October 2012

A Summer Abroad: The IACP International Policing Division International Conferences and Symposiums 2012

The IACP was founded 119 years ago by police chiefs who realized that fulfilling their duties required that they work together, share information, and consistently communicate. Today, the IACP ...

Product Update

October 2012 Product Update

The Police Chief keeps you on the cutting edge of law enforcement technology with monthly product announcements. Items about new or improved products are based on news releases supplied by manufactur...

Technology

Interrogation Full Circle: How FLETC Partnered with Dallas to Develop Video-Based Training

Henry David Thoreau once said, “It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.” While the philosopher certainly was not referring to criminal interrogations, this principle very mu...

Human & Civil Rights

Interrogations 2013: Safeguarding against False Confessions

Historically, there has been considerable debate about the causes of wrongful convictions, in part because there was not full agreement about whether the defendants were truly innocent. To learn from ...

Technology Talk

Technology Talk: It’s about Time: How 3-D Visualization Software Helps Law Enforcement Analyze Data

Then the body of a 16-year-old babysitter was discovered weeks after her disappearance, Utah’s North Ogden Police Department got a break in its case. Detectives enlisted help at the Real Time Cri...

Legislative Alert

Legislative Alert: Looking Ahead to the End of the Year

Looking ahead to the remainder of 2012, there are several issues that Congress could address. What follows are discussions of three such issues, although progress will depend on the outcome of the Nov...

Policy

New Leadership for the IACP Research Advisory Committee

In June 13, IACP President Walter McNeil welcomed Laurie O. Robinson, former assistant attorney general of the U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, from 2009 to 2012, and now profe...

Products & Services

October 2012 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...