April 2013

Staffing the “Small” Department: Taking Stock of Existing Benchmarks and Promising Approaches

Staffing police departments is a continuous challenge and one that has become more complex in recent years. Immediately prior to the onset of the 2008 recession, police agencies had difficulty recruit...

Leadership

Transforming Underperforming Smaller Police Agencies into High-Performance Organizations

Many IACP members represent the nearly 18,000 state, local, and tribal agencies in the United States who serve populations of 50,000 or fewer with fewer than 25 sworn officers. These agencies are led ...