In one of its most impactful and rewarding endeavors to date, NCPI partnered with the USDOJ, COPS Office to create and deliver Ethical Decision Making: Policing with Principled Insight (EDM:PPI), a comprehensive, national program designed to enhance effective community policing through skill building in ethical decision making.
EDM:PPI is a multifaceted, blended-learning training program that equips officers of all ranks and assignments with the skills, processes, and controlling insights that encourage ethically sound and principle-based decision making.
Since launching, NCPI has delivered more than 54,000 hours of EDM:PPI training to nearly 12,000 public safety professionals representing more than 2,000 agencies located in all 50 states.
The challenge
In the policing profession, public trust, integrity, and liability are constantly on the line. Often the difference between effective community policing and the failure of an agency’s public-safety mission is determined by the decisions of individual officers.
With so much at stake, effective policing requires changing the concept of police ethics from an after-thought to a controlling insight that informs and guides police practitioners. For more than a decade, NCPI’s EDM:PPI program has helped policing professionals make this shift.
The opportunity
Focusing on ethics as both character-based and a cognitive decision-making process aligned with the principles of community policing and the premise of values-based policing, EDM-PPI encourages participants to internalize and practice a continuous assessment of their police actions based on what they “should do” rather than what they “can do.”
The program stresses that police ethics are not just an after-thought or a means of discouraging bad behavior. Instead, ethics are a controlling insight that inform and guide police practitioners from an internal, personal capacity.
EDM:PPI participants explore police ethics, the development of moral reasoning, the science of decision making and create their own Police Ethical Navigator (PEN) that serves as a unique tool to help guide ethical decision making and personal reflection.
The range of training options
NCPI offers EDM:PPI training in a variety of formats to meet the unique needs of the organizations we serve.
Instructor Development Programs
For those looking to prepare their own instructional staff to deliver ethics training to the entire department, we offer a 3-day (24-hour), facilitator-led, classroom-based Instructor Development Program (IDP).
The IDP is designed to allow participating trainers to take comprehensive EDM:PPI presentation materials back to their own agencies and provide instruction in formats suitable to their agencies’ needs (during in-service programs, squad training sessions, roll-call, etc.). Instructors completing the IDP receive access to comprehensive lesson plans; instructor guides; multi-media presentations; practical and scenario-based activities; instructional videos; and web-based access to these and other resources.
Core curriculum delivery
For agencies that prefer to have training facilitated by an outside entity, our Core Curriculum delivery may be the best approach. This can be offered on-site or through a virtual classroom setting and is typically delivered over 2 days (16 hours).
Self-paced, online training
For individuals looking to fulfill an ethics in-service requirement, or those needing the convenience of a web-based solution, NCPI offers a 4-hour, self-paced, companion course at no cost. It can be completed anytime, anywhere, based on the demands of your day.
“In 25 plus years of law enforcement (military-10; civilian-15) this was one of the most thought provoking courses I’ve ever taken!”