The NJ Police Chief Magazine Volume 24, Number 4 | Page 7
The New Jersey Police Chief Magazine | April 2018
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nation’s top public safety organizations under the leadership of the IACP to provide tailored technical assistance
and a field driven approach to local policing agencies through a $7 million award from the Department of
Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office).
"Better training and the more sophisticated policing strategies were key reasons for 20 years of declining crime in
America," Attorney General Sessions said. "I believe that continuing to advance our technical sophistication can
help us reduce crime once again, and that's why we're investing in CRI-TAC. Improving access to training for our
state and local law enforcement partners will mean better policing and a safer America."
Since the December 2017 announcement of the CRI-TAC award, the IACP and its partners have started planning
technical assistance delivery to support three law enforcement agencies around their unique challenges. Those
agencies include the Cedar Rapids (IA) Police Department, the McNeese State University (LA) Police Department,
and the Knoxville (TN) Police Department, which has asked for technical assistance around effective gun violence
reduction and prevention initiatives.
NJSACOP LEAP Improves Services through PowerDMS
Harry J. Delgado, Ed.S. Accreditation Program Director
As the NJSACOP LEAP program continued to grow we planned and prepared for a transition from a paper driven
process to an e-driven process. The technology or platform that will help us advance this process is PowerDMS
and Power Standards.
With over four hundred (400) agencies already utilizing PowerDMS for training, distributing policies and
procedures, and storing documents in general, it makes most sense to use Power Standards as the option to
move our accreditation program to an electronic platform.
The New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police (NJSACOP) will be able to provide our members in the
Accreditation Program enhanced quality service, meeting their needs through simplifying their accreditation
process while leveraging PowerDMS platforms.
To that end we will architect our NJSACOP LEAP site and currently are fully engaged in the process of uploading
the 2018 revised standards, application package, process manual, annual report, and other relevant documents.
Through PowerDMS’ recommended best practices, NJSACOP LEAP will make the accreditation process even more
user friendly for our membership by creating models to follow, manage off-site training and assessments,
provide resources, workflow reports, standard changes. The delivery of services through PowerDMS and
Power Standards will allow us to facilitate and expedite off site file review. The end result will be a more
effective and efficient delivery of information and services, saving valuable time,
as well as providing
greater latitude scheduling final off site assessments.
We are currently preparing for our next phase; syncing users to our new site. Once completed our members with
their username and password will have access to NJSACOP LEAP resources on our PowerDMS site.
If the Chief (CEO) and/or the accreditation manager (AM) of your agency may have changed recently, please
make sure to reach out to me as soon as possible to update your contact information. We are looking forward to
launching our PowerDMS site for all NJSACOP LEAP resources soon!
For additional information I may be reached at [email protected].
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