December 2011

“Just a Volunteer”: Supporting An Agency’s Volunteer Program through Difficult Times

By now, the benefits of citizen law enforcement volunteer programs are well established. However, the stories above illustrate one aspect of these programs that rarely, if ever, gets discussed: the in...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: Collaboration: The Key to Continued Reduction of Fatalities

Preliminary figures indicate that crash fatalities declined 3 percent in 2010 over 2009, signifying an astounding 25 percent decrease in highway deaths between 2005 and 2010, from 43,510 to 32,788. Mo...

Product Update

December 2011 Product Update

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Line of Duty Deaths

December 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...

Index to Advertisers

December 2011 Index to Advertisers

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From the Director

From the Assistant Director: The U.S. Secret Service Partners with State, Local, and International Law Enforcement to Pursue the World’s Most Wanted Cybercriminals

In April 14, 1865, five days after the formal end of the American Civil War President Abraham Lincoln met with Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch to combat the United States’ overwhelming coun...

Victim Services

How Police Can Use Hospital Laws to Speed Processing in Hospital Emergency Departments

Police chiefs throughout the United States are frequently confronted with situations where department overtime budgets are strained; physical effort levels are drained; and officers are frustrated by ...

IACP

IACP Foundation: Fueled Up to Fund the Foundation: Harley-Davidson Raffle Kicked Off at Conference

The IACP Foundation is proud to announce the launch of its first nationwide fundraising event with the unveiling of a brand new 2012 Harley-Davidson Peace Officer Edition Ultra Classic at the 118th An...