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Since 1984, the Gaston County Police Department in North Carolina has required a four-year degree as an entry-level requirement, and the requirement has worked well for the department....
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Since Lakewood, Colorado, was created as a city in 1970, it has required bachelor's degrees for all entering officers, who are referred to as agents. Lakewood was among the first departments in the na...
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Chiefs who consider requiring their officers to have degrees may wonder how their agency would benefit from the increased educational requirements. They also wonder if their department's recruiting ca...
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Police are the most visible government servants. Incidents of police misconduct and abuse of power concern everyone in the profession, because these incidents directly and indirectly lead to loss of p...
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Late last year, a brutal Colorado murder case was solved when DNA evidence from the crime scene was found to match an inmate in an Arizona prison. The crime had occurred 27 years earlier; a young girl...
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The accessibility of traditional landline telephone circuits and cellular-type mobile services is critical to public safety personnel, particularly in times of major events when the public and emergen...
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Just a few days before the 2005 annual IACP conference opened in Miami Beach, Hurricane Rita skirted the Florida Keys as it strengthened from a category 1 to category 2 storm....
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How do officers prepare today to be the next generation of police chiefs? Recommendations from the IACP's Police Leadership in the 21st Century: Achieving and Sustaining Executive Success identify att...
