December 2015

A Collaborative Mission: Responding to Persons with Mental Illness

The town of Wakefield is a community located approximately 15 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, with a population of approximately 25,000. Due to the community’s proximity to several major traff...

Product Update

December 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

December 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. Alzheimer’s Initiatives...

Criminal Justice Reform

Does Restorative Justice Have a Realistic Place in Today’s Criminal Justice System?

The question of how to respond to criminality in the United States is changing in fascinating ways. U.S. residents and leaders realize that the era of “tough on crime”—a widely appealing catchph...

Ethics

Doing the Right Thing: Contributing to the Advancement of the Police Profession

If there was ever a time when law enforcement needed a champion, it would be now. In these times when the profession is under fire from criticisms, calls for reform, demands for restructuring, and dir...

Technology Talk

Technology Talk: Drones and Law Enforcement

Everyone has read about drones, and many people know someone who flies one as a hobby. As drones become more prevalent, leaders need to know if their officers know what to do if they’re on patrol an...

President's Message

President’s Message: Expanding Our Global Mission and Presence

As we all know, crime has no boundaries. The challenges we face in the law enforcement profession are very much shared on a global level. While the severity of those problems may vary across different...

From the Director

From the Senior Advisor: Systems, Errors, and Ethics

When something goes wrong, often our first instinct is to place blame. Whether the error occurs at our workplace, in our community, or in national affairs, we ask: Who is at fault? What rules were vio...