This three-part roll-call training video provides law enforcement and their partners with information so that they can effectively identify and respond to human trafficking crimes.

• A Guide to Reducing Crime and Disorder Through Problem-Solving Partnerships
• Addressing Foreclosed and Abandoned Properties
• Advancing Community Policing Through Community Governance: A Framework Document
• Bridging the Language Divide: Promising Practices for Law Enforcement
• Collaboration Toolkit: How to Build, Fix, and Sustain Productive Partnerships
• Community Justice In Rural America-Four Examples and Four Futures
• Defining the Problem: Using Data to Plan an Community Justice Program
• Gotcha Moments
• A Guide to Results-Oriented Government and Performance Measurement
• Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses
• Innovations in Police Recruitment and Hiring
• Making Every Encounter Count: Building Trust and Confidence in the Police
• Media Relations and Police Budgeting: A successful equation
• Mediating Citizen Complaints Against Police Officers: A Guide For Police and Community Leaders
• Model Policy on Volunteers
• Partnering With Businesses To Address Public Safety Problems
• Rethinking Law Enforcement Strategies to Present Domestic Violence
• Surveying Communities-A Resource for Community Justice Planners
• Victim Services in Rural Law Enforcement
• Vital Partners-Mayors and Police Chiefs Working Together for America's Children and Youth
• Volunteer Programs

• Achieving Better Results with Limited Resources
• How to Collect and Analyze Data: A Manual for Sheriffs and Jail Administrators
• Improving Services at Small and Medium-Sized Police Agencies During a Recession
• Jail Information Model
• Law Enforcement Tech Guide for Small and Rural Police Agencies
• Policing on American Indian Reservations
• Protecting Civil Rights: A Leadership Guide for State, Local and Tribal Law Enforcement
• Spotlight on Sheriffs
• Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts
• Watch Out, Help Out Your Community: Neighborhood Watch Resources for Native American Communities

Offender Reentry

In 2006, the IACP joined forces with BJA to examine the potential for intensified law enforcement involvement in offender reentry efforts. The hope was to reduce recidivism, disorder and victimization through increased law enforcement participation in offender reentry programs. The following products were launched between 2006 and 2009 to assist law enforcement in their offender reentry efforts:

• Video DVD highlighting a leading law enforcement-centric reentry program.
• Resource guide highlighting law enforcement reentry leading practices.
• Training curriculum to assist law enforcement agencies in creating and/or expanding their reentry efforts

Over the past two decades, law enforcement officers and their communities have faced rising rates of school violence incidents. It has touched communities of all sizes, demographics and geographic areas of the country such as Parkland, Florida, Santa Fe, Texas, Cleveland, Ohio, Red Lake, Minnesota, Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and Santee, California. The possibility of school shootings has become an important issue for urban, rural, and suburban communities alike. Law enforcement agencies have sought to prepare for, and respond to, such incidents and, even more importantly, incorporate prevention, threat assessment and early intervention in school safety planning. The IACP has produced a number of training, tools, and resources to help law enforcement and community stakeholders to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from, incidents of school violence. In addition, IACP’s Collaborative Reform Initiative Technical Assistance Center (CRI-TAC) offers no cost, customized solutions to law enforcement agencies throughout the United States on a variety of topic areas, including school safety.

IACP Resources on Prevention and Response to School Violence

Below, in order of most recent to oldest publication date, is a list of training, tools, and resources produced by the IACP and available by link or download.

The IACP Project Safe Neighborhoods National Training and Technical Assistance Initiative (PSN), with support from the Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), works to improve law enforcement’s capacity to interdict firearms trafficking and disrupt gang activity. To achieve that goal the IACP works with agencies to: 1) develop and implement comprehensive, community based enforcement and intervention and prevention strategies aimed at the trafficking and criminal use of firearms and gang activity; 2) develop and implement policies utilizing existing intelligence and investigative resources; and 3) turn the knowledge gained into actionable intelligence. In collaboration with state, local, federal, and tribal partners the IACP provides no-cost training, regional technical assistance, and resources to improve law enforcement’s gun/gang violence reduction and prosecution efforts.

The IACP works in collaboration with DOJ, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, and PSN national partners to provide multi-disciplinary training programs to fit any jurisdiction’s need.

National partners engaged in the PSN initiative include:

• American Probation and Parole Association
• Michigan State University
• National Crime Prevention Council
• National District Attorneys Association
• National Gang Center
• Regional Information Sharing Systems

The core of IACP PSN Initiative training consists of a four hour training block featuring Identifying an Armed Person and/or Detecting Hidden Compartments. Additionally, national and federal partners provide two hour firearms identification, eTrace/firearms tracing, firearms law, and federal firearms case preparation training blocks.

