About Policing

1. Police Accreditation
Sheldon Greenberg
• IACP, PERF, NSA, NOBLE established the standards:
83 chapters of 9 categories.
• Process involves 7 steps.
• LEO’s file annual reports with the commission.

2. • Reaccreditation focuses on agency goals and
objectives
• Debates:
Imposition of a national program on state
Amount of time and resource necessary

3. Managing Police Information
Robert Taylor
• Automated database, integrated report
writing system, automated report system,
automated fingerprint identification system.
• Reduces office space and time spent by
officers, helps electronically processing,
aggregating, distributing and filing of
documents.
• Next generation: IRMS

4. • AI & Expert Systems: use natural language, robotics,
visualization systems and expert systems to seek
answers to next-gen questions.
• Challenges:
 Controlling technological growth
 Dealing with information elites
 Confronting loss of privacy and computer crime liability
• Looking into the future: research, standardization,
linking LEO’s in one system, policy for private electronic
database.