POLICE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
COURSE SYLLABUS
Course Location: University Center at Chaparral
15653 Brookstone Drive
Parker, CO.
Course Dates: Friday and Saturday, January 4 and 5, 2008
Friday and Saturday, January 11 and 12, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Text:
Citizen Involvement, How Community Factors Affect Progressive Policing,
Mark E. Correia, 2000
Supporting Materials:
The Meaning of Community in Community Policing, Robert C. Trojanowicz and
Mark H. Moore, 1988
Community Policing, a Contemporary Perspective, Robert C. Trojanowicz and
Bonnie Bucqueroux, 1990
The following materials are available in the Free Document Library of the Police
Executive Research Forum website, www.policeforum.org Click on PERF Library and
Free Document Library:

Community Policing tab, Defining the “Community” in Community Policing,
Daniel W. Flynn, July 1998

Leadership tab, “Good to Great” Policing: Application of Business Management
Principles in the Public Sector, Wexler, Wycoff and Fischer, June 2007

Police Management tab, Helpful Hints for the Tradition Bound Chief, John E.
Eck, June 1992
Learning Objectives:
1.
The student will understand the dynamics of working with all segments of the
community.
2.
The student will be able to identify processes for engaging the community in
partnerships aimed at community solutions to community problems.
3.
The student will improve their skills of identifying and prioritizing problems to be
addressed through community partnerships.
4.
The student will learn about the role of the chief executive; priorities, and pitfalls.
5.
The student will develop skills in delegation to staff.
6.
The student will understand internal and external resistance to community
partnerships.
7.
The student will improve their ability to develop their own leadership skills as
well as those of their subordinates.
8.
The student will learn about the role of public scrutiny and the media in the
utilization of community partnerships.
9.
The student will develop skills to identify and prioritize stakeholders and
constituencies who are critical for establishing partnerships to solve community
problems.
10.
The student will expand skills to develop and evaluate the programs to be utilized
in community partnerships,
Course Outline:
Friday, January 4, 2008
Morning-Course Orientation Ron Sloan
-Overview of Community Partnership scenarios
-Defining and Identifying Communities, Ron Sloan
Afternoon-Discussion of the Sioux City, Iowa Case Study, Ron Sloan
-Facilitated discussion of Correia’s case study in Sioux City
-Begin group work on the Community Partnership Scenarios
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Morning-Presentation and discussion of the Sioux City experience, Gary
Maas, Chief of Police, retired.
-A new Chief in Sioux City
-Development of partnerships, internal and external
Afternoon-Facilitated group work on partnership scenarios, Ron Sloan
Friday January 11, 2008
Morning- Developing and Sustaining Community Partnerships in Diverse
Communities- A Chief’s Perspective
-Chief Dan Oates- Ann Arbor, Michigan and Aurora, Colorado
-Chief Ron Burns- Kirkland, Wash., Tempe, Ariz., and Lakewood, Co.
Afternoon-Agency and Institutional Partnerships-A Community Panel
-Dr. Linda Bowman, President Community College of Aurora
-Dr. Harriet Hall, Executive Director Jefferson Center for Mental Health
-Dr. Cynthia Stevenson, Superintendent Jefferson County School District
Saturday January 12, 2008
Morning Level 5 Leadership, Ron Sloan
-Good to Great, Level 5 Leadership
Grass Roots Partnerships, Reverend Leon Kelly
-Building trust with grass roots leaders
Afternoon-Facilitated group work on partnership scenarios, Ron Sloan
Saturday, January 19, 2008 Community Partnership Scenarios
Morning-Whoville, an inner-ring suburban community
-Nevercod USA, the urban core city
Afternoon-Goldvale, a village of Rocky Mountain splendor
-Weerhany, our own Colorado challenge