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Relations with the community are often strained due to incidents of use of force. This document examines the core use of force issues and identifies strategies that can be employed to address these issues and build community trust.

Discover Policing website combines comprehensive information on law enforcement jobs with a full-featured career center where candidates can post resumes and hiring agencies can post vacancies. Discover Policing is the cornerstone of a nationwide initiative to market the benefits of careers in law enforcement to a broad and diverse audience. Through a clear and accurate portrayal of the full… (read more)

The purpose of this document is to present policies and practices to consider when using the Internet to search for information on law enforcement applicants, candidates, and incumbents, and when developing social media policies to limit inappropriate online behaviors. Cybervetting guidelines need to strike the right balance between individuals' constitutional rights and law enforcement agencies… (read more)

The Memphis Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is an innovative police based first responder program that provides law enforcement based crisis intervention training for helping those individuals with mental illness. CIT works in partnership with those in mental health care to provide a system of services that is friendly to the individuals with mental illness, family members, and police officers.… (read more)

This guide focuses on the pivotal role of the Internal Affairs function as one component of an agency-wide professional standards effort in building trust between law enforcement agencies, their staff, and the communities they protect and serve. The guide addresses the Internal Affairs function from complaint processing to decision-making, discipline, notification, and community transparency, as… (read more)

The IACP selected "Building Safer Communities: Improving Police Response to Persons with Mental Illness" as the focus for its May, 2009 National Policy Summit. The goal of the summit was to begin a dialogue resulting in recommendations for local, state, federal, and tribal organizations that will improve the safety of community members and law enforcement officers when responding to crisis calls… (read more)

This document is a complementary piece to Guidance for Building Communities of Trust and was developed to assist community leaders working with law enforcement agencies to facilitate dialogue and discuss ways to work together to prevent crime and terrorism. The strategies discussed here also complement national strategic goals to empower local partners to keep communities safe from threats of… (read more)

The IACP convened three focus groups of community stakeholders, frontline officers, and law enforcement executives to discuss building community trust. They discussed  strategies that have been used successfully to develop communities of trust and identified challenges facing law enforcement and the community. This toolkit collects some of the most successful strategies, promising programs,… (read more)

This guide has been created to promote an understanding of the complexities of sexual offense and misconduct cases involving officers and to encourage the proactive adoption of policy and prevention efforts within law enforcement agencies. Leaders must demonstrate to their officers and their community a consistent, focused effort to identify and eliminate misconduct through the… (read more)

Data helps drive better, more informed decision making. With this in mind, the IACP and IACP Net have joined forces with support from the COPS Office to create the new Law Enforcement Benchmarking and Performance Analytics Portal. The Benchmark Portal allows you to conduct comparative analyses with peer agencies and is free for participating agencies. Law enforcement users can input data on a… (read more)

Cyberbullying is bullying through technology, such as computers and cell phones. Law enforcement officers are increasingly confronted with cyberbullying complaints due to the prevalence of technology used by children and youth, and new legislation and laws addressing these types of incidents. Some cyberbullying incidents may warrant criminal action while others may not. Either way, law… (read more)

The Law Enforcement Cyber Center is an online portal that educates and builds the capacity of justice and public safety agencies to prevent, investigate, prosecute, and respond to cyber threats and cyber crimes. The Center is designed to address three principal areas: cyber crime investigation, digital forensics, and information systems security. There are dedicated resources for chiefs,… (read more)

This webinar addresses how to recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma following a crime of violence. The presenters discuss strategies for conducting thoughtful and effective victim interviews, collaborating with allied professionals to achieve a fully integrated trauma-informed approach, and explain victim behavior at trial. Allied justice system professionals including but not limited to… (read more)

The You Have Options Program focuses on changing two fundamental elements in the law enforcement response to sexual violence: increasing the number of victims who report to law enforcement, and thoroughly investigating identified offenders for serial perpetration. You Have Options Program participating law enforcement agencies recognize the need for a victim-centered and offender-focused response… (read more)

This document is intended to assist Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in understanding the legal framework that serves as the basis for FAA legal enforcement action against UAS operators for unauthorized and/or unsafe UAS operations (Section 1) and to provide guidance regarding the role of LEAs in deterring, detecting, and investigating unauthorized and/or unsafe UAS operations (Section 2).

While the FAA retains the responsibility for enforcing Federal Aviation Regulations, including those applicable to the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), the agency also recognizes that state and local Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) are often in the best position to deter, detect, immediately investigate, and, as appropriate, pursue enforcement actions to stop unauthorized or unsafe UAS… (read more)