Most homicide and gun violence is far from random and can be analyzed, understood, and addressed at the local level.  This session will set out:

• The key varieties of homicide and gun violence;
• The concentration of victimization and offending;
• How victimization and offending overlap;
• The key role of groups and networks
• The central role of police and other criminal justice agencies in understanding homicide and gun violence.

Public safety recruitment and hiring is a significant concern nationwide, with agencies struggling to maintain basic operations due to staffing shortages across public safety. While many agencies are desperately searching for innovative and successful recruiting strategies to attract and hire employees through external methods, this webinar will discuss an internal evidence-based approach on how to gauge what attracted, and ultimately led to the successful hiring of, police cadets at the Charleston Police Department. Findings of this study resulted in relevant and practical applications that may be adopted by agencies universally as a method to identify both strengths and limitations of recruitment and hiring processes.

At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to implement the provided roadmap to:

• Engage validated strategies to assess current recruitment efforts.
• Gather rich data for a full understanding of onboarding experiences from new employees.
• Interpret findings into practical evidence-based strategies.
• Successfully isolate and focus marketing/branding efforts.

Some surveys have shown that 1 in 4 Americans have been a victim of cybercrime in the last year.  Whether the victim’s case will be investigated and prosecuted or not, whether they lost $100 or $1 million, each will likely need guidance to recover and reinforce their cyber security.  Cybercrime Support Network (CSN) has the resources to help these victims.  This webinar will point out the top cyber frauds we see, and highlight the resources available for cybercrime victims via CSN which you can use right now at no cost.  As well as several simple things people can do to prevent their victimization online.

In the wake of an unprecedented call for further reform heard during the summer of 2020, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) is standing up a CompStat-style accountability forum focused on the continuous monitoring of measures of Equity, Accountability and Quality (EAQ). Seattle PD is utilizing a Risk Management approach to leverage measures of disparate outcomes in Terry stops, over and under policing of communities, and service quality for awareness, mitigation, and continuous improvement. The discussion will also include SPD’s collaboration with RTI International as an external quality assurance and evaluation partner to assist with the implementation of their EAQ program and next steps with the project implementation.

This presentation will discuss the roles law enforcement and state Juvenile Justice play in investigating crimes perpetrated by juveniles.  North Carolina’s Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Act, AKA “Raise the Age,” will be discussed and its effects on investigating crimes when juveniles are the victims/survivors and the suspects.  Attendees will learn how to collaborate with Juvenile Justice authorities to investigate suspects.  An overview of interventions provided includes clinical services and programs – and where to find resources when they are limited.

The 2023 IACP Technology Conference will be held at the Salt Palace Convention Center on May 22-24 in Salt Lake City, Utah. As the premier professional event dedicated to discussing technology in law enforcement, attendees should expect quality presentations, professional development, and networking covering a broad array of new and emerging technologies on:

• Digital Asset Management
• Technology Strategy
• Cybersecurity and Cybercrime
• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous Vehicles/UAS
• Mobile Policing
• Digital Forensics
• Information Sharing & More

The 2022 IACP Technology Conference featured 55 educational sessions, 94 exhibitors, and over 900 attendees. Don’t miss next year’s conference, sign up for updates to receive the latest news and announcements about Salt Lake City.

IMPORTANT DATES
January 2023 Exhibit Booth Sales Open

Webinar Start Time: 3p ET/2p CT/1p MT/12n PT

Creating a Development and Fundraising plan and program for your organization is key to your growth.  Whether you are part of a government or a private non-profit, this class will give you lots of tips and ideas on how to create a strategy that helps you meet your goals by bringing in funds. This course is perfect for those just getting started in creating a program or for those who want to increase their efficacy with new ideas. We will discuss all types of fundraising and outreach programs including but not limited to grants, individual giving, social media, events, engaging staff and volunteers, and more. Perfect part 2 for the Yes, you can Fundraise! Fundraising for Animal Welfare Government Agencies course held on Jan 26.

Criminal Justice and related professionals are welcome to attend the live webinar event at no charge. 

Join traffic safety professionals from around the world to share knowledge about effective and proven approaches for improving road safety, the latest science on alcohol and drug impaired driving enforcement, how technology can be leveraged to make communities safer, and how agencies can use traffic safety education to engage and build trust with their communities. The IACP Impaired Driving and Traffic Safety Conference (IDTS) is the largest training conference for drug recognition experts and traffic safety professionals. Conference attendees include DREs, law enforcement officers (State Police, Highway Patrol, County, Municipal, Governmental, Sheriffs and other agencies), crash investigators, supervisors/administrators, prosecutors, toxicologists, laboratory personnel, traffic safety professionals, among others. 

