October 2003

Delegates to this year’s IACP conference will find outstanding educational sessions, opportunities to network with peers from around the world, the latest products and services displayed by more than 700 companies and organizations, and top-notch entertainment—all in one of America’s oldest, safest, and most walkable cities. Along with Police Commissioner Sylvester M. Johnson and the Philadelphia Police Department, we look forward to seeing you in the City of Brotherly Love.
Photograph by Corporal Jim Pauley, Philadelphia Police Department.
Inset Photo © Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Articles

• Citizen Oversight of Law Enforcement: Challenge and Opportunity

  By Joe Farrow, Deputy Commissioner, and Trac Pham, Research Specialist, California Highway Patrol, Sacramento, California
  Citizen oversight of police practices has long been a controversial issue in law enforcement. Basically, the concept is defined as a procedure under which law enforcement conduct is reviewed at some ...

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• Connecting the Dots: Data Mining and Predictive Analytics in Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analysis

  By Colleen McCue, Ph.D., Program Manager, Crime Analysis Unit, and Colonel Andre Parker, Chief of Police, Richmond Police Department, Richmond, Virginia
  Law enforcement organizations are challenged by a staggering increase in data on a daily basis. In fact, it has been estimated that the amount of data in the world doubles every 20 months. Every trans...

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• Cross-Atlantic Law Enforcement Cooperation: What Police Chiefs Should Know about Europol

  By Manfred Seitner, Head of Unit, Europol, The Hague, Netherlands
  A significant step forward in the fight against terrorism and international organized crime was taken in December 2002 when the United States of America and the European Union Police Office (Europol) ...

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• Drug Recognition Experts: A Public Safety Resource

  By Chuck Hayes, Captain, Patrol Services Division, Oregon State Police, Salem, Oregon
  The Drug Evaluation Classification (DEC) program...

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• Five Steps to Building Commitment for Change

  By Merle Switzer, Captain, North Central Division, Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, Sacramento, California
  Building commitment for change is fundamental to successfully implementing change, but all too often it's a process that is ignored. In a time when changes due to technology, community expectations, w...

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• For the Veteran Officers: Leadership, Ethics, and Wellness Training

  By Randolph D. James, Director, Suburban Law Enforcement Academy, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
  For years, the law enforcement community has wrestled with the personal and professional changes that occur in many police officers during their career. The work experiences of police officers result ...

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• National Institute of Justice Statement Regarding Second Chance Inc. Body Armor "Upgrade" Offer

  The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and its National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) administer a voluntary compliance testing program to assess whether models of ballis...

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• ODP Seeks Homeland Security Executives for New Graduate Degree Program

  By Lois Pilant, President and Chief Executive Officer, Wings Publishing, La Verne, California
  As part of its program to ensure that the nation's first responders are well prepared to deal with the threat of terrorist activity, the Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP) of the Department of Hom...

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• People-Oriented Leadership

  By Donald Grinder, Lieutenant, Arlington County Police Department, Arlington, Virginia
  Police officers and managers across the country describe many of the same problems: low morale, cynicism, poor communication, and distrust of the management system. A common reason why these problems ...

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• Police Officer Truthfulness and the Brady Decision

  By Jeff Noble, Commander, Irvine, California, Police Department
  Truthfulness and the 1963 Brady decision have become hot topics in law enforcement circles. Although years went by without much concern with the Brady decision, recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions hav...

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• Policing Reform in Northern Ireland

  By Thomas Constantine, Oversight Commissioner for Policing Reform in Northern Ireland
  Reforming a law enforcement agency is never an easy task. Even in the best of circumstances, a police executive is often confronted with resistance from officers, concern from elected officials, and s...

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• Preparing Families for the Hazards of Police Work

  By Sam Torres, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Criminal Justice, California State University, Long Beach, California; David L. Maggard Jr., Chief of Police, Irvine, California; and Christine Torres
  That stress is endemic in police work and a hazard of the job is well known to police chiefs and law enforcement administrators. This aspect of policing has major implications for police chiefs becaus...

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• Ten Finalists Announced for the 2003 IACP/Motorola Webber Seavey Award for Quality in Law Enforcement

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• Twelve Steps to Getting the Most Out of Your Employees

  By Steven J. Sarver, Chief of Police, Colerain Township, Ohio
  No two employees have the same ability or desire to do a given task. This finding was emphasized in the research on situational leadership conducted by Hershey and Blanchard several years ago as relat...

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