Police Products Articles

• Why we created First Responder Wellness Week

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  Lexipol created First Responder Wellness Week to support, raise awareness and promote strong self-care among public safety workers

• Wash. LEOs, families benefit from new health and wellness app

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  A grant allowed the Cordico wellness app to be available to officers, deputies, corrections officers and dispatchers

• How digital field notes can help officers de-escalate situations

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  Record management systems can support de-escalation tactics and provide agencies with analytics to maximize the use of technology in their investigations

• Dr. Dewey Cornell on how school-based threat assessment improves school safety

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  "Prevention has to start before the gunman arrives. We need to pay a lot more attention to those people before they come to school with a gun."

• Webinar: Plate recognition technology: What your LPR System should be doing for you (beyond just reading plates)

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  The power of plate readers

• Webinar: Developing effective strategies to prevent and respond to school shootings

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  How law enforcement and educators can collaborate on improving school safety

• ‘Going out tonight? So are we’: Ohio PD reveals mobile DUI testing unit

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  The mobile testing unit will give more time to patrol officers to answer calls for service

• An untapped opportunity: Using body camera footage in police training

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  Bodycam footage that is properly integrated into your agency’s training program can have a profound impact on officer behavior and organizational culture

• In a school crisis situation, communication that’s always on is essential for an effective response

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  Extend the capabilities of your LMR network to the smartphones, tablets and PCs of potentially every school resource officer, administrator, teacher and other personnel

• How simulation training can lead to better contact outcomes

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  Virtual simulators with de-escalation scenarios where officers must “talk down” a potentially violent suspect can greatly enhance new recruits’ verbal de-escalation skills

• Webinar: Live social media collection and analysis: busting the myths for today's Investigations

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  Busting the myths surrounding live social media collection and analysis

• Why every police department should invite community members to participate in training simulations

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  “This first-hand experience is intended to give the participants information so they can formulate an opinion of law enforcement action based on their own opinion and not the perception or beliefs of others.”

• Digital Edition: Prevention, disruption & response: The strategies communities must deploy to stop school shootings

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  Download this guide to access resources and tactics to improve school safety

• On-demand Webinar: 6 Trends Impacting U.S. Public Safety in 2023

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  Trends that will guide U.S. public safety organizations to success and transformation

• BRINC's Blake Resnick and Don Redmond on evolving drone technology

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  "The community expects us to de-escalate with time and distance. And we have the technology to do that and keep first responders and the community safe."

• How this agency prioritizes officer and suspect safety

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  Brunswick Hills PD relies on this less-lethal tool to stay on the cutting edge of policing

• Ga. PD’s electric motorcycles offer quick patrol response in hard-to-reach places

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  The Duluth PD expanded their use of motorcycles from community policing to on- and off-road patrols

• Boost your agency’s recruitment efforts using these 7 strategies

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  Today’s candidates aren’t looking for the same things they used to

• On-Demand Webinar: The Power of Mobile – How police and fire agencies are funding effective smartphone programs

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  This informative webinar will provide key information on how two public safety agencies (one police and one fire) funded comprehensive smartphone programs that provided issued devices to all personnel.

• TrainingSights offers range of options to represent the sighting system you are trying to emulate

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  The company slogan is “Just be good at your job” and TrainingSights has created the equipment to help firearms instructors make that a reality

• Can new technology mitigate the largest threat to police legitimacy?

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  Automated less-lethal technologies may relieve officers of their most difficult decisions

• Accurately shooting a gun: It's just two things

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  Whether you are shooting a pistol, a rifle, or a shotgun it really is this simple

• City council delays vote on LAPD robot dog to explore capabilities and criticisms

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  Opposition has grown, with many critics pointing to problems the NYPD had with their robot dog

• City council to vote on LAPD robot dog donation despite criticisms

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  The PD says the robot will be limited to SWAT use such as active shooter incidents, barricades and suspicious devices

• How to build and sustain an effective officer wellness program: A Policing Matters Special

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  Learn how the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office built an award-winning holistic officer wellness program

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