July 2005

A study conducted for the Police Chief magazine by Readex Research of Stillwater, Minnesota, found that 17 percent of the magazine’s readers were planning police facility construction projects in the next two years. Considering the duration and cost of a construction project, this finding suggests a significant number of law enforcement leaders and their jurisdictions are making a serious commitment of time and money. This issue highlights police facility construction around the United States, and in May 2006 the Police Chief will focus on police facilities. Cover photograph of the lobby of the police facility in Holland, Michigan, courtesy of Moyer Associates. ©

Articles

• "100 Days of Summer Heat" in Georgia: Taming Georgia's High-Speed Driving Culture

  By Bob Dallas, Director, Georgia Governor's Office of Highway Safety, and Ricky H. Rich, Director of Special Operations, Georgia Governor's Office of Highway Safety, Atlanta, Georgia
  During fall 2003 the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported average interstate speeds in Georgia as the highest recorded in the country. Eighty-five miles per hour in a 55-mile-per-hour zone was the no...

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• RCMP Traffic Services

  By Stanley B. McNeil, Inspector and Officer in Charge, National Traffic Services, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  Every year some 3,000 Canadians are killed and more than 200,000 are injured in traffic collisions. One-third of these casualties occur in RCMP jurisdiction. Traffic crashes are one of the leading cau...

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• Sobriety Checkpoints: Doing More Checkpoints with LESS

  By Captain J. F. Bowman, Commander, and Jerry Stemler, DUI Coordinator, Traffic Division, Fairfax County Police Department, Fairfax, Virginia
  To the Fairfax County Police Department's Traffic Division it was clear: a comprehensive impaired driver enforcement program had to include sobriety checkpoints. It was also clear that conducting sobr...

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• Sobriety Checkpoints: An Effective Tool to Reduce DWI Fatalities

  By Mary Ann Viverette, Chief of Police, Gaithersburg, Maryland, and First Vice President, International Association of Chiefs of Police
  More than 17,000 people die and half a million are injured every year from an entirely preventable cause of death, alcohol-related crashes. That's one death every half hour. Research shows that the be...

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• Reductions in Alcohol-Related Traffic Deaths

  By Heidi Coleman, Chief, Impaired Driving Division, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.
  In 2003, for the first time since 1999, the United States experienced a reduction in alcohol-related fatalities. There were 511 fewer alcohol-related traffic deaths in 2003, compared with 2002, which ...

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• A Case Study: Using the IACP Police Facility Planning Guidelines

  By John Kruithoff, Chief of Police, Holland, Michigan, and Frederic D. Moyer, FAIA, Moyer Associates Inc., Northbrook, Illinois
  Like many police agencies in the United States, the Holland, Michigan, Police Department found itself occupying a facility that it had long ago outgrown. Demands for service had increased and the pers...

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• Community Policing Begins at Home: O'Fallon's Public Safety Facility Designed for Community Relations

  By John Betten, Chief of Police, O'Fallon, Illinois
  It was hardly a surprise when hundreds of residents of O'Fallon, Illinois, showed up on October 10, 2004, for an open house and a sneak peak at that municipality's new state-of-the-art public safety f...

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• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Branding Traffic Safety

  By Susan Gorcowski, Associate Administrator, Office of Communications and Consumer Information, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.
  The power of product branding and marketing on American's consumer spending and behavior is undeniable. When done right, private sector marketing can influence someone to spend thousands of dollars mo...

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