Milwaukee Police Department Chief Supports MIPT’s InCOP 1 Training for Officers

(Oklahoma City, Okla., Feb. 14, 2012) MIPT (Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism) and the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) partnered to provide InCOP 1 training to law enforcement and enhance information collection to the department’s 1,800 officers.

Milwaukee Police Department staff delivered the training during their in-service cycle in the fall of 2011. Milwaukee trainers had been trained in InCOP 1 in February 2011 at MIPT in Oklahoma City.

“The reason local police are central to the war on terrorism is because they are central to the war on crime,” Chief Edward Flynn advised his troops in a video statement before training began in September 2011. “They [the officers] see circumstances all the time, all hours of the day and night”, he added, “…and become comfortable with the ebb and flow of neighborhood behaviors. Officers recognize anomalies. Officers are trusted by the community. …the purpose of this [training] program is for us to be able to standardize how we collect information about suspicious behavior.”

MIPT’s InCOP 1 is designed to improve the fundamental and essential skill of information collection for uniformed officers. InCOP 1 concepts are reinforced by the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI).

Milwaukee joins other law enforcement department such as Denver, Nashville, New York City, Albuquerque, Boston, Chicago, Miami-Dade and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office as alumni of the InCOP 1 Train-the-Trainer program.

For more information on InCOP and the SAR Initiative, please visit MIPT's Training Page.

MIPT is a training partner of FEMA or the Federal Emergency Management Agency serving the nation’s 800,000 uniformed officers and law enforcement leadership. Our mission is to enhance the public safety through training, professional development and education.

Contact: Tamara Pratt (405) 278-6307 or (405) 760-2216, pratt@mipt.org

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