Some samples of the educational content include:

• Traffic Safety in a Contemporary Political Environment
• Total Quality Management for DUI Enforcement
• Preparing Law Enforcement for Automated Vehicle Technologies
• Advanced DRE Practices to Improve Your Investigations
• Enhancing the Three Legged Stool: Corroboration between DREs, Prosecutors and Toxicologists
• Recent NTSB Highway Crash Investigations and the Role of Law Enforcement in the Safe Systems Approach
• Drunk, Drugged, Drowsy and Distracted: Incident Responders in the Crosshairs of Dangerous Drivers
• Traffic Safety Through Data, Engineering, Education and Enforcement

Industries leading Product Showcase open Free of Charge to Law Enforcement,

Security, Government & First Responders only – Identification Required.

Showcasing the latest goods & services in the Atlantic City, New Jersey Convention Center.

Ever find yourself thinking- Why can’t it be Friday yet? Practicing resilience is the best way to combat our own Corrections Fatigue and get to retirement without wishing weeks of our lives away. Much like baking a cake, if you’ve got the right ingredients on hand, a recipe to follow, and a fun-loving chef, you can make a difference in your own life, and that of your employees, and co-workers and stop wishing time away.

• Receive practical tips to build your own Resilience
• Learn what ingredients to keep on hand and how to access them
• Create a Plan to provide the ingredients to your agency

Criminal Justice and related professionals are welcome to attend the live webinar event at no charge. 

Proactive policing requires the ability to aggregate data sources that traditionally are not combined and organizations with vastly different ideas about what should and should not be shared. However, the hardest missions – like organized crime, human smuggling, child abuse, sexual crimes, illegal drugs, and terrorism – are combatted with a multi-agency approach. 

View our on-demand as we dicuss how MarkLogic allows police organizations to securely create, share, discover, and semantically relate entities, cases, dossiers, and profiles. The presentation will focus on:

• The different kinds of law enforcement organizations that have implemented MarkLogic
• The underlying challenges
• The impact our platform has on their operations and business processes

Tweet Earthquake Dispatch Seminar

In recent years, the U.S. has faced the 2011 5.8 magnitude (M) Virginia earthquake, the 2012 5.3M in Central California, and the 2012 4.3M in Kentucky. When these earthquakes occur without warning, USGS scientists quickly receive and review data to provide accurate information to emergency responders and keep the public informed. The USGS uses social media to help increase the amount of data received from an event to improve the understanding of the effects of earthquakes on local communities.

Since 2009, the USGS has been running a prototype project called Tweet Earthquake Dispatch (TED). As people have increased their use of Twitter to share their earthquake experiences, TED has been able to provide USGS scientists with a heads up based off what people are tweeting—sometimes prior to receiving the data from scientific instrumentation. 

View our on-demand webinar as USGS presents an overview of the TED project and how it has helped to leverage the public as passive citizen scientists. Specifically, our featured speakers will cover:

• Types of data USGS receives from TED
• Examples of how TED helps scientists stay ahead
• How USGS combines Twitter and scientific data to improve understanding of earthquake effects

More than six million refugees are believed to have fled Syria and many of them have taken shelter in Jordan. Jordan’s area and population are comparable to the state of Indiana and, due to this massive influx, it now hosts the second largest gathering of Syrian refugees.

View our on-demand webcast for a geopolitical examination of the refugee crisis’ effects on Jordan. We will use web intelligence tools to explore the human security threats among vulnerable populations (especially youths), the future of Jordan’s national security, and the impact on its environment and natural resources.

For this special event, Recorded Future welcomes our new partner, Praescient Analytics. Our Community Manager, Chris Holden, will work with Ryan Drzyzga and Matthew Lonnquest of Praescient Analytics to demonstrate how government security teams can use web intelligence for effective geopolitical analysis.

During this exclusive webcast, we will:

• Show how Recorded Future helps corporations and organizations anticipate risks and capitalize on opportunities
• Provide a live demonstration of open source analysis applied to the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan
• Describe how our patented Temporal Analytics™ Engine reveals key events from the daily deluge of reporting from 300,000+ web sources

Accurate, real-time traffic information provides important value for emergency management professionals who prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. Although maps have been instrumental in this process for decades, real-time traffic data is becoming an increasingly important input in disaster relief.

View our complimentary on-demand webinar to learn how historical and live traffic data are used to improve performance during all stages of a disaster.

