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
Small-Scale Special Event Preparedness
This is a stand-alone document intended to explore the primary issues surrounding the planning for small-scale special events and other public gatherings. Examples of these…
EXPIRED Recommending the Full Compliance to the Hate Crime Reporting Act
WHEREAS, on April 23, 1990, the President signed into law the Hate Crime Statistics Act hereafter referred to as the Act, which directs the Attorney…
EXPIRED Use of Stimulus Package Funds to Support Drug Task Forces
Use of Stimulus Package Funds to Support Drug Task Forces Submitted by: Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Committee NDD.009.a09 WHEREAS, the United States Economic Stimulus Act…
EXPIRED Police Officers at Highway Construction Sites
WHEREAS, for some years now, uniformed law enforcement officers in marked police vehicles have been used at construction highway sites; and WHEREAS, the use of…
