Connecticut Police Accreditation Coalition
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MEETING MINUTES
| DATE: | May 14, 2003 |
| TIME: | 9:30 AM |
| LOCATION: | State Capitol - LOB, Hartford |
| ATTENDEES: | Avon, Berlin, Bethel, Capitol, CCSU, Enfield, Farmington, Glastonbury, Manchester, Monroe, New Canaan, UCPD |
Meeting called to order
Treasurers Report: Current account balance is $1,650.00
Secretary’s Report: Minutes accepted from April 9th meeting
Committee meeting tentatively scheduled for June 13 @ 9:30 a.m. at LOB. There may be issues meeting July 1 start date because of Bill Knapp’s retirement. Further information will be available after June 15th POST Council meeting. There is still question of enacting through regulations if legislation is not signed.State Accreditation
Ridgefield P.D. requested consideration for Tier I State Accreditation in June. Torrington P.D. has requested June on-site.
CALEA Conference Orlando:
Citizen Surveys site provided did not work.
Standards Discussion
Two new standards passed out - 41.2.7 - Missing Children and 6.9.6 - Incident Command System. Discussion took place regarding both standards. 41.2.7 - Why new standard? Can we revise current standard and add new language. Definition of a "thrown-away child"? Regarding 6.9.6 - Communications Accreditation Standard. PAC members are encouraged to send in comments for the next meeting regarding both standards, which will be submitted to CALEA by May 30th. No objection to 6.9.6. 41.2.7 is redundant, covered in missing persons and juvenile standards. D.C. Bouchard will respond to CALEA on behalf of the PAC.
P.D’s in Self-assessment & On-Sites
Bethel P.D., Bristol P.D., Trumbull P.D., Newtown P.D., Shelton P.D. & Meriden P.D. have signed contracts and are in self-assessment. New Canaan had their Mock on-site in April with an On-site scheduled for August.
Report on Farmington P.D. on-site in April went well. Linda thanked those who responded to the public information portion. Discussed the quality and inconsistency of assessor’s interpretations during on-sites. Suggestion made that CALEA should be asked to make assessor training more uniform so that all assessors standard interpretations are consistent.
Police Day At the Capitol on Wednesday, May 21, 2003
Low participation this year. Anyone wishing to participate should contact Chief Whalen at Farmington P.D. as soon as possible.
Membership Rosters were distributed – check for errors and notify Sgt. Sullivan at UConnPD. The new roster was distributed at yesterday's meeting. A few errors were noted. Please review the roster and notify Cindy Sullivan of any corrections that are needed as soon as possible. She would like to distribute a final version at the June PAC meeting. Email her at: csullivan@blues.police.uconn.edu.
Officer Elections Members interested in serving as officers should contact D.C. Bouchard.
UCONN P.D. Now ‘C’ Size Agency due to the addition of a Waterbury Sub-station.
Next meeting scheduled for Wednesday, June 11, 2003 @11:00am Farmington PD
The June meeting is scheduled for June 11 at 11:00am at Farmington P.D. The meeting will be followed by lunch. No cost to PAC members. $5.00 for guests. Please RSVP to Linda Carlin by June 2nd if you plan to attend. Email her at CarlinL@farmington-ct.org.
RE: JUNE MEETING: Linda Carlin has been in contact with Jamey Harris , Training Coordinator for Victim Services in Connecticut. She will be attending our PAC meeting on June 11, 2003 at 11:00 am to gain some information from the PAC in assessing what training needs would be helpful to us in the area of victim/witness needs. She will gather this information from the PAC in order to set up a training possibly in September. I have also emailed her the CALEA standards on victim/witness services in order for her to help departments with their compliance with these standards.
Prepared and posted by:
Lieutenant Thomas Kulhawik
Norwalk PD (203) 857-5378
tkulhawik@norwalkct.org
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