June 2017

Officer Safety Corner: Make Physical Fitness a Priority with a Few Simple Steps

Many law enforcement agencies use physical fitness tests, which include cardiovascular (cardio) and flexibility components, to ensure new hires can handle the physical demands of police work. This fit...

IACP Working for You

IACP Working for You: Benchmarking and Performance Analytics: Your New Tool for Data-Driven Decision-Making

The law enforcement profession abounds with data and metrics—crime and clearance rates, staffing ratios, training hours, salary levels, and so forth. Humans have a natural desire to gauge performanc...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

9 Ideas from Research on Improving Police Efforts to Control Crime

Preventing crime, securing public safety in fair and lawful ways, and building public confidence and trust in the police, should be core missions of law enforcement in democratic societies. To achiev...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Enforcement: Calculating the Benefits to the Community

Law enforcement recruits and new officers are often asked the same question repeatedly during their application process and time at the training academy—why do you want to become an officer? Most re...

Line of Duty Deaths

Line of Duty Deaths 5/11/2017—6/6/2017

The IACP wishes to acknowledge the following officers, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their communities and the people they served. We extend our prayers and deepest sympathies to their families,...

Product Update

Product Update: July 2017

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...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Focused Deterrence: Looking to Past Success to Determine Future Uses

Recent research has shown that traditional policing strategies from the 20th century, such as rapid response, random patrols, and reactive policing, have been widely ineffective. In response to incre...

Cybercrime

The U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Forces: Employing Public-Private Sector Partnerships to Combat Cybercrime

Coordinating both the expertise and efforts of the various law enforcement, public safety, and private sector entities involved in the massive endeavor of securing a country is extremely complex. It i...