Administration
The Administration topic covers everything from clerical behind-the-scenes tasks to departmental changes in policy. We offer strategies and tactics that have helped chiefs and sheriffs in agencies of any size to secure grants, assure that their trainers are top-notch and recruit the best young officers to join their ranks.
Supervisors want to be understanding of their employees’ concerns, but there is always work to be done and goals to be met. However, those two objectives need not be mutually exclusive
PolicePro.tech’s Off-Duty Management System centralizes and simplifies paid officer requests, bookings and payments
All agencies should be on notice that the administration is clearly seeking ways to encourage agencies to adopt common police reform measures
Administrators said they couldn’t financially support the department even as federal and state grants went unused
“An example of how not to police a city, is now a national model”
Blue Alert would quickly notify the public when a search is on for a suspect who seriously injures or kills a law enforcement officer in the line of duty
Cashing in unused sick leave, payment in lieu of vacation, and/or payment for any fringe benefit to “spike” one’s final compensation is causing a certain amount of public outcry
Critics want more details of the rise in shootings; while police defend the ever-changing statistics
Deputy Inspector Christopher McCormack is at the center of one of the biggest issues in the federal civil rights challenge of ‘stop and frisk’
A recommendation to reduce the current .08 blood alcohol content to .05 is being considered in an effort to decrease highway deaths
Many law enforcement officials say crime has increased because of Brown’s realignment law, releasing dangerous felons back onto the street
In 2011, Bal Harbour got more than $5 million through its money-laundering investigations
New policy allows first instance of untruthfulness related to jobs or ‘operations of the department’ to result in anything from one-day suspension to termination
Former Camden police officers protested the newly remodeled county-run department
Police can choose the higher caliber .40 or .45 to combat the high caliber weapons on the streets
The core priorities being focused on are crime reduction, professionalism, and innovation for the future, among other things
An anti-bias message went out this month to Manhattan sergeants and lieutenants to say harassment wouldn’t be tolerated
A policy e-mail sent to officers prohibited them from wearing their guns during regular visits with the former inmates they supervise
A nearly two-decade old shooting highlighted the need for stations to have safe rooms that are rarely used for anything else
Creation of six new departments within police department potentially gives mayor option of appointing director, assistant director for each
He signed the bill hours after the General Assembly approved the measure to give the state some of the toughest gun laws in the country
The Department of Licensing has gone to lawmakers to finally get approval for the program and to tighten disclosure laws
The majority of law enforcement agree that weaponizing the unmanned drones is a bad idea
It comes in the wake of outrage over the extensive use of the tactic known as stop and frisk and widespread spying on Muslims
The man was detained for 3 days when he arrived at the police station to clear the confusion up
Says he ‘won’t bother enforcing’ two new measures, and that it would be impossible for officers to keep track of whether requirements being met
Jeremy Goulet was a helicopter pilot in Hawaii in 2006 when the Army court-martialed him on charges of raping two women
‘It’s not just an integrity issue,’ Ramsey says, ‘I think rotation is just good for rounding out one’s career’
Panetta stated that military officials ‘looked the other way’ rather than punish a troubled soldier who became a killer
‘I think the polygraph will definitely keep these people from applying,’ says the 39-year-old chief
Essential or not, they would be subject to a furlough just like everyone else
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