Officer-Involved Shootings Investigative Protocols: A Guide for Law Enforcement Leaders
Officer-involved shootings (OIS), though relatively rare when compared to the number of interactions law enforcement officers have with the public each day, tend to be high profile events that draw media coverage and sometimes citizen concern.
It is essential for police departments to demonstrate accountability to the community through an impartial, transparent, and systematic investigative process. Systematic investigations of officer-involved shootings may uncover deficiencies that lead to necessary changes in policy and training, and avert civil lawsuits. Officers need to understand the routine processes of OIS investigations so that they won’t feel singled out and unfairly scrutinized.
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Minority Recruitment: Mobilizing the Community for Minority Recruitment and Selection
This document introduces the Police Recruitment and Placement—Community Collaboration Model and discusses its application in Hartford, Connecticut. This model seeks to position a police agency and its parent government to mobilize the community to help increase the number of minorities who apply for police positions, and successfully complete the selection process. The minority recruitment model is fully replicable in cities across the U.S. and has the potential to help any size or type of police agency diversify its workforce.
2. Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Victims: Implementation Guide
Click here for the new Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Victims Strategy Second Edition!
The Implementation Guide consists of four instructive sections, which outline the steps to implement the strategy.
Click on the links below to go to a specific section in the Implementation Guide:
How to Get the Most Out of this Guide
- I. Starting
- II. Charting
- III. Implementing
- IV. Sustaining and Expanding
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Officer Suicide Prevention and Awareness Poster
The Officer Suicide Prevention and Awareness poster, funded by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, raises awareness and provides resources to prevent officer suicides. The poster is designed for law enforcement officers to remind them that suicide is preventable. Included on the poster is an awareness message along with potential warning signs and two hotlines numbers provided as a call to action. These posters can be hung up in break rooms, locker rooms, and roll call and training rooms as a reminder to all law enforcement officers that suicide is preventable.
Toolkit: Child Sex Trafficking: A Training Series for Frontline Officers
The IACP, the FBI and the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, developed a training series to educate frontline officers on how to recognize and respond to victims of child sex trafficking. The videos are centered on the premise of:
RECOGNIZE RETHINK RESPOND
Recognize the indicators / Rethink the situation / Respond appropriately and refer for investigation
The toolkit contains a series of training videos to be utilized for training within law enforcement agencies across the country:
- Introduction (2:54)
- Traffic Stop (12:05)
- DV Call (12:10)
- School (10:32)
- Hotel (11:49)
- Hospital (11:46)
- Street Patrol (10:25)
This series of training videos depict sworn law enforcement officers demonstrating alternative responses to different types of scenarios involving child sex trafficking. In addition to the training videos, the toolkit includes:
- Pre-training Instructions for Supervisors
- Discussion Guide
- Tip Card
- Fact Sheet
- Indicators
- Glossary of Terms
- Pull-out 11 x 17 Poster with fillable field for local point of contact for referrals
To request the toolkit Child Sex Trafficking: A Training Series for Frontline Officers, please click here and complete the information requested.
To download the videos and electronic version of the toolkit, access Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal, (LEEP) (formerly known as Law Enforcement online or LEO.gov). Under Services, select Special Interest Group and request access to CACU (Child Prostitution – Innocence Lost). Make sure to indicate that you work child sex trafficking. Once in the CACU Special Interest Group, click the Resource Tab to find the PDF version of Sex Trafficking of Juveniles: An Investigative Guide for Law Enforcement.
