February 26,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, While Franklin/Covey has been partnering with Law Enforcement on a wide variety of trust and leadership programs this will be their first national pilot program which involves police, public safety & community members training together.
The overall concept is to provide police and community members the opportunity to enhance understanding, break down silos and build trust through shared learning experiences. Participants will be armed with enhanced trust, understanding and the tools to effectively solve community problems implement and sustain community policing projects.
The program involves four core foundational training’s to enhance community policing /trust and four core trainings to help police and community leaders effectively implement, operate, evaluate and sustain community policing programs.
Community members are teamed with police officers and can receive the training for free.
The pilot program is not limited to Ridgewood. In fact Glen Rock and several other communities have already expressed interest in participating.
According to police sources ,Franklin Covey dramatically reduced their prices the Community Policing/Trust Leadership initiative provides full access to 8 of their premier programs annually for 100 officers/public safety leaders and another 100 community members who receive these training (with police officers) for free.
Ridgewood Police worked with partners at covey to select the programs we believe will help communities effectively develop, enhance and sustain effect community policing and trust initiatives.
The programs will include 4 Core Community Policing/Trust Foundational programs;
Nobility in Policing, Policing/Leading at the Speed of Trust, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Diversity Centered Leadership and 4 core Effective Execution & Operations Core Trainings which include; Leadership Foundations, Leadership Great Leaders, Great Teams, Great Results, The 4 Disciplines of Execution and Project Management Essentials
Great job by Chief Ward! The Village should be proud.