This web-based training initiative, implemented in partnership with the COPS Office, leverages NCPI’s public safety and curriculum development expertise and maximizes national training impact through the creation and delivery of three eLearning courses.
NCPI built these training programs following our comprehensive eLearning instructional systems design (ISD) and curriculum development processes:
- Problem-Oriented Policing: The SARA Model
- Crime Reduction: Enforcement and Prevention Strategies
- Community Policing: Improving Police Efficacy and Building Trust
Collectively, the courses support local efforts in place throughout the nation to implement community-oriented policing practices, through partnerships, problem-solving, and crime prevention strategies.
I love that real life examples of agencies successfully working the community were added to the course.
Web-based curriculum development
Using our comprehensive ISD processes, and in close partnership with the COPS Office, NCPI designed and produced all aspects of the curriculum for each of these courses, including:
- learning objectives and corresponding assessment strategies
- storyboards of all on-screen content
- eLearning templates
- scripted narration
- technology-enhanced activities
- course navigation structure
We use a scaffold approach based on adult learning principles in which content and participant knowledge and skills are built as the courses progress, with blended-learning, technology-enhanced strategies incorporated throughout to engage officers.
As with all our programs, NCPI built the courses and produced all multi-media components, working with subject-matter experts, practitioners, and community stakeholders and managing processes related to filming, scripting, editing and video packaging, and audio content production.
Our courses are constructed to follow Section 508 of the Workforce Rehabilitation Act and the applicable Web Accessibility Initiative Guidelines (WCAG). This ensures that the training is accessible, eliminating barriers in information technology and allowing a diverse range of people to access and use them.
Information was clear and informative. It was a pleasure learning in this manner.
Enhancing public safety by developing professional skills and competencies
About Problem-Oriented Policing: The SARA Model training
This course provides learners with a basic awareness and understanding of the fundamental principles of a common approach used by many community policing agencies to identify and solve repeat crime and community problems.
The SARA model allows agencies to scan through multiple data sources, conduct a thorough analysis of a problem through the lens of the crime triangle, formulate a response, and continuously assess the impact of the response to the problem.
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About Crime Reduction: Enforcement and Prevention Strategies training
This course offers current guidance on effective enforcement and policing strategies aimed at crime reduction.
It explores the application of crime prevention as a means of actively interdicting and preventing crime in our nation’s communities.
To help connect principles to practice, this course highlights crime reduction initiatives undertaken by law enforcement agencies around the country, demonstrating how policing strategies can be applied in varying contexts.
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About Community Policing: Improving Police Efficacy and Building Trust training
The course examines the current state of policing—both locally and nationally—addressing a multitude of factors that challenge the effectiveness of law enforcement agencies and the well-being of the communities they serve.
It explores the principles and practices of community policing as a means of achieving the public safety mission with greater efficiency by gaining and maintaining public trust and engaging the community in the shared responsibility of effective policing.
