Public Safety Education and Training Catalog 2020 | Page 4

  ADMINISTRATION/LEADERSHIP
Conducting Effective Internal Investigations
This course focuses on both simple and complex personnel
investigations including allegations of criminal wrongdoing,
harassment, and other unique scenarios requiring nuanced
investigative practices. This program will provide supervisors with
practical and legal guidance for handling personnel matters from
the beginning stages of the investigative process through the
discipline stage. This program will also focus on the practical and
legal importance of conducting thorough and detailed personnel
investigations, as well as strategic considerations for pursuing and
imposing appropriate disciplinary action.
Grant Writing for Public Safety
If you are new to the grant writing process or wish to enhance your
skills, this is the course for you! This interactive training provides
abundant samples, templates, and handouts, as well as many
resources that will maximize effective grant writing efforts. Plan to
leave the course with the framework and tools needed to research
and write your next grant application!
Open Records
There is oftentimes confusion about how the public records law, the
personnel file laws, and other laws interact with official or unofficial
employment disputes. What records does a municipality have
to release under the laws and why is any of this important to the
employment issue? This course will address how to handle records
requests and a municipality’s obligations under the law with respect
to the requests.
Presentation Skills
Communication is a part of our daily life be it at work or at home. How
we communicate is very critical and can make our life easier or more
difficult! This is especially true in public safety in how we communicate
in the field, with citizens, the media, leaders, and each other. This
eight-hour seminar will cover topics such as types of communication;
forms of communication, body language, effective listening, barriers
to listening along with the seven C’s of communication.
  COMMUNITY POLICING
21st Century Community Policing
This course will help the student to understand what communities
expect of their police, leverage the power of neighborhoods,
mobilize the public, and engage community partners in sharing
responsibility for public safety. Officers will be provided strategies
that are possible for anyone to implement, even with the demands
of daily calls for service.
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Basic Crime Prevention Academy
This three-day academy will introduce Crime Prevention and provide
students with practical information on how to develop, implement and
maintain a crime prevention program. This course is designed for crime
prevention officers, community-oriented policing officers and security
professionals. Topics to be covered include history, strategies, and
principles of crime prevention, eras of policing and law enforcement,
current trends in crime, law enforcement and crime prevention,
elements and design of a comprehensive crime prevention program,
relationship between crime prevention, COP and POP, situational
crime prevention, intelligence-led policing, crime prevention programs
and targeted audiences, overview of CPTED and threat assessments,
branding your agency, and a mini instructor development class.
Chronic Nuisance Abatement
Often, the police are called upon to ‘solve problems’ that affect the
community or just a specific neighborhood. Many times, these problems
are not criminal in nature and may be viewed by some as minor when
compared to other crimes; however, these problems affect the quality
of life for all of us. Topics covered include WI nuisance abatement laws,
landlord/tenant laws, creating a local nuisance abatement program,
best practices in addressing problem properties, drug abatements,
using intelligence-led policing tactics for drug houses.
CPTED – Threat Assessments Train the Trainer
This course will cover the basic principles of Crime Prevention Through
Environmental Design (CPTED) including locks, lighting, alarm systems,
cameras, etc. The class will also cover ways that a business or
organization can detect, deter, deny, delay, respond and recover from
an active threat incident. Students will also learn how to complete a
written threat assessment report. The three-day class will include a
hands-on threat assessment of a local business and class discussion.
Combating Crime Through Community Policing Efforts
This eight-hour course is designed for police officers looking to review
or improve their skills in community policing initiatives. This course
will give officers insight and understanding of how to create a CRO
position and what strategies to utilize to be effective. Topics covered,
collaboration with other agencies, creating partnerships, youth
leadership, youth & community programs, nuisance abatement, drug
investigations, community event development, traffic interdiction,
leadership, use of social media, asset forfeiture, gang and drug
investigations, crime prevention through environmental design, tactics
for patrol, and much more!
Community Oriented Policing Summit
In partnership with agencies and organizations throughout Wisconsin,
this summit covers the latest in best practices for community-oriented
policing and problem-oriented policing throughout Wisconsin and
the United States and brings together officers and law enforcement
leaders to network, collaborate and synergize forces to combat crime
and enhance the quality of life in their communities.
PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING AT NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE