NCPI’s story is one of vision, passion, partnership, growth, and imagination.
We’re often asked what it is about NCPI that makes it so special… And since our beginning in 1997, the answer has always been the same: It’s the people.
Individually, each person here is an artisan. Our team is full of artists, builders, and craftsmen. We are painters and writers and dancers. We are students and teachers and mentors. We are bibliophiles, photographers, and athletes. We are creative and we create – individually at home and as a team in our work. And together… well, we are magic in a bottle.
It’s the collective ‘we are’ that makes that magic possible.
We are is how we began, how we’ve grown, and how we continue to thrive.
1997 We are launched!
A 5pm sprint to the post office to submit the original grant started it all… in September 1997, our story began as the Virginia Community Policing Institute.
1999 We are tenacious.
In the first two years, we offered 100 community policing courses across Virginia, helping to instill community policing in agencies statewide.
2000 We are innovative.
The first of many creative instructional strategies we would implement, we manufactured our own board game to teach the principles of community policing.
2001 Our 501(c)3 status was approved
2004 We reached 10,000 trained
2006 We are growing.
As we responded to requests from across the country on a spectrum of public safety challenges, we also outgrew our name. We became the Virginia Center for Policing Innovation.
2006 We are full service.
We offer more than training. In 2006, we implemented VA VINE, an automated victim notification service, in all of Virginia’s local and regional jails; launched an enhancement to the state sex-offender registry; and assessed the security of every courthouse.
2006 We reached 20,000 trained
2007 We are national.
Though we had long been providing training and services across the country, in 2007, we received two federal awards that solidified our leadership in developing and delivering national-scale technology-enhanced public safety training.
2008 1,000 courses delivered
2009 We are storytellers.
In developing leadership content for DHS, we mastered the power of storytelling as an educational framework. The most powerful form of communication, storytelling is an artform we’ve embraced as a foundational approach in many of our programs.
2010 We are the leader in public safety eLearning.
Our first web-based course, Unsolved Cases: Cold Case Analysis Training for Law Enforcement & Prosecutors, featured simulation and gaming technology.
2012 We are committed to community policing.
All of our programs are rooted in the principles of community policing. In 2012, we received a ‘trifecta’ of national TTA awards; Tactical Community Policing for Homeland Security (COPS Office), Combating Violence through Conflict Mitigation (BJA), and Unsolved Cases – Cold Case Analysis Continuation (NIJ).
2012 Celebrated our 15th anniversary
2015 We are a resource.
We have responded to hundreds of requests for assistance, including community engagement, high-profile events, consent decree support, assessments, research and more. Many of these engagements were supported by ongoing initiatives such as Community Policing Training and Technical Assistance Program and our National Critical Response and Recovery Technical Assistance Program.
2015 We reached 50,000 trained
2016 We are a technology solution.
We created and continue to administer the COPS Office Training Portal, developed Measuring What Matters, our first interactive eGuide (BJA), and a video-case study of Pathways to Resiliency: Preventing Violent Radicalization through Community Policing (COPS Office).
2017 We are collaborative.
Many of our courses are designed to bring together law enforcement and community members in one experience. Strategic, Tactical, and Resilient Interdiction of Violent Extremism (DHS), is an example, training thousands of stakeholders nationwide
2018 We are a catalyst.
Our programs are designed to facilitate personal growth and development. Our leadership courses exemplify this, including Ethical Decision Making, a meaningful, facilitated, and individualized experience.
2019 We reached 75,000 trained
2020 We are resilient.
Like the rest of the country, when COVID hit, our in-person training came to a halt, but we were able to continue supporting law enforcement through our extensive web-based resources, on-demand courses, and live hybrid events.
2021 We are making a difference.
Throughout our history, we’ve offered programs on providing police services in marginalized communities. This focus has expanded as we serve as the Crisis Intervention Team National TTA Provider (COPS Office), are developing and delivering a national program on managing bias for law enforcement, and another for improving police encounters with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
2021 We are thriving.
We have 25 years of proven national TTA successes with the COPS Office, BJA, DHS, NIJ, NHTSA, state governments, localities, universities, local communities, non-profit organizations, for-profit companies, and are constantly expanding our reach and impact with new partners and programs.
2021 We reached 100,000 trained
2022 We celebrated our 25th anniversary
2023 We reached 150,000 trained
TODAY We are just getting started
You are making a difference in your community. WE ARE here to support you.