Community Policing

The University of Delaware Police Department (UDPD) embraces the mission of providing quality law enforcement education to our regional law enforcement partners in the Middle-Atlantic region. This Training and Technical Assistance request continues UDPD Chief Patrick Ogden's history of identifying excellent contemporary law enforcement training by bringing Blue Courage training to our campus for state, municipal and local law enforcement officers.

Inclusive Leadership training which will include experiential learning based workshop that blends diversity/inclusion learning with leadership development. Areas of focus for Inclusive Leadership include: Understanding and Embracing Diversity and Inclusion, Building Trust, Developing High Performance Teams and Leadership Development.

The Los Angeles Police Department requests two Blue Courage Training courses for approximately 30 participants each. The Blue Courage training course will provide self-improvement, increased engagement, stress management, development of resilience, and improvement of the overall health and well-being of all employees in the department.

The city has areas that are run down and unkempt resulting in community blight that is unattractive to homeowners and businesses. There are a large number (some 8000) abandoned buildings, although the city has started a demolition effort. Much of the housing stock is rental property providing no incentive for maintaining the property and we've seen limited landlord engagement to keep the properties up. Gary has seen a drop in population over the last decade, resulting in fewer jobs and businesses. This has led to buildings being abandoned and allowed to deteriorate.

The City of Berkeley, MO is requesting technical assistance in the area of community policing. We are looking to examine the model that is being used and how it is implemented in the community as well as the policy and procedures that guide it. We would like to interact with the elected officials of the city ,city manager or chief of staff, officers in the field, police chief and community members.

The Arkansas City Kansas Police Department is requesting assistance to bring in the Blue Courage, Heart and Mind of the Guardian two day seminar. We are a small agency of 26 sworn officers with a limited training budget and expansive training needs. The Arkansas City Police Department had a change in the upper management within the last year with the retirement of the Chief and Captain. As the new Chief, I am looking for the best training opportunities which will benefit not only the officer, but the whole agency and the community we serve.

Mukilteo requested a Blue Courage two-day training course. BJA NTTAC referred this request to CICP to be fulfilled under an existing CICP grant.

In August 2014 the City of Wilmington was selected to participate in the DOJ's Violence Reduction Network. Within this program, over the next two years Wilmington will be seeking assistance from the BJA in the areas of technology, crime analysis, intelligence, grant preparation and community building.

This TTA request is entitled "Merging Counter-Terrorism Targeting Methodology and Place-Based Crime Project." It utilizes background and details of a methodology developed at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). This methodology has shown applicability to modeling criminal events and will be demonstrated to the Detroit Police Department (DPD) using their crime events to evaluate the technology. Finally, the technology will be tested in an operational use case.

The City of Apache Junction is located to the east of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The city has an estimated population of over 36,000 with an influx of over 20,000 seasonal residents in the winter months. The Apache Junction Police Department has 57 sworn officers. In 2009, the average ratio of officers to citizens in the US was about 2.3 officers per one thousand residents. One in four adults, approximately 61.5 million Americans experiences mental illness in a given year.