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Thought – As I sit here on my couch, warm in my holiday PJ’s I cannot help but think about how lucky we are in this community. How truly lucky we are in this region, state and country. I have food in my fridge, power for the lights, gas in the truck and clean water […]

FEATURED BLOGGER David Westrick Chief of Police Hollister Police Department, California

I keep hoping that one of these days I will turn on the morning news and see something positive about policing. National events impact many of our citizens here. They want reassurance that our use of force and interaction with those we serve are not what is happening in some areas of the country. They […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Gordon Ramsay Chief of Police Duluth Police Department, Minnesota

IACP Net members have complete access to these four newly released and updated Model Policy and Concepts & Issues Papers from the International Association of Chiefs of Police Law Enforcement Policy Center! Download these new policies, as well as the full archive of IACP Model Policies and Concepts & Issues Papers in the IACP Net […]

We’ve seen several news reports lately of what first responders to the San Bernardino shootings experienced when confronting active shooters last week. That’s made me think about those officers and what they must be going through one week later. This was certainly a different circumstance than most officer-involved shootings. No one has questioned that they […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Darryl Forté Chief of Police Kansas City Police Department, Missouri

We are living in the age of instant, where the time involved in slapping two slices of bread and a Kraft single into a frying pan with a pat of butter seems so time consuming as to justify a product designed to speed the process. Yesterday’s big events in Lincoln–the City’s first murder of 2015, […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Tom Casady Director of Public Safety Lincoln Department of Public Safety, Nebraska

IACP Net Alert is a monthly electronic newsletter sent to IACP Net members highlighting resources for police chiefs and recent additions to the exclusive law enforcement network. The December 2015 edition included information on these and other topics: Active Shooters Search for Policies by State and Sworn Size Request for information on public recording of […]

Soon you will see newspaper and television stories about officer-involved shootings in Kansas City. They likely will feature emotional statements from loved ones saying they wish the shootings never had to happen. Those of us in law enforcement wish the same thing. The very last thing any officer wants to do is take the life […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Darryl Forté Chief of Police Kansas City Police Department, Missouri

Like many of you, I often head off to work in the morning taking the dreaded Beltline (if ever there was a more compelling reason to take the bus, this is prima facie proof)! Since I am typically in the office downtown between 6:30-7:00 a.m., traffic flow is not at gridlock (yet) and I often […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Michael Koval Chief of Police Madison Police Department, Wisconsin

In the past month there have been three heroin overdoses in Eden Prairie resulting in two deaths. In the case of the survivor, first responders administered naloxone, a medication that reverses the effects of a heroin, and saved the person’s life. All three people were young adults in their 20s. This fall, all EPPD police […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Eden Prairie Police Department Eden Prairie, Minnesota