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Public Safety Officers: implement after-action reviews in your agency
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The League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust, in partnership with Benchmark Analytics, recently found top-performing Minnesota public safety agencies utilize an extensive and practical after-action review (AAR) practice that is associated with significant reductions in incidents leading to workers compensation and liability claims. This workshop will provide public safety professionals with the evidence behind and strategy for using AARs to reduce risk, improve processes, and prepare for future events. You’ll learn ways to improve your agency’s response to incidents and promote first responder and community safety. You will leave with an increased understanding of the importance of conducting both informal debriefs and formal AARs, and of instilling a culture of continuous learning.
Objectives
Following this session, participants will be able to:
- Review data specific to risk in Minnesota public safety organizations and ways to mitigate risk.
- Understand the steps necessary to completing AARs and to implementing organizational change based on learning through hands-on examples.
- Understand the history and theories behind after-action reviews.
- Describe the strategic learning and benefits inherent to incorporating AARs into day-to-day operations.
- Strategize methods to adapt and incorporate AAR into organizational culture, including strategies to counter resistance and encourage learning.
Dates & Locations
Oct. 1
Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, St. Cloud West
235 Park Ave. S
St. Cloud, MN 56301
10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Check-in opens at 9:30 a.m.)
Oct. 2
HERO Center MN
10125 85th St. S
Cottage Grove, MN 55016
10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Check-in opens at 9:30 a.m.)
Fee (includes lunch)
LMCIT Member rate: $30
Non-member rate: $125
Credits
We are seeking 4 general continuing education POST credits for this training. Please check back here for more information.
Presenters
Jennifer Zeunik
Throughout her career, Jennifer Zeunik has worked closely with a variety of stakeholder organizations in public safety and first responder programs and policy areas. She currently provides independent consulting services in a variety of areas relating to government, public safety, and non-profits. Prior to this role, she was the Senior Director of Safety and Justice Programs at the National Policing Institute (NPI) (formerly, the National Police Foundation), a policing research organization, where she was part of the organization’s leadership team, and directed the team responsible for NPI’s safety and justice programs. The Safety and Justice Team portfolio includes public safety critical incident and after-action reviews, organizational assessments, strategic planning, training and technical assistance, policing research, and a variety of other organizational change services. She has extensive experience in public administration, law enforcement organizations and practices, non-profit management, evidence-based practices, government grants and contracts, community engagement, and organizational leadership. She has served as lead writer, contributor, and editor on countless national resources for public safety and law enforcement, including numerous after action reviews; the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS) – sponsored How to Conduct an After Action Review Guidebook; the Bureau of Justice Assistance – sponsored Staying Healthy in the Fray wellness resource; and crisis communications plans, among other broadly distributed publications. She has also presented at numerous public safety focused conferences and meetings, including a tour of Canadian law enforcement agencies sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassies and Consulate in Canada.
Prior to her time with NPI, Zeunik served as the Vice President of Programs for the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) where she worked with the Atlanta Police Department, Atlanta business leadership, and the Atlanta community to strategize and professionalize police services and programs in the city, and to increase community safety. She also served as a project manager at the International Association of Chiefs of Police and began her career at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Tampa Regional Crime Laboratory as a crime scene technician. Zeunik completed her undergraduate degree at Florida State University and earned a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Georgia. She is currently working on her master’s degree in education with a focus on mental health counseling from the College of William & Mary.
Zeunik works with international, federal, state, and local executives, public safety command staff, and the community to leverage evidence-based strategies that address critical contemporary public safety and policing issues. Her goal is to bring innovative, data-informed strategies and process change to advance the health, safety and performance of law enforcement and the communities they serve.
Rick Braziel
Rick Braziel was a member of the Sacramento Police Department for over 33 years including five years as Chief. He conducts organization assessments, critical incident reviews, and instructs in teambuilding, communication skills, community policing, and leadership. Braziel is Vice Chair of the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, a member of the California Advisory Council on improving interactions between people with intellectual and development disabilities and law enforcement, and a guest speaker regarding critical incidents throughout the United States and Canada.
He was the lead investigator in the review of the police response to the murders committed by former LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner. He was a member of a team reviewing the riots in Ferguson, Mo. and the St. Louis County Police Collaborative Reform Initiative. Braziel also completed reviews of the Stockton Police response to the Bank of the West robbery and hostage taking, the Dec. 2, 2015, terrorists attack in San Bernardino, shooting of two officers in Fremont, Calif., San Jose, Calif. VTA active shooter, and the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
His organizational assessments and leadership development include a review of the Washington State Patrol’s recruitment and retention, Baltimore Police Department’s staffing, and Pasadena Police Department use of force policies. He assisted in reviewing the Portland Police Bureau’s response to mass demonstrations, Springfield Oregon Police response to demonstrations, and an administrative review of the Oakland Police Department’s response to protests. Braziel works with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reviewing systemwide training and leadership development. He currently serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor and chief safety officer for UCLA.
Braziel is co-author of the book, COP TALK: Essential Communication Skills for Community Policing. He holds a master’s degree in Communication from California State University Sacramento and a master’s degree in security studies from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.