Strengthen Your Agency by
Planning for Your Replacement
By Leischen Stelter, editor of In Public Safety, AMU
As a police chief, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow, would
someone in your agency be ready to step into your role?
Police chiefs must take the time to develop robust short- and long-term succession plans to ensure their agency does not
experience a leadership crisis upon their
departure.
“Your value as a chief is leaving your
department better than you found it. Too
many chiefs retire with little to no notice
and leave their agency rudderless,” said
Richard Kreisler during an educational
session at the 38th annual California Police Chiefs Association (CPCA) training
symposium. Kreisler retired as the chair
of the public safety employment practice
group with Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
(LCW), a law firm specializing in advising public safety agencies across California. He was joined by two colleagues
to share the firm’s succession planning
strategy and how this strategy can be
used by law enforcement agencies.
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