Oklahoma terrorism prevention institute, MIPT, brings training to rural and urban Alabama agencies
(Oklahoma City, Okla, Feb. 23, 2012) MIPT (Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism) and the Birmingham, Columbiana and Hoover Police Departments, as well as the Mobile and Shelby County Sheriff’s Departments, have partnered to provide InCOP training to law enforcement and coordinate information collection.
Trainers from the largest cities within Alabama completed a two-day InCOP Train-the-Trainer course conducted on site at MIPT in Oklahoma City on December 20-21, 2011. The trainers will take the course back to train their officers and deputies with the goal of improving information collection and reporting skills throughout the department.
“The five agencies from Alabama represented the varied enforcement roles line officers must fill…urban law enforcement, rural law enforcement…from small towns and large cities”, said Charles Allen, MIPT’s director of training. “Officers in Birmingham know first-hand the effects of domestic terrorism having lost an officer, Robert Sanderson, to bomber Eric Rudolph in 1998 in an abortion clinic bombing.”
MIPT’s InCOP training delivery will begin as early as next month in some regions of Alabama.
InCOP 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).
The Alabama agencies join other law enforcement department such as Milwaukee, Denver, Boston, Chicago, Miami-Dade and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office as alumni of the InCOP 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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