The Fall 2008 IALEP Planners Course is scheduled for Clearwater Beach, Florida on November 17-21, 2008.  You can sign up for this course now!  Registrations are limited so sign up soon! 

Classes begin at 8AM on Monday and ends at Noon on Friday.
 

Tuition for the course will be $500 for 2008 IALEP members or $575 for those who are not current members for the year 2008 (includes membership of $75).

Click here for the registration form as a web page.
Click here for the registration form as a Adobe Acrobat (PDF) document
Click here for the registration form as a Word document.

What is the IALEP Planners Course?
Click here for the Planners Course Brochure as a PDF document
If your agency has just hired a new planner, transferred an officer into a planning position, or simply wants to advance the job knowledge of its existing planning staff, then this training course is important to you and your agency. 

The Law Enforcement Planner's Course is an intensive and highly interactive, one week workshop designed to give law enforcement personnel the tools they need to tackle complex projects.

Limited to 30 students, this Course is intended for sworn and non-sworn employees at all levels of experience who are employed in a planning capacity/function.

Past attendees include law enforcement planners, researchers, crime analysts, administrators, supervisors and managers.

Areas of Instruction Include:
Workload-Based Patrol Allocation and Scheduling

Using audited CAD and payroll data to:

• Measure patrol workload
• Determine beat design
• Identify optimal shifts & schedules
• Quantify relief factors
• Set minimum staffing levels by hour of day and day of week
• Allocate officer time according to targeted percentages for call response, proactive & community policing, and administrative tasks

Implementing Agency-Wide Community Policing

• Expanding the role of community policing from a specialized unit to an agency-wide operation;
• Developing training and evaluation standards

Strategic Planning

• Facilitate the decision-making process of management
• Data gathering and analysis
• Identify external factors and forces of community change
• Assess present and future needs for public safety & crime control

Applying Risk Management

• Identifying and quantifying risk
• Minimizing impacts of risk and loss
• Predicting and managing risk Program Evaluation
• Defining clear, specific, and measurable program goals
• Selecting research design and data sampling methods
• Assessing hard & soft cost implications
• Evaluating objective and subjective outputs versus outcomes
• Case examples

Tactical, Strategic, and Administrative Crime Analysis

• Collecting/collating/analyzing crime data
• Creating tools (trends, charts, bulletins, maps, graphs, etc.) to get information to officers, government, and the public
• Identifying intervention techniques
• Applying new technology in gathering and manipulating crime information

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

• Control crime, behavior, and access
• Designing crime out of buildings/places
• Encourage natural surveillance
• Apply technical standards (lighting, landscaping, signage, etc.) to new and existing developments and properties

Requests for Proposals

• Preparing written specifications
• Ensuring a level playing field
• Evaluating vendor proposals

Problem Solving

• Neighborhood-based initiatives
• Preventing problems using community mobilization and partnerships

Capital Facilities Planning

• Creating a strong business case for constructing or renovating police facilities
• Assessing needs
• Conducting comparative analyses
• Project design and budgeting
• Project coordination

Information Technology Planning

• Conducting automation needs assessments
• Developing a five-year plan for implementing technology and information systems

Writing Policy Manuals

• Understanding the need for written policies, and drafting and presenting them accordingly
• Preparing documentation in accordance with CALEA accreditation standards
• Formatting and publishing information for optimal accessibility

Project Management Principles

• Project Manager’s role
• Skills and tools to be utilized
• PERT and GANTT charts
• Developing successful projects

The first planners course was attended by 37 planners in May 2000 in Kansas City.  You can read reactions to the 2000 Police Planners Course here.  
 

Click here for the registration form as a web page.
Click here for the registration form as a Adobe Acrobat (PDF) document
Click here for the registration form as a Word document.

For questions about registration contact:

Barry Horrobin
Windsor Police Service 
(519) 255-6700 x4471 
intl_training@ialep.org or
bhorrobin@police.windsor.on.ca

-or-

Denise Thurston
IALEP Office
(310) 225-5148
ialep@ialep.org
 
List of past Police Planners Courses

Please note that attendance will be limited to the 
first 30 paid registrants!