The first 100 seats were given, at IACP's 107th Annual Conference, to the Chicago police department. Not a single child should ever be injured or killed because they weren't properly buckled and boosted in a car or truck. Tragically, the majority of whom were improperly or completely unrestrained. As the name suggests, a booster seat boosts a child up so that the car's lap and shoulder belts fit properly. When placed in a poorly fitting adult lap and shoulder belt without a booster, the lap portion of the belt can rise over the child's abdomen and the shoulder portion of the belt can cut across the neck and face causing serious internal injuries in a crash.
Children can also slip out of the belt altogether and be ejected in a crash.
The International Association of Chiefs of Police is the world's oldest and largest nonprofit membership organization of police executives, with over 17,000 members in more than 100 different countries. IACP's leadership consists of the operating chief executives of international, federal, state and local agencies of all sizes.