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New Police Commissioner named
The Police Minister today announced a new Police Commissioner.
He is Howard Broad, who has served as an Assistant Commissioner since 2004.
He replaces Acting Commissioner Steve Long, who has been filling the top job since the retirement in December of Rob Robinson, who held the post for six years.
His carerr of many than 30 years, included a period as Auckland District Commander and a secondment in 2003 to the Police Standards Unit in the UK Home Office.
Police Minister Annette King says Commissioner Broad will be responsible for, among other things: rewriti... Read more
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Janesville Gazette - Janesvill
20 November 2005
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Fontana police, officials maki
FONTANA-On Monday, the Institute for Public Safety Partnerships will be at the Abbey Resort, trying to improve communications between village officials and the police department.
Fontana Village Administrator Kelly Hayden-Staggs said that village board trustees and other officials will spend the morning attending ethics and integrity training, while police officers, including one from the village of Walworth, will attend a similar session in the afternoon.
"It's really about communication and identifying with issues that are involved with local law enforcement," said Sandy Costello, IPSP associate director.
She said police and local officials are being separated in the initial sessions "so they will open up" about issues.
Later, they will attend sessions together to try to help communication, she said.
"We're not on anyone's side," Costello said. "The goal is to get village officials and officers in the same room." She said IPSP will send two facilitators to run the sessions, one with experience in law enforcement and the other a personal communications professional.
Last year, Fontana contacted the IPSP to evaluate police performance and the deteriorating relationship between the village government and police department.
In November and December 2004, trainers from the organization conducted 23 interviews with police, village trustees, members of various boards and committees, school personnel, village business owners and Fontana residents.
A report by the IPSP noted a lack of trust poisoning relations between the police and village officials.
At the core of the conflict is a disagreement over how to police the community and what constitutes "community-oriented policing," according to an IPSP report. The IPSP recommended ethics and integrity training for village board members and police officers before things got any worse.
Whether the moderated attempts to improve communication between police and officials will work is anyone's guess.
This past Saturday at a town hall meeting, the village attorney explained the village board's efforts to explore the financial and public safety impacts of dissolving the police department and hiring the Walworth County Sheriff's Department to provide local policing.
So far, however, the village board has taken no official action to disband the police.
IPSP is financed through the Community Oriented Policing Services program of the U.S. Department of Justice. The group's mission is one of education and training in public safety and police issues.
The interviews and report were done free to the village, and the training workshops will also be at no charge.
IPSP is one of 27 such organizations in the United States. Headquartered in Chicago, IPSP serves primarily northern Illinois, south and central Wisconsin, eastern Iowa and northwestern Indiana.
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