Law Enforcement Executive Program (LEEP) Details

Applicants will be accepted without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability status, or sexual orientation. If you need special accommodations to participate in the program, please let us know. We will be glad to assist you. Preference will be given to police chiefs and sheriffs.

To keep the program small enough for participants and faculty to know one another and for participants to take an active role, class size will be limited to thirty registrants (subject to change).

Applicants will be notified of their selection via email. All administrative material will be sent to each participant with their acceptance letter.

Attendance to all 5 sessions is mandatory. (Exception: Prior approval from the program director must be obtained before missing any sessions. If a participant gains approval for missing a session, he or she will be expected to complete an assignment related to the missed block of instruction. A student who misses more than three half-day sessions of the instructional time will not receive a certificate at graduation. A student could still earn the certificate by attending the missed sessions in a subsequent year.)

The presentation of each topic will be designed to draw the police executives who enroll in the program into active participation. They will learn from one another as well as from the faculty. This will require an uncompromising commitment to preparation and attendance. Every person in the program will be important to its success.

Class work will include discussion, lecturing, skill-building exercises, use of self-knowledge instruments, and role-playing. The relatively formal classroom relationship between faculty and participants will be balanced with opportunities to meet and talk informally at meals and other gatherings that are scheduled as part of each session.

In order to make the most of their time together during each session, both participants and faculty are expected to be well prepared. Faculty will select reading materials that are informative, challenging, and to the point. Participants will be expected to use these materials effectively. Further, they will be expected to conduct research between sessions.

There will be a registration fee of $2,000 for books, materials and a special graduation banquet to be held on the last day. This cost does not include room & board. Please do not mail the registration fee until you have been notified of acceptance into the program. You will receive an invoice shortly after you receive your confirmation.

Instructional materials and special handouts will be supplied by the Law Enforcement Executive Program instructors.

Participants who complete the course with a satisfactory record will receive a special certificate of completion.

The Local Government Federal Government Credit Union (LGFCU) provides scholarships to current and prospective members. You can find more information here.

An exploration of leadership style based on the Korzes and Posner’s Leadership Challenge. Instruments that give participants concise feedback from their subordinates will be used also.

A discussion of active listening, collaborative conflict resolution, and problem-solving. Includes another self-scored instrument.

An exploration of issues of value congruency and principle-centered leadership.

An evaluation of how participants view the world and what preferences they might have in examining and resolving issues pertaining to leadership.

A discussion of the latest legal requirements of personnel administration as it relates to the role of a law enforcement agency’s CEO.

An examination of the legal issues surrounding liability for police executives. Ways to avoid liability and to protect the police agency against successful litigation will be addressed.

A thorough discussion of fiscal management, using class problems designed to allow participants to develop, present, and implement fiscal controls.

A self-scored instrument serves as a vehicle to discuss the assessment of organizational values and beliefs and strategies for the creation of the “constructive culture” of the new millennium.

Students will identify the key steps in the strategic management process, conduct a situational analysis and generate strategic options, and learn ways for measuring agency performance.

Students will be assigned to teams during the first session of the program, and the major team project focuses on a case study that has the teams playing the role of a new chief of a problem-plagued law enforcement agency. The teams will be expected to draw on their own experiences and the theories and practices discussed in the program to deal with a number of issues: design of a new mission statement and a set of guiding principles; determining what services to deliver via sworn officers vs. use of civilians, volunteers, or outsourcing; designing of a liability prevention program and new ways to enhance communication in the agency; and both a short-term reorganization plan and a long-term organizational design. Teams will present their projects to their classmates and a panel from the LEEP faculty and other law enforcement chief executives.