PELA

Indiana Police Supervisors Core Course (IPS CORE)

The IPS Core is designed to be a hard-hitting two-day course to provide the police supervisor with a basic leadership model and an overview of police liability and police discipline. Incorporated into this two-day core will be a methodology to begin developing a leadership philosophy and a unit expectation dialogue.

Day One is spent examining the five practices and ten commitments of exemplary leadership as developed by Kouzes and Posner. Police leaders will come away with a five-part leadership model. A portion of this day is also spent on an exercise to help develop a personal leadership philosophy. The morning of Day Two will be spent re-examining general concepts that expose leaders and those they have thee honor to lead to liability. The first line supervisor is one of the most controlling influences that can diminish the exposure to liability in the police setting. The afternoon on Day Two is spent exploring a holistic approach to police discipline. It emphasizes knowing what is normal about those you guide and direct so that you know when attendance performance or behavior is other than normal. The key in this approach is intervening as soon as issues can be articulated.

The Indiana Police Supervisor Core is a quick but detailed look at three components of police leadership that are at the center of how the critical supervisory ranks lead their people. 

The IPS Core course is priced at $500 per registrant

2025 Schedule 

Section 1: Evansville Police Department, April 9-10, 2025

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Emerging Leader Series

The 2024 Emerging Leaders Series
Location: Jeffersonville P.D.

The Emerging Leader course is designed for self-identified or agency identified potential police leaders. That may include aspiring sergeants and/or field training officers. This course will expose potential police leaders to basic police leadership topics before they undertake official promotional processes. The Emerging Leader course enables agencies to give potential organizational leaders a sample of what the world of police leadership is about before they engage in the promotional process. Young men and women can self-assess if a leadership role is what they want at this moment in their careers. Emerging Leader will also provide insight into why agency leaders make some of the decisions they make in the agency setting. It has the potential to create cohesive communication and agency actions among those exposed to this education. As agency leaders, we hope you see the value in preparing everyone to be a leader. Emerging Leader gives you that opportunity.

Six essential topics provide an orientation to police leadership that will prepare these women and men to serve at the direct supervisor level in their respective police organizations. The topics include:

1. Leadership Challenge: A Tested Leadership Model – Model the Way; Inspire a Shared Vision; Challenge the Process; Enable Others to Act; and Encourage the Heart.
2. Ethics and the Police Leader – This session involves a day of ethical decision-making and command decision-making. Much of this material is based on the Josephson Ethics Institute material
3. Generations in the Workplace – This session involves understanding how millennials and Gen Z impact the police environment…how to recruit this generation and how to lead them.
4. Employee Stress – This session focuses on physical, emotional and mental health in all of our officers and includes discussion about how organizations contribute to the stress officers face.
5. Emotional and Social Intelligence – This day is spent examining the five basic components of emotional intelligence, based primarily on the work of Daniel Goleman.
6. The DiSC Personality Inventory – To lead others, we must first know who we are. The DiSC personality inventory allows officer to understand their basic personality and how to assess their peers. It is one of the most thorough and easily administered inventory of its kind in the world.

The Emerging Leaders Series 6 session course is priced at $500 per registrant for members of the IACP and $650 for non-member registrants (does not include travel, hotel, and food).

Police Leadership Academy (PLA)

2025 PLA

MODULE 1

 $750

MODULE 2

$750

MODULE 3

 $750

Register for all three PLA modules at once and receive a discounted rate. Full payment due upon registration.

ALL THREE PLA MODULES

 $2,100

LOCATION

TBA

This course is designed to meet the needs of professional law enforcement employees serving in supervisory through mid-level management ranks. Leadership topics are approached from an advanced supervisory to organizational level with critical human dimension components included. Graduates of the three modules will be armed with a skill set that promotes a more detailed understanding of team building, communication styles, servant leadership, the importance of legitimacy and procedural justice and followership in the dynamic and ever-changing world of policing.

Each Module is priced at $750 per registrant (does not include travel, hotel, and food). Register for all three PLA modules at once and receive a discounted rate of $2100 per registrant (does not include travel, hotel, and food).

Reset The Clock: Practical Employee Relations for Leaders in Law Enforcement

Frankfort Police Department
December 9-10

For 24 years, Mike Mirarchi has had the honor and privilege to protect and serve those who protect and serve their communities.  He provides PD leaders with practical employee relations skills training so that they and their officers stay out of court.

 The direct benefit of this program is that leaders demonstrate good judgment, sensitivity, and high confidence in handling employee relations issues.  A byproduct is greatly reduced legal exposure, as the result of “Reset The Clock,” a judicially recognized process that prevents an attorney from taking something leaders did wrong in the past and using it to support lawsuits in the future.

 This program (Overview) is highly successful in achieving three goals.

•   Leaders demonstrate good judgment in employee relations.

•   Employment-related legal challenges are avoided.

•   Employee turnover is minimized.

Its delivery is very interactive and highly entertaining.  A comprehensive participant manual with scripts and tactics for handling employee relations situations with good judgment is included.  It’s a two-day program, typically 8:30 to 4:30.

The Cost of the program is $400 per registrant (does not include travel, hotel, and food).

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