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Association President—Matt RaiaCommander (retired), Westminster (CO) Police [email protected]

Association Past President—Kim DerryDeputy Chief, Toronto (Canada) Police [email protected]

1st Vice President Section II—Diane ScangaCaptain/Academy Director, Director of Public Safety Services,Jefferson College (MO)[email protected]

2nd Vice President Section III—Doug MuldoonChief, Palm Bay (FL) Police [email protected]

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Chaplain—William C. GibsonDirector (retired), (SC) Criminal Justice [email protected]

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14The Intelligence Clearing HouseTen years after 9/11, the FBI’s terrorist screening center helps support offi cers on the front lines.Trent Duffy

1810 Reasons Computer-Based Training Beats Live TrainingComputer-based training can provide your offi cers with consistent, legally defensible instruction and save your agency money.Randolph B. Means

4 Association PerspectiveFBINAA Moves Ahead with New Board and Training GoalsMatt Raia

27 A Message from our ChaplainPractice What You PreachBilly Gibson

30 Staying on the Yellow Brick RoadOdd Object TrainingKevin T. Chimento

32 Extraordinary Members

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22First ClassThe late James T. Sheehan served as the fi rst president of the FBINAA and still serves as an inspiration for all law enforcement offi cers.William G. Brooks III and Margaret R. Sullivan

28Keeping Things in Perspective

When you face a diagnosis of cancer, you learn to not sweat the small stuff.Josef Levy

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ASSOCIATION PERSPECTIVE

IT’S BEEN A BUSY FEW MONTHS for our organization. With holding the FBINAA

Annual Conference, electing board mem-bers, and starting a new training institute, the time has f lown by. As we head into Au-tumn I’d like to share some of the highlights of these and other events the FBINAA has been involved in recently.

ASSOCIATION ONLINE STOREThe new Association online store is up and running. This would not have been possible without the hard work of Products Manager Liz Seal. She deserves a big thank you.

MEMBER BENEFITSLiberty Mutual Insurance, Maui Jim Sunglasses, and Enter-prise Car Rental Companies have joined the select group of companies that offer benefi ts to FBINAA members. See the member benefi ts section of the association Website for details. FBINAA CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONComedian Jay Leno kicked off the Foundation Text to Donate Program at the FBINAA Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif., helping to raise $1,140 the evening of our banquet. Event attendees donated another $1,474 in cash and checks to the Foundation. Thanks for your support. In order to donate $10 yourself, send a text to 27722. In the body of the message, type FBINAA, and then reply YES when asked to confi rm. Then $10 will be charged to your cell phone bill and trans-ferred automatically to the Foundation. Please remember to keep the Foundation in mind when conducting Chapter events and to “Pass the Hat.”

ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN LONG BEACHThe FBINAA Annual Conference held this year in Long Beach, Calif., provided great training and social events, and the Trade Expo was one of the best the Association has had. And I’m sure those in attendance will never forget the conference Gala Ban-quet, at which Jay Leno gave a 45-minute non-stop monologue. As evidenced by how much the attendees enjoyed the confer-ence and how smoothly it went, the hard work of the California Chapter 2011 FBINAA Conference Committee was well worth the effort.

Johnnie Adams, Session 222, a captain at the UCLA Medical Center (Calif.) Police Department, was elected Section 1 Rep-resentative and will take offi ce January 1, 2012, along with Di-ane Scanga—President; Doug Muldoon—First Vice President; Laurie Cahill—Second Vice President; and Joe Gaylord—Third Vice President.

Also at the annual conference, the Becca-ccio Award was presented to Robert “Bob” Atkinson, Session 157, Commissioner, Queensland Police Service, Queensland, Australia. The Lester A. Davis Award was presented to Lyle Hesalroad, Session 96, 1995 FBINAA president. Congratulations to these outstanding recipients.

FBINAA-IPTIAt our July board meeting in Long Beach, the board approved the implementation of the FBINAA “International Police Training Institute,” a not-for-profi t training institute funded by international grants through the FBINAA Foundation. The FBINAA-IPTI

will provide executive support, mentoring, training and devel-opment, specialist training, and online training, with empha-sis in South and Latin America, Africa, the Asias, the Middle East, and Polynesia.

COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISMOn August 3, I participated in a telephone conference call with senior White House offi cials on behalf of the FBINAA along with other national law enforcement leaders invited by DHS Assistant Secretary of State and Local Law Enforcement Lou-is F. Quijas. We discussed the release of the National Strategy for Empowering Local Partners to Counter Violent Extremism in the United States. PRESIDENT’S ACTIVITIESI was honored to represent the FBINAA at the following events in July, August, and September: FBI Law Enforcement Part-ners meeting at FBI headquarters along with representatives from other major law enforcement associations; our annual conference in Long Beach, Calif.; the FBINAA Partners Fair at the Academy for Session 246; the Eastern Missouri, Kan-sas/Western Missouri Chapters’ Annual Training Conference; the Session 246 graduation; and the European Chapter Con-ference in Tbilisi, Georgia, along with FBINAA Vice President Laurie Cahill.

Remember, the future of the FBI National Academy Associates is in your hands. ■ F B IN A A

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CHAPTER CHAT

ALASKA★ Terry Vrabec, Session 186, became the deputy commissioner for the Alaska Depart-ment of Public Safety effective June 1.

FLORIDA★ Scott Andress, Session 205, retired as cap-tain with the Miami-Dade Police Department on June 3 after 34 years.

HAWAII★ Department of Public Safety Narcotics En-forcement Chief Keith Kamita, Session 189, was appointed as the deputy director for law enforcement by Hawaii Governor Neil Aber-crombie in January. Deputy Director Kamita selected as his new sheriff Shawn Tsuha, Ses-sion 234. Keeping it in the NA family!

KANSAS/WESTERN MISSOURI★ Kansas Governor Sam Brownback an-nounced the appointment of Terry L. Maple, Session 203, as the new acting state fi re mar-shal. He retired from the Kansas Highway Pa-trol in December 2010 as superintendent with more than 31 years of service with the Patrol.

NEW JERSEY★ Lt. Kevin Murphy retired from the Harrison

Police Department effective July 1. He is a graduate of Session 233 of the National Acad-emy and retires after 30 years of service.

★ Richard Brazicki, Session 235, was recently promoted from captain to inspector. He works

for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department. In his new position he is the western zone commander oversee-ing police operations at the World Trade Cen-ter, PATH train system, Holland Tunnel, and Brooklyn Piers.

NEW YORK/EASTERN CANADA★ Due to health issues, past FBINAA president and retired Hamilton-Wentworth (Ontario) Regional Police chief Colin Millar, Session 105, was unable to attend the Annual New York State and Eastern Canada Training Confer-ence in July at the Doral Arrowwood Hotel and Conference Center in Rye Brook, N.Y. Retired Toronto inspector Mike Sale, Session 169, who now works for American Military University, ac-cepted the plaque for Colin at that time. This marks the initiation by this chapter of the Colin Millar Award, which will be given annually to a Canadian member. It was formally present-ed to Colin August 18 at the Hamilton Police Service’s annual awards dinner. (See photo above.)

