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PA CHIEFS OF POLICE ASSOCIATION
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BULLETIN
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WINTER 2016
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his fall, the Pennsylvania
Commission on Crime and
Delinquency presented four
regional law enforcement technology
forums in partnership with the
Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police
Association. The effortwas organized
by Kathy Clarke, Supervisor of the
Law Enforcement Unit at PCCD
and Bob Merwine, Director, Office
of Criminal Justice Improvements
of PCCD. The forums were held in
Carlisle, Cranberry, Valley Forge,
and Wilkes-Barre and over four
hundred participants attended these
events. The purpose was to provide
a one stop forum that included
a number of different programs
available from PCCD, Pa. Chiefs
and other agencies. Three of the
programs were kicked off by State
RepresentativeMichael Vereb and the
Cranberry forum was opened by Bob
Merwine with State Representative
Dom Costa also in attendance.
Captain Jacqueline Bailey-Davis of
the Philadelphia Police Department
started each forum with an overview
of their department’s efforts to adopt
the Pillars of the President’s 21st
Century Policing Report.
The rest of the day featured PCPA
presentations by Chris Braun,
Grants Management and Technology
Coordinator on the PA. Virtual
Training Network (PAVTN) and
Executive Director Tom Gross on
the Pennsylvania Law Enforcement
Accreditation Commission (PLEAC)
and the PCCD programs on Crisis
Intervention Training and Mental
Health First Aid. In addition, PCPA
programs for Central Booking
with Livescan, CPIN, and Mobile
Identification were presented and
on display in conjunction with
vendors from CNET. There were
also presentations on Rapid DNA,
Iris and Speech Recognition, Facial
Recognition, and Drug Drop Box
programs.
Other agencies that presented
information included the Pa. Justice
Network (JNET), PA State Police
on CLEAN (Commonwealth Law
Enforcement Assistance Network)
and PACIC (Pennsylvania Criminal
Intelligence Center, and Municipal
Police Officers Education and
Training Commission (MPOETC)
with their new web site for TACS
(Training and Certification System).
There were victim’s services
presentations from PCCD and from
the State Office of Victim Advocate
and also from the Pennsylvania
Coalition Against Domestic Violence
on the Protection from Abuse
Database (PFAD). Attendees also
got updates from PCCD on juvenile
holding and the Juvenile’s (JHELD)
Compliance System and on the Law
Enforcement Justice Information
Sharing (LEJIS) Network.
With the number of services covered
in one day, many in attendance agreed
that this was a great use of their time
in order to gather information about
a number of frequently used and
updated programs. The training was
free to those who attended and there
were also opportunities to network
and spend time with individual
program and technology experts.
While no new forums are scheduled
at this time, there was a great deal of
support for the benefits of a repeat of
these types of forums in the future.
PCCD AND PCPA PARTNER
ON TECH FORUMS
PCCD AND PCPA PARTNER ON TECH FORUMS
By Tom Gross
PCCD Article photo: “Jerry Miller, Pa. Chiefs Technical Program Manager and Dan Allen of Data
Works Plus manned a display of Central Booking equipment and other technologies available to
police departments at PCCD Forums”