April 2005

On the cover: Officer Debbie Becker of the San Diego Police Department uses a handheld computer while on patrol in Balboa Park. Photograph by Officer Brad Ruff of the San Diego Police Department.

Articles

• 2003 SARS Outbreak: The Response of the Toronto Police Service

  By By Julian Fantino, Commissioner, Emergency Management, Province of Ontario, and Former Chief of Police, Toronto Police Service, Canada

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• A Chief’s View: Identity Theft: Resources for Police

  By Stephen White, Chief of Police, Doylestown Township, Pennsylvania, and Monique Einhorn, Attorney, Identity Theft Program, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C.

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• Are You Practicing Common Sense Leadership?

  By William Cottringer, Ph.D., President, Puget Sound Security Inc., and Author of You Can Have Your Cheese & Eat It Too, Bellevue, Washington

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• Communications: 800 MHz Public Safety Rebanding: A Solution for Commercial Mobile Radio Service Interference to Public Safety Radio Systems and Its Effect on Public Safety Agencies

  By Harlin R. McEwen, Chief of Police (Retired), Ithaca, New York, and Chairman, IACP Communications and Technology Committee; and Robert M. Gurss, Legal and Government Affairs Director, Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International, and Telecommunications Attorney, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, PLC

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• Communications: DHS’s Safecom Releases Tool for Creation of Statewide Public Safety Communications Plans

  The Department of Homeland Security's Safecom Program and the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility (OIC) today announced the availability of the Statewide Communications Interoperability Plan...

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• Communications: Radio Narrowbanding: It Is Now the Law as FCC Issues Final Rules

  By John S. Powell, Senior Consulting Engineer, National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center, Rocky Mountain Region, Denver, Colorado, and Member, IACP Communications and Technology Committee
  The local and state public safety community has been requesting additional spectrum from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) since the 1960s, as wireless communications has become a larger and...

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• Communications: Risks and Tips for Public Safety: Use of Unlicensed 802.11 (Wi-Fi) Broadband Spectrum

  By Harlin R. McEwen, Chief of Police (Retired), Ithaca, New York, and Chairman, IACP Communications and Technology Committee, and Vice Chairman, National Public Safety Telecommunications Council

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• Communications: Selecting the Appropriate Wireless Infrastructure

  By Barbara Montgomery, Project Manger, Automated Regional Justice Information System, San Diego, California, and Fred Davis, Deputy Program Director, Capital Wireless Integrated Network, Washington, D.C.

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• Communications: Voice over Internet Protocol: The Implications for Public Safety

  By By Harlin R. McEwen, Chief of Police (Retired), Ithaca, New York, and Chairman, IACP Communications and Technology Committee, and Vice Chairman, National Public Safety Telecommunications Council

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• Enforcing Immigration Law: The Role of State, Tribal, and Local Law Enforcement

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