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Labor Seminars 
You should be in receipt of an invitation to our Labor Seminar. There is a mistake on the day noted on the invitation – it should read Thursday, August 26th The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Market Relations team would like to cordially invite you to attend our annual Labor Leader Educational and Informational Seminar. &nb... Read More »
A Fresh Look at 12 Hour Shifts
By Ed Jacques, LEJ Editor In the late 1950's and early 1960's, an unusual employee-driven process took root in America as fatigued shift workers convinced management that major scheduling changes were needed. By the 1970's and 1980's, many businesses were favoring 12-hour "compressed" work sets of two to four days, over the older... Read More »
Oakland Police Academy - Fall Training info
Think Before You Speak
By Frank Borelli ©2009 New American Truth “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” -Abraham Lincoln “Everything is a matter of perception.” -Shawn Davenport What do those two quotes have in common? Whether or not you are a fool is a matter of percepti... Read More »
Arresting a Caregiver of Minor Children
By Donna Selman, PhD In 2002, the National Institute of Justice put out a call to law enforcement officials requesting information about policies regarding the arrest of primary caregivers of minor children. Locally, the individual experiences of law enforcement officers demonstrated the urgent need for not only information reg... Read More »
2010 Center Mass Training Schedule
Oakland Police Academy
The Technology Trap
By Frank Borelli ©2009 Borelli Consulting, Inc. Not that long ago I had privilege of enjoying a conversation with a relatively new Chief of Police about the equipment needs of the Chief’s new agency. In this particular case the Chief was in a unique position to select everything from uniforms to service firearms to radios, ... Read More »
PD Knife Regulations & Policies
By Frank Borelli In today’s litigious society no law enforcement agency can afford to overlook the need for administrative and training regulations for any weapon, or potential weapon, that police officers carry. Most police officers today are carrying one or more knives on their person, in and out of uniform, on and off ... Read More »
An Examination of Michigan’s Law Enforcement Policies, Procedures and Practices When Arresting a Caregiver of Minor Ch
On October 29, 2007, the Ann Arbor News ran the following story: “Husband arrested first, wife soon follows.” A couple ended up in jail, both facing drunken driving charges, after Ypsilanti Police first pulled over the husband, who was driving with his young son in the car, and then arrested the mother when she showed up to pick up the... Read More »
Don't Be Afraid to Pull The Trigger
By Frank Borelli 2007 Borelli Consulting, Inc Be warned: I'm getting up on my soapbox. As one of the few "outside" officers who responded to the tragedy at Virginia Tech last spring, and as a trainer for Active Shooter/Immediate Response tactics, I try to pay attention to spree shooting events such as the recent one in Ill... Read More »
School Resource Officers' Next Millennium
By Frank Borelli 2005 Borelli Consulting, Inc A few decades back, School Resource Officers didn't even have such a name. They were generally cops assigned to a High School to assist the school faculty and staff with maintaining the peace among sometimes hot-headed and rowdy teenagers. Across the years the School Resource O... Read More »
Active Shooter Response Training
by By Frank Borelli © 2005 Borelli Consulting, Inc. With the advent of Active Shooter training that has developed in response to incidents like the Columbine High School shootings, the law enforcement community has come full circle.In response to critical incidents that the "average" cop was once call... Read More »
Traits that gets cops killed
By PoliceOne Senior Correspondent Chuck Remsberg Fifteen years ago, after an exhaustive five-year study of officer murders, a research team from the FBI delivered a simple but compelling message: there are certain behavioral characteristics that tend to get cops killed No single profile of ill-fated officers can be defi... Read More »
