Is a police chief, I am always looking for ways to improve our department and better protect those who serve our agency. However, as the chief of a small agency with 38 sworn officers, I am often faced with challenges to accomplishing this task with limited resources and the need to implement programs that are designed for and tested at large agencies. This is why when I was asked to have our department participate in the Reducing Officer Injury (ROI) research project at the IACP, which examined the injuries to police officers, I was excited to take part and hoped that the results would help us reduce injuries and improve our agency. The ROI project began last year as part of a longitudinal research effort lead by the IACP SafeShield initiative. The focus of the project was tracking and reporting all officer injuries for a period of one year. One of the benefits of the project was that we began to look very closely at officer injuries and think about the problem in new ways.