The NJ Police Chief Magazine - Volume 32, Number 9 | Page 19

May 2026
THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN NJSACOP LEADERSHIP STAFF RIDE PART 2
Detective Chief Inspector( Ret) David Annets
Senior Fellow, NJSACOP Center for Professional Development
EXAMPLE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING For example, let’ s consider the establishment of a Multi-Agency Regional Violent Crime Task Force( R-VCTF), and using the lessons from the Italian Campaign outlined above, to envisage what such an MOU would look like.
PARTIES:
1. The Federal Bureau of Investigation( The " Lead Agency ") – Analogous to the British 15th Army Group
2. The Metro City Police Department( MCPD) – Analogous to the U. S. 5th Army
3. The County Sheriff’ s Office( CSO) – Analogous to the French Expeditionary Corps( Specialized capabilities)
ARTICLE I: MISSION AND PURPOSE The mission of the R-VCTF is the identification, disruption, and dismantling of violent criminal organizations operating across jurisdictional boundaries. The priority is the long-term neutralization of criminal networks, not the immediate accumulation of arrest statistics for individual agency metrics.
The
" Rome "
Clause:
This
article
explicitly prevents the " Race for Rome "
scenario by defining success as network
destruction,
not
high-profile,
premature
arrests
designed
for
headlines.
ARTICLE II: COMMAND AND CONTROL( C2)
2.1. Unified Command Structure Operations will strictly adhere to the Incident Command System( ICS).
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