November 2010

President’s Message: The Year Ahead—November 2010

As police chiefs, we have the distinct honor of leading the finest individuals that society can produce: the police officers on the street. Each day our officers demonstrate that they are extraordinar...

Education & Training

Tips for Training with a Firearms Simulator

Today there are a variety of companies producing simulators and competing for law enforcement and military business. These simulators, regardless of the manufacturer, provide the opportunity for law e...

Education & Training

Training and Tools to Serve the Line Officer

The Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism’s (MIPT) Information Collection on Patrol (InCOP) improves the information collection skills of the most important collector in a police depart...

Training for Face-to-Face Encounters

It’s 3:00 a.m. on a desolate state route in the middle of nowhere, and an officer has made what seems like a routine traffic stop for speeding. Three persons sit in the dark vehicle ahead. The offic...

Transforming a Police Agency by Connecting Training, Performance, and Assessment to Promotion

IMGXYZ3398IMGZYX Click to view the digital edition. IMGXYZ3380IMGZYX ith a population of 1.3 million, the two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago maintains a diversified economy. Energy is the primar...