Specifically, this webinar will cover:

• Real-time traffic: Navigating up-to-the minute incident and congestion information
• Historic Traffic: Determining the fastest route and accurate ETA at different times of the day
• Traffic Analysis: Strategizing how to effectively utilize sophisticated traffic information to prepare and respond during a disaster
  

On March 4, 1991, local Los Angeles news stations broadcasted the Rodney King incident for the first time. Over the next 30 years, our communities have become indoctrinated with the expectation of information and video evidence from their police departments following critical incidents. Advancements in camera and cell phone technology coupled with the social media boom have greatly influenced how and when agencies must communicate.

Public safety leadership must prepare their agencies through consistent communication utilizing these non-traditional platforms to create a dialogue with those they serve. In the event of a critical incident, such as an officer-involved shooting, leadership must consider maintaining this community dialogue while measuring the perspectives of all stakeholders within the event.

This presentation will highlight the proliferation of crisis communication in the modern law enforcement landscape with those evolving expectations from our communities.

We must acknowledge that staff wellness in Corrections can be one of the heaviest burdens of them all, yet one of the most difficult challenges to overcome.  We also must recognize that heavy burdens only get lighter as we increase the number of hands that are lifting them as a team. This webinar is focused on the often-enormous task of improving staff wellness in Corrections.  Learn how to break the barriers of stigma and lack of resources, by using the strength of the many to do the heavy lifting.

Modern organizations contend with a range of challenges well beyond the core purpose to succeed in their primary mission. Overcoming technology hurdles can make all the difference. In this webinar, we will discuss how to leverage outside expertise to manage the technology aspects that support your core mission so that you can realign your efforts back to where they should be.

The Division of State and Provincial Police, Division of State Associations of Chiefs of Police, and Midsize Agencies Division will hold their joint midyear meeting in Arlington, VA. This meeting provides an opportunity to discuss critical issues facing the law enforcement community, identify best practices, and enhance relationships with your colleagues. 

Conference Highlights

• Substantive meetings with facilitated discussions 
• Excellent speakers presenting practical, relevant content
• New insights and knowledge to address critical issues at home agencies
• Networking opportunities with other agencies and divisions
• Networking opportunities with industry-leading sponsors

UAS technology (commonly referred to as drones) can be used by public safety agencies to enhance community service, increase situational awareness, and provide de-escalation strategies to keep first responders and the community safe. Agencies implementing a drone program must recognize and understand the legitimate public concerns about surveillance and privacy and take steps to ensure their UAS program is accepted by society. Special focus must occur on addressing concerns about public trust, civil liberties, and the public’s right to privacy during UAS operations. Public engagement, identifying ethical landmines, and a commitment to transparency are key factors to a successful public safety UAS program. Learn about different considerations and concerns when implementing a UAS program and how to increase UAS advocates in your community.

Deconfliction is an essential component of officer safety to eliminate the possibility of “blue on blue” tragedies.  Deconfliction also facilitates information sharing and reduces investigative duplication or overlap, thus avoiding the compromise of investigations.  This webinar will describe the basics of deconfliction, how to access this free resource, while strengthening your investigations and promoting critical officer safety.

As an effective leader and communicator, we need to have our employees understand the intent of our message and why it is important to the organization.  We can have the best of intentions of making a team, department, or entire organization better.  But too many times the message is not understood, or it is poorly received.  This webinar will provide strategies which will help your people understand the ideas you are presenting and make them easier to implement.

As an executive communicator, peers will seek you out for guidance.  Your influence can reveal itself at meetings, training sessions, and informational briefings.  The webinar will challenge you to use the ideas and concepts below when talking to you people:

• Knowing your audience and how to connect with them.
• What are the commonalities that will help me relate to my audience?
• Relevant storytelling to make my message impactful.
• Utilizing questions when developing agendas to promote thinking by attendees prior to the meeting itself.
• Using questions to redirect a meeting or presentation that is not going as planned.

As leaders, I firmly believe that we are also teachers.  We are constantly selling and reinforcing what we communicate to our people.  This webinar will provide several tools to help leaders communicate their ideas, solutions, and intent to their people.

Does your organization have a weak bench? Have you looked up and down your organization and question where your future leaders are at? Well, great news! They are working for you right now! The question is what is your organization doing to develop them? Or what are you doing to develop yourself to fill the leadership roles that are opening at an accelerated pace? Personal and career development are two benefits most young people seek when looking for an employer and why they stay or leave. During the webinar, we will discuss how to develop a plan that can be implemented over time that helps develop and retain your most valuable employees. Included will be a list of best practices your organization can do to grow your future leaders.

