As the commander of a multi-agency police academy, the Chief of the Highway Patrol, and the Director of Arizona POST, our Training Director Rod Covey has been involved in the discipline of over 1000 officers.  Several hundred involved the termination and/or decertification of officers.  While training organizational leaders across the country for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), Rod came to realize that over 2/3rds of those 1000+ cases were the result of a failure of leadership in that the inappropriate behavior of the officers could have – and should have – been prevented by the officer’s leader.  Leaving the classroom in 2009 and returning to leading a police department of over 120 commissioned officers, he used the lessons he learned while training others on how they might create and maintain an ethical culture.  Over a five-year period in his new agency, he had to administer discipline in less than five cases.  Only one of those resulted in termination.  In this course he will share practical, real-life lessons on how to create and maintain an ethical culture that will save careers, reduce discipline and increase public confidence in your department. These are the major topics discussed throughout this lesson:

*Identifying the main reasons people move from being great workers to your organizational terrorists.

*Discussion the actions leaders should take in those situations to head off an act of employee terrorism in your department.

*Understanding the critical role that EVERY leader plays in creating and maintaining an ethical culture.

*Discussing the strategies that leaders can use to help create and maintain the culture they want.

*Identifying the top 10 red flags that have the potential to lead to officer misconduct and discuss strategies on how to deal with those possible warnings.

*Learning how to use ethical autopsies to determine the root cause of the misconduct for the purpose of preventing similar inappropriate behavior in the future for all employees in the organization. 

*Reviewing actual case studies of employee misconduct for the purpose of identifying any leadership failures that lead to the employee’s discipline.

TARGET AUDIENCE:  This one-day class involves a lot of student interaction and is recommended for every member of a police department – civilian and sworn.