★ Four graduates of Session 203 of the FBI NA met for dinner in Riverhead, N.Y., in May. (See photo at top of next page.)

★ The FBINAA Oral History Project is active in Canada. Five Southern Ontario members

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Eastern Missouri NA Board, President of the FBI NAA Matt Raia, Chief Dan Linza retired Chief of Police Kirkwood MO Session 71 who presented Chief Jerry Lee Session 140 with the Dan Linza Eagle Award.

New York/Eastern Canada: (Left to right) Superintendent (Inspector) Dan Kinsella, Session 241; Chief Colin Millar, Session 105; and Chief Glenn DeCaire, Session 207.

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of the New York and Eastern Canada Chapter met at the Niagara Regional Police Training Unit on August 11. They reminisced about their careers and NA experiences for the FBI-NAA Oral History Project, sponsored by Amer-ican Military University (AMU). (See photo below). Colin Millar and Frank Parkhouse are past presidents of this chapter. Larry Gravill is past president of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) and the Canadian As-sociation of Chiefs of Police. Ron Bain is cur-rently the executive director of OACP. Mike is AMU’s Canadian representative.

★ Jean-Paul Levesque, Session 198, known to his friends and associates as J.P., started with Thunder Bay Police in June 1987 as a con-

stable and was promoted through the ranks to his present position as chief of police, effec-tive July 13. He is highly respected in the or-ganization and is the son of a retired Ontario Provincial Police offi cer.

OHIO★ New Cincinnati Special Agent in Charge Edward J. Hanko replaced Keith Bennett, who left the position to become assistant director of the FBI Academy. James E. Craig, Session 193, was appointed chief of the Cincinnati Po-lice Department on August 2. Chief Craig was the chief of police in Portland, Maine, for two years following his retirement from the Los Angeles Police Department after 28 years.

OREGON★ The Oregon Chapter of the FBINAA hosted its annual Steak Out August 4 at Champoeg State Park. More than 90 people attended. The Oregon Chapter retrainer will be held at Eagle Crest Resort in Redmond, Ore., Sep-tember 28–30. Training will focus on the Sov-ereign Citizen Movement, legal updates, and a synopsis of a 2007 bank bombing case in Woodburn, Ore., in which two police offi cers were killed.

★ Lt. Ernest Phelan, Session 186, retired from the Port of Portland Police in August. Alan Zaugg, Session 216, has retired from the Hills-boro Police Department.

SOUTH CAROLINA★ Michael “Mickey” S. Whatley, 75, former po-lice chief of North Charleston, S.C., and state legislator, died August 16 at his home in North Charleston. Born October 7, 1935 in Charles-ton, S.C., Mickey’s life was dedicated to pub-lic service. He began at the “Post & Courier News” as a journeyman printer but enlisted in the U.S. Army and served from 1958 to 1960. Mickey was fi rst a fi reman and later a police offi cer for Charleston County. Mickey’s father, Lawrence Stewart, was a county policeman and the fi rst to be recognized as Policeman of the Year by the Kiwanis Club; Mickey also re-ceived this award. He was part of the original police force in North Charleston and became one of the City’s fi rst detectives. He attended the Southern Police Institute and held a Bach-elor of Science degree with a double major in Political Science and Criminal Justice from the Baptist College (now known as Charleston Southern University.) Mickey was a lieutenant for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Divi-sion (SLED) from 1984 to 1992 and served as chief of police for the City of North Charleston from 1992 to 1994. He served two terms in the South Carolina House of Representatives for District 113. He was also a commissioner for the Charleston County Parks and Recre-ation Department. Mickey’s past affi liations include: past president of the South Carolina Chapter of the FBI National Academy, and a member of the National Law Enforcement Explorer Commission, the International As-sociation of Chiefs of Police, the Environmen-tal Crimes Commission, and the National Boy Scouts Council of America.

WASHINGTON★ The FBI Seattle Offi ce and the Washing-ton Chapter hosted a candidate luncheon at Southcenter on June 15 for members of Ses-sion 246 (July 10 to September 16). Candi-dates selected for the session included Craig Wilson of the University of Washington Police Department, Steve Shumate of the Grays Har-bor County Sheriff’s Offi ce, Harvey Gjesdal of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Offi ce, and Steve Burns of the Washington State Patrol Bellevue Detachment.

★ The annual holiday luncheon and training event is scheduled for Friday, December 2, 2011, at the Carco Theater and Renton Com-munity Center. The featured presentation will be “Lessons Learned from the Spokane Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Bombing/Weapon of Mass Destruction Attempt.” This year’s presenter is Frank Harrill, supervisory senior resident agent for the Eastern Washington FBI offi ces of Spokane, Tri-Cities, and Yakima.

★ Fourteen members of the Washington

New York/Eastern Canada: Session 203 graduates met for dinner in Riverhead, N.Y., in May: retired Dep. Chief Pete Quinn and Det. Sgt. Alan Feinstein, Suffolk County (N.Y.) PD; Lt. David Lessard, Riverhead (N.Y.) PD; and Marc Vervaenen, Belgian Federal Police

New York/Eastern Canada: Larry Gravill, Session 160, chief of police (retired), Waterloo Regional Police; Co-lin Millar, Session 105, chief of police (retired), Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police; Ron Bain, Session 182, deputy chief (retired), Peel Regional Police; Frank Parkhouse, Session 124, deputy chief (retired), Niagara Regional Police; Mike Sale, Session 169, inspector (retired), Toronto Police.



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Chapter attended the FBINAA 2011 National Conference in Long Beach, Calif., July 23–27. Mike Zaro, Session 240, of the Lakewood Po-lice Department, was a featured speaker with his presentation “Line of Duty Homicide: The Lakewood Washington Experience.” (See pho-tos on this page.)

WASHINGTON PROMOTIONS/RETIREMENTS/TRANSITIONS★ Kathy Atwood, Session 213, was appoint-ed chief of the Everett Police Department in July 2011. Kathy is a 22-year veteran of the department and previously served in various positions throughout the department, most recently as deputy chief. She is an active member of the Youth Leadership Program, serving as an instructor and counselor for the past several years.

★ William Dickinson, Session 184, was ap-pointed chief of the Sequim Police Department in September 2010. Bill previously served for 30 years with the King County Police Depart-ment including positions of contract chief of police for the cities of SeaTac and Burien. From 2003 to 2009, Bill served as chief of po-lice for the Tigard (Ore.) Police Department and most recently with the Washington De-partment of Labor and Industries in Tacoma.

★ Willard Lathrop, Session 222, retired June 25 after serving as investigations commander with the Auburn Police Department. Willard is relocating to the Marshall Islands for the next two years.

★ Jeff Sale, Session 239, was appointed chief of the Bend (Ore.) Police Department effec-tive August 1. Jeff served as chief of the City of Cheney Police Department for the past seven years. Prior to that position Jeff served 25 years with the Washington State Patrol,

Washington: Session 246 (Left to right) Treasurer Cindy Reed, Steve Burns, Craig Wilson, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Steve Dean, Steve Shumate, and Harvey Gjesdal

Washington: Chapter members attended the Gala Banquet at the FBINAA National Conference in Long Beach, Calif.

