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 **Advancing
            Community Policing
through
a Regional Training Approach** March 2019 | Volume 12 | Issue 2
  The COPS Office and the International Association of Directors of Law  Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST) are working together to  enhance regional law enforcement training efforts across the country. The goal  is to create a series of regional training hubs that can promote, host, and  evaluate training that advances community policing and public safety. The  centers will work closely with the regional agencies to determine agency needs  in community policing and strive to address those needs through providing and evaluating  training courses. In addition to providing and evaluating courses, the  regional training hubs will pilot and critique COPS Office courses that are in  development to ensure that the needs of the field are being met. To do this,  the regional hubs will reach out to their surrounding agencies and ask for  participants in the pilot courses. Courses will be piloted in person or through  a learning lab approach for online courses. This approach allows law  enforcement a voice in the development of courses for the field related to  community policing and ensures exercises, scenarios, and course materials are  practical, relevant, and beneficial for the field. Another component of the project is for regional hubs to  showcase locally developed training programs that are unique or feature emerging  promising practices. There is a vetting process for content and the potential opportunity  for the regionally developed training to engage a wider audience through  delivery at other regional hubs. To learn more about this, please contact Mark Damitio at IADLEST. The COPS Office and IADLEST will also use the robust  course catalogue offered through the COPS Office and through IADLEST’s National  Law Enforcement Academy Resource Network (NLEARN). The courses available from  the COPS Office are both online courses and in-person courses, and there are a  plethora of additional resources linked on the COPS Office Training Portal to assist law enforcement in advancing public safety. Courses in NLEARNsupport  all United States law enforcement training academies and trainers with a  variety of vital resources and services. The project welcomes proposals from law enforcement  training centers to become a regional hub host. Proposals should include  facility information (classroom types, capacities), facility location  (including distance from major transportation hubs), unique facility features  (EVO course, Mock City, computer classrooms, dormitories, etc.) and the contact  person for follow-up and should be submitted to Mark Damitio, IADLEST  Accreditation and Grants Manager. To learn more about the regional training hub initiative,  please contact Mark  Damitio. Melissa Bradley 
          Senior Policy Analyst, COPS Office Mark Damitio
          Accreditation and Grants Manager, IADLEST 
 
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