Law & Order

San Diego Welcomes the 115th Annual Iacp Conference

With two Tony® Award-winning theatres, museums, historic sites and monuments, music, public art, dance, film and galleries, San Diego is also a world-class cultural destination. Climb aboard the USS Midway Museum to explore the city's rich Navy heritage, or visit the newly expanded San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art.

Special Report: Grant Writing 2009

Some grantors use rather broad language, such as seeking projects that will build assets, develop communities, promote peace, enhance freedom, promote social justice, further education, promote religious development, cure disease, and so on. Nationwide or regional groups often control where the money will go, but recent DHS grants are emphasizing projects promoting communications interoperability and "CBERNIE"-an acronym for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, incendiary, and explos...

Abandoned Homes and 'Broken Windows'

The agency is creating "Community Safety Teams" made up of law enforcement, neighborhood residents, homeowner associations, business owners, mortgage holders, code enforcement officers, the local chamber of commerce and other volunteers.

Police Performance Under Stress

The studies Siddle used to incorporate heart rate into a generalized optimal performance zone, however, involved physical exertion rather than psychological and/or emotional stress. At any rate, Siddle's basic concepts had a positive influence on police physical skills training in that skill simplicity with teaching physical skills was emphasized (gross motor skills) as well as controlling stress via influencing heart rate by controlling respiration. IZOF Model Because humans arc so differe...

Management of Missing Persons Cases

The 21st century's competi24-hour news services e brought forth the probity that whether in a or urban area of the nation or in the smallest rural comer, police agencies responsible for those jurisdictions could very well find themselves in the national spotlight regarding missing person cases. A structured framework for organization with trained resources, robust leadership that communicates a clear mission and focus with aggressive implementation of investigative teams will improve the opp...

2009 Ford Fleet Preview and Police Advisory Board

Mark Fields, Ford's executive vice president and president of the Americas, opened the 2009 Ford Fleet Preview by introducing the Euro-based Transit Connect, a small and fuel-efficient delivery and passenger van. Sustainability Sue Cischke, Ford's group VP, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering, explained Ford's global plan in terms of financial aspects, social responsibilities and environmental stewardship. Hydrogen fuel cell and hydrogen-internal combustion engines (H2-ICE) a...

Ballistic Shields Tactics

Working in partnership with the Palm Beach County, FL Sheriff's Office, Strategos International conducted a ballistic shield tactics program that made conceptual leaps in the use of shields. Tactical police officers and sheriffs deputies attended the course held in the rural countryside of southern Florida, appropriately also home to Florida's wild panthers. Using PCR training, law enforcement officers learn to control people with their free hand while holding a firearm in the other.

Cbp Border Patrol, Yuma

A Border Patrol agent's duty includes the apprehension of terrorists, detection of terrorist activity and weapons of mass destruction and the enforcement of immigration laws. The training at the Border Patrol Academy in Artesia, NM includes passing several tests in Spanish, criminal and immigration law, and others that use researched, realistic scenario training in dealing with check points, freight trains, buses and other vehicles. The Guard is now taking part in entry identification teams...

Fantasy Drawings Investigative Analysis

The materials, including "rape and/or murder" kits that the offender used to control his victims and enhance his sexual fantasies, and implements he used to sexually torture his victims become an integral part of the fantasy drawings as he attempts re-create the actual event in the fantasy drawing in order to relive the experience.

Peer Leadership Group for Employee-Management Communications

In my opinion, rumors are often a result of an administration that has issues of fairness, consistency and/or especially internal communication problems with and between front-line employees and supervision or command staff, including the chief. No retaliation or retribution shall be threatened or accomplished by supervisors, command staff members or the chief administrator due to issues brought forth by the PLG The purpose of the PLG is to open the lines of communication between employees a...

Calendar of Events

On The Job

Perception Is Reality

The only way to find out the public's perception of crime and their sense of safety and attitudes about your law enforcement agency is to conduct a survey.

News

Pelican Products Named to Prestigious Inc. Magazine List

Torrance, CA-Pelican Products, the global leader in the design and manufacture of advanced lighting systems and protective cases, announced Inc. Magazine's Inc. 5,000 list has identified it as one of America's fastest-growing companies.

