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.
Even the smallest departments can conduct basic crime analysis and evaluation of the impact of police operations
A review of the potential benefits of marrying yearly performance evaluations with physical and psychological wellness programs
From officer resiliency training to gun violence restraining orders, here’s a selection of programs improving officer and community safety, communications
The decision to reopen Christopher Dorner’s case is unprecedented and “has left many of our members in absolute limbo”
Use proactive policy and training to keep your department out of trouble with social media
State officials said Thursday that troopers are now forbidden from aerial shooting unless they’re under fire
Starting next month, people who get picked up on charges of having a small amount of marijuana will be released with desk appearance tickets
The attorney general responded to the report by advising police chiefs to review procedures and use training materials provided by the state
Group says they’ve had to absorb too many past costs for Jets’, Giants’ stadium
Police will no longer respond in person to crimes in which no one is in imminent danger
The officers in administrative positions will join existing Area Saturation Teams and focus on preventing gun violence
“The biggest obstacle in stemming the flow of the illegal weapons — both assault rifles and handguns — is the less restrictive laws in other locales”
“This is truly a community police station that belongs to the citizens of Signal Hill”
Police say a man has attacked seven people of Asian descent in East Harlem since Jan. 17.
The president is meeting the police chiefs from Aurora, Colorado, Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and Newtown, Connecticut.
Without funds to hire more officers, the department will change the way it operates
A new high-tech scanner will take the patting down policy out of ‘stop and frisk’
He issued a statement Wednesday criticizing police and sheriff’s officials who have said they would not enforce gun-control laws they consider unconstitutional
The city had shown it would be expensive to immediately implement an order that could be reversed
Both lawmen seemed to want more debate on the new gun safety law and suggested it is far from a perfect solution
The officers will be sworn in as deputy U.S. marshals during a training session Sunday at American University
The operator has not been charged with any wrongdoing, and is on paid leave during the investigation
A lot of sheriffs are now standing up and saying, ‘Follow the Constitution’, but their actual powers to defy federal law are limited
Steps include requiring federal agencies to make more data available for background checks
Owners of an estimated 1 million previously legal semiautomatic rifles will be allowed to keep their weapons but will have a year to register them with police
The New York Police Department believes the so-called “bait bottles” could help investigators track stolen drugs and locate suspects
Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who once strongly backed it, said the city wants to put the brakes on it because of costs
A $50M plan would fund hundreds of officers in public schools to reduce gun violence
The justices appeared to struggle with whether the dissipation of alcohol in the blood over time is reason enough for police to call for a blood test without first getting a warrant
The department is replacing roughly 80 officers with new graduates and military veterans
The New Jersey Civil Service Commission gave its approval to lay off the entire 270-member force by April 30
Critics have called that an invasion of privacy. Some say it could endanger permit holders.
Measures on gay rights and child safety are among the top state laws taking effect at the start of 2013
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