frontier

Although police work is much the same around the world, Alaska police face some unique challenges. The state is over twice the size of Texas yet has a population of just over 650,000; about half are l...

Tech Talk

Technology Talk: Interoperability and Information Sharing

Currently, interoperability and information-sharing standards are two of the most common buzzwords in law enforcement technology; like so many others, they may seem easy to brush aside, especially whe...

Legal

Legislative Alert: Biennial IACP Day on the Hill

On March 4, IACP members participated in the Day on the Hill in Washington, D.C. Held in conjunction with the midyear meetings of both the Division of State and Provincial Police and the Division of S...

Line of Duty Deaths

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Investigations

LODIS, a New Investigative Tool: DNA Is Not Just Court Evidence Anymore

In December 2006, the Palm Bay, Florida, Police Department (PBPD) and DNA Security, Inc. (DNA:SI LABS), collaborated to develop a local agency databank of forensic DNA evidence for use on most crimes....