Program Description
This course presents concepts, strategies, and information necessary to orient new police chiefs. Timely professional education will assist them in the early stages of their career as police executives and will help them lead and manage the department efficiently and effectively. The successful police chief must be many things to many people. The chief’s role calls for an awareness of multiple constituencies and agendas.

The police chief is expected to set the tone for the organization. Police chiefs are leaders by the time they become the chief executive officer, but leadership is a skill that undergoes continuous refinement and improvement.

The chief must be adept at handling a variety of human resource issues, such as recruiting, hiring, retention, career development, and performance evaluation. Planning and budgeting are important tools that the new chief must use immediately.

The chief must understand and implement concepts from community policing to total quality management. It is essential for the police chief to have a clear awareness of certain political realities that accompany the job and environment. In addition to addressing these needed skills, the course will prompt participating chiefs to begin to identify a written short-term strategy for their own agency.

Topics

• The Police Executive’s Role
• The Ten Commandments of Being a Police Executive
• Leadership Development
• Department Mission and Infrastructure
• Managing the Agency’s Critical Components
• Planning and Budgeting
• Employee Associations
• Community Oriented Policing
• Cultivating Quality in Policing
• Political Realities

Who Should Attend
Police executives in their new position as chief executive of a law enforcement agency are encouraged to attend as early as possible in their initial 18 months in office.

Course Requirements
Participants will be required to attend all sessions, keep a Personal Learning Journal, and complete a short-term strategic plan for their agency. This 6-month plan will be a reflection of prior experience, education, lessons learned, and course material. Required reading will include a monograph entitled Enduring, Surviving, and Thriving as a Law Enforcement Executive.

Cost
Fees, tuition, instructional materials, books, and related supplies, as well as lodging, are provided at no cost to either the participant or the agency. Meal and travel expenses are the responsibility of the agency unless otherwise specified.

Credit
Chief executives completing the entire course and meeting all course requirements will receive 40 hours of training credit.

Location
This course will be offered annually in Springfield, Illinois, unless otherwise announced.

Additional Information
For additional information, contact the Executive Institute at (309) 298-2646 or click this link for an application.