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Law Enforcement Tech Guide: How to Plan, Purchase and Manage Technology (Successfully!): A Guide for Executives, Managers and Technologists
      "[S]trategies, best practices, recommendations and ideas for successful IT planning and implementation" (p. 3) are provided.
    Third Status Report to the Attorney General on Body Armor Safety Initiative Testing and Activities
      Findings from a ballistic and mechanical properties test of 103 used Zylon-containing body armor are presented.
    Sheriff's Guide to Effective Jail Operations
      "This guide provides an overview of the sheriff's roles and responsibilities with regard to the jail along with basic information on critical aspec
    Law Enforcement Tech Guide for Creating Performance Measures That Work: A Guide for Executives and Managers
      "This Tech Guide is designed to introduce the role of performance measurement ...
    Planning and Assessing: A Law Enforcement Reentry Strategy
      Components laying the foundation of a reentry initiative, developing the initiative, implementing the plan, and making it stick are explained.
    Practical Implications of Current Domestic Violence Research: For Law Enforcement, Prosecutors and Judges
      This report covers research related to domestic violence.
    Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses: Tailoring Law Enforcement Initiatives to Individual Jurisdictions
      While this guide is written for police departments, sheriff’s offices should find it helpful for developing approaches to interacting with mentally
    The Impact of Shift Length in Policing on Performance, Health, Quality of Life, Sleep, Fatigue, and Extra-Duty Employment
      “Because there are significant policy implications associated with compressed workweeks in law enforcement, there is a great need for an examinatio
    The Shift Length Experiment: What We Know about 8-, 10-, and 12-hour Shifts in Policing
      While this research focused on policing, the results are applicable to correctional settings.
    IACP Center for Social Media
      “The goal of the [Center for Social Media] initiative is to build the capacity of law enforcement to use social media to prevent and solve crimes,


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