Associations and Organizations

911 Education Group

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

Airborne Law Enforcement Association

American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators

American Association of Police Polygraphists (AAPP)
AAPP offers annual training and assistance to all polygraph examiners. Membership in the AAPP is limited to law enforcement and government polygraph examiners.

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

American Association of Suicidology

American Correctional Association

American Jail Association

American Polygraph Association-National Office

American Probation and Parole Association

American Prosecutors Research Institute

American Society for Industrial Security

American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers

Americans for Effective Law Enforcement

ASIS International
ASIS International (ASIS) is the largest organization for security professionals, with more than 35,000 members worldwide. Founded in 1955, ASIS is dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and productivity of security professionals by developing educational programs and materials that address broad security interests, such as the ASIS Annual Seminar and Exhibits, as well as specific security topics. ASIS also advocates the role and value of the security management profession to business, the media, governmental entities, and the public.

Association of American Railroads

Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police

Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

Association of Public Safety Communications Officials International

The Borderpol International Association
The Borderpol International Association is a fraternal non profit body dedicated to border security and safety professionals the world over.

Central Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association

Central Station Alarm Association

Center for Problem Oriented Policing
The Center for Problem Oriented Policing is a private nonprofit corporation established to advance the practice of problem-oriented policing. The Center's development is being funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.

Child Development-Community Policing Program

CID Agents Association

Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies

Community Policing Consortium

Consensus Project

Concerns of Police Survivors

Crime Prevention Coalition of America
The Crime Prevention Coalition of America is a nonpartisan group of more than 350 national, state, federal, and community-based organizations united to promote and work toward citizen action to prevent crime. Established in 1980, its members include youth development organizations, municipalities, law enforcement agencies, federal and state government representatives, state crime prevention associations, and community-based groups.

Crime Stoppers International

Criminal Justice Policy Foundation

European Network of Policewomen

False Alarm Reduction Association (FARA).
The False Alarm Reduction Association is an association primarily of persons employed by government and public safety agencies in charge of, or working in, False Alarm Reduction Units. Their goal is to assist these individuals in reducing false alarms for their jurisdiction..

Federal Hispanic Law Enforcement Officers Association

Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association

Gift From Within - An International Organization for Survivors of Trauma and Victimization
Articles pertinent to law enforcement include:
Police Suicide: Understanding Grief & Loss
Confidentiality in Counseling: What Police Officers Need To Know
The Echoes of Violence in The Police Family
Police Officers: Traumatic Spending: A Reaction to Critical Incident Stress

Hispanic American Police Command Officers Association

International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition

International Association for Identification

International Association of Auto Theft Investigators

International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators

International Association of Crime Analysts

International Association of Counterterrorism and Security Professionals

International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training

International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors

International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts

International Association of Professional Security Consultants

International Association of Women Police

International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice

International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC)

International City/County Management Association

International Community Corrections Association

International Conference of Police Chaplains

International Homicide Investigators Association

International Narcotics Interdiction Association

International Personnel Management Association

International Police Association

International Police Mountain Bike Association

International Society of Crime Prevention Practitioners

Interpol: International Criminal Police Organization
Click here to visit Interpol's BioTerrorism page.
Click here to view the Bioterrorism Incident Pre-Planning and Response Guide in PDF.

Jewelers' Security Alliance
JSA is a non-profit trade assocation with over 20,000 members, engaged in crime prevention information and activities for the jewelry industry. We cooperate with thousands of police personnel throughout the U.S.

Law Enforcement and Emergency Services Video Association International

Law Enforcement Thermographers' Association

McGruff Safe Kids

National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators

National Association of Police Organizations

National Association of Property Recovery Investigators

National Association of School Resource Officers

National Association of Town Watch

National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives
The National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives (NAWLEE) is the first organization established to address the unique needs of women holding senior management positions in law enforcement. Our mission is to serve and further the interests of women executives and those who aspire to be executives in law enforcement.

National Center for Children Exposed to Violence (NCCEV)

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

National Center for Rural Law Enforcement
The National Center for Rural Law Enforcement, a division of the Criminal Justice Institute, University of Arkansas System provides many services to law enforcement, and primarily to the rural law enforcement community. One of the services provided to rural law enforcement is no cost Internet access and e-mail. The service is provided at no cost through funding from the United States Department of Justice, and is an 800 dial up service.

National Center for Victims of Crime

National Center for Women and Policing

National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence
The National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence provides training, consulting and advocacy. At the local, state, regional and national levels, the National Center promotes community collaboration as the model approach to problem solving for domestic and sexual violence issues. The National Center collaborates with law enforcement, legal system agencies, advocacy organizations, social service agencies, the military and other community entities to integrate their efforts to end domestic and sexual violence.

National Crime Prevention Council

National Crime Prevention Institute

National District Attorneys Association

National Drug Enforcement Officers Association

National Equipment Register
NER maintains a national database of millions of ownership and theft reports for construction, agricultural and off-road heavy equipment.

National Inhalant Prevention Coalition

National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology, and Science

National Insurance Crime Bureau

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund
The mission of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund is to generate increased public support for the law enforcement profession by permanently recording and appropriately commemorating the service and sacrifice of law enforcement officers; and to provide information that will help promote law enforcement safety.

National Legal & Court Professionals Network

National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives

National Organization of Parents of Murdered Children

National Reserve Law Officers Association

National Retail Federation Loss Prevention

National Sheriffs' Association

National Tactical Officers Association

National Traffic Law Center (NTLC)

Park Law Enforcement Association

Police Executive Research Forum

Police Foundation

The Police Heritage Museum
The Police Heritage Museum, Inc. is a nonprofit organization incorporated and dedicated to the preservation of police artifacts and the history of law enforcement.

Public Safety Executive Association

Responder Knowledge Base (RKB)
The Responder Knowledge Base is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT). Its mission is to provide Emergency Responders, purchasers, and planners with a trusted, integrated, on-line source of information on products, standards, certifications, grants, and other equipment-related information.

School Resource Officers, Parents and Youth

Security Industry Association

Southwestern Law Enforcement Institute

Texas Association of Property / Evidence Techncians (TAPEIT)
T.A.P.E.I.T. offers annual training to personnel who work in the physical evidence arena including managers / supervisors, property / evidence room clerks, scene investigators, criminalists, prosecutors and magistrates. Training covers topics from basic property / evidence room management to inventories and audits and dispositions / disposal of contraband and non-contraband evidence and abandoned property.

U.S. Border Patrol Agents Union

United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network

Western Community Policing INSTITUTE (WCPI)

Western States Auto Theft Investigators Association, Southern Chapter

Wisconsin Association for Identification

WMD First Responders

Women Peace Officers Association of California

Yale Child Study Center's Child Development-Community Policing Program


Federal Government Sites
Judicial Sites
Law Enforcement Agencies by Nation, Region, and State
Research Sites