Leadership
Law enforcement leaders must continually adapt to the needs of the community and evolve to incorporate the best practices available. Few agencies have sufficient means to accomplish this using only internal resources, and those that can still have a need to connect with stakeholders in the law enforcement profession to validate their practices. The IACP strives to develop police leaders at all levels of an organization through several different resources. Leadership development remains at the center of the IACP’s professional growth and development agenda.
Women's Leadership Institute (WLI)
The Women’s Leadership Institute (WLI) is a one-week leadership training program for women leaders and those developing women leaders.
Leadership in Police Organizations (LPO)
Leadership in Police Organizations (LPO) is the IACP’s flagship leadership development training program. LPO is modeled after the training concept of dispersed leadership (“every officer…
Policy Center Resources
See AllInvestigation of Allegations of Employee Misconduct
Law enforcement employees should take a professional, victim-centered approach to sexual assaults and to proactively investigate these crimes and prosecute the perpetrator in a manner...
Harassment and Discrimination
In a time where the costs of liability insurance continue to rise driving many towns to self-insure or join insurance pools, law enforcement executives have...
Line-of-Duty Death
Law enforcement agencies are better able to respond to line-of-duty deaths in a prompt, organized manner and remain sensitive to the profound human emotions survivors...
Policy Center Resource
Standards of Conduct
Law enforcement officers must accept and abide by a high ethical and moral standard that is consistent with the rule of law they are sworn...
Resources
The Public Image of Police: Final Report to the IACP by the George Mason University Administration of Justice Program
The International Association of Chiefs of Police engaged the Administration of Justice Program at George Mason University to conduct a review of existing knowledge of…
Policing Code of Ethics
The IACP adopted the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics at the 64th Annual IACP Conference and Exposition in October 1957, and updated it in 2024…
2016 IACP Annual Report
The 2016 IACP Annual Report outlines how the IACP helped those in the law enforcement field connect, participate, learn, advocate, and succeed in 2016.
2015 IACP Annual Report
The 2015 IACP Annual Report provides a snapshot of how IACP’s advocacy, education, outreach, and programmatic efforts identified innovative solutions and served the law enforcement…
