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November 2011

Walter A. McNeal, chief of police, Quincy Police Department, Quincy, Florida, was sworn in as IACP president during the 118th Annual IACP Conference in Chicago, Illinois, October 26, 2011.

The IACP has a long history of promoting professional law enforcement through the development, the conduct, and the support of police education and training. Inside this issue of Police Chief magazine, you will find articles detailing best practices for promoting the police profession and leadership skills through training and for effective interaction with populations that present challenges to law enforcement: people with mental illness and people with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Articles

  • Police Education and Training: An Intelligence-Led Future

    By Thomas J. Jurkanin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice Administration, Middle Tennessee State University; and Senior Editor, Law Enforcement Executive Forum
    The IACP has a long history of promoting professional law enforcement through the development, the conduct, and the support of police education and training. The IACP Education and Training Committee,...

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  • Establishing a Career Pipeline in Public Schools

    By Paul A. Cappitelli, Executive Director, California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST Commission) Greg Kyritsis, Senior Consultant, California POST Commission, and Program Manager, School-Based Public Safety Program, California POST Commission
    For the past several years, the California POST Commission has committed resources to an array of symposiums and publications focused on the identification of best practices for recruiting peace offic...

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  • IACP Names New Executive Director, Bart R. Johnson

    By The IACP is pleased to announce the appointment of Bart R. Johnson as its executive director, beginning December 5. Mr. Johnson succeeds Daniel N. Rosenblatt, who retired as executive director on October 31. Mr. Johnson previously was the Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As the second-ranking official in the office, he was responsible for integrating the Department's intelligence efforts while providing the Secretary, her senior leadership, the DHS components, and state, local, tribal and private sector partners with the homeland security intelligence and information they need to keep the country safe. Prior to his DHS appointment, Mr. Johnson served as director of homeland security and law enforcement in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

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  • Leadership Training for Police Recruits Creating a Foundation for Professional Excellence

    By Irene Barath, Chief Instructor of Patrol Training, Ontario Police College, Aylmer, Ontario, Canada Peter Sherriff, Chief Instructor of the Leadership Development Unit, Ontario Police College, Aylmer, Ontario, Canada
    Words spoken at the Ontario, Canada, Police College (OPC) in July by Chief Robert Davis of the Guelph Ontario, Canada, Police Service made an impression on recruits. The occasion was the most recent M...

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  • Total Integration of Executive Training and Higher Education: The Georgia Law Enforcement Command College

    By Butch Beach, DPA, Deputy Director, Georgia Public Safety Training Center Curtis E. McClung, PhD, Assistant Administrator and Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice, Columbus State University, and Chief of Police (Retired), Columbus, Georgia, Police Department
    August Vollmer, during the early twentieth century, as chief of police in Berkeley, California, argued for the professionalism of police officers through the use of scientific training and methods of ...

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  • NAMI and Law Enforcement Executives: Working Together to Improve Police Responses to People with Mental Illness

    By Laura Usher, Crisis Intervention Team Coordinator, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Arlington, Virginia
    The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is the nation’s largest grassroots organization of people living with mental illness and their families. NAMI served on the advisory group for the 2009...

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  • Understanding and Helping Drivers with Alzheimer’s Disease

    By Linda A. Hunt, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA; Professor, School of Occupational Therapy; and Director, Graduate Certificate in Gerontology, Pacific University Oregon, Forest Grove, Oregon
    Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, offers unique challenges for law enforcement as the presence of this chronic disease may impair many older adults’ abilities to operate motor...

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  • Missing Incidents in Persons with Alzheimer's Disease: Current Research and Search Strategies

    By Meredeth Rowe, Professor, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, and Nurse Scientist, Veterans Administration Catherine Greenblum, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of South Florida Gabriella Polyak, Student, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Gene Saunders, Founder and CEO, Project Lifesaver International, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida Todd L'Herrou, MA, FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Team
    About three hours after I [Todd L’Herrou] arrived on the scene and my trained searchers had entered the field, Team Charlie was on the radio, requesting that the other teams be sure that their ra...

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