Improved Police Performance
Where does your agency stand? Policing today is challenging and complex. Highly effective police organizations understand that those everyday challenges can be managed to make the relationship between the police and the public they serve more respectful and trusting. The last thing any police agency wants is to be the subject of tomorrow's big story, or come under the critical eye of the media for an incident or issue that might have been prevented or handled better.
I can help policing fully prepare for the performance the public expects. By offering training and consulting in the core areas that define performance in the police world, I can assist you in preventing poor performance before it damages the reputation of individuals, agencies and the profession.
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Ethics Training: Who you are comes before what you know in policing. It is clear that a lack of commonly shared ethical awareness creates the opportunity for distrust, a lack of respect and fear of the police. All agency members must share a common ethical foundation and make every decision based upon it. This can be achieved.
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Field Training Officer (FTO) Training: The biggest impact for the newly hired police officer is his or her training officer. The manner in which the training program is managed and how the trainers are selected, to name but two elements, are critical to the new officer's success and the agency's reputation. The FTO program is the source of the agency's future and too often the source of its problems. The program needs a clearly understood mission and format. It all starts here.
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Team Building: To effectively serve the public, police agencies have people with different strengths and weaknesses who must work together. How well that happens affects everything the agency does. The team building process allows agency personnel, in a safe and supportive environment, to explore how well the agency is performing, what the strengths and weaknesses are in the current approach and how things could be better. Done right, people leave with a renewed sense of self and a clear blueprint for the future. Eveyone wants to be on a great team.
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Auditing: There is a distinct difference between preventing something and appraising it after the fact. Policing has had a great deal of appraisal after the fact, much of it generated by headlines, law suits, riots and broken reputations. Auditing is the anti-headline approach that can mitigate damages, prevent further damage and offer corrective recommendations designed to make the agency better now and in the future. Auditing generates trust and respect. Don't let someone do it to you when you can do it for yourself.
Department Property Room audits are also offered.
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Audit Training: Audit training can create a philosophy of positive change within any agency. It enables people within the agency to build their capacity to measure the current state of performance and create recommendations that address present issues and prepare for future success. Audit training is the means by which any agency can make their desired future rather than continually react to performance that might have been anticipated. Success favors a prepared, proactive and well-informed organization. Let it be you, with my assistance.