NewsletterJuly 2010
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Driving in Bad Weather
Creating A Temporary Interviewing Room
Cutting the Training Budget
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by Tony Scotti

Most of the driving public can opt out of driving in bad weather - but CEO's didn't get to be CEO's because they stayed home when it snowed. So there is a part of the driving population that has no choice but to drive in weather that sane people would avoid. Part of that population is Security/Executive Drivers. When the weather goes bad consideration has to be given to what you drive and how you drive it.

HOW YOU DRIVE
Changes in the weather conditions can challenge the most experienced driver. As an example:  Driving from dry conditions to ice decreases the capability of the vehicle by 65%, driving from snow to ice decreases the vehicles capability by 49%. This decrease is the laws of physics at work.  When moving from one surface to another; you are suddenly driving a car with much less capability. And to make life more exciting this change in capability all happens in tenths of seconds. This quick change in vehicle capability would be difficult for the most experience driver to control. 
 

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By John E. Reid & Associates


In an ideal world, an interview or interrogation would always be conducted in a room specifically designed for that purpose. Most businesses, however, do not have a room set aside for interviewing job applicants or employees suspected of acts of wrong-doing. Consequently, interviews may be conducted in an open cubical, a business office, a conference room or even a storage facility. With a little preparation, many of these spaces can be converted into a rather satisfactory interviewing room.

Importance of privacy: Any person who is motivated to withhold information should be interviewed in private. This group includes job applicants, victims, witnesses and employees suspected of wrongdoing. Privacy is necessary because people almost always share sensitive information with only one person at a time. Therefore, the most critical aspect to assure a sense of privacy is to conduct interviews one on one. That is, there should only be two people in the room, the interviewer and the subject. If this is not feasible, the interviewer should sit about 4� - 5 feet in front of the subject, while the 2nd party (another investigator) should sit off to the side.

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By Harvey Hedden

 

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One of the most common complaints of trainers within criminal justice agencies is that when budgets are cut, training is usually the first casualty. Cutting training is terribly easy from a bureaucratic standpoint. It requires no re-scheduling, no cuts in public services and there are fewer complaints except for those zealots who work in the training bureau. We need to look at defending funding for training as just another teaching assignment. We must inform and persuade administrators and public officials of the importance and advantages of training.

When agency budgets are cut we never expect that the agency will cut back on its services to the public but rather that it will work more efficiently with fewer resources. But how likely is it this will occur without training? Training is a force multiplier making for more effective and efficient work, boosting morale, reestablishing agency priorities and improving teamwork. When we train our staff during the toughest of times we are telling them we are in this together, that we value their work and their professionalism. Conversely when we drop training we send a quite different message down the line which will impact agency performance.

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Top Ten Dumb Moves: 
  1. Using water balloons as a less- lethal.
  2. Driving your patrol car from the passenger side.
  3. Asking every suspect "do you feel lucky".
  4. Carrying 4 sets of cuffs while working the desk.
  5. Bringing down the door on a S/W with your head.
  6. Twirling your weapon during traffic stops.
  7. Dry firing at school buses.
  8. Twittering the location of your S/W service.
  9. Your best friend is an informant.
  10. Wearing a tiara to roll call.
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