A MAXIMUM OF 20 PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ALLOWED TO REGISTER FOR THIS PROGRAM.THE CURRENT NUMBER OF REGISTRANTS IS 14

The Workshop - De-Escalation Principles and Practice

Training officers to reduce the use of unnecessary or avoidable use of force is a significant challenge facing policing today. This issue has profound effects on policing’s legitimacy, and the public’s trust and willingness to cooperate with the police, comply with their directives peacefully, and obey the law. The challenge to the policing profession is to ensure that de-escalation training is efficient, effective, and useful in the field.

The National Association of Black Law Enforcement Officers, Inc. (NABLEO), in partnership with the University of New Haven, CT will present a 16-hour training session entitled “De-Escalation Principles and Practice”. This training session, conducted at the Amherst Police Department, 500 John James Audubon Pkwy, Amherst, NY 14228, on Monday, October 7 and Tuesday, October 8, 2024 will be provided FREE OF CHARGE TO CURRENT ACTIVE-DUTY MEMBERS OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN POLICE ASSOCIATION OF BUFFALO AND SWORN BUFFALO-AREA POLICE DEPARTMENTS, and is limited to twenty (20) participants.

This training includes a proprietary de-escalation program offered in-person to current active duty sworn law enforcement officers. The training, which incorporates DISC Esoterica®, builds on situational awareness, body language and appropriate approaches and distancing based upon active and passive threats. The training program, which includes verbal judo and procedural justice-based de-escalation and crisis intervention by incorporating rapid personality and threat assessment tools to the officer, delivers best practices in de-escalation including correct de-escalation language, officer adjustments for varying threat stages and environments, body language, conflict management, recognizing mental health and disability issues, and means to adjust interactions based upon rapid personality identification. Also included are de-escalation and prevention of escalation while maintaining professionalism, respectfulness, and self-control, particularly if insulting or disrespectful language and behavior are present. Numerous participatory scenarios and examples of proper officer behavior and responses are also included.

This project was made possible with a grant from the US DOJ COPS Office to the University of New Haven, grant #15JCOPS-22-GK-03552-PPSE.

If you have an interest in participating in this program to assist in strengthening the relationships between police and community, you may register online at http://conference.nableo.org. All registrations are on a FIRST COME-FIRST SERVED BASIS, but must be completed NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2024.

OFFICERS ATTENDING THIS TRAINING WILL BE ELIGIBLE TO REGISTER FOR NABLEO’S “POLICE REFORM: REBUILDING COMMUNITY TRUST AND CONFIDENCE” CONFERENCE AT THE ESTABLISHED MEMBERSHIP RATE, REGARDLESS OF THEIR AFFILIATION WITH THE AFRO-AMERICAN POLICE ASSOCIATION.

THIS IS A NABLEO SPONSORED EVENT