TIPPS Home

Understanding Community Policing

This one-day course helps law enforcement officers and citizens understand the four essential building blocks of community policing – community partnerships, proactive problem solving, empowerment, and organizational transformation. The course emphasizes what police officers, community partners, and local government do differently using the community policing foundation than under traditional policing. This course is typically taught in conjunction with Problem Solving.

Problem Solving

This two-day course focuses on developing and practicing the skills needed to understand and solve community crime and disorder problems. The course is designed to capitalize on the experiences and knowledge the participants bring to class, and relies on the SARA problem solving model (Scanning, Analysis, Response, Assessment). The class also considers police/community collaboration, problem solving resources, identifying recurring problems, and community organization.

Homeland Security: What Do We Tell the Public?

This one-day course provides law enforcement officers with the background needed to give presentations to the public on homeland security topics. The course covers levels of risk and sources of fear, local regional emergency plans, the most likely types of terrorist threats, and what, specifically, citizens can do to reduce their risks. The course also offers guidance on customizing the content and style of presentations to meet the needs of a variety of citizen groups.

Early Identification and Intervention Systems

This two-day course was originally designed for Chiefs, Sheriffs and command staff, but is now available for supervisory personnel. The course is designed to recognize and address potential problematic behavior in the department and provide an avenue for dealing with them. Objectives of the course include reviewing a process for identifying, intervening and following-up with personnel who may have potentially problematic conduct and developing strategies for implementing the EIIS for your department.

Use of Force

This two-day course is designed for Chiefs and/or Senior Managers with the authority and responsibility for overseeing, reviewing and revising their department's use of force approaches. The model addresses beliefs about the use of force, alignment and balance among various agency use of force related statements, policies and practices, and accountability and communication.

Citizen Complaints

This two-day course is designed for Chiefs and/or Senior Managers with the authority and responsibility for overseeing the citizen complaint intake process and the investigative issues, policies and practices associated with them. The training focuses on aspects of current models, citizen complaint acceptance methods, and customization for individual departments through reviewing and/or strengthening existing practices.

Conflict Prevention and Management

This two-day course provides police officers and community members with the concepts and techniques needed to resolve civil disputes. It helps participants identify the benefits of alternative dispute resolution, and gives them the tools to help them resolve conflicts on their own. Special attention is given to helping participants develop the communication skills needed to prevent or de-escalate disputes.

Supervising Problem Solvers

This two-day course is designed for management of all ranks. The course is designed to assist new supervisors and refresh experienced supervisors in leadership skills beneficial to a community policing environment.

Community Policing to Reduce Domestic Violence

This two-day course focuses on creating a public response to a private violence. Participants learn how to bring together all those affected by a domestic violence situation, and through coordinated efforts provide better service and reduce the problem of domestic violence. This course fulfills the TCLEOSE in-service training requirement for Family Violence.

Ethics and Integrity in Law Enforcement

This two-day course is based on the nationwide Department of Justice COPS Office training initiative. As with all TIPPS training, the focus is on practical tools and techniques to help police resolve real-world ethical dilemmas. It relies heavily on case studies to promote lively discussion. This course fulfills the TCLEOSE in-service training requirements for both Racial Profiling and Asset Forfeiture.

Train-the-Trainer

To help institutionalize community policing, TIPPS also conducts regular train-the-trainer courses. These sessions are designed to teach instructors both the content of the curriculum and the effective facilitation of the adult learning activities that are the hallmark of all TIPPS training.