Resources
IACP's resources are aimed at helping law enforcement executives do their jobs better and cover a variety of topics, including professional development, leadership, management, and supervision, as well as hot topics such as ethics.
Resources
Adolescent Development: Strategies for Youth and Law Enforcement Interactions Webinar
The purpose of this webinar is to discuss adolescent brain development and how it affects youth behavior. The presenter will discuss youth thinking and behavior, strategies to improve police interaction with youth and legal considerations when interviewing or interrogating youth, as well as some resources to improve your interactions and outcomes when dealing with youth.
View this recorded webinar through the IACP Learning Management System. Click here to create an account or login
Youth De-Escalation and Conflict Resolution for School Safety Officers Webinar
This webinar is a crisis intervention tool to help the adult learner improve their fundamental skills and techniques for interacting with youth in schools, particularly youth de-escalation and conflict resolution. Helping students learn to resolve conflicts appropriately provides them with leadership tools to build positive relationships between themselves, other students, and school staff. This webinar will also offer some practical intervention strategies to help build credibility when engaging students who are struggling emotionally, to increase the chances of a positive outcome.
The learning objectives are to:
- Define conflict resolution
- Describe the differences between positive and negative conflict
- Explain the causes of conflict
- Define nonverbal communication
- Illustrate several conflict resolution strategies
- Explain how to engage youth in crisis
- Review the do's and don'ts for school safety personnel
- List some barriers to defusing conflict
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Engaging Youth in Schools: Tips for Law Enforcement Webinar
Description
The Engaging Youth in Schools: Tips for Law Enforcement webinar will provide tips and helpful recommendations for law enforcement agencies to engage and build trust among youth in schools by focusing discussion around the principles 21st century policing.
These principles include:
1. Building Trust & Legitimacy
2. Policy & Oversight
3. Technology & Social Media
4. Community Policing & Crime Reduction
5. Training & Education
6. Officer Wellness & Safety
This webinar is supported by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) School-Justice Partnership Program and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Learning Objectives for Participants:
- Discuss why law enforcement needs to engage youth in schools.
- Understand the importance of top down leadership in youth engagement.
- Define youth engagement and how it can be incorporated into their law enforcement agency.
- Discuss how the principles of 21st century policing relate to effective interactions with youth in schools.
- Identify resources to engage youth in schools.
The information presented during the webinar will impact law enforcement's response to and support of youth in their schools. Additionally, this webinar will encourage agency's to review practices and programs to consider developing comprehensive youth engagement in school strategies.
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Leading by Legacy - Individual Publications
- Assessing Responses to Problems: An Introductory Guide for Police Problem-Solvers
- "Good to Great" Policing: Application of Business Management Principles in the Public Sector
- Lengthening Tenure by Following Proven Principles
- Moments of Truth in Policing
- To Lead to Learn to Leave a Legacy
- Toward a Theory of Spiritual Leadership
- Traits of Leadership
- Understanding Innovation. What Inspires it? What Makes It Successful?
