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Section: Procedures & Policies
Technology
Data-Driven Policing: Leveraging Telematics for Optimized Police Fleet Performance
Geotab
With a backbone of fleet data to support your law enforcement operations, protect your officers against dangers and liability, enhance response times and optimize vehicle maintenance. Explore our ebook to learn how to turn rich insights into action and ma
September 1, 2024
Patrol
NYPD Going “Old School” with Uniform, Facial Hair Policy
“It’s absolutely ludicrous that you have an officer with pink hair and nails longer than their fingers,” one Manhattan officer said. “We’re a police department not a hip hop department. Let’s go back to being police officers.”
February 5, 2024
Procedures & Policies
AZ POST Considers Revision to Marijuana Rules for Recruits
“My recommendation for your consideration is we go for a six-month window,” said Matt Giordano, executive director. “We would go to six months of the last use.
January 26, 2024
Command
Time to Change Our Pursuit Policies
Complicated guidelines that require officers to make decisions during the heat of the moment are not working.
January 24, 2024
Point of Law
Baltimore Police Complying with Key Consent Decree Requirements, DOJ Says
If the court grants the motion, BPD must maintain compliance with the provisions for one year before the court can terminate these sections of the consent decree.
January 17, 2024
Procedures & Policies
Study Finds Consent Decrees Onerous, Ineffective, and Often Harmful
The report concludes: “When a consent decree is truly warranted, it must focus on the most urgent concerns. The violations should be clearly identified and fully supported by rigorous evidence."
January 17, 2024
Procedures & Policies
DOJ and Consent Decree Monitor Praise Albuquerque PD for Reforms
Monitors tracking civilian oversight, one of the largest remaining roadblocks in reaching full compliance, called it “a mess” that was being cleaned up, and advocates applauded the work done by the department to come so far, so fast.
January 9, 2024
Procedures & Policies
Portland Loosens Restrictions on Vehicle Pursuits
“We have seen a significant propensity for criminal suspects to elude traffic stops, often driving extremely dangerously despite no officers chasing them,” the Bureau said in a statement.
December 21, 2023
Procedures & Policies
New Seattle Policy to Limit Police Use of Ruses
The new ruse rules seek to set clear standards on how SPD officers can use the tactics going forward, and limits use to five scenarios.
October 31, 2023
Blogs
10 Tips for Starting a New Police Department
Chief David Howard shares what he learned while working to start a new police department in Pembroke Park, FL.
April 26, 2023
Featured
Minneapolis City Council Approves Sweeping Police Reform
Mayor Jacob Frey hailed the agreement, which emerged after staggered and sometimes strained negotiations between the city and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. But he also acknowledged challenges ahead, especially when violent crime flares.
March 31, 2023
Featured
WA Legislators Want to End English Language Requirement for Cops
The bill applies to applicants for the city police agencies, city firefighters, sheriff’s deputies, and fish and wildlife officers.
March 24, 2023
Procedures & Policies
NJ Officers Must Now be Licensed by State
The new law will require all law enforcement officers to hold a valid, active license issued by the Police Training Commission (PTC) in order to be employed as officers in the State of New Jersey.
July 22, 2022
Procedures & Policies
Biden to Order Creation of National Police Discipline Database
In addition to setting new guidelines for federal officers, the executive order aims to offer a template for the broader policing community, asking state and local agencies to embrace the document’s goals.
May 24, 2022
Procedures & Policies
Louisville Restricts Police Chases to Violent Felony Suspects
The new policy, which took effect April 26 according to an internal memo written by Chief Erika Shields, is a rollback to a policy enacted in December 2012 to reduce deaths and injuries caused by the chases.
May 13, 2022
Procedures & Policies
NC Department Focuses on Women in Policing, Recruiting
“The policing profession is historically male dominated. We have to acknowledge that, and we have to do everything in our power so that women feel welcomed from all walks of life and all cultures. Those are intentional conversations we had when we launched 30x30,” says Capt. Gene Lim, part of the CMPD recruiting division.
April 25, 2022
Procedures & Policies
TX State Troopers Face Waistline Mandate
Officers who don't trim down by December can be denied promotions, overtime, or even be removed from enforcement duties completely.
April 19, 2022
Procedures & Policies
Many Chicago Cops Remain Unvaccinated as Mandate Deadline Passes
As the latest deadline for Chicago police officers to get the COVID-19 vaccine came and went Wednesday, up to 681 police employees — or 5.5% of the department — could be refusing to get the vaccine without a valid accommodation in place.
April 14, 2022
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