The Northern Michigan University (NMU) Public Safety Institute (PSI) requested training on the topic of leadership. Command Presence was selected to fulfill the request and provided the training titled “Not By Chance Leadership,” to 24 members of 13 agencies in Michigan on August 28, 2019 in Marquette, Michigan.
The Northern Michigan University Public Safety Institute (PSI), located on the campus of Northern Michigan University, provides in-service law enforcement training for the law enforcement officers of the Upper Peninsula. Law Enforcement agencies including the Michigan State Police, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, United States Forest Service, Sheriff Departments, Michigan Department of Corrections and local police departments, look to the Public Safety Institute to evaluate, schedule and present in-service training for their personnel.
Much of the training is specialized and therefore not cost effective for small agencies to provide for themselves. It is more effective to provide a trainer in proximity to pockets of departments in the Upper Peninsula than it is to send an officer to one central location or the Lower Peninsula classes. In addition, these small agencies cannot afford to release officers for extended periods in order to attend training programs downstate. For an officer to attend a one-day training session downstate, it requires a minimum of three days away from the department. A one-day training session hosted by the Public Safety Institute would require just that, one day. It is more cost effective for the Public Safety Institute to bring the classes to the departments of the Upper Peninsula than it is to send officers downstate.
Training courses are chosen which meet the basic job tasks of patrol officers and their everyday duties as well as the MCOLES advisory standards. The courses will assist the, supervisors, patrol officer and their departments in becoming more efficient in the performance of these duties. Feedback from officers in previous years training is used to determine how these training needs can be met. The priority of the training is based on the most critical needs and essential job task analysis.
There has been mass retirements in the past 5 years resulting in many new officers in the Upper Peninsula. The need for effective leadership and quality Field Training Officers is crucial to the development of these young men and women. The requested training courses would provide the knowledge and skill set to help develop these new officers and help them succeed in their careers.
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The content of the courses requested are important to departments considering the composition of current personnel. There is a desperate need for good supervision, training and leadership. Not only are the officer young and in-experienced, the supervisors are newly promoted and seem to have less years of service under their belts.
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This type of training may require 3, 8 hour days. We are very flexible on dates. Once approval is given dates would be determined.