The Center for Policing Equity believes that centering the voices, lived experiences, and backgrounds of community members – particularly those from Black and brown communities – is one of the primary ways we can achieve our goal of reimagining public safety. This webinar will describe the ways that CPE works with law enforcement, public officials, and communities to improve the systems they have while building the systems they need. The discussion will also include case studies of CPE’s work and offer recommendations for how a community-led process can make public safety less racist, less deadly, and less omnipresent.

Women are significantly underrepresented in most industries’ leadership roles, especially law enforcement and public safety. In considering ways to increase the number of women in leadership roles, research implications identify that executive coaching for women can improve performance as a leader, engagement at work, development of a personal vision, career satisfaction, and organizational collaboration while increasing feelings of legitimacy in their leadership roles. However, how well do organizations support the executive development of women? Does your organization even have the structural mechanisms to provide the support you may need?

When considering participating in or even implementing an executive coaching program for women, it will be essential to understand that an executive coaching program must strike a balance between identifying the structural support and organizational change needed and why it should be a priority for you as a leader. In this webinar, the discussion will examine the benefits of executive coaching for women and the structural elements the agency leaders can consider for supporting an executive coaching program designed for women.

People in a trauma-induced crisis sometimes react to in ways that may appear threatening to a law enforcement officer. If an officer fails to recognize this as trauma-based or mental health-related behavior and does not safely de-escalate the situation he may instead rely on a force response; which only compounds the trauma to both parties. To date, the field of police reform has failed to focus on the full scope of the problem in developing solutions – the trauma experienced by police officers and its contribution to force-based community interactions. In a profession with the highest suicide rate of any other, untreated trauma within law enforcement affects not just officers, it extends to interactions with co-workers, family members, and the community. Officers living with untreated depression, trauma, anxiety, and PTSD[1] are four times more likely to self-report engaging in violence in the home and twice as likely to use excessive force on duty. Peer support programs are a critical lifeline for officers but can no longer be passive lifelines; the field has to address officer trauma, health, and wellness with the rigor of any other population health epidemic; or perhaps even greater, given that officer wellness is interconnected with community wellness, fair and just interactions, and that officers who understand, address, and receive quality healthcare for their exposure to trauma are more likely to recognize it in others and have fewer incidences of misconduct and excessive force within the communities they serve.

Contact with first responding officers proves critical to the victim’s recovery and the victim’s decision as to whether or not they will move forward in the criminal justice system. First, responding officers can also play a critical role in the success of a sex crimes investigation.  Victims can feel helpless, vulnerable, and frightened by the trauma of the crime.  Supporting the victim’s feelings can help officers build needed rapport and trust and gain information to assist the investigation.

While verbal tactics like crisis intervention and de-escalation have been around for decades, few people have unpacked these practices to master them. As such, these concepts often get reduced to buzzwords. But when these skills are utilized in a meaningful and systematic way, the outcomes speak for themselves. Not only do these tactics promote safety and reduce liability, but if taught properly, they also improve all aspects of our lives. Join us while we delve into practical humanistic verbal communication skills. Whether you are already the most skilled communicator or constantly struggle with making connections with others, you will learn valuable lessons about human connection and how connection leads to behavior change. From talking to people in a crisis to listening to our significant others, we provide tangible practices to improve your communication abilities.

For any team to succeed, there must be a significant degree of trust which allows them to perform at their highest level.  Most leaders want a well-functioning and high-performing team.  But the process to get a team to that level involves a common denominator for any high-performance team:  trust.   Without creating a culture of trust, a team and organization will not reach it highest potential.

Let’s consider Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.  It can be looked upon to determine what level of trust we provide to our teams which helps them achieve their highest potential.  Creating a culture of trust involves a hands-on approach which will enable you to become an involved supervisor, manager, or executive that gets the most performance out of your people.

Evaluate the following questions about how to embrace psychological safety in the workplace:

• How is conflict handled on your team?
• How are differing perspectives considered and evaluated on my team?
• How can intellectual curiosity be used as a mechanism for psychological safety?
• What mechanisms do I have in place to evaluate team performance?
• How can psychological safety be measured?

This webinar will provide the assessment skills needed to create a level of psychological safety to get the most out of any team.  It is a starting point for positive change and its effects can impact the broader organization.

Criminal Justice and related professionals are welcome to attend the live webinar event at no charge. 

