Ashley Di Dio
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The International Association of Chiefs of Police is a quickly growing organization. Each issue, we display the new members of our organization. Now we have reached 25,000! I edited the multiple page "New Members" segment of Police Chief magazine, conducting research and properly formatting the content for publication. [WC: 14744]
Below is the edited version of the New Members segment of Police Chief.
The Police Chief is not only a publication reporting on national law enforcement, but international as well. Here is an author, Mohamad Ayoub Salangi, who is the Acting Minister of Interior for Kabul, Afghanistan. He writes about their radio station that connects police officers to the communities they serve. [WC: 761]
The IACP publishes an online newsletter every two weeks informing the public on news from the field, job openings, resources, information from inside the IACP, and events happening in law enforcement. It has been my role to piece together this newsletter and write blurbs for certain topics. For example, in the section "News from the Field," I read law enforcement related articles and wrote blurbs about them. I also provided a link. [WC: 3103]
This manuscript was published in the July issue of Police Chief magazine. Before it went to print, my editor Danielle Gudakunst and I co-editied the manuscript. The author, Blair Myhand, speaks out about veterans with problems integrating back into civilian life, and how police officers and help. [WC: 2826]
Almost every issue of Police Chief magazine has a "Technology Talk" explaining the different technologies emerging or gaining traction in the law enforcement profession. In the July issue, the Tech Talk was geared toward the 39th Annual LEIM Training Conference and Expo, which displayed body-worn cameras and vehicle technology. [WC: 1660]
This manuscript is one I edited for the September issue of the Police Chief magazine. The author, Samuel Johnston, discusses police cadet programs and 21st century policing methods. [WC: 1292]