Washington: Chapter members attended the Texas 2012 comedy event.

Washington: During the National Conference, Mike Painter, Mike Zaro, Chuck Steichen, and Cindy Reed attended an event aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif.



retiring as a commander of the Everett and Yakima Commercial Vehicle Divisions.

★ James Scharf, Session 118, retired as chief of the Everett Police Department on June 30 after 16 years of service with the City of Ev-erett. Jim previously served 22 years with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Offi ce and was elected to two consecutive terms as sheriff.

★ Todd Simonton, Session 218, retired from the Bellevue Police Department on July 14 as major of the Administrative Services Division. Todd previously served with the Kirkland Po-lice Department from 1979 to 1981, and was the fi rst lateral hire for Bellevue PD. He was selected for the Eastside Narcotics Task Force to serve as a case detective and was later se-lected for the Hostage Negotiator Unit. Other assignments and positions included K-9, SWAT (offi cer, commander), Community Services, In-vestigations, City of Bellevue Human Services Commission, CALEA and Accreditation, patrol commander, and the NORCOM communica-tions project. Todd served as vice president of the Bellevue Police Offi cers Association and served as president of the Bellevue Police

Managers Association. Todd has also been a dedicated member of our Chapter serving as sponsorship chair for the past several years.

★ Jerome Solomon, Session 211, retired from the University of Washington Police Depart-ment June 30 after two years of service as commander of the Offi ce of Professional Stan-dards. Jerome previously served 25 years with the Michigan State Police.

★ John Suessman, Session 174, retired from the Lacey Police Department on July 29 after more than 30 years of service. John began his career with Lacey PD in 1980 and served on the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force as a detective and lieutenant. Other positions and assignments included patrol lieutenant, com-mander of the Patrol Division, and commander of Support Services. On August 9, John was appointed commander of the CJTC Academy in Burien. John also served the Chapter as president in 2001, and was on the Board of Di-rectors for the Seattle 1999 FBINAA National Conference.

★ Vern Thompson, Session 198, was ap-

pointed chief of the City of Eagle Point (Ore.) Police Department in November 2010. Vern previously served 28 years with the Kelso Po-lice Department, the last 14 years as captain. Other positions and assignments included Re-gion 4 SWAT commander and the All Hazard Incident Management Team for Southwest Washington.

★ Michael Villa, Session 224, was appointed chief of the Tukwila Police Department on June 1. Mike is a 21-year veteran of the de-partment and has served in a number of po-sitions and assignments, including assistant chief of Investigative Services, assistant chief of the Patrol Division, commander, sergeant, Valley SWAT member, COP Bicycle Team, narcotics detective, and patrol offi cer. Mike has also served as a department instructor, adjunct Instructor for the National Tactical Offi cers Association, and as a member of the International Law Enforcement Forum. WISCONSIN★ As of June 30, Tony Barthuly, Session 186, retired from the Fond du Lac City Police De-partment as chief of police. ■ F B IN A A

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The Intelligence Clearing

HouseTen years after 9/11, the FBI’s terrorist screening center helps support officers on the front lines.TRENT DUFFY

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BEFORE 9/11, various government agencies maintained nearly a dozen separate watch-lists, including the FBI’s National Crime Information Center/

Violent Gang & Terrorist Organization File (NCIC/VGTOF), the Integrated Au-tomated Fingerprint Identifi cation Sys-tem (IAFIS), the U.S. Marshals Service Warrant Information, the Department of State’s Terrorism Watch List called “TIPOFF,” and several others all de-signed to screen persons of interest to U.S. law enforcement and counterintel-ligence offi cials.

Some lists were shared, but there was little integration and cooperation, and there was no central clearinghouse where all law enforcement and govern-ment screeners could access the best information about a potential person of interest.

“We had a lot of strong threads, but they weren’t sewn together to form a powerful net. That has all changed now,” says Tim Healy, director of the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC).

The TSC began operations on Dec.

1, 2003, and is the U.S. government’s consolidation point for known and sus-pected terrorist watchlist information, both foreign and domestic. The Terror-ist Watchlist (aka the Terrorist Screen-ing Database) contains thousands of re-cords that are updated daily and shared with federal, state, local, territorial, tribal law enforcement, and intelligence community members, as well as interna-tional partners to ensure that individu-als with links to terrorism are appropri-ately screened.

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III de-scribes it simply: “Think of this as the Who’s Who of terrorists,” he says.

Compiling the ListThe process by which an individual is placed on the terrorist watchlist is fair-ly straightforward. Intelligence is gath-ered, biographical data is secured, and a person of interest is nominated for in-clusion. The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) collects international terrorist information and sends identi-fying data to the TSC for review. In ad-dition, domestic terrorist information is compiled by the FBI.

TSC accepts nominations of individu-

als to the Terrorist Watchlist when they satisfy two requirements. First, the bi-ographic information associated with a nomination must contain suffi cient identifying data so that a person being screened can be matched. Second, the facts and circumstances pertaining to the nomination must meet the reason-able suspicion standard of review estab-lished by terrorist screening presidential directives. Due weight must be given to the reasonable inferences that a person can draw from the available facts. Mere guesses or inarticulate “hunches” are not enough to constitute reasonable sus-picion to watchlist an individual.

While there have been occasional news reports on some individuals being misidentifi ed while traveling, Healy says the actual number is a mere fraction of the overall list.

“We take great care in the watchlist-ing process because we don’t gain any-thing by inconveniencing the general public,” Healy says. “And the number of individuals who thought they were inap-propriately listed and actually had any connection to the Watchlist is less than one percent. The fact is, we have limited resources, so we have to keep our focus



on those who we believe want to do us harm. Last point, there are no children on the no-fl y list.”

But building and keeping the Watch-list accurate, current, and thorough is only half of the TSC’s strategic mission in homeland security and counterterror-ism efforts. The other half is implemen-tation, information-sharing, and push-ing the list to people who need it.

“Without the participation of the en-tire law enforcement, homeland securi-ty, and counterterrorism communi-ties, the Watchlist is just a hollow bunch of names,” Healy says. “A core part of our mission is to push this information out to law enforce-ment so they know we are here to help, but more important so they realize the critical role they play in the effort to keep up with today’s modern terrorist threat.”

Active ThreatsWith the killing of Osama Bin Laden and the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 now upon us, the threat of another major ter-ror attack on U.S. soil is as real as ever, and the entire law enforcement commu-nity needs to be as vigilant as possible. The biggest step offi cers can make to-ward strengthening our country’s na-tional security and counterterrorism effort is to learn about the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC).

Each week in the United States, hun-dreds of known or suspected terrorists are stopped by law enforcement for all sorts of reasons unrelated to terrorism. After a quick screening against the TSC’s Terrorist Watchlist (a process similar to screening for wants and warrants), these individuals can be verifi ed as being a positive match for potentially having terrorist ties.