Next-generation advancements in areas like X-ray scanning systems, non-intrusive inspection technology and unmanned vehicles have propelled the U.S. Customs and Border Protection into a new era of technological capability and enhanced national security.

Federal agencies like CBP, the Transportation Security Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are harnessing these and other cutting-edge technologies to improve the detection and vetting processes at our country’s critical entry points. 

Hear about the latest technologies at the U.S. border during the Potomac Officers Club’s Border Protection Innovations and Technologies Summit. Federal border officials and industry executives will convene to discuss how innovative solutions are defining the future of border security.

Police departments nationwide struggle with recruiting diversity to their sworn law enforcement positions. Chief Ken Clary and Sergeant Howard Banks (Bellevue, NE Police Department), will discuss a new approach to this long-term issue, as well as action steps implemented within their Department, which have led to positive change. From giving up control of messaging, to creating a team working towards a common goal, they will give specific examples that can be tailored to your organization as we all work to make our police forces more demographically representative of the populations they serve.

What you’ll learn:

The 2023 OSW Symposium will be held March 3-5 in Anaheim, California. Improving officer safety and wellness enhances the health and effectiveness of officers, as well as the safety of the community. This symposium is for law enforcement professionals to learn from experts in the field about resources and best practices when developing comprehensive officer safety and wellness strategies. Participants will learn about building resilience, financial wellness, injury prevention, peer support programs, physical fitness, proper nutrition, sleep deprivation, stress, mindfulness, suicide prevention, and more.

PCO 2023, APCO International’s Annual Conference & Expo, is the premier event for public safety communications officials, from frontline telecommunicators to comm center managers to public safety communications equipment and services vendors. Starting August 6, APCO 2023 offers four days of educational sessions, committee meetings and special events, paired with two full days of exhibits.

Who Attends?
Our conference attendees represent a wide range of organizations, including emergency communications centers, law enforcement, fire service, emergency medical services, and government agencies, along with service providers and commercial vendors.

Why Attend?

• Education: Attendees can earn up to 20 CEUs from 10 professional development tracks with more than 120 individual sessions focused on frontline telecommunicators, leadership development, comm center management, cutting edge issues, technology and more.

• Networking: Four special events (extra fees may apply) with engaging speakers provide an opportunity to learn, laugh and participate in industry-building activities with other public safety communications attendees and exhibitors.

• Exhibits: More than 200 vendors, representing a wide range of public safety communications products and services, launch new products, provide equipment to test drive, and meet with attendees to discuss purchases or problems.

• Involvement: Attendees can attend ECC tours, career advancement sessions, and healthy living seminars, as well as donate blood to a local blood bank. All attendees are invited to the general business sessions, and qualified APCO members can vote and attend committee meetings.

• Fun: Attendees can meet and mingle at the APCO Block Party or tour the city with special discounts to Nashville attractions.

Ensuring resident safety is a top priority for leaders across the country. This is emphasized in the wake of countless school shootings, cyber attacks, and an increase in auto fatalities. As state and local governments grapple with discontent citizens and budget constraints, the reality of planning for and executing public safety is littered with roadblocks. 

At the Public Safety Workshop, we’ll talk with state and local government leaders about how they’re using technology, and utilizing funding to protect their communities from whatever is coming next. We’ll also discuss the workforce implications of an enhanced public safety approach.  From drone technology in emergency responses, to enhanced cybersecurity in public education institutions, we’ll cover both what’s around the corner and what’s already here in public safety. 

The annual Trial Lawyers Summit is a unique gathering of America’s most outstanding civil plaintiff and criminal defense lawyers. Offering various networking opportunities and informative sessions, the Trial Lawyers Summit provides attorneys the chance to improve their trial skills and business management. Packed with compelling speakers, valuable conversations, exclusive social functions, and plenty of opportunities to enjoy catered meals and remarkable amenities, the Trial Lawyers Summit will become your focal point in the new year.

Attorneys, paralegals, students, and firm administrators from far and near flock to our unique, family-friendly conference each year to experience the most relevant legal sessions and engaging networking events. The sessions hosted at the Trial Lawyers Summit introduce tactical, useful insights for lawyers at any stage in their career. Education at the Trial Lawyers Summit focuses on digital marketing, mass torts, criminal defense, women’s leadership, trucking and automobile litigation, traumatic brain injury litigation, and much more.

Attendees can indulge in luncheons, cocktail hours, and exclusive receptions that best fit their lifestyle. If you are determined to enhance your legal processes, registering for the Trial Lawyers Summit is the first step.

