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Law Enforcement Safety Training

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.

  • Comprehensive Safe School Planning Problem Solving for Educators

  • Police Problem Solving Creating A Safer School (CASS)

  • CASS for KIDS CASS for Administrators

  • Student Responsibility School Crisis Planning

  • Creating A School Safety Culture Underage Drinking

  • Threat Assessment and Intervention Campus Safety Assessments

  • Anger Management and Conflict Resolution Strategic Planning, Ethics and Integrity

  • Community Leaderships Community Policing

  • School Partnerships and Evaluations Assessments for Policing

For Law Enforcement

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Law Enforcement/Community Policing

o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
 

Law Enforcement / Media

o Working with the Media
  • 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.

Law Enforcement / School Safety

o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.

Technology and Organizational Change

o 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.
o Organizational Transformation
  • For administrators and command staff
  • Multi-day course
  • Transition the organization. Includes strategic assessment, change tools and evaluation models for the organization.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.