Public safety agencies across the country are grappling with a persistent challenge: officers get promoted into supervisory roles based on their performance as individual contributors, then are expected to lead teams with little preparation for what that actually requires. It’s a gap that affects morale,...
The funding comes from the U.S. Department of Justice. The training partner can be Embassy. The Department of Justice's COPS Office has announced roughly $700 million in grant funding for law enforcement agencies — money aimed squarely at the things that keep agencies staffed, healthy, and ready. For...
The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) isn't a policy you adopt once. It's something your staff either operationalize every day — or don't. Every corrections and probation professional has heard the four letters. PREA. It lives in policy binders, annual sign-offs, and audit prep. But ask...
Few people have studied frustration the way Kevin Rice has — not as a concept, but as a career-long witness to what happens when it goes unaddressed. Kevin brings more than three decades of distinguished law enforcement service to the subject, including a 23-year career with...
After more than three decades in military and civilian law enforcement — and countless hours of leadership, tactical, and management training — it takes something genuinely exceptional to change the way a veteran officer thinks. For Retired Captain Toby Darby, that something was Ron Bayne's...
The Civilian Leadership Institute (CLI) is proud to announce that Jason Schechterle, an already valued Embassy instructor, is formally joining the CLI faculty to bring powerful new inspiration and unbreakable resiliency to the program. A former Phoenix Police Officer and extraordinary survivor, Jason’s story is one...
Employees are encouraged to recognize and maintain a clear distinction between suitable professional interaction and patronizing behavior toward their supervisors. While most workers naturally seek positive relationships with their superiors and hope their performance will be acknowledged, my experience is that excessive or sycophantic behavior...
In today’s high-threat environment, close protection isn’t about re-learning how to shoot, drive, or patch a wound — you already know those fundamentals. What separates good operators from truly exceptional ones is advanced planning, razor-sharp intelligence skills, and the ability to stop threats before they...
I realize that my statement may not set well with some people and may arguably be unfair, but it is made based on extensive experience and a fair degree of scar tissue. I hope that my candor and experiences will be helpful to executives as...
In our previous parts, Keith Bushey gave you the foundation and the daily disciplines and he taught you how to protect your people, your organization, and your own integrity when trouble is still only a faint cloud on the horizon. Now we reach the summit—the practices that...