Whether you are trying your first case or your hundredth, perfecting your practice starts with the Trial Lawyers Summit.

Agencies can face a crisis of faith and trust at any given moment – it’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when. But how do you build back trust and connection with your community? In this webinar, instructors will share best practices based on their “Pathways to Trust” article to highlight ways to measure community sentiment, what to do when there is a critical incident resulting in a loss of trust, and more.

With law enforcement under intensive scrutiny, community engagement is more important than ever before. That scrutiny, however, also bred distrust of police, so old engagement strategies may no longer be effective. This panel discussion will share fresh ideas from leaders in community policing that have proven successful around the country. Most of the ideas you can implement at little to no cost with existing resources. If you’re looking for something beyond coffees with cops and citizens’ academies, you’ll be sure to walk away with fresh ideas to build trust and understanding in your communities.

Cities are increasingly developing a public health approach to violence prevention. Precision data about where and when gun violence occurs can provide prompt interventions to people in need of services and support. With timely and accurate gunfire location data, community violence intervention groups and mental health professionals can more quickly stabilize youth and families in crisis to more effectively prevent future violence and other negative outcomes.

Policies and practices in law enforcement are being scrutinized as our communities seek to redefine policing in America.  Oftentimes, the men and women actually doing police work are but a small part of the conversation.  The National Fraternal Order of Police partnered with Griffith University to conduct a large-scale survey of police officers across the United States with the aim of capturing the state of the law enforcement profession through the eyes of the practitioner.  This webinar will explore the findings of the 2021 Critical Issues in Policing Survey.  Attendees can expect to:

• Identify the most critical issues for law enforcement currently
• Identify common sources of law enforcement stress
• Learn about the role of organizational justice in officer wellbeing
• Identify actionable steps for improving the law enforcement profession from within the workplace

Optimally staffing the patrol function of police departments involves balancing a multitude of factors. While the department and many community members may want more officers, the fiscal reality of municipal budgets restrains those ambitions. Complicating the matter over the last two years is the lack of officers to fill positions. As a result, many departments are experiencing severe staffing shortages. The webinar will discuss factors to consider when staffing patrol and how additional training and time for community policing can impact the number of officers needed for patrol. Understanding the relationship between patrol staffing and external mandates such as training can help department leaders make informed decisions and educate policymakers. 

This Event Has Been Canceled

Leadership Breakthrough: Walk the Talk of Change (WTTC), is an extremely powerful leadership development process designed for individual executives, leaders, and leadership teams.

Many leaders describe it as “life and career changing” because of its deeply personal nature, and its application to both business and personal life. WTTC is about pursuing breakthroughs within yourself to generate breakthroughs in your work and life. We help you identify the personal breakthroughs you are after when you enter the program. Then, throughout the program, we show you how to achieve those breakthroughs.

The purpose of Leadership Breakthrough: Walk the Talk of Change is to catalyze breakthroughs in leaders’ awareness, behavior and skill that radically improve the quality of their individual performance, relationships, team performance, and their ability to lead their organizations to extraordinary business and cultural outcomes.

Leadership Breakthrough is affectionately called “Walk the Talk” by participants because it enables them to do just that – to consistently express their Best Self in their daily actions. You will find that this consistent leadership modeling of your new, positive ways of being, working and relating will impacts your people and culture in powerful ways. It deeply changes how you engage and relate with others, including your family and friends.

Walk the Talk is founded on the fundamental principle that all human excellence comes from within, from one’s ability to access higher states of Being, often called being in “the zone” or “flow.” WTTC teaches leaders and teams the inner dynamics of optimal performance and human development, and how to apply them in their self-leadership and leadership of others.

Each WTTC program is shaped by and delivers outcomes unique to participants’ most pressing agendas, like implementing key business strategies, solving market or customer challenges, innovating, or transforming culture. The experiences you have and what you learn apply directly to achieving yours and your most essential organizational outcomes.

On-scene commanders make decisions in the high-threat law enforcement context of hostage rescue, armed barricaded suspects, and armed suicidal individuals that can result in successful or catastrophic outcomes. The OpTac International Critical Incident Leadership and Decision-Making Program is based on Dr. Stuart A. Meyers’ research published in the books, High-Threat Decisions: When It’s a Matter of Life and Death and SWAT Operations and Critical Incidents: Why People Die. Presentations describe the experience and methods of making decisions in these and other high-threat environments. Areas addressed in this program include learning strategies that could better prepare commanders and organizational leaders in the processing of information, while optimizing speed and accuracy in decision-making, along with an analysis of contextual and hierarchy leadership, contemporary command decision-making, and practical applications for incident management.

