News & Announcements
ODU group provides picture of Virginia seat-belt use
April 29, 2013 | Virginia News
While surveys show that about a fifth of the population doesn't buckle in, unbelted fatalities generally represent about half of all vehicle occupant deaths on Virginia roads.U.S. Supreme Court rules Va. can block out-of-state FOIA use
April 29, 2013 | Virginia News
Associated PressWASHINGTON – The Supreme Court says it's legal for Virginia to block out-of-state people from using its Freedom of Information Act to get state documents.
Lynchburg teachers learn what it takes to be a police officer
April 26, 2013 | Virginia News
by Steve Hardy | Lynchburg News & AdvanceIn a training room of the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy, classmates gripped police handguns that shoot lasers instead of bullets as simulated madness unfolded on a screen in front of them.
Roanoke Co. police crunching numbers
April 24, 2013 | Virginia News
Chief Howard Hall has begun implementing a data-driven approach to predicting and preventing crime.USDOJ Releases Updated Protocol to Improve Standards for Responding to Rape and Sexual Assault
April 24, 2013 | National News
Revised SAFE Protocol Reflects New Technologies and Best Practices and Will Improve the Criminal Justice Response to Rape and Sexual AssaultIACP Blog: One Team, One Fight – Vast Improvements in Information Sharing and Cooperation
April 24, 2013 | National News
By Bart R. Johnson, IACP Executive Director.I received an email yesterday from Colonel Tim Alben of the Massachusetts State Police about the Boston bombings. His email to me read, in part:
Stepson held in death of off-duty DC police officer
April 24, 2013 | National News
The suspect in the slaying of an off-duty D.C. police officer in Prince George's County Monday evening turned himself in to police to face murder charges.Applications Being Accepted for FY2013 COPS Hiring Program Grants
April 23, 2013 | National News
The COPS Office is pleased to announce that both the COPS Hiring Program and the COPS Community Policing Development programs are open and accepting applications.Lawmakers want more surveillance on the ground—and in the sky
April 23, 2013 | National News
By Suzanne Choney, Contributing Writer, NBC NewsThe successful — and massive — law enforcement effort to obtain public video to help identify the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing shows the need for more government video surveillance cameras, says one congressman. Perhaps drones, too, says a senator.
Officer wounded in Boston shootout lost all his blood, but survived
April 22, 2013 | National News
VMI alumnus Richard ‘Dic’ Donohue is expected to recover after receiving transfusions.
