August 2009

Candidate for 2009 IACP Office: Scott Knight

Scott Knight Chief of Police Chaska, Minnesota Candidate for Fourth Vice President My name is Scott Knight. I am the chief of police of the Chaska, Minnesota, Police Department. The City of Cha...

IACP

Candidate for 2009 IACP Office: Yousry “Yost” Zakhary

Yousry “Yost” Zakhary Chief of Police Woodway, Texas Candidate for Fourth Vice President As a candidate for the office of fourth vice president of the International Association of Chiefs of...

Legal

Legislative Alert: Congress Eliminates CEDAP Funding

The Commercial Equipment Direct Assistance Program (CEDAP) has been completely cut from the FY 2010 House of Representatives and Senate budgets and also from the President’s budget request. Since th...

Terrorism

Department of Homeland Security Explosives Standards Working Group

Protecting the United States from the threat of evolving, multidimensional global terrorism is the central challenge for the U.S. government now and in the years to come. Nearly a decade into the 21st...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Emotional Intelligence

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them.” So wrote Epictetus, an ancient Greek philosopher, who believed that the best way for people to manage their emotions...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: HIPAA and Law Enforcement Access to Medical and Mental Health-Care Records

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), 42 U.S.C. 1320d and the following sections, protects an individual’s private health information from release to unauthorized ...

IACP

IACP Foundation: Save the Date for the Foundation Fundraiser-August 2009

As you begin planning for the 116th Annual IACP Conference in October, make sure your conference schedule includes attendance at the IACP Foundation’s Third Annual Fundraising Gala on Saturday, Octo...

Mental Health

Law Enforcement Officer Suicide

Most members of the law enforcement community—line officers, supervisors, managers, and chiefs—will face the issue of suicide within their ranks at some point in their careers.1 Even agencies well...