Professionalism, stewardship, integrity, diversity, independence, continuous improvement, objectivity, credibility, consistency, knowledge, experience, accountability, and collaboration are the primary cornerstones that distinguishes CALEA from all other forms of public safety accreditation. |
Louis M. Dekmar
Commission Chair
Recognizing the 100th CALEA Conference
The upcoming Charleston Area CALEA Conference is the 100th meeting of the Commission. The significance of which is not that the Commission has simply met 100 times, but that CALEA's founding purpose has endured and thrived over the past 33 years. To simply say much has changed at CALEA since that first meeting in December 1979 would be an understatement!
The first 14 Commission meetings were devoted to the development of the organization, and to the creation of the law enforcement standards and the accreditation process. It was not until meeting number 15 in May 1984 that the first agency was granted accreditation, and not until 1986 did the Commission adopted the three-conferences-a-year schedule and started to provide one day of training workshops at conferences. And, it was not until 1997 that a second day of training was offered at the conferences. That also was the year the first Commission website was created. Read more.
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Tell Us What You Think About...
CALEA Merchandise
The Commission has sold CALEA-branded merchandise for many years at conferences and online. We are curious what you think of the service we provide and the types of merchandise we offer. Please take a minute to complete a brief online survey. The survey can be found HERE. |
Communications Open Channel
William Carrow
APCO International Past President
APCO Public Safety Communications Awards Program APCO's Public Safety Communications Awards Program is designed to honor those men and women that carry out mission critical jobs behind the scenes. I want to call attention to this awards recognition program, the categories, and the recognition process and invite you to make your nominations for 2013. APCO's awards program is well known in public safety circles nationwide. From January through April 1 each year, nominations are accepted in multiple categories, and the nominees do not have to be an APCO member. Read more.
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CALEA Leadership Profiles
James O'Keefe, Ph.D.
Deputy Commissioner of Training
New York City Police Department
Training Bureau
When Dr. James O'Keefe was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Training for the New York City Police Department Training Bureau in October 2011, he was already familiar with the position. Dr. O'Keefe had retired as Director of Training for the New York City Police Department in 2001 to accept a position as an associate professor of criminal justice leadership with St. John's University. In the intervening years the NYPD Training Bureau had become CALEA® Public Safety Training Academy Accredited in November 2006, the 14th academy to achieve the award. The department, to which he was returning, now was guided by a new, thoroughly documented set of written directives- the NYPD Training Bureau Policy and Procedure Manual. Read more.
Editorial Note: CALEA Leadership Profiles is a new feature for the newsletter. We want to recognize some of the many exceptional leaders involved in CALEA programming that provide inspiring leadership to their agency, to other CALEA agencies, and to the public safety profession. Agencies are encouraged to nominate additional
leaders by submitting their names and profiles to CALEA
E-Communique Editor Janice Dixon at jdixon@calea.org.
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Charleston Area 
Spring CALEA Conference
March 20 - 23, 2013
The conference hotel, the Embassy Suites, has sold out. There are two overflow hotels within walking distance available: Hyatt Place and Hilton Garden Inn Charleston Airport. See the Hotel/Lodging tab on the website for contact information and rates. The conference activities will take place at the Embassy Suites Convention Center.
Note to Attendees: All the contracted hotels (Embassy Suites, Hyatt Place and Hilton Garden Inn) for the Charleston Area CALEA Conference include breakfast with the room stay. CALEA will provide a "coffee service" in the mornings, but not the usual continental breakfast.
Continue to monitor the Charleston Area Conference link for updates.
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CALEA Commissioner and Staff News
 CALEA Commissioner Ray Johnson, chief of police of Chesterfield, Missouri, was recently named to serve as chairman of the Greater St. Louis Area Major Case Squad. The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis was formed in 1965 and has been one of the longest standing collaborations of professional law enforcement agencies in the nation. The Major Case Squad is comprised of approximately 500 highly trained Criminal Homicide Investigators from the 13 county region of the St. Louis metropolitan area, encompassing St. Louis County, St. Louis City, five additional Missouri counties and six counties in Illinois. Read announcement here.
