Today’s public information officer (PIO) has to juggle providing timely, accurate information to the public while protecting the integrity of sensitive investigative information in the face of crisis. The Public & Governmental Affairs Office for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the criminal investigative agency for the state, is no different. The summer of 2020 proved to be their busiest and most challenging yet: In May 2020, a c...

Communities across the nation are developing and adopting a variety of alternative crisis response models, including co-responder, community-led response, multi-disciplinary response teams, among numerous other iterations. For far too long the debate has been if these responses should be either law enforcement based or civilian only teams. However, communities that adopt a civilian-only response team must also incorporate additional strategies...

This presentation will explain OSINT and its role with other intelligence types and will cover techniques in conducting open-source research and preserving findings within the open web. Topics discussed include optimizing devices and internet browser for Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), creating a custom Search Engine alert, manual and software-aided and hybrid approaches, using The Onion Router (TOR), GitHub and data collection and analysis...

Leadership is often thought to be something we acquire with a title, but we really can lead from wherever we are. Being a great leader doesn’t depend on a title or status, but on one’s ability to support and guide those around them. In this webinar we’ll discuss how to lead from wherever you are, with or without the title. The live webinar event is free to attend.

The Core Values Index (CVI) for criminal justice professionals is a detailed look at the most transformational solution currently utilized by police and sheriffs’ departments across the country — solutions that give law-enforcement leaders the ability to step towards their communities and rebuild trust while at the same time upholding justice. You will learn what faulty and failed solutions are trying to become standard, and see a...

Can police be trained to treat people in fair and respectful ways, and if so, will this influence evaluations of the police, and crime? To answer these questions, we randomly allocated 120 crime hot spots to a procedural justice (PJ) and standard condition (SC) in three cities. 28 officers were randomly assigned to the conditions. The PJ condition officers received an intensive 5-day training course in the components of procedural justice (giv...

This talk will discuss concepts and tools for addressing secondary trauma and burnout with an emphasis on the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. A strong emphasis will be placed on the CE-CERT (Components for Enhancing Clinician Experience and Reducing Trauma) model and how this specific trainer applied the principles and tools with himself and his team. Other related models (e.g., TARGET and CBT) will also be discussed, but the central discu...

Though de-escalation is considered a cornerstone of policing, there is little research on how it is defined, applications in the field, and the impact of de-escalation training on officer behavior. The Tempe (AZ) Smart Policing Initiative (SPI) project attempted to fill this gap through the development, delivery, and evaluation of a customized de-escalation training program for sworn field personnel. The curriculum, rooted heavily in the local...

The Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) of 2017 was signed into law in January 2018, acknowledging the need to support agencies in their efforts to provide employees the mental, emotional, and physical health resources they deserve. As a result, agencies are looking for ways to implement wellness programming. This class will address the implementation of “wellness tactics” in all areas of the agency to help faci...

Immediate response to natural disasters relies on our criminal justice professionals to be part of the emergency response team. As shown with more intense hurricanes impacting coastal areas, ice storms in Texas, fires in California, heatwaves in the Northeast and Midwest with many of these communities further stressed from other threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of attention has been focused on issues pertaining to infrastruc...