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UPI Education – “The Law Enforcement Professional Series: 21st Century Policing Community and Cultural Competency”1 1 UPI Education – “The Law Enforcement Professional Series: 21st Century Policing Community and Cultural Competency” Law Enforcement Professionals Series UPI Education’s Community Relations, Law & Order Division: Improving 21st Century Policing, Community & Cultural Competency.

“The Law Enforcement Professional Series: 21st Century Policing Community and Cultural Competency”2 UPI’s Law Enforcement Professionals Series Course Policing in the 21st Century is deadly. Gone are the days of instantaneous respect for authority. Police Officers are under the constant scrutiny of the media and public. Departments are being held to unreasonably high standards and expected to have the benefit of hind-sight in every situation regardless the level of complexity. Agencies and Departments at every level of law enforcement are paying settlements at unsustainable rates. Even the wealthiest localities cannot continue to pay record amounts of settlements. Sadly, citizens are dying as a result of too many Police Officer encounters gone awry. And there are equally too many Law Enforcement Professionals giving their lives to protect the citizenry. Something must be done and UPI Education is taking action. Based on the findings of the President’s Task Force “21st Century Policing and the research of renowned law enforcement researchers such as Ben Bradford, Jonathan Jackson and Mike Hough, UPI Education crafted a Law Enforcement Professionals Series. The UPI Education Series has been carefully developed to strengthen the Law Enforcement Professionals abilities in: » Procedural Justice » Police Legitimacy » Cultural Competence

“The Law Enforcement Professional Series: 21st Century Policing Community and Cultural Competency” Course Benefits The benefits of this program go far beyond the content presented in seminar. You will have an opportunity to build relationships with peers from other organizations and experts in the area of Procedural Justice, Legitimacy and Cultural Competence. You will leave this session prepared to take on Policing in the 21st Century. You will have a new and strengthened confidence for working in uncomfortable situations. What Can You Expect? This is a 3-day seminar. It will include Procedural Justice topics such as Changing Mindsets with 21st Century Policing, Policing Principles and Policing Rules of Engagement. The seminar will then turn attention to the topic of Police Legitimacy. Several of the topics covered will include the importance of Values emphasizing the “Four Principles of Just Behavior,” as noted in the 21st Century Policing report. Authority & Power, Police Leadership and Level Four Communications will also be covered as major topics of discussion. Finally, and key to the seminar, is the topic of Cultural Competency. In subjects discussed, we include Social Profiling, the Social Landscape, Transparency and Trust and many more critical topics of importance for the Law Enforcement Professional.