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  • Law Enforcement Tech Guide: How to Plan, Purchase and Manage Technology (Successfully!): A Guide for Executives, Managers and Technologists

    "[S]trategies, best practices, recommendations and ideas for successful IT planning and implementation" (p. 3) are provided.

  • Third Status Report to the Attorney General on Body Armor Safety Initiative Testing and Activities

    Findings from a ballistic and mechanical properties test of 103 used Zylon-containing body armor are presented.

  • Sheriff's Guide to Effective Jail Operations

    "This guide provides an overview of the sheriff's roles and responsibilities with regard to the jail along with basic information on critical aspec

  • Law Enforcement Tech Guide for Creating Performance Measures That Work: A Guide for Executives and Managers

    "This Tech Guide is designed to introduce the role of performance measurement ...

  • Planning and Assessing: A Law Enforcement Reentry Strategy

    Components laying the foundation of a reentry initiative, developing the initiative, implementing the plan, and making it stick are explained.

  • Practical Implications of Current Domestic Violence Research: For Law Enforcement, Prosecutors and Judges

    This report covers research related to domestic violence.

  • Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses: Tailoring Law Enforcement Initiatives to Individual Jurisdictions

    While this guide is written for police departments, sheriff’s offices should find it helpful for developing approaches to interacting with mentally

  • The Impact of Shift Length in Policing on Performance, Health, Quality of Life, Sleep, Fatigue, and Extra-Duty Employment

    “Because there are significant policy implications associated with compressed workweeks in law enforcement, there is a great need for an examinatio

  • The Shift Length Experiment: What We Know about 8-, 10-, and 12-hour Shifts in Policing

    While this research focused on policing, the results are applicable to correctional settings.

  • IACP Center for Social Media

    “The goal of the [Center for Social Media] initiative is to build the capacity of law enforcement to use social media to prevent and solve crimes,

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