If law enforcement offi cers don’t know about or don’t contact the TSC, a terrorist could slip through a routine law enforcement stop and go on to commit a horrendous attack, which is exactly what happened before 9/11. Three of the 9/11 hijackers—Mohammed Atta, Ziad Jar-rah, and Hani Hanjour—were stopped by state or local law enforcement for rou-tine traffi c violations in the days leading up to the attack.

A Willing PartnerBefore 9/11 there was no central system to identify people as having an associa-tion with terrorism. Thankfully, that has all changed. Today, the TSC is a willing

partner working with law enforcement to help improve offi cer safety, strength-en national security, and expand U.S. counterterrorism.

Healy, a career FBI agent before he became director of the TSC, says it is critical for offi cers and dispatchers to work closely with the TSC. “If the TSC was operational prior to 9/11 and the process worked as it does today, it could have made that horrible day entirely dif-ferent. Since the fi rst day we stood up the

The Warning SignInitial inquiries to the TSC database are usually made by dispatchers work-ing with offi cers in the fi eld. Each inqui-ry compares the subject’s information against the information on the TSC’s Terrorist Watchlist.

If there is a match, the dispatcher receives a clear alert, warning that the subject is a known or suspected terror-ist. The dispatcher then calls the TSC to verify the information with a TSC opera-

tions specialist. This process takes as little as fi ve to 10 minutes for an average stop. To verify information supplied by the dispatcher, TSC op-erations specialists work through a series of standard questions with the dispatchers so that offi cers can elicit enough information to make

an identity determination. TSC Outreach Coordinator Terence

Wyllie provides this example when he briefs dispatchers and local law enforce-ment. “Let’s say a known terrorist lost two fi ngers in a previous bombing. A TSC operations specialist might tell a dispatcher to have the offi cer analyze a suspect’s right hand. If the offi cer re-ports that two fi ngers are missing, we know that’s the guy.”

Once a positive match is made, the information fl ow begins, all to the ben-efi t of enhanced national and homeland security.

Offi cer TrainingGiven all that is at stake and the simple process for verifying whether a subject is on the Terrorist Watchlist, why wouldn’t an offi cer contact the TSC if an NCIC check brought up the TSC banner? The main reason is that many are still un-familiar with the TSC banner and the simple procedure of what to do when they see it.

This is precisely why TSC runs an ac-tive outreach program, where offi cials offer training and briefi ngs to those who need it. The training is offered nation-wide, and is not limited to larger mu-nicipalities. In fact, TSC offi cials once briefed a rural Virginia sheriff’s depart-ment in a local fi rehouse.

Although the basic training program is relatively constant, TSC tailors each training session to each unit and the particular terrorist threat characteris-tics of certain areas. TSC has also con-ducted hundreds of briefi ngs for thou-sands of dispatchers nationwide since its creation, and has briefed at the Inter-

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TSC operations center, we have always pushed to create a seamless relationship between federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement.”

One call can prevent a major terrorist attack, according to Healy. “The offi cer gets important information, the intelli-gence community gets important infor-mation, and our communities and our country are safer,” he explains. “So a big part of what we do is to work with law enforcement offi cials across the coun-try to develop standards of procedure so that this important conversation takes place. Hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line.”

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Hijacker Mohammed Atta was stopped by local law enforcement before 9/11.

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LET’S SAY A KNOWN TERRORIST LOST TWO FINGERS IN A PREVIOUS BOMBING. IF THE OFFICER REPORTS THAT TWO FINGERS ARE MISSING, WE KNOW THAT’S THE GUY.

— TERENCE WYLLIETSC OUTREACH COORDINATOR



national Association of Chiefs of Police Conference and the National Sheriffs Association Conference.

Wyllie, who serves as the coordina-tor of the TSC’s law enforcement out-reach division, wants every law enforce-ment offi cial to know that this training is available. “Our program raises aware-ness and encourages the use of this im-portant system,” he says. “We want all offi cers and chiefs integrating TSC into their daily practices.”

Wyllie urges departments to consid-er enacting new standards of procedure that make contacting the TSC when the banner is displayed to be a compliance issue. ■ F B IN A A

To schedule a TSC training session for your department, contact the TSC at (571) 350-4106 or [email protected]

Trent Duffy is the public affairs offi cer for the Terrorist Screening Center. He has held numerous public affairs positions in government throughout his 20-year ca-reer in Washington, D.C.

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A lthough 10 states lead the country in offi cer encounters with known or suspected terrorists, encounters occur in every state in the nation. This is why it is critical for law enforcement offi cials ev-

erywhere to contact the Terrorist Screening Center when an NCIC check turns up a potential hit.

Unfortunately, many offi cers are not working with the TSC to the degree necessary to provide the full value of the Terrorist Watchlist to protect offi cers, communities, and the homeland.

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ASH-STRAPPED law enforcement agencies are facing many training challenges. Tra-ditional in-service law enforcement train-ing requires in-house instructors, a train-ing facility, and students that have to be taken away from their other duties and sent to classes. Consequently, traditional

law enforcement training has become too expensive and too la-bor intensive for some agencies that are facing not only budget cuts but reductions in sworn personnel.

These agencies face a dilemma; they can’t afford to train their offi cers, but legally they must. That’s one reason why so many agencies have added computer-based training to their in-service programs.

Even agencies that are not facing economic hardship are now using computer-based training. They are discovering that computer-based training offers many benefi ts over the traditional model. Let’s take a look at 10 of these benefi ts:

1. You can preview computer-based training to verify content and quality in advance.More training is a bad thing if the training isn’t correct. Ev-ery additional hour that an offi cer receives bad training just makes things worse.

You never know for sure what a live instructor will say. Even if you happen to have a manuscript lesson plan of the expected presentation—which is rare—you can’t assume the instructor will follow the script. Worse, you don’t know what the live instructor will say in answer to questions that come

up during the presentation.So if you’d like to know for sure what information your offi -

cers will be receiving, some type of computer-based training is for you. Comparatively, live instruction is a roll of the dice.

More sophisticated computer-based training even allows an individual user agency to add agency policy and other “local” information to otherwise generic training programs.

2. You can use the best instructor every time.Quality of content and delivery are critical to effective train-ing, and the best instructors know the best practices. The average law enforcement agency can’t bring in the country’s best instructors to teach multiple, one-day in-service training classes. To do so would be cost prohibitive.

Typically, many agencies use “whoever is available” among local “experts” who may or may not be truly expert. If it’s legal in-service, for example, it may be “someone from the prosecu-tor’s offi ce,” which could turn out to be the most junior, least experienced person in the offi ce.

Even if the prosecutor’s offi ce sends its very best instruc-tor, the class will still refl ect prosecutorial agendas, which can differ dramatically from police effectiveness agendas. Com-puter-based training can cure this problem entirely, at very low cost.

3. Computer-based training is absolutely consistent.In the defense of lawsuits, it is sometimes necessary to prove exactly what a particular offi cer was taught. That means fi nd-ing out what was said in the particular class the particular of-

10 REASONSCOMPUTER-BASED TRAININGBEATS LIVE TRAININGComputer-based training can provide your officers with consistent, legally defensible instruction and save your agency money.RANDOLPH B. MEANS

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fi cer attended on a particular day. If you use a live instructor fi ve different times, you’ll get fi ve

different classes, especially considering that different ques-tions from class participants will inevitably take each class to slightly different places. If you use fi ve different instructors to teach the “same” class, you’ll get even more variation.

