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Office of Justice Programs 

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 

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Robert W. Sweet, Jr., Administrator October 1991 

Innovative Law Enforcement Training 

ProgralDs: Meeting State and Local Needs 

Gang and Drug POLICY 

The increase in gang and drug violence in 

America has caused great concern. Our 

communities and families are being faced 

with chronic gang activity that is spreading from major metropolitan areas into 

smaller communities. The Office of 

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Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has responded by developing the national training initiative: Gang 

and Drug POLICY. POLICY stands 

for Police, Prosecution, Probation Operations Leading to Improved Children and 

Youth Services. 

The results-oriented seminar has emerged 

from a seri~s of successful law enforcement training programs offered by OJJDP 

in conjunction with the Federal Law 

Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). 

These programs include special interagency efforts to control habitual juvenile 

offenders and a series of seminars based 

upon a return to a community-oriented 

approach for dealing with troubled, problem, and delinquent youth. These programs, entitled Police Operations Leading 

to Improved Children and Youth Services 

(POLICy), are discussed later. 

The Gang and Drug POLICY training 

seminar recognizes each community's 

unique makeup and has as its goal the 

development of an interagency process 

and plan to launch a comprehensive gang/ 

drug program for each participating juris-

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diction. The process and plan are developed by the jurisdiction's po;icymakers 

during an intensive 5-day training seminar. 

Gang and Drug POLICY is designed to 

be an intensive workshop experience for a 

team of participants who represent the 

policymaking levels of their agencies and 

communities. Each team must be complete, ensuring that schools, police/sheriff, 

prosecutor, probation, corrections, housing, local government, social services, 

community, and courts are represented. 

The objective of the training is to enable 

the participants to prepare a strategy and 

plan of acnon for implementing gang/ 

drug policy upon returning home. 

The seminar includes a complete set of 

guidelines and planning materials. Instruction and seminar exercises will: 

o Develop a statistical profile of the 

problems shared by community agencies 

in dealing with youth involved in gang/ 

drug activities. 

o Examine current gang/drug strategies 

and approaches in their jurisdiction. 

o Conduct a self-assessment of their 

community's gang/drug problem. 

o Examine legal considerations and 

barriers preventing the sharing of information or cooperation among agencies. 

o Address implementation planning 

and management concepts and methods. 

o Develop a plan of action to address 

the gang/drug problem, including mission, leadership, program management, 

strategies, timetable, and altemative 

plans. 

o Discuss current critical issues including drug abuse, delinquency, probation, 

and school safety. 

o Identify the technical assistance 

followup for individual jurisdictions. 

Location. The seminars will be held at 

the Federal Law Enforcement Training 

Center in Glynco, Georgia, and at the 

regional sites indicated in the highlighted 

box elsewhere in this Bulletin. 

Cost. The costs of tuition, room, and 

course materials are provided through an 

OJJDP grant to FLETC. Participants are 

responsible for meals and transportation 

expenses to and from the training site. 

Selection process. In order to bring 

about collaborative information sharing 

and cooperation among agencies, a 

multidisciplinary and multiprofessional 

approach will incorporate the involvement of an 11-person team (additional 

members may be added upon request to 

OJJDP). Team members should have 

responsibility for setting gang/drug policy 

for their discipline and should represent: 

o Law enforcement-two members; 

one policymaker and one tactical. 

o Probation. 

o Prosecutor. 

o Courts. 

o Schools . 

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a Social services. 

Applicant teams will be selected on the 

basis of: 

a Demonstrated gang and/or drug 

problems. 

a Commitment to team attendance. 

o Willingness to participate in technical 

assistance and program evaluation following training. 

Other law enforcement 

training programs 

OJJDP offers other law enforcement 

training seminars in conjunction with the 

National Center for State and Local Law 

Enforcement Training, a component of 

FLETC. These 5-day seminars are targeted to help law enforcement agencies 

learn more about juvenile issues and to 

increase the effectiveness of their juvenile 

programs. The seminars are offered in 

the regional locations listed elsewhere in 

this Bulletin. 

