Law & Order

Reading List of Helpful Reference Books

A number of colleges and universities offer courses on virtually any aspect of video production. Trade Hardcover, ISBN: 0-7566-0942-9, 270 pages, Publication Date: 2005, Imprint: DK Books, www.dk.com This is both a comprehensive and inspirational book that is jargon free.

10 Things for Patrol ... When Swat Is On the Way

The other side of the tape is the inner perimeter where the target house or building is located and its immediate surrounding area, again varying in its distance depending on the situation.\n SWAT has the main task at hand in dealing with the barricade, while attention to any distractions at the perimeter is patrol's responsibility. An excellent example of this would be the heroic actions performed by the LAPD patrol and SWAT officers in response to the infamous North Hollywood Bank of Ameri...

Building Search: Tactics for the Patrol Officer

Information such as perimeter control, planning, communication, mirror selection and usage, use of cover, use of the flashlight, movement, pistol manipulation, suspect contact principles, tactical diagramming and numbering are covered in detail. Stalnaker reminds the reader that he should be looking for parts of a suspect: a foot, knee, elbow, hand, or shoulder as well as sounds or smells emanating from the suspect indeed body odor such as a suspect who defecates out of fear, smells of alcoh...

Tactical Training for Patrol

Personal experience has shown that most critical incidents are handled by placing officers at locations and leaving them indefinitely until relieved by SWAT with no consideration of the skills and abilities of the individual personnel (such as negotiations trained or patrol rifle equipped) or needs (restroom, meal, or water breaks). Policing in the 21st century requires tactical teams to face unprecedented dangers which suicide bombers, domestic terrorists, religious fanatics, militia groups...

Dispatch Goes Tactical

The TD must be ready to take over the Tactical Channel, and must be aware of any procedural issues surrounding the restriction of traffic on the channel, i.e. notifying other departments of the channel restrictions, requesting permission (if necessary) OOm an overseeing department such as a sheriff's department or state police. Homeland security, tactical intervention, critical incidents, school violence, domestic violence, suicide, and mental illness awareness. Since most barricaded subjec...

Ballistic Shield Training

The Pinellas County, FL Sheriff's Office issues a ballistic shield to each patrol sergeant These sergeants are trained in the use of the shields and carry them daily for use in situations that wouldn't warrant a SWAT call out. The training section does malfunction drills on every firearms training day to include one handed drills, using the gun belt or holster to catch the rear sights of the handgun and work the slide after tapping the base of the magazine against a leg or other readily avai...

Motorola in Wake County, Nc

[...] the Sheriff's Office provides countywide law enforcement in unincorporated areas and backup to municipal police forces. Premier CAD technology is helping Wake County and the City of Raleigh take full advantage of their coordinate-based Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc (ESRI) Geographic Information System (GIS) data and prepare them for Phase II Wireless E911.

2006 Michigan State Police Patrol Vehicle Tests

While subtle changes have taken place, from time to time, the MSP typically weighs the tests as Road course: 30%, Acceleration: 20%, Braking: 20%, Top speed: 15%, Ergonomics: 10%, and Fuel economy: 5%. [...] an urban department may want to emphasize fuel economy, ergonomics, and braking while deemphasizing road course, acceleration, and top speed.

Surviving a Terrorist Attack: Five Critical Questions

Due to the reality of urban sprawl or large rural counties, it is wise to consider pre-staging critical equipment (barricades, emergency supplies, portable generators, rescue equipment) at designated areas away from the centralized station. The group consists of police, fire, emergency medical, hospitals, county health, water works, public works, and RACES (short-wave radio operators) just to name a few.

On The Job

New at the Iacp

Instead, the latest is proper policies and training for the options we already have, i.e., an incredible variety of OC pepper spray, bean bags, other impact projectiles, the baton, and of course, the Taser®.

News

Spillman Imaging and Dynamic Imaging in Surprise, Az

Visteon's Tacnet® Demonstrated in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

According to Sheriff Craig Webre, the lack of a reliable integrated communication system is a key factor facing emergency response teams in their search, rescue, and recovery operations in New Orleans and the surrounding areas as a result of hurricane-related catastrophes, such as the failure of the city's levee system.

