Policing & Police Law

While the best preparation for police work has traditionally been conducted on the job, classrooms have become a preferred environment for training. This volume partners the experienced law enforcement officer’s “street-smart” perspective of what makes training work with a professional educator’s “b..

Managing More with Less is an innovative book linking a range of core management skills and re-interpreting them to meet current organizational needs. Aimed at managers in flat organizations, this book shows you how to deal with increasingly scarce resources to maintain a high level of productivity...

Drawn from the proceedings at the International Police Executive Symposium in Prague and other IPES projects, this book presents case studies from more than fourteen countries. Presenting the contributions of high-level police executives, practitioners, and academics, it explores community policing ..

This book addresses six areas of policing: performance management, professional and academic partnerships, preventing and fighting crime and terrorism, immigrant and multicultural populations, policing the police, and cyber-security. The book contains the most current and ground-breaking research ac..

Although there are currently a wide variety of software packages suitable for the modern statistician, R has the triple advantage of being comprehensive, widespread, and free. Published in 2008, the second edition of Statistiques avec R enjoyed great success as an R guidebook in the French-speaking ..

The process of controlling criminal investigations is a complex matter, yet it has frequently been minimized in police management publications. This volume details a methodology that is adaptable to any existing record or control system. The second edition features an expanded outline format, more d..

The central theme of this book is about building an effective intelligence management system that enables agencies to gather and manage intelligence effectively and lawfully. The author’s insight from 30 years of experience will help law enforcement professionals determine if what they are doing is ..

Drawn from the work of scholars on the cutting edge of police research, this volume provides concrete recommendations for the fundamental reorganization of the policing institution. The authors present a comprehensive planning regimen for urban problems that encompasses security, urban reinvestment,..

Sales of IEEE 802.11x compliant wireless LANs are literally exploding. Unfortunately the manuals that accompany the equipment do not address topics such as site selection, equipment interoperability with products from different vendors, how to acquire and configure different firewalls, network addre..

Drawn from the work of scholars on the cutting edge of police research, this volume provides concrete recommendations for the fundamental reorganization of the policing institution. The authors present a comprehensive planning regimen for urban problems that encompasses security, urban reinvestment,..

Written in interview style, this book explores the personal experiences of a group of police chiefs who examine their leadership challenges in diverse cities. The chiefs discuss their leadership vision, their difficulties, and their successes. They elucidate their goals for their departments and the..

Police performance appraisal is one of the most important components of law enforcement management—affecting the quality of the services a department delivers as well as the satisfaction of its employees. This volume employs the comparative case study approach to evaluate systems in police departmen..