Connecting siloed technologies continues to be a growing challenge facing law enforcement agencies across the nation. With more data available to agencies than ever before, how do you ensure it's all connected, accurate and available when you need it most? 

Learn how first responders from agencies across the nation are better fighting crime in their cities by leveraging a fully integrated end-to-end software suite. Discover how you can utilize technology as a time and resource saver so that your officers can instead spend more time on patrol keeping the communities they serve safe.

Attend the session and receive actionable guidance from police departments serving some of the most populated cities in the country. From implementing real-time-crime centers to body-worn camera programs, these agencies will explain how integrating their disparate technology systems has positively impacted community trust, political success, and training policies.

Self-driving cars flying point to point. Less-lethal weapons outperforming lethal weapons. Deadly viruses printed in a basement using DNA-printing technology. While these ideas may sound crazy, they could soon become a reality. Join Axon CEO Rick Smith to discuss the most controversial technology advancements coming our way, their implications for public safety, and what law enforcement agencies can do to prepare for the future. With both technology and the nature of crimes changing at an exponential rate, law enforcement agencies will need to adapt to serve their communities. This session will draw from recent studies and reports to provide attendees with a view of where public safety and the threats they face could be in the next decade.

Come and learn from Law Enforcement Agencies who are using FirstNet today, the applications they are using, best practices and lessons learned in a roundtable discussion.

Discover how Verizon is leveraging a second to none technology portfolio as well as the industry's best network to lead efforts at a digital transformation that will enable Public Safety to fully deliver on its promise to citizens. Verizon. We don't wait for the future. We build it.

Technology is transforming law enforcement and agencies can leverage solutions that increase operational capability, situational awareness, and citizen engagement. Learn best practices and the right first steps from law enforcement and technology leaders.

Over the last several years police departments around the country have employed the use of body camera technology. While helpful they also have their own set of limitations regardless of the expense.  Their primary function is to accurately record what happened.  However, what happens when the recording and the police officer's story don't match and under high stress situations they probably won't because the human brain and memory are fallible.  Under high stress situations all human begins have the potential to see, hear, feel, or experience things that din not actually happen.  In addition visual perception distorts and even biases, beliefs, experiences, and expectations all influence one's ability to accurately remember.

After a series of publicized officer events in Indianapolis and around the country that served to negatively reflect on law enforcement and hindered relationships with the community, The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) embarked upon a ground-breaking officer wellness and resiliency program. In 2010 IMPD created the Office of Professional Development and Wellness (OPDW) to combat employee crisis using innovative strategies and best practices. The problem-solving program identified agency and community stakeholders and used education and crisis support resources for early intervention rather than waiting for more crisis to occur.The goal of the program is to create and maintain healthy habits throughout officers careers.

Dr. McDougall will utilize his many years of experience with officer-involved shootings, line-of-duty deaths, and other trauma to engage the audience in dynamic discussions and debates regarding the impact of critical incidents upon the officer and the special challenges they create for smaller agencies. Powerful videos of clinical interviews with officers highlight this presentation, and take the audience inside the clinician's office to experience the numerous, and often untold ways in which officer's lives are changed by critical incidents. Specific attention will be given to suggested guidelines and procedures of smaller agencies, who may not have a mental health provider on staff, or direct access to psychological services.

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The greatest threat to the lives of the men and women in uniform is themselves. More officers die by suicide, than are killed by felonious assaults or killed in vehicular accidents combined. How many more lives must be lost before agencies and administrators take this threat seriously? How many more officers will suffer in silence without appropriate resources? This secret has been allowed to hide for far too long. The silence is deafening and denial disheartening. To remain silent any longer is to purposefully deny the threat lurking in your agency. This panel discussion will address officer mental health, while providing practical solutions to assist agencies in reducing the number of officers who die by suicide each year.

A Rules-based culture too often focuses only on minimal employee compliance and discipline. Today's value-based cultures focus more on employee commitment and performance. This presentation takes both of these mindsets into consideration as it provides attendees with practical trust-building steps to help them improve employee commitment, accountability and performance. Using engagement, clear expectations, and continual feedback to eliminate communication failures, this trust-building strategy will begin to move employees towards a value-based mindset. Attendees will be given the tools they need to make deposits in their "trust account" to help them get the accountability from employees that they desire and the public demands.