To the extent that participants “hear” different messages, confusion may create additional problems. In terms of legal defensibility, it becomes diffi cult if not impossible to prove ex-actly who received what information, unless the agency re-cords every rendition of the class and keeps perfect atten-dance records.

4. Computer-based training can be repeated.It is critical that every offi cer receive the training and that learning actually occurs. With live training, if an offi cer needs the instruction twice, he or she gets it once. It is diffi cult if not impossible to repeat the program for offi cers who need it more than once, as many perfectly good learners do. Comput-er-based training makes repetition a piece of cake.

Also, if someone is away when the pro-gram is fi rst offered, it is unlikely the live instructor will be putting on a repeat for that one person when he or she gets back. Com-puter-based training is not schedule depen-dent; it’s always available.

Finally, the more sophisticated computer-based training allows a participant to inter-rupt a session and later return to the place where he or she left off, without starting at the beginning.

5. Computer-based training is easy to schedule.Live classroom training obviously requires participant assembly at a time when a quali-fi ed instructor and facility space are both available. Computer-based training can be accomplished whenever and wherever an in-dividual participant has the time.

Computer-based training not only reduc-es scheduling burdens, it dramatically re-duces costs. With computer-based training, backfi lling fi eld staffi ng while people attend training becomes a thing of the past.

6. Computer-based training is dirt cheap.Not being able to afford training is not a de-fense to a lawsuit over negligent training or failure to train. Computer-based training can be accomplished at a tiny fraction of the cost of live classroom training, and certainly a ton less than the cost of a lawsuit.

Presumably, a switch to a much cheaper and more effective training delivery method would allow you to do more of whatever you need to do and get better in the process. If be-cause of slashed budgets you were only able to use the “savings” to maintain your his-torical training status quo, it would be much better than eliminating needed training.

Computer-based training need not re-

quire participant assembly or overtime pay. It can be worked into slow work periods and some agencies even let their offi -cers park in safe locations and take the training in their pa-trol cars.

Note: Be careful of how much you try to cut your costs. There are some giveaways in the computer-based training world. Free is always nice, but it’s not always good. Be sure to look the gift horse in the mouth.

7. Cost savings from a computer-based training program will allow you to expand your agency’s training horizons.Once you accomplish most of your current training load at a tiny fraction of its budgeted cost, presumably you will be free to spend the money that was already in your training budget to deliver more types of training.

For example, let’s say the few hours of periodically mandat-ed “legal update” training does not allow time for any compre-hensive review of the federal constitutional law regarding ar-

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rest, detention, search, and seizure. After saving tons of time and money by using computer-based training, you can add this much needed training.

8. Computer-based training is totally documented.Once upon a time, training was considered well documented if you had a skeleton outline that purported to describe it—whether or not that outline was actually followed. The skeleton outline eventually evolved into a fuller outline and then, for many agencies, a manuscript lesson plan that in theory docu-ments virtually every important thought out of the instructor’s mouth. Regardless of the method of documentation, a question remained regarding what the instructor actually said on any given day.

In related controversies in court, offi cers sometimes do not agree with their employers and instructors as to what was taught. Administrators claim that offi cers were properly trained; the offi cers in their own defense sometimes dispute that fact.

Even if there is no dispute as to what an individual offi cer was taught, the plaintiff’s attorney will seek proof. To totally document live training, every session would have to be video-taped and that is rarely done.

With computer-based training, perfect documentation is in-trinsic and automatic. Attendance is even tracked through a learning management system.

9. Computer-based training ensures learning through universal interactivity.Historically, live classroom training typically did not include testing at all. Almost all computer-based training includes universal testing of every participant.

Oddly, those who are most skeptical of computer-based training persistently ask, “How do you make sure learning has occurred?” In the better computer-based training programs, there is testing embedded in the course itself, so the partici-pant simply can’t proceed until he or she shows mastery of a point of understanding. There is also a post-course test to dou-ble-check that learning occurred.

In live training, the in-service offi cer in the back row could have had the fl u and been thinking entirely about his or her signifi cant other the whole time yet that instructor still walked out of the classroom and certifi ed the offi cers “satis-factorily participated” in the training. It is a screeching irony that computer-based training—the fi rst type of training to ac-tually include universal testing—is also the fi rst to be consis-tently challenged on the question of learning.

10. Students can’t ask computer-based training questions.This sounds like a negative, but it’s actually a major plus of computer-based training. If a live instructor simply reads a correct manuscript lesson plan to the class, there is no prob-lem. Unfortunately, training often goes off the rails when the questions begin. Participants’ “what if” questions often raise more diffi cult issues and call for more instructor expertise. Consequently, instructor errors become more likely.

Quality control of the answers to students’ questions is dif-fi cult if not impossible with a live instructor. Sophisticated on-line training programs allow the participant to send questions to the instructor electronically. The expert instructor can then electronically share both the question and the correct answer with all course participants, not just the one asking the ques-tion and not just the ones in class.

The question and the answer can also be communicated to other experts for a double-check of the quality of the response, if that is useful. So actually, students can ask questions in computer-based training programs. So this is not a negative, it’s a benefi t. Not only can questions be asked but the process for answering them ensures consistency and accuracy. ■ F B IN A A

Randolph B. Means, J.D., attorney at law is the director of cur-riculum development and quality assurance for The Response Network. He is a founding partner of The Thomas & Means Law Firm, LLP.

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ECENTLY the FBI National Academy Associates and the Boston Police De-partment honored a man whose per-sonal and professional standard of ex-

cellence continues to serve as an example for all law enforcement professionals. James T. Sheehan

was selected by J. Edgar Hoover as a member of the fi rst class at the FBI National Academy, he was elected fi rst president of the alumni association by his peers, and he was dubbed “Mr. Integrity” in Boston, where he served as captain and deputy superintendent. His honest and exacting approach to police work was a model for two generations of law enforcement of-fi cers from around the nation.

Sheehan was born in 1893 in Boston and established at an early age the habits of self-discipline, hard work, and service that would distinguish him as a law enforcement leader. Shee-han was the sixth child in a struggling working-class family and lost his mother at a young age. After fi nishing school, he worked fi rst as an insurance clerk and then followed his older brother onto the Boston Fire Department.

When the United States entered the Great War in 1917, Sheehan enlisted in the Army, serving as a sergeant in France. After the war, he became one of hundreds of returning veter-ans to join the Boston Police Department, whose ranks had been decimated by the police strike of 1919.

Sheehan was appointed to the position of offi cer in 1920 and

worked fi rst in the downtown districts, establishing a repu-tation as an honest and effi cient patrolman. Sheehan fi rst drew the attention of his superiors when newspaper reporters called the station for details on the heroic young offi cer who had stopped a team of runaway horses pulling an ice wagon; Sheehan had not even bothered to make a report. He made sergeant in 1927.