Particular attention is paid to the role of adaptive expertise in decision-making and understanding how mental models of recurring patterns necessary for effective situational assessments are created and subsequently retrieved. This process includes asking strategic questions to obtain actionable intelligence for making sound decisions when information is not readily provided. Additionally, new predictive analytics, high-threat decision-making and critical incident pattern recognition models are presented. The program’s goal is to make communities and law enforcement personnel safer. The cost to attend this special event is $499.00 per person. 

Subject Areas:

• Detailed presentation on the complexities of critical incident management
• Learning strategies and the role of experience in decision-making
• Decision-making for extreme events
• Impact of suspect actions
• Leader skills
• Organizational and operational concerns
• Use of force and de-escalation of force as it pertains to decision-making in high-threat situations
• Improved policing and building public trust
• Police accountability
• Interactive discussion of attendee incident response and management concerns
• Critical incident tabletop exercises
• Presentation of the Predictive Analytics High-Threat Decision-Making Model and Pattern Recognition for Critical Incidents Model in which incident data can be applied for an improved understanding of options necessary for making sound decisions

Innovations in Program & Service Delivery

This conference engages innovative thought leaders to identify new trends and opportunities to better deliver programs and services to the people.

Session topics will include, but are not limited to:

• Government in an Online World
• Intergovernmental Collaboration
• Public Safety Innovations

At NENA 2023, you will not only hear about the public-safety issues of today and tomorrow, but also gain practical, real-world know-how that you can take home with you and put into action immediately. Featuring inspiring keynote speakers, more than one-hundred hours of breakout sessions that inform and empower, career-building courses and workshops with real-world applications, nightly networking events that help you make the right connections, and an Expo Hall showcasing cutting-edge products and services, NENA 2023 is the must-attend event of the year. Don’t miss your chance to be a part of it!

Five Reasons You Can’t Miss #NENA2023

• The best education, training, and professional development opportunities anywhere for public-safety professionals.
• Keynotes each day from leadership experts and master motivators that inspire and empower.
• Networking events galore.
• Opportunities to give back, including the Run for 9-1-1.
• Interactive Expo Hall with the latest and greatest products and services on display for you to see, hear, and feel.

International Import & Export Compliance Training – Houston, TX 

by Global Training Center 

May 16 – Letters of Credit 

May 17 – Tariff Classification 

May 18 – International Logistics

May 19 – Incoterms Strategies

We are so excited to finally be back in Houston, Texas! Let’s create your competitive advantage together in this beautiful city.  Our interactive seminars can help protect your company from fines, minimize risks and optimize your export & import trade compliance program. We want you to be able to create a compliance culture and eliminate any unnecessary violations! You can take just one or all seven courses, to strengthen your knowledge.

Join Franklin County Sheriff’s Office IT Project Manager,  Thomas Aurigemma, and learn how his office uses Appscript to simplify and automate the facilitation of numerous challenges, ranging from approval processes to document processing.

See how Thomas built up a visitation app when the pandemic started in 2020, using virtual visiting kiosks were implemented to allow for visitation during difficult times. While these kiosks served a purpose, in-person visits were found to be more effective for health and well being of inmates which, in turn, reduced tension in the facility.

The challenge with resuming in-person visits was that the intake, approval, and verification process was so time consuming visitors were often forced to wait hours, sometimes a full day, to actually get in. The solution? A clever ‘Visiting’ Appscript to smooth the way. Find out how this solution was reached and how to create an Appscript similar to this to help your organization speed up intake processes too!

In this training course, Michael Bourke, Ph.D., PLLC, combines findings from recent research with insights gleaned from his years as a treatment provider and polygraph examiner for the federal prison system and from the more than 13 years he spent as head of the United States Marshals Service’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. After completing this course, participants will more completely understand what motivates sexual violence, the etiology of deviant predilections, diagnostic issues (e.g., paraphilias), the primary motivational pathways underlying sex crimes, and risk-related considerations. With this knowledge, participants will be able to develop best practices and gain additional insight into their professional roles, whether investigating and managing sex offenders or safeguarding potential victims of sexual abuse and exploitation.

Box lunch will be provided. 135 seat capacity.

The Eastern Law Enforcement Training Expo (ELETE) is new to the southeastern United States. ELETE has been a sold-out show for the past several years.

ELETE is the leading event for law enforcement, corrections and executive staff by providing a networking and training venue for hundreds of dedicated professionals from across the country.