 Dennis Hyater Retires After 21 years of service to CALEA®, Regional Program Manager Dennis Hyater has retired. Dennis joined CALEA in 1992 after serving 28 years with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C., where he retired as a lieutenant. As a CALEA Regional Program Manager (RPM), Dennis has served as a training coordinator, assessor trainer, accreditation manager trainer, and staff liaison to the Commission's Review Committees and Awards Committee. He has assisted with a multitude of special projects and worked diligently to ensure the mission of the Commission has been addressed through special programming and client services.
CALEA appreciates the commitment and dedication Dennis has provided during his tenure, and wishes him all the best in retirement. We know his favorite golf courses and fishing spots will be seeing a lot more of him!
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Program Managers' Corner
Reaccreditation: Look Ahead and Plan Accordingly
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self-assessment is a continuous mode of self evaluation and comparison of agency practices, policies, and conditions with the CALEA standards. After an initial on-site assessment, the moment the assessors complete the on-site and depart your agency, your files become obsolete.
Accreditation managers do not want to forget this concept and wait until their first commission review before considering reaccreditation planning. Regional Program Managers (RPM) frequently receive calls from accreditation managers somewhere late in an agency's first year of accreditation asking, "How should I prepare reaccreditation files? Should it be for the calendar year, or from award date to award date?" They are surprised to learn that the relevant period for reaccreditation documentation is always from on-site to on-site. Calendar years and award date years are not relevant to the dated documents in an accreditation file ─ only those documents that are dated between assessments are. Read more.
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Agency News
Click here to view the latest CEO Changes.
PAC News
For a list of accreditation support networks click here.
- The Law Enforcement Accreditation Coalition of Tennessee (LEACT) will meet February 27-March 1. CALEA Chair Louis Dekmar will attend and address the meeting on Friday, March 1. Click here for Calendar.
- CALEA Regional Program Manager Maya Mitchell will attend the Chesapeake Region Law Enforcement Accreditation Alliance (CRLEAA) quarterly meeting March 8. Click here for Calendar.
Career Opportunities
The latest job announcements are posted on the CALEA Website. Click here to view the postings.
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Regional Program Manager Reassignments
Because of the recent retirement of CALEA Regional Program Manager (RPM) Dennis Hyater, the following temporary regional reassignments of client agencies to RPMs is in effect until further notification:
Clients in the Pacific Northwest Region (AK, OR, WA, BC, YT) will be assisted by RPM Maya Mitchell (mmitchell@calea.org) (Ext. 20).
Clients in the Southeast Region (AL, FL, GA, MS, TN) will be assisted by RPM Stephen Mitchell (smitchell@calea.org)
(Ext. 29).
Clients in the Caribbean Region (BB) will be assisted by RPM Christie Goddard (cgoddard@calea.org) (Ext. 43).
Clients may reach these staff members by dialing (703) 352-4225 and the corresponding extension, or by emailing them directly.
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 Conducting Mock Assessments - NNEPAC Style
Clickhere for an helpful article by Sergeant John McGregor, Accreditation Manager at the Hudson (NH) Police Department and NNEPAC member, on conducting mock assessments.
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 CALEA Agencies Named in Security 500 Benchmarking Survey
Seven CALEA Agencies Listed
The 2012 Security 500 Benchmarking Survey, conducted by Security magazine, tracks 18 vertical markets, and collects unique data where appropriate and applies this data to key metrics.
The key metrics collected for the 2012 survey included: Security Spending/Person; Security Spending/Revenue; Security Officers/Employee; and Security Officers/Facility.
The identified "markets" cover a wide spectrum, from Arenas/Stadiums/Leagues/Entertainment, to Education (K-12 and Universities), to Industrials/Manufacturing, to Utilities (Power, Electric, Gas, Nuclear, and Water), and many more in between. Read more.
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