September 2013

No Rape Case Goes Unanalyzed: A Rapid Approach to Sexual Assault Evidence

In many cases of sexual assault, crime laboratories have generally lacked the resources needed to use forensic DNA within the short response time that is most beneficial to a criminal investigation. T...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: Compassion in Law Enforcement

The burden of dealing with tragedies associated with the day-to-day duties by police officers often remains unspoken and follows the officers into their off-duty and personal lives. Failure to recogni...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Forensics and Investigation Tools Flourish in the Field

Make it fast. Make it inexpensive. Keep it simple. Those three tenets are driving much of the innovation around investigation and forensics tools. Given dwindling budgets and capabilities in agenci...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Eyewitness Identifications: A National Survey on Procedures

To learn what agencies across the United States are doing about eyewitness identification, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) a grant to develop...

Technology

Rethinking the Ownership of Crime Labs: No Matter Who Is in Charge, Jurisdictional Commitment Is Key

It is doubtful that any police chief would agree to run a hospital or an engineering firm. Hospitals and engineering firms are not police business, and they require skill sets and value systems unique...

Product Update

September 2013 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 manufacture...

Index to Advertisers

September 2013 Index to Advertisers

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

Technology

The Changing Face of Forensic Science: What Police Chiefs Need to Know about National Forensic Science Initiatives

Since the introduction of modern sciences into law enforcement in the late 1920s with what is called today “crime labs,” a tremendous revolution in the application of technology to fight and preve...