INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION of CHIEFS of POLICE
global leadership in policing

In 1987, the IACP entered into a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Assistance to establish the National Law Enforcement Policy Center. The objective of the center is to assist law enforcement agencies in the critical, difficult task of developing and refining law enforcement policy.

Organized under the direction of a broad-based advisory board of recognized law enforcement professionals, the center has carried out its mission through the development of a wide variety of model law enforcement policies. Each model incorporates the research findings, the input of leading subject experts, and the professional judgment of advisory board members who have combined this information with their extensive practical field and management experience. The product is the best contemporary thinking in the field. The policies addressed by the center are selected because they represent some of the most difficult issues facing law enforcement administrators. The policy center develops the models in priority areas, and more than 100 model policies on a variety of topics have been published, including the following:

• Internal Affairs
• Use of Force
• Crime Analysis
• Rapid Response and Deployment
• Early Warning System
• Electronic Control Weapons

To receive model policies as they are published, a subscription program is available that entitles departments to electronic copies of the policies in both PDF and Word formats.

If your department has 49 or fewer sworn officers, please select this subscription.