September 2011

Technology Talk: Improving Situational Awareness

Situational awareness typically refers to a person being aware of what is going on around him or her. As Toner notes, “Understanding is more than information gathering. It implies gathering the righ...

Technology

Mobile Biometric Devices: What the Future Holds

Mobile biometric devices are providing benefits to law enforcement and homeland security field agents who use biometric collection to identify people during field operations in near real time. The use...

From the Director

From the Director: NCIS Uses New Techniques to Fight an Old Crime

While maritime piracy has existed for hundreds of years, the current criminal situation off the coast of Somalia has escalated dramatically. In 2010, pirates attacked more than 200 commercial and priv...

IACP

Proposed IACP Constitutional Amendments

For the last 118 years, the IACP has strived to identify, serve, and address the needs of its membership and the law enforcement profession. Its success and stability in meeting this mission is a test...

Products & Services

September 2011 Products & Services

Where do the good ideas come from? In this column, we offer our readers the opportunity to learn about—and benefit from—some of the cutting-edge technologies being implemented by law enforcement c...

Line of Duty Deaths

September 2011 Line of Duty Deaths

"They will be remembered, not for the way they died, but for how they lived." The IACP wishes to acknowledge the following officers, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their communities and the peop...

Product Update

September 2011 Product Update

The Police Chief keeps you on the cutting edge of law enforcement technology with monthly product announcements. For free in-depth information, visit us online, or circle the appropriate Reader Servic...

Index to Advertisers

September 2011 Index to Advertisers

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