July 2013

July 2013 Index to Advertisers

The advertisers in this listing can equip your department with the most efficient tools available today! Always mention the Police Chief when contacting our advertisers...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: Planning for a Critical Incident Involving an Officer

The worst nightmare for a chief or sheriff is to receive a call that one of his or her own has been shot. That nightmare is magnified when that call is in the middle of the night and the chief or sher...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Officer Safety: Every Shift, Every Day

The collective missions of protecting the public cannot be achieved without ensuring the safety of those who provide that service. Officer safety needs to be the highest priority every shift, every da...

Traffic Safety

Preventing Carnage

There is no single solution to prevent traffic crashes, the carnage they produce, and the lives that are forever changed because of them. However, law enforcement professionals across the United State...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Transportation

From simple tweaks to major reinventions, transportation is evolving. Transportation for the law enforcement and public safety communities is no exception. New vehicle designs and features are helping...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: The National Police Research Platform: Improving the Science of Police Administration

The typical national study of a policing topic entails sending a survey to police departments to be filled out by chiefs, sheriffs, or their designees—one official respondent per agency.1 This metho...

Technology

Safety First

The life of a law enforcement vehicle is brutal. It takes a beating on many different levels, from the speeds at which it routinely is driven to the number of road miles it travels during a 24-hour pe...

Traffic Safety

Safety Is Important when It Is Personal: Taking a Leadership Role in Highway Safety

Nearly every state trooper, police officer, deputy sheriff, and constable has arrived on the scene of a tragic motor vehicle crash and been personally changed forever. In 1987, not long after gradu...