The NJ Police Chief Magazine Volume 25, Number 4 | Page 19

Policing has changed in recent years and continues to evolve, and so too must police administration and leadership. As
noted by the National Institute of Justice, police executives and the agencies and personnel they lead now contend
with new threats, new technologies, and new communities, all of which create new challenges and opportunities for
policing. Accordingly, the skill sets required of police leaders in shaping their organizations today differ greatly from
those required even just a few years ago.
The NJSACOP Contemporary Issues in Police Administration (CIPA) seminar is designed as a professional development
program for police managers and executives seeking to explore these contemporary and emerging issues, to think
critically about those issues, to acquire new knowledge, and to sharpen already existing skills.
Course Modules:
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Critical Incident Planning, Communication, and Leadership
This module is designed for law enforcement professionals that are tasked with planning for and providing leadership during a critical
incident. The attendees will learn to employ cutting edge communication techniques developed by the US Military Special
Operations Community to bridge the physical communication barriers that exist between organizations during a critical incident. The
class will also cover a number of leadership principles and techniques deployed throughout the US Special Operations Command.
Attendees will receive instruction in:
→ Critical Incident Decision making and Communication Techniques
→ Building Cross Functional Teams and Servant Leadership
→ Use of Common Operating Pictures and SOF Visual Planning Principles
→ Tactical Communications and Information Sharing under stress
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Integrated Risk Management in Law Enforcement
This module introduces the practice of risk management in law enforcement. Discussion will focus on various critical issues facing
the police administrator in the 21st Century, appropriate for law enforcement executives, command staff and future leaders.
The module focuses on identifying risk in contemporary law enforcement operations, policy formation, relevant New Jersey
Attorney General guidelines and directives, and remedies. Instructors use lecture, multimedia presentations, case studies, and
class discussions to accomplish the learning objectives, by way of the following blocks of instruction:
→ Foundations of risk management: An introduction to the topic.
→ Operational risk management for law enforcement : Identify causes and effects; what good risk management looks
like; benefits of risk management; the Risk Management Cycle.
→ Risk identification : Identifying organic risk in your agency.
→ Social media risk: Identify good social media plans and policies; work through a case study.
→ Substance abuse in law enforcement : Identify good plans and policies; discuss new AG drug testing standards;
discuss EAP; work through a case study; open dialogue.
→ Officer suicide & suicide prevention : Identify good plans and policies; work through a case study; open dialogue.
→ Racially influenced and biased based policing : Identify good plans and policies; discuss the AG directives on racial
profiling and immigration; work through a case study.
→ Creating a risk registry : Identify good plans and policies; discuss the AG directives and guidelines on Internal Affairs
and Early Warning Systems.
→ Dealing with risk : Discuss the ways in which risk is addressed: acceptance, transfer, management, avoidance, and
notification.
→ Conducting audits : Identify good plans and policies; discuss key performance indicators; compare and contrast
policy vs. performance.
→ Detection vs. Prevention : Identify methods to detect or prevent risky behaviors; identify good plans and policies.
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