January 2015

President’s Message: Moving Forward to Build Community Trust

I am sure many of your recent conversations involve discussions about the events that took place in Missouri, New York, and Ohio. Like me, you have also probably noticed that almost every time you pic...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: What’s Your Number? Attendees Receive Potentially Lifesaving Medical Evaluations at IACP 2014

In today’s fast-paced world, we’re all focused on retaining numbers. We’re expected to remember telephone numbers, ATM pin numbers, social security numbers, the birthdays of loved ones, and so f...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety: How One Small Agency Is Addressing the Issue

With more people choosing walking and bicycling as healthy and economic transportation alternatives to driving, law enforcement agencies are increasing efforts to foster safer environments for pedestr...

Cybercrime

Preparing for the Cyberthreat: The Vulnerability of the U.S. Electric Grid

The U.S. electric grid, by virtue of its complexity and size, is vulnerable to both physical and cyber attacks, which have the potential to impact the United States in ways not currently imagined by m...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Patrol Vehicles: Moving People in Many Ways

There is a lot more involved in the selection of a police vehicle than its ability to move from point A to point B. And that doesn’t just refer to the extra needs—on-board computing, and lights an...

Product Update

Product Update January 2015

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...

Victim Services

Protecting Children of Arrested Parents: Steps for Developing and Implementing an Effective Policy

In 2010, approximately 2.7 million children under the age of 18 in the United States had a parent incarcerated in jail or prison. That figure, the equivalent of 1 in every 28 U.S. children, is a stagg...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: An Evaluation of Students Talking It Over with Police (STOP) in Milwaukee Schools

While issues involving juvenile offending are often the topic of attention, juveniles’ negative perceptions of the police are seldom addressed. This is concerning given that research shows that indi...