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www.officer.com December 2014 Law Enforcement Technology 13 STATE OF THE INDUSTRY LET: What was one of your greatest successes this past year? McCallum: Personally, that would be when I was asked to serve as Chief of Police of such a fine agency. It is an honor to lead such an outstanding group of law enforcement profession- als as the men and women of College Station PD. Operationally, it would be the steps we've taken to prepare our agency for the future: We've continued to develop meaningful relationships with our community. We've collaboratively determined our department's functional needs for a CAD/RMS system and evaluated potential vendors. We have also taken significant steps towards the acquisition of new facilities to provide for our growing agency. As the economy in this area continues to improve, we as an agency must continually analyze our business practices and remain efficient now and into the future. Lt. Michael Johnston of the Bradley, Illinois PD currently oversees 34 offi- cers and is looking to hire two more in the near future. Johnston has been with the agency for just over 18 years and oversees the support services division. The community of Bradley has roughly 17,000 people and serves as a retail hub of the entire county. Bradley police officers patrol about seven square miles of town. LET: What are the top policing concerns where you work? Johnston: Some of our challenges within the department are retention and hiring good, qualified personnel. Every one of our officers are very highly qualified, but we had to look for that in our applicants, and sometimes we catch some and sometimes we don't. Circle 7 on Reader Service Card Our video cameras in the car have refuted a lot of...claims and they've been an excellent tool to really tell what happened. I think body cams are no different; they're just mounted somewhere else. — Lt. Michael Johnston, Bradley (Ill.) Police Department