To have Police Executive Research Forum to conducted at the Eastern Shore Criminal Justice Academy two day Train the Trainer ICAT- Integrating Communications, Assessment, and Tactics (ICAT) Course
No issue is of greater consequence to the policing profession, or to the communities we serve, than the issue of police use of force. Beginning in the summer of 2014 and continuing to present our nation has seen a series of controversial cases, many of them captured on videos taken by the police, bystanders, or nearby security cameras. These events have sparked protests across the country and soul-searching among police executives. They have threatened community-police relationships in many areas and have undermined trust, community-oriented policing, and de-escalation skills.
Wor-Wic Community College has been certified by the Maryland Police Training Commission to serve as a regional academy for police officer training for the seven counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore since 1978. Today, the college’s Eastern Shore Criminal Justice Academy (ESCJA) is the primary training provider for new recruits and in-service officers for more than 39 law enforcement and correctional agencies across the seven counties making up Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Just like most rural jurisdiction our agency partners have small budget to pay for training, so they rely on ESCJA to find another funding sources to assist. The ESCJA instructors are made up of the members of our partner agency. This relationship reduces the cost for the agencies.
The ESCJA undergoes continuous assessment of its courses and content to ensure alignment with law enforcement standards and best practices and maintains an active program advisory committee (PAC), comprised of the public, retired law enforcement personnel, representatives of police and sheriff’s departments, and representatives of detention and correctional facilities. In its assessments of current training, the PAC has identified strengths and areas for improvement surrounding de-escalation. Although current recruit training incorporates de-escalation tactics. (ICAT and CIT) in many of its entrance-level classes, there is a lack of focused de-escalation training for in-service officers, supervisors, and dispatchers, who are often the first in the line of communication.
To address this gap in de-escalation training, particularly among current law enforcement personnel (versus new recruits), the ESCJA requested to allow PERF to conducted ICAT-Integrating Communications, Assessment, and Tactics (ICAT): train the trainer course to train 35-45 ESCJA instructors. Starting in 2023 all police officer in the State of Maryland must receive training in de-escalation and the best program we have identified is ICAT. The ESCJA reached out to PERF and the cost of this school would be $33,200.00 which the Academy and the agencies don’t have.
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