The Division of State and Provincial Police, Division of State Associations of Chiefs of Police, and Midsize Agencies Division will hold their joint midyear meeting in Arlington, VA. This meeting provides an opportunity to discuss critical issues facing the law enforcement community, identify best practices, and enhance relationships with your colleagues. Conference Highlights Substantive meetings with facilitated discussions Excellent speaker...

Equipping officers with smartphones can increase situational awareness, improve efficiency, and enhance community engagement. The result is a connected officer, who can access mission-critical data regardless of assignment or proximity to a patrol car. Pinellas Park PD has integrated smartphones into a wide range of departmental operations, all with minimal impact on the agency’s budget. Captain Adam Geissenberger will provide insight to...

Please join us on Wednesday, 8 March, at 12:00 PM EST, for a fireside chat with Dr. James A. Helis, USA, Ret., Director of the Army Resilience Directorate, and Chaplain (MG) Thomas L. Solhjem, 25th Chief of Chaplains. They will address how the Army is equipping Commanders and leaders with prevention resources to mitigate and reduce harmful behaviors that lead to suicide; discuss the role of spiritual readiness as a protective factor in the pre...

The 2023 OSW Symposium will be held March 3-5 in Anaheim, California. Improving officer safety and wellness enhances the health and effectiveness of officers, as well as the safety of the community. This symposium is for law enforcement professionals to learn from experts in the field about resources and best practices when developing comprehensive officer safety and wellness strategies. Participants will learn about building resilience, finan...

In this training course, Michael Bourke, Ph.D., PLLC, combines findings from recent research with insights gleaned from his years as a treatment provider and polygraph examiner for the federal prison system and from the more than 13 years he spent as head of the United States Marshals Service’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. After completing this course, participants will more completely understand what motivates sexual violence, the etiology...

Salesforce and Accenture partnered up for this Dreamforce session on behavioral health. Attendees learned about Michigan Crisis Access Line during this roundtable session with Jon Villasudra, State Assistant Administrator, BHDDA, MDHHS, and Krista Hausermann, Strategic Initiative Specialist, LMSW, CAADC. View this on-demand roundtable session that covers the following discussion topics: MiCAL Integration with 911 and 211 Bed availability Servi...

In public safety, every second counts. Not just a paramedic unit arriving on the scene for a heart attack or for COVID. How about law enforcement showing up on scene to a fight to find 20 people in a clash? Would it be beneficial for the fire department, to respond to an alarm for a big box store, to have size up before arriving, so additional alarms could be called before arriving on the scene? The Drone as a First Responder program also know...

Jail correctional officers, prison staff, and juvenile staff work inside facilities where operations are governed by policies and procedures. All staff, both sworn and non-sworn, must keep a step ahead of the inmates and their con-games and schemes. Inmates will attempt to circumvent corrections staff authority and create cracks in the security network. While officers and staff may think that all is well and operations are running smoothly, in...

At Splunk we turn your criminal investigation data into law enforcement action. The sheer amount and breadth of data common to a modern investigation can be overwhelming, especially if the analysis of that data is across different tools or is a manual exercise. Splunk provides a centralized platform to correlate data, perform advanced analytics to various data sources and apply built-in AI to quickly identify unusual behaviors or anomalies. In...

Fatigue is a recognized contributor to increased accidents, injuries, and a variety of health conditions. In 2007 the International Association of Fire Chiefs published a report on the impact of fatigue. The report recommended that fire departments develop management plans to mitigate these risks. Recent research indicates that, over a decade later, fatigue is still having a significant impact on firefighters working both 24- and 48-hour shift...