SafeShield Summary
Making Officer Safety a Priority
In 2002, the IACP’s Division of State Associations of Chiefs of Police (SACOP) created an initiative dedicated to protecting our nation’s law enforcement officers. The SafeShield committee was designed to focus on officer safety. There has been a long standing belief that in the line of duty deaths are unacceptable and law enforcement professionals have done everything they can to help reduce them. However it is the conviction of this committee that this philosophy should also extend to officer injuries. Law enforcement leaders can not accept the proposition that accidents or injuries are a reality of the law enforcement profession. The only acceptable belief is zero officers killed or injured.
In 2003, the SACOP SafeShield committee commissioned a survey to gather information about what types of on-duty injuries officers sustain as well as the severity and frequency of these injuries. During a one year period, 698 agencies reported 2,800 officer injuries, causing more than 24,000 lost workdays. The survey results made clear that the law enforcement community not only has a personal incentive to protect its officers but also a financial incentive to identify the causes of on-duty injuries and institute changes to eliminate them.
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Coaching for Life
The Board of Directors of the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association has recently endorsed the Coaching for Life program, incorporating the approach within their Police Department PAL programs. Joe Ehrmann, former NFL lineman, is Founding Director.
As a former NFL professional football player and coach, Ehrmann has seen firt-hand the negative impact of defining a young person's self-worth based on his/her athletic ability, size, and strength. A new culture of coaching and sports can provide the optimum venue for creating the next generation of confident and compassionate young adults.
The goal of the program is to develop a strong network of after-school and community league coaches, teachers, police officers, parks and recreation directors - to oversee season, post-season and after-school sports activities at the elementary, junior and high school levels; targeting, in particular, those communities which have significant numbers of children who are at-risk for juvenile delinquency, substance abuse, and school failure.
The aim of the program is to provide a model of athletics and character development that is systemic – providing the same sets of positive messages for children in community leagues up through and including varsity athletics.
Work has begun in the cities of Waterbury, New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport and expected to be expanded next year. For more information, contact Sherry Haller, Executive Director, The Justice Education Center, Inc. at 860-231-8180. |
 WEST HARTFORD -- The Connecticut Police Chiefs Association along with the state DMV and the State Commission on the Deaf and Hearing Impaired have launched a new program aimed to better alert police officers to hearing impaired drivers.
The program will provide bright green visor envelopes for hearing impaired drivers to place their license, registration and insurance information.
In Connecticut about 1 in 5 drivers is hard of hearing or deaf and the new program is designed to help police officers better communicate with drivers who are deaf or hard of hearing.
The envelopes will be available at all Connecticut Police Departments and from The Department of Motor Vehicles. |
Locater is an advanced computer system with
software that creates posters of missing children for
local, statewide or nationwide distribution. Through
a Congressional mandate and US Department of Justice
grant, the Locater Program provides all hardware, software
and dial-up access at no charge to agencies responsible
for investigating missing children cases.
For more information on this program, please go to
www.locaterposters.org |
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