POLICY I 

POLICY I, the first seminar for Police 

Operations Leading to Improved Children 

and Youth Services, is designed for law 

enforcement executives. It was developed to help law enforcement agencies 

and communities improve police productivity, increase police services to juveniles, and integrate juvenile services into 

other law enforcement activities. 

The concepts taught in POLICY I are 

based on the Integrated Criminal Apprehension Program (lCAP), which is recognized as a model program to improve 

police productivity. ICAP, used by several hundred police jurisdictions, was 

developed and tested by the former Law 

Enforcement Assistance Administration. 

It stresses the importance of involving 

individuals from all levels of a department in developing activities and 

services. 

POLICY I participants are trained in 

identification, intervention, and enforcement techniques for use with specialjuvenile populations, including serious habitual offenders, youth gangs, drug- and 

alcohol-involved youth, and physically 

and sexually abused or neglected children. 

In addition, POLICY I training focuses 

on: 

a Implications of recent court decisions and legislation on juvenile law 

enforcement. 

a Organizational structures and management strategies that can increase an 

agency's effectiveness in dealing with 

juveniles. 

a Strategies for receiving referrals. 

a Setting response priorities and ensuring adequate service delivery. 

a Using crime analysis to detectjuvenile offenses, increase departmental skills 

in dealing with juveniles, and implement 

prevention strategies. 

a Law enforcement approaches for 

detecting and apprehending serious juvenile offenders and for dealing with street 

gangs and other disruptive groups. 

a Implications of recent police liability 

court decisions on detention. 

a Departmental1?rocedures for initiating 

and conducting investigations into reports 

of missing children. 

a Effective relationships between school 

and law enforcement for resolving their 

problems. 

a Investigative and policing techniques 

for addressing sexual and other forms of 

child abuse. 

a Ways to identify supplemental resources and obtain juvenile services in the 

local community and police department. 

Eligibility. Police chiefs and sheriffs 

have priority for this seminar for law 

enforcement policymakers. However, 

applications are accepted from their subordinates who head units or have 

policymaking authority. 

POLICY II 

POLICY II is a followup seminar to 

POLICY I that demonstrates step by step 

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how to implement the management principles presented in POLICY 1. The program features a complete resource kit. 

Participants in POLICY II learn how to: 

a Improve police productivity in juvenile justice matters and enhance overall 

organizational competency. 

a Develop policy statements and procedures for juvenile operations. 

a Explore directed patrol activities as an 

alternative to preventive or random patrol. 

a Assess training needs and strategies, 

and implement training programs. 

Eligibility. Applications are accepted 

from executives or midlevel supervisors, 

juvenile unit commanders, or training 

officers having departmental support in 

implementing the techniques presented in 

the training. 

SAFE POLICY 

School Administrators for Effective Police, Prosecution, Probation Operations 

Leading to Improved Children and Youth 

Services (SAFE POLICY) is an offshoot 

of the POLICY I and POLICY II training 

program series. It examines the critical 

roles that schools, courts, and police play 

in handling problems with juveniles. 

This seminar focuses on how schools and 

criminal justice organizations can coordinate their efforts and share information in 

order to improve school safety, supervision, control, and delinquency prevention 

efforts. Developed with assistance from 

the National School Safety Center, also 

funded by OJJDP, this intensive workshop 

incorporates a team approach. Each team, 

consisting of policymaking executives, 

must include representatives from schools 

and police departments. The objective of 

the seminar is to teach participants to 

prepare a strategy and plan of action for 

implementing SAFE POLICY in their 

respective communities. 

SAFE POLICY participants examine: 

a . Problems community agencies share 

in dealing with troubled and delinquent 

youth. 

a Results of habitual juvenile offender 

programs. 

