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More IACP 2025 From the Show Floor

Watch expanded coverage of IACP 2025 as the POLICE Magazine team walks the aisles at the expo and shares what we found interesting on display for chiefs from across the country and around the world this week in Denver, Colorado.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 19, 2009

Campus Safety Magazine Hosts Security Conference

Campus Safety Magazine, a sister publication of Police Magazine, will host a security conference from April 27-28 in Tampa, Fla., to educate law enforcement officers and others.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 16, 2009

Missing Somali-American Men Found On Facebook

The FBI investigation is looking into two key questions: Where are the missing men now? And how were they radicalized and recruited inside the Unites States? Facebook could help find the answers.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 12, 2009

Boston Police to Alert Public with Twitter Dispatches

One goal is to interact in real time with the public during festivals and large-scale events about bottlenecks, closed roads, and crowd-related problems. For example, officers could warn their Twitter followers about an intersection to avoid because of an accident.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 6, 2009

Obama Meets Ohio Police Recruits Hired Due to Stimulus Package

Today Columbus (Ohio) PD recruits, whose jobs have been saved by the massive $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Congress passed last month, will have the opportunity to thank President Barack Obama face to face as they finally join the force.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 5, 2009

Massachusetts Cities Cutting Back on Police Operations

Deep budget cuts are forcing urban police departments to wipe out gang units, trim detectives from investigation teams, pull back on community outreach, and eliminate specialized patrols, as cities pare back to the most basic form of police work: putting uniformed officers in cruisers for patrol and 911 response.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 24, 2009

L.A. County Jails Might Close, Sheriff Warns

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on Monday threatened to close the Men's Central Jail and perhaps a second detention facility when he and other county department heads are forced to cut their budgets.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 2, 2009

Grants Expert Kurt Bradley to Speak at the Campus Safety Conference April 26-28

At the Campus Safety Conference, April 26-28 in Tampa, Fla., Kurt Bradley, director for CHIEF Grants, a division of CHIEF Corp., will present two information-packed courses on effective grant application writing. During these two specialized sessions (one for K-12 campus officials, and one for colleges and universities), Bradley, who is a certified grants consultant, will teach attendees how to write grant applications that get results.

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Articlesby Dean ScovilleFebruary 1, 2009

Five Ways the Economy Will Change Your Job

For those in law enforcement, the question becomes one of: How does all of this economic gloom affect me? To address this question, POLICE decided to look at five of the biggest economic threats facing law enforcement.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 29, 2009

Arkansas Police Chief Killed in Ice Storm Accident

Trumann Police Chief Larry Blagg, 39, was remembered Wednesday as a family man who went well beyond his duty, dying to protect people in the Poinsett County town. Blagg, a 17-year veteran of the department, was killed Tuesday night when a piece of a tree limb struck him on West Main Street.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 24, 2009

Flint, Mich., Police Chief Faces U.S. Fraud Charge

Chief David Dicks was indicted Wednesday on a charge of fraudulently receiving more than $1,000 from an organization that gets federal money. Dicks is accused of receiving nearly $47,000 through a no-show job at a security company run by his father.

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