March 2015

From the Director: Making U.S. Schools Safer Through Scientific Research

On December 2012, the United States was shocked by the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook, Connecticut, Elementary School in which 20 children and 6 adult staff members were fatally shot. With this reacti...

Line of Duty Deaths

March 2015 LODD

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...

Product Update

March 2015 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...

Products & Services

March 2015 Products & Services

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. 2015 IACP President’...

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Officer Safety Corner: The Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program: Working to Save Officer Lives

Until the late 1960s, the use of body armor was not a common practice among law enforcement officers. Work initiated by the National Institute of Justice helped to develop new materials that could eff...

Leadership

Police Futuring – Is It in Your Future?

Strategic organizational forecasting through formalized police "futures units" is the next step in the evolution of modern law enforcement. For decades many businesses in private industry have utilize...

Investigations

Police Futuring—Is It in Your Future?

Strategic organizational forecasting through formalized police “futures units” is the next step in the evolution of modern law enforcement. For decades many businesses in private industry have ut...

Mass Casualty Attacks

Preparing for the Worst: Active Shooters in Our Schools—An International Perspective

Of the primary human threats to safety in schools—vandalism, bullying, fighting, sexual abuse, and rampage violence—rampage violence is by far the most deadly and the rarest. Yet over the past 15 ...