Remcomm Inc. Aids Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts

Grant Writing

Information Technology Grants

The factors mat make this so include the tacts that: IT outdates rapidly, an IT expert is usually needed, projects don't seem to finish on time or on budget creating a "bottomless pit," there must be interfaces with other agencies or systems, a grant may finance a one-time purchase, but not replacements and updates, IT grants are very competitive and time driven, IT grants are administratively burdensome, performance is closely tracked, and there may be many rules about what can and cannot be...

Technology

Technology at the Iacp Convention

When entering a driver's license number, the system, which is connected to the state database, auto-populates all the rest of the driver's info. Cody has provided integrated Public Safety Systems since 1979 and provides Records Management, Computer-Aided Dispatch, Mobile Records Management, case Management and Intelligence, Jail Management, and Civil Process Management. It allows single data entry, then builds relationships between the database records providing access, sharing, and cross-r...

Open Channels

Charlottesville's Multiple Interoperability Solutions

By equipping its mobile command vehicles and trailers with satellite transmitters and folddown dish antennas, first responders in Charlottesville and Albemarle County could guarantee reliable access to outside agencies, and provide a backbone for wireless video from the scene. Email Alerts If all this capability wasn't enough, the EEC can send text message alerts by email to first responders and private citizens via the Emergency Email Wireless Network (EEWN); Offered as a low-cost public se...

Sergeant

The World of Feudal Law Enforcement

Strap on the belt and pull on the helmet to begin the day, hang them up at the end of the day, and it is Miller time. [...] at the end of the day, just as with the medieval serfs, these people will hang up the belt and helmet and go home and be the same as every other person on the planet.

Training

Equipment for Training Videos

Partnering for Teen Crowd Control

At the meetings, the patrol members hammer home that the sheriff doesn't have the manpower to cover the entire beach, that owners can impose rules the department cannot, that even resorts that have no teens renting rooms may have trouble on the beach if they don't take precautions against trespassers, and that the steps Goldsmith and Bush recommend each year on security and controlling beach access are ones other property owners have proven to work.

Product Spotlight

Moducom Ultracom Dispatch Console

Modular Communication Sstems, Inc (ModUcom) is a California Corporation established in 1978 for the sole purpose of in house design and manufacturing state-of-the-art Radio Dispatch and E911 Consoles for Public Safety and Homeland Protection (including all government agencies), Utilities, Forestry, Transportation, and Petroleum Industries. ModUcom's UltraCom E911/Radio Dispatch Console System is a single software application that provides interoperability and enables VOIR ModUcom is not only...

Commentary

Danger Doesn't Always Carry a Gun!

According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, 56% of officers killed from 1994 through 2003 were killed by accidental automobile accidents, and 17% were struck by vehicles.

Traffic Safety

Louisiana Says Thank You

Even as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita dealt devastating blows to Louisiana and the Gulf Coast Region, America's law enforcement and emergency response communities mobilized to assist with additional manpower, resources, and expertise. Specific missions conducted by the various responding agencies included providing a law enforcement presence for FEMA during body recovery, transporting pharmaceutical supplies into affected areas, search and rescue, responding to homes to clear emergency calls, ...

Roll Call

Bias Incidents and Hate Crimes

Bias incidents and hate crimes are acts of ignorance and intolerance intended to intimidate a segment of the community. The motive for these acts is hatred toward a victim's race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation.

Community

Strategies Following a Catastrophe

Due to the lack of consistent and compatible communication systems, all agencies were paired with New Orleans police officers and all patrols were conducted (both land and water based) using the buddy system. It was at this point that Carnival Cruise Lines provided housing for officers on the Carnival ships Ecstasy and Sensation (which had been docked at the foot of Canal Street and the Mississippi River).

Security

Coast Guard Enforces the Future of Fisheries

According to the Coast Guard's office of law enforcement, commercial and recreational fisheries annually contribute an estimated $50 billion and $24 billion, respectively, to the US economy. The driving force behind those steps is a piece of legislation called the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management act of 1976, which established a 200 nautical mile boundary for U.S. fisheries, called the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).