Led by Vicchio, the officers tapped into decision making thought processes employed by ancient philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato. And by all accounts, he had their full attention. The Downtown Center's Berman Auditorium was packed. And I ve been to a lot of these training sessions. This was not jazzy.
Ethics is like nuts and bolts.
The Institute is one of 30 across the country that provide training to law enforcement officers as part of the 1994 Crime Bill designed to put 100,000 new officers on the streets. Baltimore County Police Major Brian Uppercue, a 1998 graduate of the Hopkins police leadership program, said the regional policing institute has helped bring different policing agencies together to cooperate, compare notes and solve problems. Uppercue was also attending last week's conference on ethics. While much of the discussion felt like a good refresher course rather than new information, he said he still gets a charge out of applying age-old principles to modern police work. Katz put it another way.