Farewell Message from Executive Director Daughtry  

Sheriff-Coroner, Alameda County, California 

 

Gregory J. Ahern was elected to the Office of Sheriff in Alameda County, California in June 2006. Sheriff Ahern continues a tradition of excellence which was initiated by Charles C. Plummer that reaches back to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office first CALEA® Law Enforcement Accreditation in August 1996. Sheriff Ahern has challenged his staff to constantly improve the quality of service delivered to the communities in Alameda County. CALEA remains a guiding light for providing professional law enforcement services by members of the sheriff's office.

 

Sheriff Ahern is a lifelong resident of Alameda County. He graduated from Moreau Catholic High School in 1975, and went on to obtain a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Business Administration from St. Mary's college in Moraga, California. He was hired as a deputy sheriff in 1980, and he worked his way through the ranks before being elected as the 22nd Sheriff of Alameda County. In 2003, Sheriff Ahern became a proud graduate of the 215th Federal Bureau of Investigations National Academy. He continued his professional training at Nesh-Ar training institute for counter-terrorism in Jerusalem, Israel. Read more. 

 

2014 CALEA Spring Conference 
Garden Grove, California
March 19 - 22, 2014

Plan now to attend the spring conference in Garden Grove, California! The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Orange County, which is conveniently located in the heart of Orange County, close to many visitor attractions, including Disneyland.


Hotel reservations must be made by February 17, 2014. Click here for hotel information.

Visit the Garden Grove CALEA Conference link for Registration information and continue to check the site for Workshop and Activities updates.

Multiple Accreditations       

An Opportunity to Achieve the CALEA® TRI-ARC Award

Have you considered working toward acquiring the CALEA® TRI-ARC designation, but are apprehensive about the file management required? Have you avoided undertaking Public Safety Communications Accreditation, along with your Advanced Law Enforcement Accreditation, because you would have to build and maintain 218 more files? If the answer to either of these is yes, then we have a plan for you!   

 

At the November 2013 CALEA Conference, the Commission approved a new, streamlined strategy for agencies to achieve multiple accreditations. Although the strategy is not for everyone, it might just be what your agency needs to improve the comprehensiveness of the accreditation process. If your agency is accredited at the Advanced Law Enforcement level, and you have communications or the training academy as an included subsidiary function of your agency, this is the plan for you. Read more. 

CALEA Commissioner News
 

Accreditation Managers should take notice of the new CALEA® Law Enforcement Standard 46.1.10 concerning active threats, which was approved at the November 2013 CALEA Conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Lessons learned over the past several years have caused public safety agencies to rethink operational tactics related to active threat situations. Even though agencies generally have one year to comply with new standards, the nature of this standard should make it a priority for implementation to ensure compliance within the year. This is a mandatory standard for all agencies. Read more.

The impetus for creating NNEPAC Radio came from a desire to share training content with NNEPAC members who could not make monthly meetings, as well as with members of other PACs. Additionally, the back catalog of episodes is accessible by new members of the PAC or anyone new to accreditation. See the announcement here. 

CALEA® Standards for Law Enforcement Agencies Now Available in Spanish
Published in the PowerDMS™ Electronic Publications Platform

In response to requests from CALEA enrolled agencies in Mexico, as well as other Latin America countries, CALEA has published a Spanish version of the Standards for Law Enforcement Agencies through the PowerDMS™ platform. This new resource not only provides broader access internationally, it also supports enrolled agencies serving Spanish-speaking populations that may request access to the standards during assessment processes. Read more. 

CALEA® Communications Accreditation Manager Training Course

Registration Open for the January 2014 Class

The APCO Institute is once again offering the CALEA® Public Safety Communications Accreditation Manager Online course. Registration is still open for the class that begins January 8, 2014 and runs through March 4, 2014. The cost is $499.

By the end of this course the communications accreditation manager should be able to:

• Interpret a standard.
• Read and write a directive that meets compliance.
• Identify and show proofs of compliance.
• Build an ISSR.
• Have a working knowledge of both the standards and process and programs manuals. 

 

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