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Bookmark or Share- Guidance on Policies and Practices for Patrol CaninesCanine units can provide valuable services to police departments and sheriffs’ offices, but a canine program must be designed carefully to ensure that the canines will perform as intended. Like any other use of force by law enforcement agencies, deployment of canines must be governed by clear policies and protocols. Canine programs also
- Homicide Investigation Standard Operating Proceduresobserve all activity taking place there. Crashing a police cruiser on the way to the scene draws resources away from the investigation and delays the response to the scene. De-lays may cause some crucial observations, evidence, or witnesses to go undiscovered. Policy: The initial responding officer should proceed to the scene quickly but ...
- 2025 National ICAT ConferenceSince PERF launched the Integrating Communications, Assessment, and Tactics (ICAT) training in 2016, agencies across 36 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada have taught their officers ICAT.
- Use of Force: Taking Policing to a Higher Standard3. Police use of force must meet the test of proportionality. In assessing whether a response is proportional, officers must ask themselves, “How would the general public view the action we took? Would they think it was appropriate to the entire situation and to the severity of the threat posed to me or to the public?” POLICY 4.
- Leadership Matters: Police Chiefs Talk About Their Careersence and lessons learned by a cross-section of police executives. So PERF decided to embark on this project. Our staff interviewed 25 police chiefs about their experiences as chief, asking them doz-ens of questions about what they have learned over the course of their careers about the job that they do. These chiefs generously
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