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By Kurt F. Schmid, National Director, High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA), Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C.
Many in the law enforcement profession said it couldn't be done: build an integrated federal, state, and local law enforcement national information sharing system complete with tactical and strategic ...
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By David R. Powell, Senior Chaplain and Executive Director, Law Enforcement Chaplaincy Service, Sonoma County, California, and Michael A. Dunbaugh, Chief of Police, Santa Rosa, California
Sonoma County, California, north of San Francisco Bay, is home to the Law Enforcement Chaplaincy Service. The service has 58 trained chaplains who respond immediately to all parts of the county when c...
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By Russell M. Porter, Special Agent in Charge, Intelligence Bureau, Iowa Department of Public Safety, Des Moines, Iowa
In 1984, Iowa law enforcement agencies established the Iowa Law Enforcement Intelligence Network, believed to be the first of its kind in the nation. Since then, LEIN programs have been implemented in...
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By Juris Kelley, President, Knowledge in Motion LLC, and Diana Abrials, Writer-Editor, Office of Training and Professional Development, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Washington
Information sharing—it sounds so easy. After all, information is at the heart of most criminal justice and law enforcement activities. Investigations are all about capturing facts, analyzing those f...
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By Melissa Reuland, Senior Research Associate, Police Executive Research Forum, Washington, D.C., and Gary J. Margolis, Ph.D., Chief of Police, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
Police officers routinely provide the first line of crisis response for situations involving persons with mental illnesses. These calls for service are common (they constitute between seven and 10 per...
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By Deputy Chief Paul N. Tinsley, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, Police Department; Darryl Plecas, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; and Gregory S. Anderson, Professor of Kinesi
Many law enforcement agencies have long had policies or regulations regarding grooming standards for police officers. These agencies have argued that strict grooming standards are necessary to ensure ...
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By Charles Wiley, Chief of Police, and Timothy Smith, Assistant to the Chief for Information Technology, Denton, Texas, Police Department
To the credit of the many men and women of the Denton Police Department, community oriented policing has been the standard in Denton, Texas, since 1987. Community oriented policing empowers police off...
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Intelligence has always been a core competency of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), organic to its investigative mission; however, it has not been an enterprise-wide activity. The importance ...
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By Albert Arena, Coordinator, Criminal Justice Information Sharing Project, Research Center, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Alexandria, Virginia
During the height of the Washington, D.C.-area sniper investigation in October 2002, investigators received a reported 142,000 calls from the public with tips and leads. For years the FBI's Rapid Star...
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The Office of Justice Programs, in the U.S. Department of Justice, initiated funding for the Matrix (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange) project in response to the increased need for timel...
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Imagine a detective working a fraud investigation. As a result of a single inquiry into a networked system-connected to local, state, regional, and federal databases-responses are received from the Fe...
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