IPTACS training and consulting experts in the areas of leadership, management, and supervisory training are subject matter experts with 20+ years of experience in both operational, management, and leadership responsibilities for the United States and other progressive policing countries at both the federal, state, and municipal level. The listed course content areas can be customized to specific countries laws, regulations, and other requirements to provide important best practice procedures for operational, management, and law enforcement leaders.
Training Courses
Intelligence Led Policing
The Intelligence Led Policing course is designed to provide law enforcement senior executives and managers the process for fighting crime guided by effective intelligence gathering and analysis. Participants in the course will learn and understand the precepts of Intelligence-Led Policing (ILP), sufficient to support a decision to pursue ILP as an organizational strategy, and to understand what it takes to make the strategy a reality. Participants will understand how resource decisions are made within an ILP business model and experience practical applications of ILP concepts and ideas.
Length of Course: 5 days
Topic Areas Covered:
- Audience Identification
- Definition of Intelligence Led Policing (ILP)
- Practical Application of ILP
- ILP as a strategic focus for a police organization
- Applying the ILP Business Model
- Knowledge Management
- Applying the 3i Model
- Develop an organizational implementation plan for ILP
Strategic Management
The Strategic Management course is designed to introduce to participants the key elements of strategically managing a law enforcement agency or structure within the agency. Participants will be introduced and have an opportunity to participate in practical exercises in strategic planning and thinking. The instructor will facilitate problem-solving management and critical issues, directing agency effectiveness, and encouraging and supporting highly productive staff. Emergency and contingency planning in respect to terrorism will also be covered.
Length of Course: 5 Days
Topic Areas Covered:
- Introduction to Strategic and Change Management
- Planning and Problem-Solving Cycles and Decision Making
- Preparing for Generic and Specific Incident Contingencies (Domestic Terrorism and Emergency Planning)
- Management Skills to Deliver Maximum Effectiveness and Response
- Organizational Communication
- Morale & Motivation
- Building a Team to Create an Effective Agency
- Creating a Strategic Plan
- Preparing and Implementing Objectives and Strategies
- Managing Strategies and Delivering them Effectively
Police Middle Management Course
IPTACS Police Middle Management Course is designed to prepare the current police supervisor or new police middle manager with an understanding of important management skills necessary for a progressive law enforcement organization. Participants will have the opportunity to learn important management concepts and demonstrate their application during practical exercises and scenarios.
Length of Course: 10 Days
Topic Areas Covered:
- Management and Leadership
- Evolution of the Modern Policing
- Role of the Police Supervisor
- Development of Police Management Theory
- Operational Management of a Police Agency
- Leadership Approaches & Styles
- Strategic Planning
- Types of Plans
- Re-engineering Principles for Police Organizations
- Total Quality Management
- Personnel
- Approaches to Stress Management
- Policing a Multicultural Community
- Training Methods and Applications
- Law Enforcement Values
- Intelligence Led Policing (Use of Intelligence to Manage Resources & Investigations)
Police Supervisor Course
IPTACS Police Supervisor Course is designed to prepare the current police supervisor or police officer who desires to be an effective supervisor upon promotion, with an understanding of the important skills necessary for a progressive law enforcement organization who wants a supervisor that is confident in directing personnel toward the effective delivery of police services through tasks ranging in complexity from routing administrative duties to tactical police operations.
Length of Course: 5 Days
Topic Areas Covered:
- Role of the Police Supervisor
- Ethical Decision Making
- Communicating Effectively
- Leading a Team
- Roll Call Training
- Effective Meetings and Briefing
- Disciplinary Practices
- Conflict Resolution
- Performance Improvement Counseling
- Problem Solving
- Delegating Effectively
- Intelligence Led Policing
Other Courses
The following courses are also available:
- Advanced Problem Solving
- Situational Leadership/Leadership Theory
- Organizational Change
- Organizational Agility and Effectiveness
- Staff Development/Succession Planning