Officer Safety & Wellness
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Calls flooded the Albany Police Department’s Communication Division in New York’s capital city; both the police and fire radios were filled with chatter. Dispatchers, or telecommunications special...
Officer Safety & Wellness
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During the last 11 years, the Edmonton Police Service (Alberta, Canada) has created, developed, and continually improved its Critical Incident Reintegration Program. The program has two streams: short...
Mental Health
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Every police officer in the Israel Police is trained to deal with both classic police work and the fight against terror. The potential for an encounter with a traumatic event is always there—fatal a...
IACP
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The IACP Officer Safety and Wellness Symposium convened on February 27–29, 2020, in Miami, Florida. The annual OSW Symposium more than doubled in attendance from the previous year, with more than 80...
Research in Brief
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For decades, conventional wisdom has held that police officers face a greater risk of being assaulted, injured, or killed when responding to domestic incidents....
Officer Safety & Wellness
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Becoming the top law enforcement executive in a local or state police agency is the ultimate goal of many up-and-coming police leaders. In accomplishing their career goals, chiefs spend many years lea...
Leadership
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People define leadership in several different ways. The qualities considered necessary to be an effective leader could fill an entire page, depending on what book one reads or the style one subscribes...
Officer Safety & Wellness
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In the not so distant law enforcement future, a watch commander will receive a call from the dispatch center:...
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