Target - Law Enforcement Business Fellowship
The IACP Foundation and Target are working to bring the training and expertise of the Law Enforcement Business Fellowship to a broader audience of command staff and future law enforcement leaders. Stay tuned to hear how!
(There will be no 2012 LEBF Class)
Since its inception, the IACP Foundation has been fortunate to establish many public private partnerships that have resulted in great benefit for the IACP membership and the field of law enforcement as a whole. One outstanding example of this investment in professional policing by a corporate partner is the new Law Enforcement Business Fellowship, developed in collaboration with Target.
Partnership
Target has long been a supporter of both the IACP and the Foundation and, after seeing the success and value of some of the other professional development scholarships that the foundation has produced with partners such as Northwestern University Center for Public Safety, Target approached the foundation board with an extraordinary offer.
Like many companies, Target has its own internal training system that helps foster a common language among team members and encourages excellence and professionalism in a wide variety of topics such as human resources, leadership and finance. Vice president of assets protection at Target and IACP Foundation board member Brad Brekke suggested that there may be a natural marriage of resources between Target’s training team and the needs of law enforcement; and the seeds of the Law Enforcement Business Fellowship were planted.
Law Enforcement Business Fellowship
In collaboration with team members at Target, and under the auspices and review of the IACP Foundation Board, the Law Enforcement Business Fellowship is a two-week training program, based on several of Target’s most effective courses, but revised and geared toward law enforcement command staff. The fellowship typically hosts five students during this program at Target’s corporate headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. All costs associated with the program, such as compensation for instructors, travel to and from Minneapolis, lodging for two weeks, and some meals, will be covered by a grant from Target through the IACP Foundation.
The curriculum for this program has undergone review and approval by an educational subcommittee of the IACP Foundation, comprised of active, sworn law enforcement executives.
The successful recipients of the fellowships will be exposed to instruction on topics such as:
• Crisis management – a review of crisis leadership best practices made real by a mock hands-on crisis experience intended to help identify event triggers, execute response efforts with key partners, and complete the recovery process
• Community partnership – understanding the importance of public-private partnerships, how to structure them effectively and how they can be leveraged to support your agency and your community
• Innovation – examining innovative concepts such as the Target Corporate Command Center and Target Forensic Lab; and learning how to build a business case for acquiring innovative or technology-based solutions
• Human Resources – an extensive study on how to recruit, build and retain a great team, arming you with the tools to manage job performance while developing and promoting your team
• 6Sigma – learn how 6Sigma, a unique problem-solving methodology, can be used in your agency to help increase process efficiency, prioritize issues, control costs, and maximize existing resources.
In addition to these rigorous courses, instruction will be presented on additional topics such as media relations, investigations, finance, and information security.
Timeline
Successful candidates will be active, full time command level law enforcement officers, or chiefs, with the full support of their agency executive, who thoroughly and accurately complete the application process and are able to attend and complete the two-week course.
The IACP Foundation is grateful to Target and to all of the corporate, educational and philanthropic partners that make the advancement of professional policing a reality through their contribution to leadership, scholarship and fellowship.