Professional Development and Leadership

Course Date and Location: January 18th, and 19^th 2023 from 08:30 to 17:00. Located at the Ludlow Town Office Building 37 Depot Street Ludlow, Vermont

Course Overview:

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This class is designed for both new and established supervisors. The Police Supervisor Course is a best-practices, reality-based training course, rather than just focusing on concepts and philosophies.  Effective leadership and supervision is achieved by not only utilizing tried and true supervision and leadership concepts, but also by understanding how the academic definitions of these concepts and philosophies function in the realities of day to day law enforcement supervision. Newly promoted, and established, supervisors and managers of all ranks and experience can benefit from this class.

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Course Goals:

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• Students will learn about good v. bad supervisor and leader behaviors. 

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• Students will learn to effectively use discipline, recognition and rewards to achieve organizational goals. 

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• Students will learn how to effectively counsel, coach, motivate and mentor along with the importance of team building.  

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• Students will learn about their leadership style. 

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• Students will learn about effective communication skills and conflict management. 

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• Students will learn how to build credibility with their subordinates and within the organization.

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• Students will learn about Emotional Intelligence through a personal assessment and instruction on how to improve, and effectively utilize, Emotional Intelligence, to be an effective leader and supervisor. 

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• Students will learn about Risk Management, including Supervisor and Vicarious Liability, along with Civil Rights. 

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• Students will learn about "Problem Solving" in both organizational and external environments. 

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• Students will learn about taking "Ownership" and how to challenge their subordinates to do the same. 
   
• Students will learn how to get and give "buy-in." 

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• Students will learn how to effectively utilize personnel evaluations and performance measures.

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• Students will learn about the supervisor's role in pursuing and achieving departmental goals and initiatives.

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• Students will learn about active v. passive supervision. 

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• Students will learn how to identify, mitigate and address employee bad behaviors.

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• Students will learn about rank transitions, including the initial transition to becoming a supervisor. 

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• Students will learn about their role in receiving citizen complaints. 

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The Instructor:

​Chief Richard Mello has over 25 years of law enforcement experience in both small town and big city policing. Over the course of his career, Chief Mello has risen through the ranks and experienced every level of supervisory responsibility and leadership. He has served as a Patrol Officer, Detective, Prosecutor along with commanding patrol and detective divisions and serving as an Executive Officer.  Chief Mello served 12 years in the United States Navy, 8 of which in the Navy Intelligence Community.  Chief Mello has successfully merged his law enforcement and military experience with his leadership and management expertise. Chief Mello has instructed police officers on various topics for the last 15 years and is an Adjunct Instructor at New England College in Henniker, NH and Norwich University in Vermont.  He opened Mello Consulting & Training in 2017 as a way to give back to the profession by mentoring those who come behind him. He currently serves as the Chief of Police for the Lebanon, New Hampshire Police Department and holds a Master's Degree in Criminology from Florida State University. 

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​Who should attend:

Newly promoted supervisors, as well as, established supervisors of all ranks and experience, can benefit from this course. 

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Course Length:

​The Police Supervisor Course is a 3 day course. 

This is the website to their website: https://www.melloconsulting.org/home

The class will be held at the Ludlow Town Office building located at 37 Depot Street Ludlow, Vermont 05149

It will be from 08:30-17:00

Good Afternoon,

On behalf of the Amtrak Police Department and America’s Railroad, I’m pleased to invite you or someone from your agency to participate in Amtrak’s Operation RAILSAFE Partner Training Event being held in Pittsford, VT on August 10-11, 2022, 2022. This will be the 73rd Operation RAILSAFE Partner Training Event held in the nation. Our previous events have all received outstanding reviews by the participants, so I hope that you will be able to participate and bring this valuable information back to your agency.

The Operation RAILSAFE Partner Training Event is a one-and-a-half-day program designed to strengthen coordination and integration between Amtrak and our partner first responder and emergency management agencies. The course will cover the following topics:  

Day 1:

• Introduction to Amtrak  
• Amtrak Police Intelligence Gathering and Sharing  
• Terrorism Trends in a Transportation Environment  
• General Railroad Safety  
• Arriving on Scene – Safety, Command, Control, and Coordination in a Deadly Environment  

Day 2 will consist of two tabletop exercise scenarios focused on:

• Suspicious packages
• Active shooters

Please R.S.V.P. by registering online at www.railsafe.net, and use Amtrak2022! as your course registration password no later than August 2, 2022. Once you have registered, a calendar invite will be sent to your email account with read-ahead materials to include the agenda, address of the training site location, and parking information.  

If you are unable to attend or think this course would better benefit another individual in your organization, please feel free to forward this invitation. We are trying to establish a working group for the entire area as we prepare to launch new service in July, 2022 within your community.

Executive Leadership Institute

• September 27 - October 1 at Essex Police Department
• Register online at www.fbileeda.org or call 877-772-7712 for more information