The late 1920s and early 1930s saw an epidemic of crime in Boston and around the country. Organized crime thrived on bootlegging and racketeering, while ready access to guns and automobiles brought an increase in armed robberies. Sheehan came down hard on illegal activity in his police division. His ef-forts made life uncomfortable for well-connected “businessmen” whose livelihood depended on illegal liquor sales and gaming. In 1930 an attempt was made to bring Sheehan down.

State prosecutors were conducting hearings on illegal liquor sales during Prohibition. The ambitious and unscrupulous head of the liquor squad testifi ed that, some two years before, he had seen Sheehan inspect the premises of the Ritz Hotel and ignore patrons who were openly drinking liquor.

At the time of the public testimony, Sheehan was in Chica-go on an extradition case. He rushed home to defend his good name. Witnesses who claimed to have seen Sheehan at the Ritz were unable to identify him in the courtroom. He took the stand, and unequivocally testifi ed, “I was not at the Ritz.”

Sheehan produced his station’s journal book for the night in question. On the date others had testifi ed he had been at the

The late James T. Sheehan served as the first president of the FBINAA and still serves

as an inspiration for all law enforcement officers.

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(Left) James T. Sheehan worked his way up to the position of deputy super-intendent of the Boston Police Department, and was the fi rst president of the FBI National Academy.

(Bottom left) Sheehan inspects fi ngerprints while still a lieutenant, 1934.

(Bottom right) James T. Sheehan testifi es in liquor corruption hearings. Because Sheehan was scrupulously honest, he was twice targeted by corrupt law enforcement offi cials.

PHOTO: COURTESY SHEEHAN FAMILY

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Ritz, every entry in the journal book for a 24-hour period was in his hand. That day Sheehan had been designated “acting lieutenant” and had never left the station. When prosecutors announced that anyone else who wished to testify would do so without any promise of immunity, several scheduled witnesses declined to appear in court, while others repeatedly testifi ed, “I don’t recall.” The high drama inspired numerous cartoons and editorials in Boston newspapers, and the corrupt liquor squad offi cers were demoted.

The following year, Sheehan was assigned to the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and promoted to lieutenant.

ON TIME, UNDER BUDGET

Sheehan’s work in the Boston PD’s Bureau of Records in 1934 cemented his reputation for integrity and effi ciency and caught the attention of U.S. Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover. The Boston PD, which had established its fi ngerprint unit in 1906, had for years wanted to revise its entire fi ngerprint system.

gerprint system in the country, surpassed only by the Justice Department.

PUBLIC ENEMIES

As Boston PD’s new fi ngerprint system went online, the coun-try was erupting in violence. Gangs roamed the country, par-ticularly the Midwest, robbing banks and shooting law en-forcement offi cers with seeming impunity. Among these violent criminals were Ma Barker, Alvin Karpis, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonny and Clyde, and John Dillinger.

Hoover sent agents of his Bureau of In-vestigation into the fi eld, but they had no arrest authority and initially carried no fi rearms. Killing these agents was not yet a federal offense, though a crime wave in 1933 and 1934 resulted in the murder of four agents and scores of police offi cers. In its wake, the Bureau of Investigation be-came the FBI, and its agents were given the tools they needed to fi ght crime.

Once the FBI was formed, Hoover saw a need to assist in the training of police of-fi cers to help combat the crime wave. In 1935, Hoover established the FBI Police Training School, popularly dubbed “crime school” by the press. Twenty-three high-ranking police offi cers from across the country, including Sheehan, were selected for the fi rst class in Washington, D.C.

SINGLED OUT

A newspaper account described the course as “a strenuous three months learning how to fi re at targets from moving automobiles, how to raid gangster hideouts, the best way to disarm gangsters, how to use moulage, fi ngerprint, and other techniques devel-oped by the G-Men.” Classes were held in an air-conditioned room in the Department of Justice building. A total of 38 subjects were covered, including psychology, fi nger-prints and measurements, handwriting, ballistics, photography, and traffi c control. Lecturers included scientists and criminol-ogists from leading universities. Firearms

training was held at the Marine Corps base in Quantico. Sheehan, who had recently been made captain, told a Bos-

ton newspaper: “It was just like being in the Army, with reveil-le at 5:15 every morning we were in Quantico, blue denims on the rifl e range, and a course a week in machine guns, subma-chine guns, and rifl es. Back in Washington, the day was just as long. We began at 5:15 in the morning and went through exactly the same course of training as the G-Men, even in the wrestling and boxing and exercises on the roof. It was wonder-ful, but it was no picnic. I thought we knew a lot in Boston, but there was equipment here I had never seen before.”

Graduation exercises received national coverage. Diplomas were awarded by Attorney General Homer Cummings and Hoover, who singled out Sheehan for particular praise.

The graduating class established an alumni association and elected Sheehan its fi rst president. “We are all proud of your selection as president of the Federal Police Alumni,” ca-bled Boston Police Commissioner Eugene W. McSweeney. “My

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When Boston Police Commissioner E.C. Hultman had fi rst requested updates to the system in 1931, he had insisted that the prints remain accessible to investigators even as the sys-tem was overhauled. A private company estimated the work would take three to four years, at a cost of up to $40,000. Shee-han consulted with mathematicians at area universities, vis-ited the Bureau of Justice in Washington, D.C., and then pro-ceeded, with several offi cers of his own choosing and workers from the Depression’s E.R.A. (Emergency Relief Appropria-tion) program, to methodically update the fi ngerprint system. The job was completed in fi ve months at a cost of $150.

The results of Sheehan’s hard work and organizational skills were spectacular. Boston PD’s new fi ngerprint classifi -cation system let investigators make an identifi cation in one operation instead of three. The number of unidentifi ed de-ceased persons was cut in half. Boston’s criminal records now numbered 225,000, including prints from other jurisdictions. Director Hoover declared that Boston had the second best fi n-

(Top) The fi rst class of the FBI National Academy in Washington, D.C. Sheehan is second from left in middle row. (Above) James T. Sheehan and his handpicked squad of Boston Police after raiding a gambling establishment.

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warmest congratulations.” The alumni association nur-

tured professional relation-ships and lifelong friendships. For many years, Sheehan and his wife, Mabel, would send their children to enjoy vaca-tions in the country with a smalltown police chief and his family, a friendship begun in Washington.

THE RACKET SQUAD

Sheehan put his new expertise to work in Boston, bringing the ballistics unit in line with the latest methods used by the De-partment of Justice. In 1936, he returned to Washington for the fi rst of many stints as a lec-turer at the FBI Police Train-ing School.

In part because of politi-cal pressure from the Massa-chusetts State House and lo-cal ward bosses, Sheehan was transferred fi ve times between 1936 and 1939. As captain of the Roxbury neighborhood’s Division 10, Sheehan worked aggressively to close down gam-bling rings. He was bumped upstairs to headquarters, where his work against rackets brought pressure on well-connected individuals.

Sheehan’s racket squad was merged with another unit and he was transferred again. As captain of Dorchester’s Divi-sion 11, he oversaw the police work on voter registration lists and found 500 names registered at a non-existent address. He purged these fraudulent names from the rolls just be-fore the municipal election.

