"Since law enforcement agencies began partnering with citizens through community policing, we've seen significant drops in crime rates."
- John Ashcroft

Part I - Magerial Buy-In: A Strategic Analysis of Policing Strategies

This two-day, 16-hour seminar utilizes case studies to compare and contrast the historical policing strategies of the twentieth century. Managers explore the philosophy, processes and resources of these policing strategies to analyze the contributing components responsible for the success and failure of these approaches to policing. This seminar takes an andragogical approach to learning. Managers are encouraged to be prepared to discuss the case studies, share their perspectives, and rely on their own experiences to identify and understand the successes, failures and limitations of these policing strategies, and apply these lessons to the current policing strategies in their departments. The seminar also presents a managerial assessment tool for the implementation of a community policing program.

* This seminar is designed for the participant who is a lieutenant or higher in management. This is the first of three consecutive courses that examine the human and technical aspects of managing a community policing program. You will automatically be pre-registered for the next course which is The Managerial Advantage-Strategic Selection; Management, Team Building and Retention of Community Policing Personnel and the third course, which is The Tool Kit for Managing Organizational Change.

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Part II - Managerial Advantage: Strategic Selection, Management, Team Building and Retention of Personnel

This two-day, 16-hour seminar examines the psychological aspects of selecting, managing, team building and retaining community policing officers. The course enables managers to understand their own personality preferences and needs that affect their decision-making, work habits, leadership style and delegation skills.

Participants will learn how to identify the personality preferences of their community policing officers, how to strengthen the officers' work habits and problem solving approaches and how to create a high performance team through strategic selection.

The psychological needs that affect the boss/peer/subordinate relationships, interpersonal modifiers and task factors are examined to understand the manager, the individual officer and the team of officers assigned to the community policing program. This seminar also explores how leadership styles can be adapted to successfully meet the challenges of a changing policing philosophy.

*This seminar is designed for the participant who is a lieutenant or higher in management. This is the first of three consecutive courses that examine the human and technical aspects of managing a community policing program. You will automatically be pre-registered for the first course which is The Managerial Buy-in: A Strategic Analysis of Policing Strategies and the third course, which is The Tool Kit for Managing Organizational Change.

Part III - The Tool Kit for Managing Organizational Change

This two-day, 16-hour seminar provides participants with a set of tools to diagnose the performance of the individual community policing officer, the team of community policing officers and the success of the entire community policing program. Tools are provided to assist managers in measuring and analyzing the variables that can determine the impact and level of success of a community policing program. Managers are introduced to a managerial model of macro-level problem solving that considers the political aspects, the collaboration between stakeholders and the planning strategies for the action stage. Managers engage in a practicum designed to apply the set of tools to solve an organizational challenge.