- Understanding the Benefits of Emotional Intelligence for Officer Growth and Agency Budgets
Leading by Legacy - Individual Trainer Resources
- Issues in Personnel Management in Law Enforcement Agencies
- Leadership Climate Survey
- Leadership Climate Scoring Sheet
- Police Discretion and the Use of Force
- Accessing Free Resources for Smaller Police Departments
- Recommended Articles
- Smaller Law Enforcement Agency Resources
- New Executive E-Source
- Blank Action Plan
- Blank Legacy Plan
- Blank Message Box
Leading by Legacy - Organization Publications
- A Promotional Process For The Smaller Police Agency
- Avoiding Failures of Implementation
- Building Trust Between Police and Citizens They Serve
- Creating a Culture of Integrity
- Discover Policing Brochure One
- Discover Policing Brochure Two
- Employing Returning Combat Veterans-Veterans Guide
- Enhancing Police Integrity
- Fair Labor Standards Act Factsheet
- Handling Citizen Complaints
- Law Enforcement Recruitment Toolkit
- Making Meetings Manageable
- Measuring Excellence
- Police-Labor Management Relations
- PTO Manual
- Recruiting & Retaining Women Officers
- Starting a New Police Department
- Strategic Management in Policing
- Succession Planning
- Supervision and Interventions
- SWOT Tactics
- The Role of Organizational Design
Leading by Legacy - Government Organization Resources
- Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Training Database
- BJA Guide to Grants
- Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
- Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Resource Center
- COPS Community Policing Dispatch
- FBI Academy
- FBI Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP)
- Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) Training Catalog
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
- National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Resource Guide
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
- Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)
- Office on Violence Against Women (VAW)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Leading by Legacy - Community Trainer Resources
- After Action Review "Seizing The Chance To Learn"
- Citizen Police Academy Application Sample
- Community Contact Card Sample
- Community Survey Sample
- Durham Police Department Community Survey
- Environmental Surveys Sample
- Future Trends in Policing
- IACP National Policy Summit on Community Police Relations: Advancing a Culture of Cohesion and Community Trust
- Law Enforcement's "Warrior" Problem
- Legitimacy and Procedural Justice: A New Element of Police Leadership
- Police Department Annual Report Sample
- Strategic Plan Sample
- The President's Task Force On 21st Century Policing
- Unleashing the Power of Unconditional Respect
- Who Runs the Streets of New Orleans?
Leading by Legacy - Organization Trainer Resources
- High Liability Emergency Services Unit Policy Sample
- High Liability Workplace Harassment Policy Sample
- High Liability Conduct Policy Sample
- High Liability Domestic Violence Employee Policy
- High Liability Hiring Standards Policy Sample
- High Liability Office of Professional Standards Policy Sample
- High Liability Patrol Policy Sample
- High Liability Police Response to Aggression Resistance Policy Sample
- High Liability Search and Seizure Policy Sample
- High Liability Taking Suspects Into Custody Policy Sample
- High Liability Vehicle Operations Policy Sample
- Internal Affairs - Administrative Investigation Warning Sample Form
- Internal Affairs - Bio Information Sample Form
- Internal Affairs - Case File Order Sample Form
- Internal Affairs - Civilian Complaint Sample Form
- Internal Affairs - Complaint Tracking Sample Form
- Internal Affairs - Inquiry Template Sample Form
- Internal Affairs - Internal Complaints and Procedures Sample Form
- Internal Affairs - Interview Checklist Sample Form
- Internal Affairs - Interview Investigation Protocol Sample Form
- Internal Affairs - Investigators Checklist Sample Form
- Internal Affairs - Sample Memo
- Internal Affairs - Notification of Investigation Sample Form
- Internal Affairs - Pre-Deprivation Memo Sample Form
- Internal Affairs - Summary of Action Sample Form
- Personal History Questionnaire Sample Form
- Strategic Plan-Accident Free Initiative Sample Form
- Sample SWOT Analysis of Staff Services
- Value Based Policing
Leading by Legacy - Private Organization Resources
- Center for Problem-Oriented Policing
- Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA)
- Hispanic American Police Command Officers Association (HAPCOA)
- International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA)
- IADLEST: National POST Portal
- International City/County Management Association (ICMA)
- Major Cities Chief's Association
- National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives (NAWLEE)
- National Crime Prevention Council
- National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA)
- National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF)
- National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE)
- National Sheriff's Association (NSA)
- Police Executive Research Forum (PERF): Online Library
- The Police Foundation
- Southern Police Institute - University of Louisville
Citation in Lieu of Arrest Final Report
Although numerous potential benefits of citation in lieu of arrest have been discussed, there has, until now, been little information about law enforcement’s use of and attitudes toward citation as a law enforcement tool. This report provides current, national data on those issues as well as a
summary of academic literature on the subject to evaluate benefits and challenges potentially associated with citation use, and gaps in that research.
Citation in Lieu of Arrest Literature Review
This literature review was created as part of the IACP's Citation in Lieu of Arrest: Examining Law Enforcement's Use of Citation Across the United States Project, to provide a snapshot of existing literature on the subject of citation in lieu of arrest.