Sheehan’s example pres-sured the department to ex-amine voting irregularities across the city. A handwrit-

ing expert who had worked on the Lindbergh kidnapping case was consulted. Estimates put the number of fraudulent voter names at between 10,000 and 20,000.

In an era when many rack-eteers had reached an under-standing, and sometimes a business relationship, with politicians and even some law enforcement offi cers, Sheehan could not be bought. “Once you take their fi rst dollar,” he often said, “they own you.”

The Boston American called Sheehan “the most feared man in the department. Racketeers have tried to reach him and failed.” He was so effective against racketeers that, when Sheehan took a vacation, the Boston Traveler headline read “SHEEHAN RESTS; BOOK-IES HAPPY… Respite for local racketeers for the next three weeks was assured last night when Boston’s Public Enemies’ Enemy No. 1 left for a southern

vacation.” The Florida vacation was recommended for Shee-han’s health. While he was only in this 40s, the stress of his relentless pace took its toll.

MOP AND BUCKET

Many racketeers from Boston and New York relocated to the suburbs of Boston, beyond Sheehan’s reach. Violent crime fol-lowed. In one city north of Boston, criminals well known to

the police openly conducted illegal enterprises.

In 1937, Massachusetts Gover-nor Charles F. Hurley was forced to act when a well-known criminal was killed in a gangland shooting. The murdered criminal was popu-lar in his hometown; public build-

ings fl ew fl ags at half staff during his funeral. The governor sent in Sheehan to fi nd the killers, clean up the rackets, and remove any corrupt police. An editorial cartoon showed Shee-han entering the town with a mop and bucket labeled “rack-eteer disinfectant” saying, “Let an outsider take a crack at it.”

Sheehan and his trusted Boston offi cers set up an offi ce in the town and began monitoring the criminals and the police. They surveiled the gangster’s funeral, raided a gambling estab-lishment owned by a town police offi cer, and brought about the resignation of the town’s police chief. The Boston squad made an arrest for the murder, but as Sheehan and his squad tackled the racketeers, they were abruptly returned to duty in Boston. Sheehan was put in charge of Boston’s Traffi c Division.

In January 1943, Massachusetts Attorney General Robert T. Bushnell investigated organized crime in Boston over the prior seven years. The highest ranking members of the Boston PD were subpoenaed to discuss the rampant gambling activ-ity in Boston.

Sheehan was summoned to testify on his success during the

Sheehan could not be bought: “Once you take their first

dollar, they own you.” —James T. Sheehan

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(Left) Bronze plaque honoring Deputy Superinten-dent Sheehan, a gift from the FBINAA, is unveiled in Boston Police Headquarters. (From left,) Margaret R. Sullivan; Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis III; Richard DesLauriers, SAC of the FBI’s Boston Divi-sion; Paul and Bill Sheehan; and Deputy Chief William G. Brooks of the Wellesley (Mass.) Police Department.

(Below) Sons of Deputy Superintendent Sheehan Paul (L) and Bill (R) meet with FBI Director Robert Mueller at the 2010 FBINAA Gala Dinner featuring a tribute to their father.


year he had run the anti-racket squad be-fore being reassigned to Traffi c. In a scene reminiscent of his court appearance more than a dozen years before, Sheehan testi-fi ed freely while others followed their law-yers’ advice and refused to speak to the grand jury. The hearings dragged on most of the year until the governor appointed a new Boston Police Commissioner.

DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT

Incoming Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan immediately re-moved the six offi cials facing indictment and appointed Shee-han as Inspector of Divisions. “I was very happy to learn of your promotion,” wrote FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to Shee-han. “It is most encouraging to see the graduates of the FBI National Police Academy progress in the profession of law en-forcement, and I hope you will not hesitate to call upon me if we can help you in any way.” Just weeks later, Sheehan was appointed deputy superintendent.

Sheehan resumed his vigorous anti-racket work. Which made him unpopular with those district captains who had overlooked organized crime in their commands for years. In one division, Sheehan used his own men and Massachusetts State Police to raid 50 gambling establishments, some only steps from the local police station.

Even as deputy superintendent, Sheehan continued his close relationship with the FBI National Academy. In 1949, Sheehan lectured on “Gambling, Prostitution, and other Vices.”

Sheehan served as deputy superintendent for eight years. During the fi nal four, he suffered a series of heart attacks. He retired for health reasons in 1952.

When Sheehan died two years later, mourners included many contemporary and past offi cials from the Boston Police Department and other police agencies, as well as the special agent-in-charge of the Boston offi ce of the FBI. Hoover sent Mabel Sheehan his personal condolences.

At the time of Sheehan’s death, he and Mabel were living in a rented home, as they had for most of their marriage. The city did not connect his premature death from heart disease to his stressful police work, so Mabel Sheehan received no pension and had to move in with her married daughter and go to work herself. Eventually, lawyers who had admired her husband worked pro

bono to win Mabel Sheehan a modest widow’s pension. The Sheehan family paid a high price for Jim Sheehan’s

years of service as an honest policeman. Prior to his death, Sheehan had turned down lucrative of-

fers to write his memoirs. Perhaps because he had twice been falsely accused of wrongdoing, Sheehan had kept at home doz-ens of boxes with copies of records from his police career. He in-structed his family to burn them upon his death. Some crimi-nals had served their sentences and turned their lives around, he said, and he did not want his fi les to ruin anyone.

Sheehan’s honest and dogged police career remains an ex-ample to all offi cers of the Boston Police Department and grad-uates of the FBI National Academy. His story was highlighted at the 2010 FBINAA conference in Boston, where FBI Director Robert Mueller met privately with Sheehan’s surviving sons.

On Dec. 14, the New England Chapter of the FBINAA pre-sented the Boston Police Department with a handsome sculpt-ed brass plaque of James T. Sheehan, a gift from the alumni association he served so well. The image now greets visitors in the lobby at police headquarters and is a permanent reminder of the legacy of an honest cop and a leader in the fi nest tradi-tions of the FBI National Academy. ■ F B IN A A

William G. Brooks III is deputy chief of the Wellesley (Mass.) Police Department. He is a graduate of Session 175 and served as the 2010 National Conference Chair of the FBINAA. Marga-ret R. Sullivan is records manager and archivist of the Boston Police Department.

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MESSAGE FROM OUR CHAPLAIN

A LONG, LONG TIME AGO in a faraway place, I began my law enforcement career as a deputy

sheriff. It seems like a hundred years ago now, but one of the things I will never forget is some of the names I was called. All of them were not good. You know, when you answer a domestic call, catch a vi-olent criminal, stop a half-crazed drunk driver, or intervene in a fi ght between some of the good old boys. Some of these folks had choice words to de-scribe a law enforcement offi cer. Hopefully things have changed over the years but I’m sure you can remember some of those choice names as well.

Sometimes there are names we are called that come from an entirely different segment of society and they aren’t too good either. For instance, have you ever been called a hypo-crite? There are many ways this word can be described, but 98 percent of the time it relates to you and your church life. Web-ster’s dictionary defi nes hypocrite as “affecting more virtue or religious devotion than one actually possesses.” That’s really a nice way of putting it but I have a more simple defi nition: claiming to be something that we are not or even more simply, living a lie.

