The Community Safety Institute develops
education and law enforcement training curriculums and produces
a wide range of products and services including books and CD-ROM
materials and websites to support their conferences, symposiums,
trainings and technical assistance initiatives. A partial
list of training available to law enforcement officials is
below. CSI provides expert training and seminars for
schools,
communities,
law enforcement personnel,
and businesses.
CSI has produced and facilitated law
enforcement trainings a regional and nation level including the
following.
For Law Enforcement
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Problem Solving |
- For officers and investigators
- Two-day program
- Problem solving that utilizes national
recognized models. This interactive class includes lateral
thinking exercises, group work and discussion.
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Strategic Planning for Community Policing |
- For supervisors and command personnel
- Two-day course
- Instruction on developing and implementing
a comprehensive strategic plan for the agency. Includes
sections on plan development, partnerships and implementation
procedures.
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Advanced Strategic Planning |
- For command personnel
- Two-day course
- Specific implementation initiatives that
can be undertaken to improve an agency’s planning and
implementation process in order to facilitate transition.
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Ethics and Integrity |
- For all personnel
- One-day course
- Examining the issues of ethics and
integrity for today’s policing agencies. Interactive course
allows participants to actively discuss common ethical
problems and their various solutions.
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Community Policing for Street Officers |
- For all personnel
- One and two-day courses
- Basics of community policing. Examines the
philosophy, discusses the benefits to the line personnel and
highlights roles and responsibilities of all sworn and
non-sworn personnel in the organization.
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Supervising Community Policing and Problem
Solving |
- For supervisors and commend staff
- Two-day course
- Supervising a new generation of officers
and their duties in non-traditional policing methods.
Discusses specific roles and responsibilities of staff and
management.
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Transitioning the Organization to Community
Policing |
- For managers and command personnel
- Two-day course
- Organizational change and implementation of
new departmental strategies for policing. Includes resistance
to change information and employee buy-in concepts such as
empowerment and decentralization
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Community Oriented Government |
- For management personnel
- One-day
- Overview course on the concept of community
oriented government and practical implementation ideas for
managers. Includes team building and roles and
responsibilities.
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Innovative Juvenile Justice Practices |
- For all law enforcement personnel
- Two-day course
- Building cooperative juvenile justice
coalitions and inter-agency teams to provide a comprehensive
approach among agencies serving youth in the community.
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Service Providers and Tribal Law Enforcement |
- For all law enforcement personnel serving
in or around tribal communities
- Two-day course
- Weaves Native American cultural concepts
with modern policing models in order to facilitate better
relations with service providers and the tribal community.
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COP for FTO’s |
- For Field Training Officers
- One day program
- Designed to assist departments in updating
their current FTO programs to include community oriented
policing and problem solving for recruits. Examples of revised
daily observation reports and grading are included.
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Law Enforcement / Media
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Working with the Media
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- For all law enforcement personnel
- One-day course
- For managers in managing and promoting
proactive media relations. This course will focus on media
presentations and how to create a positive working
relationship with the media. Conducting media briefing and
on-camera role-playing are featured in this course.
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Why Kids Kill and
What To Do About It |
- For all law enforcement personnel
- Two-day interactive course
- Discussing the in-depth elements of why
juvenile crime has become increasingly violent and what the
role of law enforcement is in school safety and juvenile
justice.
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Creating A Safer School (CASS) |
- For administrators and staff.
- Full-day program
- Focuses on violence prevention, awareness
(warning signs), intervention/prevention efforts and
responding to conflicts. This interactive, role-playing course
is the foundation course for all CASS courses and the one that
the IACP-OJJDP SAFE School curriculum is based upon.
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School Safety Community Response Planning |
- For public safety officials, local
government officials, media, social services and school
administrators.
- One-day program
- Highlights the various community and
emergency services response plans, inter-jurisdiction issues
and inter-agency cooperation. This course focuses on
inter-agency cooperation in an effort to coordinate response
policies and procedures.
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Managing A Multi-Agency School Crisis
Simulation |
- For administrators and staff.
- Full day program
- Provides instruction on how to plan,
manage, implement a school safety simulation exercise for
multiple jurisdictions. Instruction will be provided in how to
organize a simulation, form an Observation Team of key
individuals and gain the most from this important safety
scenario. this course will review school crisis response
plans, lockdown policies and primary and secondary evacuation
planning. Optional plans also addressed include: violence,
severe weather, suicide and accidents.
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Re-Designing for School Safety and Security
Technologies |
- For all personnel
- One-day program
- Examines the basics of Crime Prevention
Through Environmental Design (CPTED) to increase the safety of
schools, playgrounds, and transportation areas. Analysis of
past school incidents and recommendations on modifications
that can be made for all schools at a small price but with
promising returns. Also a study of current Delay, detection
and deterrent technologies available for school safety.
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Threat Assessment and Violence Prevention |
- For administrators and public safety
officials.
- One-day course
- Highlights the latest information on threat
assessment, intervention and response. Features information on
classifying threats, developing a specialized threat
assessment team, responding to all levels of threats and post
threat evaluation and follow-up options.
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Technology and Organizational
Change
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Technology Implementation |
- For school administrators, law enforcement
officers and civilian staff
- Multi-day consulting
- Assists organizations to accept and
implement new technology systems (CAD, GIS, etc…). Includes
sessions on change management and internal communications.
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Organizational Transformation |
- For administrators and command staff
- Multi-day course
- Transition the organization. Includes
strategic assessment, change tools and evaluation models for
the organization.
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Strategically Planning for Technology |
- For managers and command staff
- Two-day course
- Highlights key components of a
technological strategic plan. To demonstrate procedures
necessary to specifically address how to bridge the
organization’s technology gap, if one exists, and what steps
are required to plan for the organization’s future technology
needs.
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Strategically Planning for Technology |
- For managers and command staff
- Two-day course
- Revisit your agency’s strategic plan and
update it to include current and proposed advances in
technology. Examine how new technology can assist in
developing and strengthening community partnerships and review
some of those directives and standard operating procedures to
make your organization more efficient and effective.
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Mapping and Community Policing |
- For law enforcement personnel
- One-day course
- Highlights prominent uses of police mapping
programs and how they are a key component of community based
policing. To develop mapping partnership initiatives that
enhance an organization’s community policing practices and
empower citizens to proactively assist police in community
based activities.
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Mapping and Community Oriented Government |
- For managers and command personnel
- One-day course
- Discuss how using mapping programs police,
fire, code enforcement and public health agencies can target
crime and work together to increase the quality of life in
neighborhoods.
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Managing Technology and Change in the
Organization |
- For managers and command staff
- One-day course
- Examine the dynamics of change within your
organization, specifically as it relates to new technology.
Overcoming “techno-phobia” and increasing both acceptance and
utilization of new high tech devices can provide your
organization with a decided advantage.
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Law Enforcement Technology Management
Symposiums |
- SAME areas of emphasis: Organization's and
employees' expectations of technology and levels of
acceptance/resistance.
- Organization's communication capabilities
and processes to inform and educate employees and end users.
- Overall technology implementation plan.
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