Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police

Since its establishment, the CACP has been preoccupied with the following:

• the application of technology to policing 
• the relationship between politics and law enforcement 
• police responses to law and to crime, and
• the search for professionalism.
  

A recent summary of these main areas is provided by Tonita Murray, former Director General of the Canadian Police College in CACP’s Winter 2005 issue of the Canadian Police Magazine (pgs 21-25).  Most specifically in relation to crime, Murray notes that the CACP is likely to focus its committees, conferences and public statements on questions of diversity, racial tolerance, youth and the prevention of crime given Canada’s changing demographic trends and population characteristics, and factors such as integration of immigrants, educational levels and developments in crime prevention technology.

The CACP’s website provides access to its Canadian Police Magazine (published tri-annually) which provides a forum for the executive policing community to express their knowledge, expertise and views.  The magazine contains reports from the CACP Executive, CACP committees, and experts in the policing field and features articles on a range of issues surrounding contemporary policing.  Some past features include: policing and cultural competency (Fall 2004), police and ethics (Fall 2002) police and private security (1999), and a profile of Canada’s executive police (1999).

Furthermore, their site lists an online library of policing materials, provides information on upcoming and past conferences and events, and contains links to national, provincial and municipal police services, associations and crime prevention-related websites.

For more information on the CACP, visit their website at: http://www.cacp.ca/english/