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From November 5 to 11, ICITAP-Philippines led a delegation of the Philippines National Police (PNP) Internal Affairs Service (IAS) on a U.S. Department of State (DOS), Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)-funded study tour to Los Angeles, CA, and Baltimore, MD.  

Last week, we lost a pioneer in the disability rights movement.  Lois Curtis, one of the two plaintiffs in the landmark case Olmstead v. L.C., died of pancreatic cancer on Nov. 3, 2022.

On November 6, 2022, ICITAP-Ukraine provided an update on its assistance to the National Police of Ukraine. 

This article originally appeared in the ABI Journal (Vol. XLI, No. 11, November 2022).

On October 25, the ICITAP-Indonesia mission provided an update on its assistance to the Indonesian National Police (INP) Central Forensic Laboratory (Puslabfor) Quality Management Team (QMT). 

From October 14 to 19, over 120 ICITAP and international police delegates representing 17 countries participated in the dynamic annual International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference in Dallas, Texas. 

This is the Environmental Crimes Bulletin for October 2022

The CFO Council will hold its next public meeting on November 3, 2022.

From October 3 to 8, 2022, ICITAP Forensics hosted a US Forensic Study Tour for representatives from the Costa Rica Judicial Investigations Organization (OIJ) Department of Forensic Sciences (DFS) Program Management Office. 

After years of preparation and refinement, the 2021 crime in the nation data release will report not only general trends in violent and property offenses across the nation, but detailed data about those offenses, from the types of weapons used in violent crimes to the value of losses in property offenses. More information—about demographics of the offender and victim and circumstances of the crime—will be available than ever before.

Today the Department is now releasing key excerpts of the strategic plan in Spanish and key exceprts in the other top languages spoken by the LEP general public in the United States: Spanish, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Vietnamese, Korean, and Tagalog. The Department continues to prioritize actions to help ensure language access is not a barrier to LEP individuals participation in Department priorities including access to a plan that guides our efforts across the Department as we continue to fulfill our responsibilities to the American people.