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10/24/03
 On
October 24, FBI Director Mueller addressed the 110th Conference
of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, with a strong message about law enforcement
partnerships in an era of global crime:
"The
time when a police department or a sheriff's office or the
FBI can act on its own is gone. We must rely on each other
for what each brings to the table, whether that be manpower,
technology, or expertise. The future will require law enforcement
to work together with seamless coordination."
Mueller
warmly praised the group--representing law enforcement professionals
across the United States and the world--for extraordinary
efforts on critical cases. About the capture of Top Tenner
Eric Rudolph, he said, "For five years, Eric Rudolph
evaded the FBI. You found him," singling out Murphy,
North Carolina, officer Jeffrey Postell for making the arrest.
He also specifically praised the IACP's National Intelligence
Sharing Strategy, designed to improve the capacity of local
law enforcement to gather information and analyze it for its
potential intelligence content.
Mueller
focused strongly on evolving criminal trends and warned that
law enforcement must progressively change the way it thinks
and does business to confront them:
"We
face an increasingly complex criminal landscape. Experts say
that with globalization, the role of nation/states is diminishing
along with their ability to effectively respond to criminal
conduct. To confront this dangerous new landscape, law enforcement
must change."
Pictured
are FBI Director Mueller and IACP President Joseph Samuels,
Chief of Police in Richmond, California. To read the entire
speech as written, go to Executive
Speeches.
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