This presentation provides attendees with practical steps for weeding out morale killing behaviors that can negatively impact employee job performance and relations with the public. Attendees will learn how to effectively use early intervention accountability as an alternative to punishment, and will learn how to provide continual feedback to help improve behavior, morale and performance. The presentation emphasizes the importance of engagement, setting of expectations, providing continual feedback, and the utilization of a simple 7-step process that will help correct unacceptable employee behavior and get any leader the performance he or she wants and the public demands.

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The Gatineau Police Service developed an ethical framework that has been successfully embedded into the culture of the organization. The framework was developed at the grass roots level with input from police, civilians, the community, and academic and international research. The framework uses the philosophy of ethics to create an action-oriented, proactive strategy aiming to prevent complaints against police while supporting the emotional wellness of officers. Phase 2 of the presentation will examine the future of ethics and maintaining public trust, by connecting the basic principles of the framework to the future use of complex technologies (covert surveillance, big data, etc).

This presentation will explore how to effectively lead, manage and develop and existing policing organization after a change in leadership and performance. The presentation will discuss effective techniques and styles of leadership to apply to benefit the department the various generations of police officers and resources to use to help rebuild a policing organization.

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Through a panel discussion, this workshop will look at the many roles police officers take on in a day and how this will evolve with changes in the role of law enforcement.

As law enforcement agencies brace for the "silver tsunami" are you finding that applicants aren't lining up at your door looking to wear your department's uniform? The good news is that you are not alone, law enforcement agencies around the nation are experiencing the same issue and so is the private sector. Our recruiting efforts of the past aren't working anymore. As we look to diversify our workforces, it's time we embrace technology, and new strategies, to find qualified men and women looking to keep our communities safe. Regardless of your agency size, this session will give you tools and ideas that are working from four agency leaders looking to replace more than 300 positions (20% of their workforce) created by retirements.

Competition for high quality applicants is fiercer than ever. Limited quality candidate pools, restricted budgets and fewer career minded people make it harder to hire for the long-term. This class will detail ways to leverage yourself in the market by describing unique strategies, important selling points and the attractive intangibles your agency possesses that can help you attract the best fits for your organization. We will also explore the importance of conducting a character-based hiring process and how doing so can enhance morale, agency reputation and reduce your liability long-term.

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Law enforcement is in the midst of a paradigm shift, as the generation known as the Z Generation, born between 1995 and 2010, will graduate high school and college and prepare to enter the ranks of sworn officers. The Z Generation have had early and frequent exposure to technology, are the first real global generation, and have grown up in an uncertain and complex environment, marked by issues of violence and a volatile economy, all factors which shape their viewpoint about employment.

This presentation will examine how the Z Generation's expectations and style of communication can impact your agency, best practices in training the "Z's," and how to effectively motivate the "Z's" to engage and form partnerships with your community.

The issue of bias is one of universal concern for law enforcement executives. This workshop will demonstrate how bias can effect our unconscious mind and decision making process. Two case studies of officer-involved deadly force encounters will be examined. Participants in this workshop increase their understanding of unconscious bias and learn tactics that can reduce personal and organizational bias.

Police responses to crises involving barricaded suspects, armed suicidal individuals, or persons suffering from mental illnesses pose challenges to communities and law enforcement alike. These incidents inherently have a greater potential for miscommunication and erratic behavior, which can be exacerbated by a traditional law enforcement response. This session provides an overview of a strategic disengagement policy employed by the one of the most active SWAT teams in the United States. The discussion will cover the basis for the policy, case examples of its absence and use, and tips for best practices. This session will enable agencies to broaden their de-escalation options in situations when there is no imminent threat to the public.

Based on data collected from the Assessing Police Use of Force Policy and Outcomes project, one of the largest and most comprehensive studies on police use of force to date, this presentation details the varying types of use of force policies in operation throughout the U.S. and shows the extent to which different types of policies provide more beneficial (and detrimental) outcomes to police practitioners in relation to force usage, officer and suspect injuries, citizen complaints, and line-level officer views of policy guidance. A snapshot of key findings will provide police executives and trainers with valuable evidenced-based data on the strengths and drawbacks of varying types of use of force policies.

In March of 2016, a police officer with the Winslow, Arizona Police Department was involved in an officer involved shooting, resulting in the death of a Native American woman who had charged the officer with a pair of scissors. The events of this tragic incident, which were captured on video by a body-worn camera, made international news. This shooting strained the relationship between many in community, specifically the Native American community, and the police department. This presentation will focus on the events that led up to the shooting, as well as what actions the department took immediately following the incident,  what lessons were learned as a result, and what changes have been implemented as a result.

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