Hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse, this webinar will explain how to understand and mitigate risks to personal safety.  It will show how public officials and criminal justice professionals can increase their personal safety and the safety of those for whom they are responsible.   The webinar will also be useful for victim advocates, providing the means to mitigate against intimate partner stalking and violence.  Drawing on proven best practices from the executive protection industry and other security disciplines, this training will provide tips on how public officials and others, such as domestic violence victims, can “harden” their physical security and online privacy. Specifically, the webinar explains the basics of:

• Risks 101 (basics of risk and human obstacles to accurately assessing risk).
• Physical security (stalking, threatening, and attacking public figures and intimate partners; selecting an executive protection/personal protection team; when protectees are most at risk).
• Cybersecurity and online privacy (three cybersecurity basics everyone should implement right now).

When: Thursday, February 25, 2021
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., ET

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this webinar discusses 9-1-1 calls related to behavioral health disorders. Many service-based calls related to individuals with behavioral health disorders are placed where the presence of law enforcement may not be needed. In recent years, communities have increased efforts to reorganize their crisis response systems, training 9-1-1 call takers and dispatchers to shift away from directing law enforcement officers as first responders to these calls. Developed as part of the Academic Training to Inform Police Responses, this webinar will feature four programs that have leveraged the training, policies, and procedures of 9-1-1 call takers and dispatch when restructuring their communities’ responses to crisis incidents. Panelists will present the innovative approaches in crisis response implemented by their programs and discuss the challenges of ensuring that appropriate services are dispatched to crisis incidents to best meet the needs of individuals. 

When: Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., ET 

Hosted by the National Criminal Justice Training Center, this no-cost webinar discusses how to enhance your agency’s AMBER alert activation by utilizing new strategies. Participants will examine training requirements and procedures for activating an AMBER Alert and hear an in-depth review of current best practices, trends, analytics, and successful AMBER Alert programs. Participants explore current abduction trends, laws related to mandatory notifications, statistics, and resources available during an activation. Participants must register for the webinar by February 24, 2021. 

When: Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., CT

Published by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), this blog discusses recommendations for agencies to communicate the new transition in data reporting from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)’s traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS) to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). With this new style of data reporting, however, comes new communication challenges. Not only does NIBRS analyze more offenses than SRS, but it also captures more detailed crime data during a single incident, including information on the relationship between victims and suspects; demographic details; property descriptions; suspected drug use; and more. This blog discusses how the National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X) partners have created technical assistance documents to equip agencies with the knowledge necessary to proactively communicate with the public regarding crime data.

Published by the National Institute of Justice, this publication discusses the importance of a data-informed approach to managing jails and its ability to yield benefits in key functional areas. Because of the size of the jail population and the scope of services jails provide, a vast amount of critical data is generated by jail systems. Although some jails significantly leverage this data to inform policies and improve both operations and inmate outcomes, many more do not, for a variety of reasons. It follows that there is much untapped potential for jails to operate in a more data-informed manner. The author specifically discusses why jails should operate in a data-informed manner, the nature of the problem, organizational and leadership issues, information sharing, and applying the data.