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The Watering Hole
The Watering Hole is police slang for a location cops go off-duty to blow off steam and talk about work and
life. Sometimes funny; sometimes serious; but, always interesting.
January Programs
1/16 - Interview with
Dee Dee Serpas, Author of Behind the Badge in the Atchafalaya Swap;
1/23 - Criminal Investigations;
1/30 - Interview with Lisa Lockwood, author of Undercover
Angel.
Visit the Watering Hole |
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Women Police
Writers
Over 30 women police officers have written books - here are links to just
a few!
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Greetings!
Happy New Year! We welcome three new contributors - Richard Allen, Chad Meyer and Jennie Valencia. Also, Greg Ferency returns with Chasing Speed, an in-depth look at methamphetamines.
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Chasing Speed
By Greg Ferency
In the Spring of 1999, couple of my Task Force officers, along with myself,
were sitting in our office writing reports and discussing several cases that we had just made. Suddenly our supervisor walked
in and said "Boys I think we have a meth lab around here somewhere". Wow, did we give him the once over. We called him everything
but a crazy man. We were very familiar with methamphetamine but the concept of a meth lab went completely over our heads.
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Critical Incident Response & Disaster Recovery Assistance 
The Critical Incident Response & Disaster Recovery Assistance database
is an asset inventory and resource management system designed to function as a universal "rolodex" for categorizing, indexing,
locating, tracking, and sharing critical resources during emergency preparedness, readiness, response, and recovery activities.
Coordinated by the Border Research
and Technology Center in Austin, Texas, CIRDRA is available free of charge for public safety and emergency management
agencies. The goal of this project is to assist local agencies in inventorying their assets according to the requirements
of the National Incident Management System.
To obtain a copy of the CIRDRA software,
visit www.cirdra.com.
For more information on this
project, contact Fred Davis of BRTC at 512-513-0049 or fdavis@txsheriffs.org. |
The London
Tube Shooting of John Charles de Menezes
By Richard Allen
A great deal has appeared
in the British press regarding the very tragic death of the Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, on the 22nd July 2005, particularly
as a result of the successful prosecution at the end of 2007 of the police at Scotland Yard under Health and Safety legislation
and the publication of the British Independent Police Complaints Commission's report.
No doubt, issues of H&S and the work of the Commission will now figure to a much greater extent in future British crime
thrillers.
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 Commercial Sexual Exploitation
of Children: What Do We Know and What Do We Do About It?
It is estimated that 10 to15 percent of children living on the streets in the United States are trafficked
for sexual purposes. Little reliable data exists regarding commercial sexual exploitation of children. The limited data we
have shows that it occurs in several ways: At least half occurs at a local level exploitation of one child by one or several
adults; twenty-five percent occurs through citywide or small regional networks; fifteen percent occurs through well-financed,
large regional or national networks with adults recruiting, indoctrinating, and moving children; and, ten percent is international
trafficking children for the pornography or sex tourism industries.
This report looks at the current state of the research regarding the roles of
people who are engaged in commercial sexual exploitation of children. It also discusses prevention, interdiction, and prosecution
programs aimed at this crime.
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Defining
Terrorism: A Difference of Opinion
By Chad Meyer
In order to successfully combat terrorism around the world, there
must be a universal method of identifying potential terrorists or terrorist organizations.
In order to accomplish this task, nations must come to an agreement on an objective definition of the word terrorism. Unfortunately, many nations around the world define terrorism differently. The lack of a common definition of terrorism may allow one nation to identify an organization as terrorist
group, while another nation identifies the same organization as a legitimate group. This is often referred to as, "one man's
terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."
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Guidelines on Cell
Phone Forensics
In May 2007 the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) published its Guidelines on Cell Phone Forensics. This guide provides basic information on the preservation, acquisition,
examination, analysis, and reporting of digital evidence on cell phones, relevant to law enforcement, incident response, and
other types of investigations. The publication is intended to address common circumstances that may be encountered by organizational
security staff and law enforcement investigators, involving digital electronic data residing on cell phones and associated
electronic media.
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Incident Mapping and
Analysis Program Courses
Four to five times a year, NLECTC-Southeast offers introductory
ArcGIS classes for law enforcement and corrections personnel. Introduction to ArcGIS I and Introduction to ArcGIS II are offered
free of charge and are geared toward personnel with little or no mapping experience. These courses are an excellent precursor
for the Crime Mapping and Analysis Program courses offered by NLECTC-Rocky Mountain. NLECTC-Southeast schedules IMAP classes
as interest dictates and classes may be held in either North Charleston, South Carolina, or in the Center's mobile computer
laboratory.
If you are interested in the IMAP schedule for 2008, please contact Ed Hoskins
at NLECTC-Southeast at nlectc-se@nlectc-se.org
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Project LOCATER
LOCATER, a Web-based program offered by the National Center
for Missing & Exploited Children, enhances law enforcement's ability to recover missing children by providing them with the
tools to rapidly disseminate images and information locally, statewide, or nationwide. LOCATER is available to any law enforcement
agency free of charge; however, for many agencies the workstations needed to employ it are not.
The Rural Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center
(RULETC) distributed 50 computer systems to needy, small agencies in 2007. RULETC staff also provided assistance to these
agencies to get these systems up and running. For more information on the LOCATER application, please visit the LOCATER website
at www.locaterposters.org.
If you are a rural criminal justice agency in need of technology
assistance, please contact RULETC at 866-787-2553 or ruletc@aol.com.
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Interactive Counterterrorism
Calendar
The US National Counterterrorism
Center is announced the release of an interactive version of the 2008 Counterterrorism Calendar. This version of the Calendar
contains many features across the full range of terrorism-related issues: terrorist groups, wanted terrorists, and technical
pages on various threat-related issues.
The Calendar timeline marks
dates according to the Gregorian and Islamic calendars, and contains significant dates in terrorism history as well as dates
that terrorists may believe are important when planning "commemoration-style" attacks.
The CT Calendar is designed for anyone concerned with counterterrorism or terrorist threats; law-enforcement,
intelligence, military and security personnel, contingency planners, or simply citizens concerned by terrorist threats.
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The Intereagency and
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Aligning and Integrating Military and Civilian Roles in Stability, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction
(SSTR) Operations
This monograph addresses the security,
stability, transition, and reconstruction missions that place the most pressure on interagency communication and coordination.
The results from Kabul to Baghdad reveal that the interagency process is in need of reform and that a more robust effort to
integrate and align civilian and military elements is a prerequisite for success.
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Police
Officer Suicide Must Be Stopped
By Jennie Valencia
The men and women in law enforcement deal with danger every day. Being killed in the line of duty, although terrible, is undeniably a risk that comes with the job. Regrettably, police officer suicide is becoming an epidemic. Dying by suicide more frequently than by homicide authenticates the need for special training and counseling
to help police officers deal with overwhelming stress. Studies
show that police officers are eight times more likely to commit suicide than to be killed by homicide.
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An Interview with Carter Burke
Carter Burke has a background in the military and communications. He has served in the Active
Army and its National Guard component; he is currently serving in the California Army National Guard as a Specialist (E-4). Carter Burke has traveled the world, but currently resides in Southern California. Above all, writing is the passion that consumes him. He spends his free time in the
company of friends and family. Carter Burke is the author of Bounded Allegiance.
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Lieutenant Raymond Foster, LAPD (ret.), MPA
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