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The effectiveness of a civilian police force is directly proportional to the quality of its leadership. Possessing the basic police skills required to enforce the rule of law does not guarantee the effectiveness of its application. Therefore, it is essential that the management of the emerging civilian police force be provided the tools they require to competently administer the department’s daily operation as well as plan for its future needs.

PBSI utilizes advisors with the knowledge skills and abilities to train and mentor the senior staff of the police agencies of developing democracies and post conflict nations. As graduates from the FBI National Academy, the Northwest Traffic Institute’s and/or the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and as former chiefs of police or country sheriffs, the PBSI law enforcement management advisors possess the academic background with real world experience to mentor and instruct the project country’s senior staff in the methods of managing modern civilian police departments.

In some instances, command staff training should take place prior to the recruitment, selection and training of basic police offices. It may be a wiser course of action to establish and train the management staff first, in situations in which a civilian police force does not exist and is being created form a conceptual plan. This will allow the senior manager to take an active role in the developmental process, thus creating a level of ownership in the program.

Scope of Services

• Evaluate the management training needs of the project country’s civilian police and provided recommendations concerning the steps required to establish a “command college” or series of individual training seminars that meets the needs of the project country and complies with international principles of democratic policing.
• Provide oversight of USG efforts for police management reform in the host country by serving as the police management expert and strategist in formulating policy recommendations related to the development and implementation of an effective police management training program.
• Conduct ongoing program dialogue with host country government officials and with non-governmental organization (NGO) decision makers, to ensure broad political and financial support for these programs.
• Provides police management training
• Provides police department management mentoring services as required
• Provides police management trainers as required
• Coordinate police training missions with USG funding agencies and host country personnel
• Provide policy oversight and ensure that all of the different police training programs at the mission are coherent and cooperating without intruding on the authority of any individual agency to run its own programs.
• Provide targeted training as required. Topic areas to include but not limited to:
• Effective leadership principles needed to influence the future direction of the organization
• Strategies to identify emerging issues and provide a proactive response
• Methods and benefits of sharing information
• Use of stakeholders in problem solving
• Human Resource Management and Development
• Fiscal Management and Public Finance
• Legal Issues and Trends in Administration
• Strategic Planning and Policy Development
• Dealing with Organizational and Management Realities

Methodology

PBSI utilizes our standard five development modules to address the different phases of laboratory development. Any combination of modules can be used to meet the needs of the project country. The developmental modules include:

• Assessment, Evaluation and Program Planning
• Management Development
• Infrastructure Development
• Technical Development
• Organization Change Management