ELETE provides an exceptional, concentrated forum for learning, collaborating and experiencing new technology. Become part of the ELETE by joining delegates from local, state, county, tribal and federal agencies.

ELETE is developing rich history of bringing law enforcement and corrections together and working on issues that have truly made a difference in providing safe communities.

ELETE is hosted by the North Carolina Gang Investigators Association and is honored to provide resources that help communities and their citizens through the mission and the awesome responsibility each agency has.

Don’t miss out in promoting your companies ideas, products and much more at this EXPO.

The IJIS Institute is pleased to announce the first-ever Justice and Public Safety Cybersecurity Summit. This summit aims to bring public and private sector stakeholders together to address the growing need for proper cyber hygiene and managing associated risks with increasing cyber threats. By attending this exclusive summit, you will hear from national and international thought leaders from industry and practitioner communities to better understand the cyber threat landscape and the effective strategies that you can develop to address the associated risks, available solutions, and best practices. 

Where: George Mason Campus, Van Metre Hall, Arlington, VA 

When: Tuesday, March 21, 2023  

Hotel: There is no room block for this event, but please check out this list of nearby hotels!

In the wake of a once in a generation pandemic the focus of the nation’s public health system has been forced to shift. As the pandemic recedes, holes in the existing public health infrastructure are forcing the hands of officials. How are agency leaders, tech innovators and public health officials coming together to continue to address COVID-19, as well as broader systemic challenges to health infrastructure? How can leaders balance the need for resilience in the face of sustained workforce shortages? How can public health officials navigate the amplified opioid epidemic as well as the realities of continued mental and physical health concerns following decades of underfunding? Where can future funding be best allocated to account for health equity? 

Join Government Executive and Route Fifty as we tackle the current state and future of Public Health. We’ll cover the federal, state, and local government perspectives on the health of a nation. 

This is an in-person exclusive briefing for Industry Insider – California members to hear from the IT Leadership team of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), one of the largest State departments with over 57,000 employees, a $12.8 billion total annual budget and an estimated annual IT budget of $422 million. CDCR manages the State of California’s prison system with an emphasis on public safety, rehabilitation, community reintegration and restorative justice.

Speaking will be Kristin Montgomery, CIO for CDCR, who oversees the strategy and operations for all IT. She will be joined by Edmond Blagdon, Deputy Director of Integrated Business and Technology Solutions and Richard Gillespie, Deputy Director of Infrastructure and Operations.

Join your colleagues and Industry Insider – California at this members-only briefing on March 23, 2023, 3 pm – 4 pm PT followed by a Member Mixer immediately after.

The ability of law enforcement agencies to respond to emerging threats and future goals depends on the implementation of new operational initiatives, policies, and programs based on leveraging community resources and evidence-informed practices. The purpose of this webinar is to discuss strategies for establishing collaborative partnerships between law enforcement and academic institutions and researchers. Law enforcement personnel have an obligation to strengthen their existing practices and through a collaborative process and engaging with academic institutions interdisciplinary teams are able to review essential aspects of the proposed research, determine the potential impact on local resources, and identify strategies to enhance existing practices. Academic-community collaboration can enhance law enforcement operations, provide additional services to the community, and enhance existing research through scientific inquiry to assist with answering practical operational questions that are needed.

The Social Media Strategies Summit for Public Agencies & Government features in-depth sessions from local, state, and federal government agencies leading the way in social media strategy and community engagement. Over the course of 2 days, you’ll learn about best practices and frameworks that build the foundations of a sustainable, scalable social media policy that empowers your team to serve your constituents best. For more information on our stellar speaker lineup, conference agenda, pricing, and more – visit our website! 

Equipping officers with smartphones can increase situational awareness, improve efficiency, and enhance community engagement. The result is a connected officer, who can access mission-critical data regardless of assignment or proximity to a patrol car. Pinellas Park PD has integrated smartphones into a wide range of departmental operations, all with minimal impact on the agency’s budget. Captain Adam Geissenberger will provide insight to the agency’s mobile program as well as best practices and lessons learned.

Priority access is important for public safety mission-critical operations and this topic will also be covered in this informative webinar. Included will be an overview of the DHS Wireless Priority Services (WPS) program. Many people mistakenly believe their carrier’s prioritization system assures call completion, but this is not the case with calls that are made across carriers. WPS addresses this issue but enrollment, which will be explained, is required. Information will also be provided on which agencies qualify for WPS authorization.

This webinar will help agencies establish a cost-effective mobile program that will increase operational effectiveness. Register today for this free and informative presentation.