Operations

The Law Enforcement/First Responder Diversion and Referral Mentoring Initiative provides communities interested in starting diversion or referral programs the opportunity to learn from established or innovative programs that have shown success in meeting the treatment needs of individuals with a substance use disorder, and in some cases an overdose. Seven sites have been chosen to act as mentors for newer programs that are trying to establish a first responder diversion program.

The Law Enforcement/First Responder Diversion and Referral Mentoring Initiative provides communities interested in starting diversion and/or referral programs the opportunity to learn from established or innovative programs that have shown success in meeting the treatment needs of individuals with a substance use disorder, and in some cases an overdose. There are seven sites that have been chosen to act as mentors for newer programs that are trying to establish a first responder diversion program.

SAKI TTA hosts a variety of TTA deliverables, resources, and tools on the SAKI TTA.org website to include the interactive SAKI Toolkit and SAKI Virtual Academy. SAKI Grantees and Non-SAKI Grantees have the ability to register for an account in order to save individual toolkit resources as their own individual or agency curriculum and to track their progress through the SAKI virtual academy.

Requesting the following data about existing defensive tactics training:
• Curricula, lesson plans, and programs of instruction
• Information on specific tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
• Methods of instruction, evaluation, and practice
• Frequency and length of training
• Effectiveness of tactics and techniques for a diverse range of officer body sizes and types
• Research and evaluation results for DT training programs
• Evidence from actual street-level encounters about effective and ineffective TTPs

Polis will conduct a 60 minute online webinar to which we will invite a representative group of law enforcement, academic, and BJA stakeholders. The ADAPT DT Roundtable webinar will provide a strategic overview of ADAPT. It will also expand the ADAPT network of people and organizations committed to transforming defensive tactics training. We will use a question and answer period at the end of the webinar to elicit input from attendees and ensure wide collaborative involvement in our subsequent program efforts.

Polis has been directed by BJA to work closely with selected police agencies and academies across the U.S. to examine their existing DT training and to pilot new, evidence-based training content and methods. Based on this process, Polis will develop a model DT training program that agencies nationwide can implement. To develop ADAPT, Polis will establish collaborative partnerships with training academies, defensive tactics professionals, researchers, and law enforcement leaders. Polis will establish a set of organizationally and geographically diverse relationships.

The purpose of this comprehensive survey project is to collect vital information from DT instructors, trainers, and law enforcement officers on police defensive tactics (DT) training and how it affects officers’ use of force. These surveys are in support of the Adaptive Defensive and Protective Tactics (ADAPT) program. The ADAPT surveys represent the most comprehensive effort ever undertaken to study the relationship between DT training and street-level use of force.

This virtual training event is a delivery under Cooperative Agreement 2017-VT-BX-K101, in order to equip law enforcement and prosecutors with knowledge, understanding, and proven practices for anti-labor trafficking identification, investigations, and prosecutions. Labor Trafficking training is priority for the law enforcement field across the country, and this delivery addresses that demand from the field.

Throughout the period of January 2020 through June 2020, this project received and addressed, via email and phone communication, requests for information on anti-human trafficking training, technical assistance, and resources. The project staff tracked, addressed, and has kept record of all requests addressed through funding from award 2017-VT-BX-K101.

The IACP received a request from Rachel Parker, Program Manger, World Relief Triad, in regards to forced begging/peddling and sales crews. Rachel also requested to be put into contact with someone in the field that had experience with intervention strategies pertaining to this topic. The IACP tasked Theresa Nietzel, Detective, Erie County Sheriff's Office, with coordinating a response to the technical assistance request. Detective Nietzel was able to provide Rachel Parker with experience and strategies she has used within her agency.