Course Descriptions

Identifying an Armed Person: Law enforcement will walk away with tips on making observations of an individual’s bodily movement, clothing behaviors, crime gun recovery, keen observations during traffic stops, report writing and testimony for successful prosecution. This program is specifically designed for uniformed police officers/agents. This course includes detailed instruction on identifying persons who carry concealed firearms, legal issues regarding stop and frisk, and articulating probable cause for searches. It will also address how participants, between ATF, state, and local police departments can impact gun violence on our streets.

Detecting Hidden Compartments: Organized crime and drug trafficking organizations routinely use vehicles equipped with large natural voids and aftermarket constructed hidden compartments. These compartments are used to traffic guns, drugs, bulk U.S. Currency, and explosive devices. This training will assist law enforcement, specifically the officer on patrol, with conducting vehicle searches. This course includes an overview of the search sequence, tools needed, accessing the compartments, and safety concerns. The ability to detect these hidden compartments will greatly increase the success of law enforcement and its ability to combat the criminal element traveling our highways.

The IACP provides logistical support through marketing, site selection, registration, program development, course evaluation, and establishing collaborative partners (federal, state, local, and tribal).

• PSN Podcast - Center for Evidence Based Crime (12Mb MP4)
• PSN Podcast - Illegal and Straw Purchases (13Mb MP4)
• PSN Podcast - Maryland Gun Center (10Mb MP4)
• PSN Webinar - Research Partners
• PSN Fact Sheet eTrace
• PSN Fact Sheet Firearms in the Home
• PSN Fact Sheet Firearms Violence
• PSN Fact Sheet NIBIN
• PSN Policy Brief Witness Intimidation
• PSN Resource Brief Police Corrections Partnerships

Contact Information
For more information on the IACP PSN Initiative, email [email protected].

To request DOJ BJA Project Safe Neighborhoods training or technical assistance, click here.
To locate your local United States Attorneys Office, click here.

Resolutions in PDF:

• 2018
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A number of Model Policies from the IACPs Policy Center address or are related to ethical conduct.

These policies are summarized and linked below. Please note access to model policy links is an IACP members only benefit.

Arrests and Investigatory Stops

The purpose of this policy is to define the limitations of authority and acceptable conduct and practices of officers when making police business contacts with citizens.

Note: Members only access Arrests and Investigatory Contacts Model Policy

Early Identification System

This policy is intended to assist police supervisors and managers in identifying officers and other employees whose performance warrants review and, where appropriate, intervention in circumstances that may have negative consequences for the employee, fellow employees, this agency, and/or the general public.

 Note: Members only access Early Identification System Model Policy

Grievance Procedures

The purpose of this policy is to provide a procedure whereby employees may resolve certain disputes or complaints concerning their employment.

 Note: Members only access Grievance Procedures Model Policy

Inspections

The purpose of this policy is to establish procedures for conducting inspections of the departments administrative functions, facilities, property, equipment, operations, and personnel.  

Note: Members only access Inspections Model Policy

Investigations of Allegations of Employee Misconduct

The purpose of this policy is to inform all employees and the public of procedures for accepting, processing and investigating complaints concerning allegations of employee misconduct. This policy defines provisions applicable only to investigation and disposition of allegations of administrative misconduct.

 Note: Members only access Investigations of Allegations of Employee Misconduct Model Policy

Investigations of Officer-Involved Shootings and Other Serious Incidents

It is the purpose of this policy to provide guidelines for the investigation of officer-involved shootings. The policy also provides guidance for investigation of in-custody deaths and other serious uses of force.

Note: Members only access Investigations of Officer-Involved Shootings and Other Serious Incidents Model Policy

Related Page: IACP Center for Officer Safety and Wellness

Personal Relationships in the Workplace

This paper examines such personal relationships, their effects upon a department, and the legal issues they raise, so that managers may better understand the challenges presented and the approaches that may be taken.

Note: This is a discussion paper and not a model policy. Members only access Personal Relationships in the Workplace Paper 

Post-Shooting Personnel Support

The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines that shall be uniformly applied following any officer-involved shooting incident, in order to minimize the chance that officers will suffer from the negative emotional and psychological reactions that can occur after the use of deadly force in an on- or off-duty confrontation. This policy is designed to address the needs of the officer who discharged his or her firearm.

Note: Members only access Post-Shooting Personnel Support Model Policy

Reporting Use of Force

The purpose of this policy is to provide officers and supervisors with guidelines for reporting use of force.

