Diagnostic Center

The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Diagnostic Center recently published a blog titled, “Police are the Public and the Public are the Police: Building Trust in Twenty First Century Community Policing.” The blog, written by Steve Rickman of SER Associates, reveals the emerging challenges that face police departments in this new era of policing as well as the probable reasons for those challenges.

Please join the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Diagnostic Center on Thursday, January 28 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. ET for a webinar on “Adapting to Change: Avoiding the Success Trap.”

Fayetteville Police Department requests the Tact, Tactics, and Trust™ Train-the-Trainer course for up to 25 participants and the Department and Community Leaders course for up to 30 participants.

The Pasco (WA) Police Department seeks Blue Courage training for 70 officers. Pasco PD will provide the trainers, but requests funding assistance for 70 Blue Courage training kits.

Over the last few years, Gary Police Department (GPD) has started to use data more and we now have a full time crime analyst. Currently our efforts have focused on data that shows historical trends, comparisons between timeframes, and documents previous months efforts. We would like to start using data more proactively, in real time, to make decisions about deployment and to help identify strategies and tactics that are customized to high-crime neighborhoods.

We are seeking training for first-line supervisors in the areas of management, leadership, organizational efficiency, etc. Formal, detailed request to follow.

Suicides specific to Correctional Officers

The affordable healthcare act will be implemented in October 2013 and the State of Illinois is seeking assistance to collaborate among state agencies to implement this new reform.

The City of Stockton is implementing the Operation Ceasefire strategy to reduce homicides and shootings. Operation Ceasefire is a violence reduction prevention/intervention strategy that is part of the comprehensive violence reduction strategies of several cities including Chicago, Cincinnati, Newark, NJ, New Orleans, High Point, NC, Detroit and several California cities-Modesto, Salinas, Oakland, and Sacramento.