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Tim Dees
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As I mentioned in my previous blog entry from the IAWP conference, Canada is a startling place for Americans, or at least, for me. You forget that you’re not in the states, and then something comes along to slap you in the teeth and remind you.

Yesterday, it was a presentation at the conference on detection of armed persons. Most of the presentation contained information that is valuable for cops from anywhere. The presenter, John Peatfield, discussed telltale behaviors that can tip an officer, or anyone else, to detecting someone carrying a concealed firearm. The slap-in-the-teeth part was the Canadian perspective on handguns generally.

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Tim Dees
Editor-in-Chief
Officer.com

Given that I don’t fit the demographic, I’ve gotten a lot of odd looks the past couple of days en route to and attending the 44th annual conference of the International Association of Women Police. This is a first time conference for me, but it might be the best-organized police convention I’ve ever seen, including the ones I helped to organize. Sessions begin and end on time, and there is a volunteer shuttle service to take participants just about anywhere they care to go. And, unlike every other cop gathering, people don’t fill meeting room chairs from the back to the front and from the outside rows in.

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