Note: Members only access Reporting Use of Force Model Policy

Retaliatory Conduct by Employees

The purpose of this policy is to complement departmental integrity and avoid hostile treatment of fellow employees by requiring the mandatory reporting of serious infractions of departmental policy, procedure, or rules and by prohibiting retaliatory conduct or action against employees who make such reports.

Note: Members only access Retaliatory Conduct by Employees Model Policy

Standards of Conduct

The purpose of this policy is to provide additional specificity to the standards of conduct embodied in the law enforcement officers code of ethics and this agency's statement of values so that officers of this agency ill better understand prohibitions and limitations pertaining to their conduct and activities while on and off duty.

Note: Members only access Standards of Conduct Model Policy

Reports

• Protecting Civil Rights: A Leadership Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement
• Police Leadership in the 21st Century (May 1999)
• Police Accountability and Citizen Review (June 2000)
• The Public Image of the Police
• IACP Ethics Training Survey
• A Best Practice Guide for Internal Affairs: Strategy for Smaller Departments (includes a Professional Standards Checklist covering the process for receiving a complaint of misconduct.
• Building Trust Between the Police and the Citizens They Serve: An Internal Affairs Promising Practices Guide for Local Law Enforcement
• Standards and Guidelines for Internal Affairs (COPS Office)
• How Police Supervisory Styles Influences Patrol Officers Behavior (NIJ)

Articles

Drug Related Police Corruption:

• Ethical Issues in the Use of Confidential Informants for Narcotics Operations, ( May 2016)

Noble Cause Corruption:

• Unconstitutional Policing: The Ethical Challenges in Dealing with Noble Cause Corruption, (October 2006)
• Dodging the Pitfalls of Noble Cause Corruption and the Intelligence Unit, (October 2009)
• Updating Ethics Training—Policing Privacy Series: Noble Cause Corruption and Police Discretion, (March 2011)

Lying, Untruthful Employee:

• Police Officer Truthfulness and the Brady Decision, (October 2003)
• Disclosing Officer Untruthfulness to the Defense: Is a Liars Squad Coming to Your Town, (November 2005)
• The Untruthful Employee: Is Termination the Only Response, (August 2010)
• Ethical Defensibility: Should an Officer’s ‘Willingness to Deceive’; Result in Automatic Certification Revocation, (February 2014)

Policing Privacy:

• Updating Ethics Training-Policing Privacy Series: Taking Race out of the Perception Equation, (January 2011)
• Updating Ethics Training-Policing Privacy Series: Respecting Society’s Evolving Privacy Expectations, (February 2011)
• Updating Ethics Training-Policing Privacy Series: Noble Cause Corruption and Police Discretion,” (March 2011)
• Updating Ethics Training-Policing Privacy Series: Managing Risk by Reducing Internal Litigation, May 2016)
• Ethics Training for Police, (November 2006)

Preventing Ethical Transgressions:

• How Police Supervisory Styles Influences Patrol Officers Behavior, (ND)
• Ethical Issues in the Use of Confidential Informants for Narcotic Operations, (June 2007)
• Doing the Right Thing: Contributing to the Advancement of the Police Profession, (December 2015)
• How to Encourage Reporting of Professional Misconduct, (December 2015)
• Mistakes, Reasonable Mistakes and Unforgiveable Mistakes: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Ruling in Heien v. North Carolina, (December 2015)
• Turning ‘Us Against Then’ into We’re In This Together, (December 2015)
• Unjust Arrest: Means of Police Harassment, (September 2015)

Unconstitutional Policing:

• Ethical Defensibility: Using the Intelligence Led Policing Template to Avoid the Appearance of Unconstitutional Policing, (December 2013)
• Unconstitutional Policing, Part 1: Redefining the Police Ethics Paradigm, (September 2015).
• Unconstitutional Policing: Part 2: Minimizing Liability Strategies That Start and End at the Top, (October 2015)
• Unconstitutional Policing, Part 3 – A Failure to Train Is Compensable Liability, (November 2015)
• Ethical Defensibility: Minimize Liability by Clarifying Conflicting Police Values, (January 2014)
• Minimizing Risk by Defining Off-Duty Police Misconduct, (June 2007)

Measuring Professionalism:

• Measuring Professionalism of Police Officers, (August 2006)
• The Professionalization of Policing in the UK: A Vital Opportunity to Improve Ethical Standards, (December 2015)
• Ethics and Professionalism: No Lying, Cheating, or Stealing, (November 2012)
• Leadership Integrity: How to Get It, How to Keep It, and Why It Matters, (January, 2015)
• Leadership and Management: Fraternal Twins in Law Enforcement, (April 2016)