| A Guide to Developing, Maintaining, and Succeeding With Your School Resource Officer Program |
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1. Recruitment and Hiring / 2. Retention and Training |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), June 2005. This guide for school resource officer (SRO) programs focuses on recruitment, screening, retaining, training, supervision, identification of funding sources, and the maintenance of funding. Promising methods used by these programs to address the aforementioned problem area are featured in this guide. |
| Early Intervention System: A Tool to Encourage & Support High Quality Performance--A Guidebook for the Public and Our Employees On What We Do and Why We Do It |
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4. Early Intervention |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), September 2006. This handbook, which is presented in question and answer format, answers questions about the Early Intervention System (EIS) in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina Police Department. |
| Early Intervention Systems for Law Enforcement: A Planning and Management Guide |
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4. Early Intervention |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), August 2003. This guide offers information about Early Intervention systems for spotting officers who have performance issues in the field. |
| Employee Conduct: Investigations & Discipline |
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3. Ethics and Integrity |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), September 2006. This guidebook explains the police employee conduct investigation and discipline processes of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD). It also discusses the Department's rationale for adopting each procedure and discipline philosophy. Designed based on focus group discussions with citizens and employees, the guidebook aims to inform and inspire greater public trust in the CMPD by creating confidence in these processes. The 34-page guidebook was developed with funding from the COPS Office, and was written by Bill Geller, of Geller & Associates, in collaboration with Major Ken Miller of the CMPD Internal Affairs Bureau. |
| Ethics Toolkit |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), n.d. This toolkit, a joint partnership between COPS and the IACP, addresses police ethics and serves as a call to action and a resource for law enforcement agencies. Local agencies using the activities and programs contained in the toolkit will heighten the awareness and visibility of law enforcement's ethical standards both internally and externally. The tools, including, but not limited to the oath of honor, reports, model policies, training, and a bibliography, will engage an agency in the building blocks of high ethical standards and to demonstrate a department's commitment to ethics and professionalism to the community. |
| Innovations in Police Recruitment and Hiring: Hiring in the Spirit of Service |
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1. Recruitment and Hiring |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), January 2006. This report presents findings from the COPS Office's Hiring in the Spirit of Service (HSS) project, a federally funded project that engages the community in recruiting and hiring service-oriented law enforcement personnel. Five HSS demonstrations sites, chosen through a competitive process, are analyzed to highlight how sites involved citizens in substantial ways to create new recruiting methods and marketing initiatives with the goal of attracting recruits who would make good community police officers. The major HSS objectives are to develop an agency brand or image, revise occupational and psychological screenings, and institutionalize a range of new hiring practices that reflect the policing paradigm shift. |
| Mobilizing the Community for Minority Recruitment and Selection |
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1. Recruitment and Hiring |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), December 2003. A strategy to leverage community assets to enhance recruitment and placement of minorities. |
| Police Training Officer (PTO) Program |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), 2006. The Police Training Officer (PTO) program represents an alternative national model for field training that incorporates community policing and problem-solving principles. It incorporates contemporary methods of adult education and a version of the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) method of teaching adapted for police. The PTO program represents the first new post-academy field training program for law enforcement agencies in more than 30 years. |
| Police Training Officer (PTO) Program Manual |
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1. Recruitment and Hiring / 2. Retention and Training |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), April 2006. The manual guides agencies implementing the Police Training Officer (PTO) Program and the PTO Officers who train academy graduates. This manual is part of a 4-part series that includes, PTO Overview and Introduction, PTO Manual, PTO Trainee Manual, and PTO Training Standard. |
| Police Training Officer (PTO) Program Overview and Introduction |
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1. Recruitment and Hiring / 2. Retention and Training |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), April 2006. This document provides an introduction to the PTO program, and summarizes the valuable experiences and lessons learned from the six agencies selected to participate in the PTO pilot project. This manual is part of a 4-part series that includes, PTO Overview and Introduction, PTO Manual, PTO Trainee Manual, and PTO Training Standard. |
| Police Training Officer (PTO) Program Trainee Manual |
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1. Recruitment and Hiring / 2. Retention and Training |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), April 2006. This manual is used by the academy graduate (recruit) undergoing Police Training Officer (PTO) training. This manual is part of a 4-part series that includes, PTO Overview and Introduction, PTO Manual, PTO Trainee Manual, and PTO Training Standard. |
| Police Training Officer (PTO) Program Training Standards |
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1. Recruitment and Hiring / 2. Retention and Training |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), April 2006. The Police Training Officer (PTO) Training Standard guide is intended for use in training PTOs. This manual is part of a 4-part series that includes, PTO Overview and Introduction, PTO Manual, PTO Trainee Manual, and PTO Training Standard. |
| Racially Biased Policing: A Principled Response |
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2. Retention and Training |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), 2001. This report, funded by COPS and produced by the Police Executive Research Forum, will assist agencies in meeting the challenge of eradicating racially biased policing. It provides the first step in assisting law enforcement professionals, in collaboration with the community, to consider the issues and develop approaches for their community’s specific needs. The report guides law enforcement agencies in their response to racially biased policing and to the perceptions of its practice, thereby helping to strengthen citizen confidence in the police and improve police services in the community. |
| Strategies for Intervening with Officers through Early Intervention Systems: A Guide for Supervisors |
COPS |
4. Early Intervention |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), February 2006. Practical advice on many aspects of Early Intervention Systems (EIS), including defining the role of the first-line supervisor, structuring the intervention process for officers who have reached (or about to reach) a threshold within the system, identifying ways to provide the various programs and services that supplement and reinforce EIS, and creating a broader culture of accountability in law enforcement agencies. |
| Supervision and Intervention within Early Intervention Systems: A Guide for Law Enforcement Chief Executives |
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4. Early Intervention |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), November 2005. Practical advice on many aspects of Early Intervention Systems (EIS), including defining the role of the first-line supervisor, structuring the intervention process for officers who have reached (or are about to reach) a threshold within the system, identifying ways to provide the various programs and services that supplement and reinforce EIS, and creating a broader culture of accountability in law enforcement agencies. In addition, it presents some key recommendations for developing, implementing, and maintaining EIS, based on the lessons learned from other law enforcement agencies. |
| Turning Necessity Into Virtue: Pittsburgh's Experience With a Federal Consent Decree |
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3. Ethics and Integrity |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), 2002. This report examines the 5-year experience of the police and citizens of Pittsburgh under a federal court consent decree (statement of specific policy and practice changes the city must make), drawing lessons for other cities. |
| The Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics |
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3. Ethics and Integrity |
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The Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics, n.d., Web site for the only nonprofit, university-based center of its kind in the United States, was established to foster greater concern for ethical issues among practitioners and scholars in the criminal justice field. |
| Use of Force |
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3. Ethics and Integrity |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), 2003. A COPS Office Community Policing Topic on police use of force that includes a discussion of the subject along with descriptions of guides and reports and training and technical assistance resources. |
| When Excessive Use of Force Occurs |
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3. Ethics and Integrity |
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), 2005. Brief overview of survey results dealing with the code of silence. |