Fnh Usa Receives Award From Nra for Its Donations

Virginia Beach Chooses Blackhawk Serpa Holsters

Norfolk, VA-The Virginia Beach Police Department has decided to go to the SERPA holster system for the entire agency.The department will issue the Level 3 SERPA duty holster to all uniformed officers, the Level 2 concealment SERPA to detectives, and the Level 3 Tactical SERPA with the Xiphos(TM) weapon-mounted light for all K9 and SWAT officers.Transition to the new holster system will take place during the regular annual firearms training cycle and will be completed by the end of the year.

Fleet Management

What's New From Soundoff Signal?

Why the external mount? 'Optically, the signal is brighter if the light does not have to pass through -the angled and/or tinted windshield or rear window glass, said Phil VonTom, director of Business Development and International Sales. White LEDs have finally replaced halogen bulbs in the take-downs and alleys integrated into lightbars. The connectors are very different from those used on strobes to prevent these LED corner inserts from being plugged into a strobe power supply by mistake.

Training

Stretching Your Training Budget

The price of an electronic firearms simulator can be costly, but if the agency is large enough, it can be a real bargain by allowing training at the agency with on-duty time. It is still necessary for officers to drive real vehicles for emergency vehicle operations training and to shoot live ammunition at a firing range.

Traffic

Officer Education, the Weapon Against Impaired Driving

The basic training provided to police officers in this course covers case law and administrative procedures in addition to the proper administration and interpretation of the test battery. Other states are trying to play catch-up, requiring veteran officers to undergo the training before allowing them to continue to work overtime hours on federal grants aimed at impaired driving reduction. On appeal, die Supreme Court of Ohio held that the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests, if not given in ...

Product Spotlight

The 'Csi' Influence On Video Surveillance

Three rapidly evolving components exist in today's digital surveillance systems that are helping to align possibilities with expectations: high-resolution megapixel cameras, video management software, and high-definition video storage. The digital video management systems available today are very advanced in their capabilities for cataloging the incoming video from hundreds of cameras, searching recorded images according to specified criteria, and even preserving the chain of custody so that...

Captain

Pride, Not Arrogance

Arrogantly lecturing, peppering comments with putdowns and worn out clichés, and displaying scornful facial expressions will spur the officer into erecting a wall of resistance. The proud leader handles these situations, even when they involve discipline, as learning experiences. The arrogant manager will judge officers, belittling them, making them feel stupid about an honest oversight or a well-intentioned mistake. The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said, "A person unlearns arrog...

Investigations

Open and Closed Questioning

Open questions create a two-way conversation, allowing the interviewee to answer on his terms and take the answers into the conversational direction he prefers. "What if the homeowner had a hidden security system in his home?" "Is it possible that an ATM camera caught your car driving by the night the gas station was held up?" These questions are not stating that there is a security system, but they do offer the possibility.

Just Handed Down

Keys to Winning with Use of Force: A Four-Step Plan

The time is now for many law enforcement agencies to take a very long and hard look at their hiring practices.

Media

Book Review: Winning with the News Media

[...] to tie it up with a pretty bow, he tells you how and why you should do an interview, a press release, a press conference, deal with a crisis, pick a PIO, do damage control, and make heads or tails of media law. A person should definitely read this book before assuming a PIO position not only for the practical tips on dealing with the media, but also for the insider's view on how the media work.

Recruiting

Developing an Employer Brand (Part 2 of 4)

When conducting the assessment, the leader should have the authority to examine all aspects of the agency's operations, management skills to recognize desired behavior, and organizational skills to keep the project on schedule and produce a quality report. Information learned from attitude surveys can be critical to identifying aspects of the department operations that are causing conflict for employees and negatively impacting operations, recruitment, and retention.

Special Report

Foundationsearch for Grant Funding

Established in 1988, Mctasoft operates FoundationSearch/BIG Online and Imagcr, both of which provide market-leading products and services to the nonprofit and information technology sectors, including law enforcement and public safety agencies.