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o School, police, prosecution, probation, and judicial perspectives on their 

unique missions, requirements, workloads, and problems. 

o Legal considerations and myths that 

prevent cooperation and sharing of information among agencies. 

o Ways to plan and implement management changes. 

o Supervision and control of juvenile 

offenders. 

o Gang and drug issues. 

o School problems and strategies. 

Eligibility. This seminar's multidisciplinary approach requires that applications be submitted by a four-person 

community team. Each team must include a school superintendent, police 

chief/sheriff, prosecutor, and probation 

officer. It is suggested that a judge attend 

as a member of the multidisciplinary 

team; however, it is not mandatory. 

Child Abuse and Exploitation: 

investigative techniques 

Child Abuse and Exploitation is designed 

for full-time law enforcement investigators who are responsible for cases involving child abuse, sexual exploitation of 

children, "kiddie" pornography, and missing children. The program seeks to help 

law enforcement personnel recognize 

signs of child abuse and neglect by providing .information and training in stateof-the-art techniques. 

Participants receive training in the following areas: 

o How to recognize deliberate as opposed to accidental soft tissue injuries, 

fractures, visceral injuries, and wet and 

dry burns. 

o Injury reconstruction techniques. 

o Evidence collection and preservation. 

o Case preparation and coordination 

with prosecutors. 

o Behavioral patterns of pedophiles. 

o Child pornography undercover 

operations. 

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o Interviewing victims and offenders. 

o Victim awareness. 

o Use of anatomically correct dolls and 

drawings. 

o Law enforcement liabilities in abused 

and missing children cases. 

o Investigative techniques for abused 

and missing children cases. 

Eligibility. This training program is open 

to full-time sworn officers with authority 

to arrest. Applicants are selected on the 

basis of current duties with respect to 

child abuse and sexual exploitation cases 

and availability of course dates. 

Managing Juvenile Operations 

Managing Juvenile Operations (MJO) is 

an intensive program designed for juvenile unit commanders, whether the commander heads a large division or is the 

sole officer to whom juvenile contacts are 

referred. MJO provides sound strategies 

which will improve the manager's skills 

and also improve the unit's ability to 

deliver juvenile services-given limited 

budgets, staffs, and resources. 

The program provides simple, yet effective, techniques and strategies for planning and delivering juvenile services. 

Managing Juvenile Operations is instructed by nationally recognized police 

juvenile practitioners and is applicable to 

any size department or unit. 

U.s. Department of Justice 

Office of Justice Programs 

Some of the topic areas are: 

o Identifying critical juvenile 

needs and services. 

o Setting long- and short-term 

goals and objectives. 

o Budget development and 

management. 

o Implementing effective change 

strategies. 

o Staff selection, evaluation, and 

motivation. 

o Developing leadership skills. 

o Improving decisionmaking skills. 

o Developing and utilizing crime 

analysis information. 

o Developing standard operating 

procedures. 

o Effective case management. 

o Understanding and utilizing matrix 

management. 

o Developing inservice training. 

o Resource development. 

o Working with the public. 

o Maximizing interagency cooperation. 

o Understanding the legislative process. 

Eligibility. Managing Juvenile Operations is designed for the law enforcement 

officerresponsible for the department's 

juvenile policies or who supervises 

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 

Washington, D.C. 20531 

Official Business 

Penalty for Private Use $300 

persons delivering juvenile services. 

Qualified applicants may include chief 

administrators, unit commanders, division commanders, or the person designated to deal with the department's 

juvenile cases. 

Further training program 

information 

Further details and registration forms for 

Gang and Drug POLICY and the other 

seminars may be obtained by contacting: 

Ron Laney 

Law Enforcement Program Manager 

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 

633 Indiana Avenue NW., Room 710 

Washington, DC 20531 

202-307-5940 

The Assistant Attorney General, Office 

of Justice Programs, coordinates the activities of the following program Offices 

and Bureaus: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Institute of Justice, 

Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of 

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of 

Crime. 

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