October 2014

Chief’s Counsel: Legal Risks of Failing to Care for Children of Arrested Persons

What officer has not had the generally sad or, perhaps, even tragic experience of witnessing the arrest of a parent in front of a confused and frightened child? A number of forward-thinking police dep...

Index to Advertisers

Index to Advertisers: October 2014

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Products & Services

Advances & Applications: October 2014

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...

Products & Services

Exhibitor Update: October 2014

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...

Line of Duty Deaths

October 2014 Line of Duty Deaths

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 sacrif...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: Breaking the Silence on Law Enforcement Suicides, IACP 2014

It is estimated that more law enforcement officers die from suicide than are killed in the line of duty each year, and currently, there is no unified effort to track officer suicides across the United...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Dismantling Silos: Evidence Handling as a Team

Solving crimes often depends on teamwork, but the process of collecting evidence is traditionally a more individual pursuit. At its core, gathering and processing evidence remains a fairly low-tech en...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Officer Fatigue and Officer-Involved Shootings—A Deadly Combination for Error

Law enforcement data indicate that officers frequently suffer from high levels of fatigue due to lack of sleep, unusual shift schedules, and long hours awake. Research confirms that fatigue impairs a ...