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OCPA 2008 Annual Conference

NCPA SPONSORED TRAINING

The National Crime Prevention Association will host a special bonus training opportunity for conference attendees on April 29. This training is part of an NCPA initiative to expand training opportunities across the country for crime prevention professionals and volunteers. The training is open to all conference participants, but space is limited!

NCPA trainers will present concurrent sessions Recognizing, Reducing and Responding to Workplace Violence and Intersection with Terror from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 29. Recognizing, Reducing and Responding to Workplace Violence will be presented by Columbus Police Sergeant Earl Smith, a nationally recognized trainer and past president of OCPA. Intersection with Terror will be presented by John Wilkinson from the National District Attorneys Association, and Frank Domurad, a terrorism expert from The Carey Group. This training is funded by a grant through the Department of Homeland Security.

The cost of these trainings is covered by the conference registration fee, but space is limited to 35 participants in each class. Registration is necessary and available on a first-come-first-served basis.

Submit your conference registration form soon to ensure that you don’t miss this unique opportunity.

Recognizing, Reducing and Responding to Workplace Violence

Presenter: Sergeant Earl Smith, Columbus Division of Police

This program is designed to provide the student with a general overview of the many factors impacting the occurrence and severity of workplace violence in our country. This includes a historic, legal, and financial perspective to ensure the student is able to fully understand the many ways in which a workplace violence incident impacts an organization, its employees, clients and the community. Additionally, this program will help the student understand the various approaches to recognizing and responding to warning signs, from initial hiring to changes observed during employment. A part of that recognition process includes internal and external responses to concerns that have been identified. Scenarios may be included depending upon interest and time frames.

The program also explains the crucial importance of clear (written) policies and procedures. It suggests wording for policies about workplace behavior designed to reduce both the opportunity and the environment for behaviors which may lead to a perspective that inappropriate behaviors will be tolerated. This is a comprehensive, wide-ranging approach to dealing with an issue that is increasingly part of the work and education landscape.

Intersection with Terror

Presenters:
John Wilkinson, National District Attorneys Association and Frank Domurad, The Carey Group

The Homeland Security Program (HSP) of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) and the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA), with funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, have designed a training to implement the 9/11 Commission’s key recommendation for incorporating criminal investigations and supervision into the homeland security process on the state and local levels. This is an awareness-level training that will teach attendees to identify precursor activity related to terrorism and how to share that information with the appropriate federal, state, and local law enforcement entities. The training will cover the following areas:

Our Role in Homeland Security
Recognizing Terrorism
Information Sharing
International Terrorism
Domestic Terrorism

This one-day training includes many group activities designed to foster communication and cooperation between agencies. Our belief is that while state and local personnel could come into contact with actual terrorists, you are much more likely to come into contact with those that support terrorists through fund-raising, sheltering and otherwise aiding and abetting the terrorist. The goal of the training is to include state and local personnel in the homeland security effort by teaching them to identify indicators of terrorism and advising them of the different agencies with whom to share that information.