Most of us are active in the church of our choice and attend on a regular basis. There is just something about attending church that makes us feel good and sep-arates us from the sinful world around us. There is a feeling of religious secu-rity and peace with God when we at-tend church. We participate in church activities, attend bible study, listen to good sermons, and just feel very secure in our relationship with God when we are at church.

Let’s face it: We have a tendency to measure our Christian life by our church attendance, and therein lies the problem with many of us today. We have this erroneous feeling that church attendance and religious activity can compensate for our wrongdoing. Church attendance alone cannot be the stan-dard for pleasing God. He wants His people to demonstrate that their faith is genuine by living our daily lives in obedi-ence to Him.

I would like to think that all professions are held to a high standard, and most of them are. However, there are four that stand out in my mind that seem to appear in the press more than any others. Those are the ministry, legal, political, and law enforcement professions. Whenever a member of one of these professions becomes involved in some activity that is not legally or morally acceptable, the press jumps on it like a frog on a pond.

Some time ago I read an article in a newspaper about a for-mer law enforcement offi cer being indicted for armed robbery. I didn’t recognize the name so I conducted a little research to see who this former law enforcement offi cer was. As expected, I discovered that in l974 this man had worked as a deputy sher-iff for about six months prior to being fi red. He had not been in law enforcement but six months and that was 37 years ago. Yet the press printed it as if he had recently been a member of

our profession. We read these stories all the time and they

lead us to believe that they are printed to make our profession look bad. In reality, this may not be the case. The fact is these professions are held to a much higher standard and our citizens sim-ply don’t expect our members to be involved in any wrongdoing. Now let’s get back to our church at-tendance issue.

Lloyd John Ogilvie, in his book “The Autobiog-raphy of God,” maintains that there are two groups of people in the church: 1) the inside/outsiders and 2) the inside/insiders. The most dangerous group in the church is the inside/outsid-ers. These are people inside the church but outside a deep, inti-mate, growing relationship with Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, there are too many who fi t this description today.

You see, we have this tendency to compartmentalize our lives. When it comes to religion, if we attend church servic-es and are involved in other church activities, we often feel smugly satisfi ed that all is well between us and the Lord. We place these activities in our “spiritual compartment.” Howev-er, in what we will refer to as our “secular compartment,” we do what we want to do even when this behavior is contrary to God’s word. We don’t see any contradiction between our sinful

behavior and our religious practic-es because we have kept them sepa-rate by placing them in two differ-ent compartments of our life. This lifestyle leads to hypocrisy.

The words of Jesus on this top-ic are found in Matthew 23:27-28.

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you are hypo-crites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocri-sy and wickedness.” God requires behavior consistent with our stated beliefs. If you separate honesty and morality from reli-gion, what kind of religion do you have?

Church attendance is an important part of the Christian life. It is God’s house and He is present there. It is a place to worship and praise Him, a place to study and learn from His word, and a place to have fellowship with fellow Christians. But church attendance alone is not enough. It is your personal relationship with Jesus Christ that determines your eternity. If we talk the talk then we need to walk the walk. So, let me encourage you to de-compartmentalize your life and live ac-cording to the standards God expects of us. Let me leave you with this question: If you were indicted for being a Christian would there be suffi cient evidence to convict you?

Be careful how you live your life. You may be the only Bible some people will ever read. ■ F B IN A A

Practice What You Preach

B I L LY G IBSON

We don’t see any contradiction between our sinful behavior and our religious practices because we have kept them separate.

THERE IS NO WORSE NAME TO BE CALLED THAN HYPOCRITE.

Billy Gibson

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IT SEEMS LIKE it’s human nature to complain. So many people like to complain. We all know family members, friends, coworkers, or partners who al-ways manage to see their glass-es half empty instead of half

full. These people seem to spread this negativity like a contagious disease.

I will admit that I have been guilty of complaining from time to time, but let’s try to keep things in perspective. Web-ster’s defi nes “perspective” as looking through or seeing clearly. And I would like to share my perspective based on a recent experience.

On June 18, 2007, I was at a work function, attending a dinner, when I received a message on my Blackberry from my wife Lysa. The message was actually a question, “When are you com-ing home?”

Now, you need to understand that my wife rarely questions my whereabouts or inquires when I’m coming home, un-less there is an important reason.

After replying to her, I ultimately arrived home. In the back of my mind, I knew I was expecting some biopsy re-sults from a recent exam. Weeks prior, my doctors had located a one-centimeter nodule on my thyroid. I was not ter-ribly worried because doctors told me that the majority of these nodules are non-cancerous. However, when I arrived home, I was informed by my wife that my two doctors had called with some bad news. Lysa then told me, “Joey, you have cancer.”

Most of us in this profession have seen a lot of things that have shocked us. And over the past 25 years, I have been shocked my fair share of times, but think about how you would respond to being told you have cancer.

To say I was shocked would be an un-derstatement. I was overwhelmed with a wide range of emotions and all I could think about were things like: “What

will happen to my family?” “What will happen to my wife?” “What will happen to my four kids?” “Why me? I’m only 44, I’m too young to die.” The emotions were so vivid that night that I will never for-get them.

I would also like to mention the timing of this bad news. I was told I had cancer on my youngest son’s sixth birthday and just four days before my son Adam’s Bar Mitzvah (where a boy becomes a man in the Jewish religion). So naturally, this presented another issue of how to disclose my situation to my family and friends without ruining Adam’s big day.

I share my experience with you for one reason. You see, when most healthy, able-bodied people are “doing their thing” they tend to get into a rut or groove and sometimes take their health for granted. Many of us worry and com-

right straight in the face, you may not have the perspective that others and I have. Believe me, I’m not bragging. I just recently got handed this thing called perspective, as a consolation prize for having cancer.

I’m sharing my story because I want to emphasize the importance of not sweating the small stuff. Use your pre-cious time and energy to focus on the big things, the things that are important to you, whatever they may be. Fam-ily, friends, music, or religion. Because when it comes down to it, these are the things that helped me cope, and gave me support, strength, and the power to be in a position to fi ght this thing. I have also discovered this thing called positive thinking. Something I had been preach-ing to others for many years. But it took a time of crisis in my personal life for me to begin to explore this very powerful


WHEN YOU FACE A DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER, YOU LEARN TO NOT SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF.

I share my experience for one reason. You see, when most healthy, able-bodied people are “doing their thing” they tend to get into a rut or groove and sometimes take things for granted.

KEEPING THINGS IN

PERSPECTIVEJOSEF LEVY

plain about issues that in comparison to our health should be no comparison at all.

Prior to “getting the news” I would often think about the day-to-day stuff that might sound familiar to many of you. How much do I have in my sav-ings or checking account? Can I afford that “toy”? What about that project on my desk? Will I be getting that promo-tion or assignment? Will I be getting an overtime shift? Why don’t we have this? Why don’t we have that? It basically came down to sweating the small stuff in life. It’s all so irrelevant in the larger scheme of things. Because if you don’t have your health, well, my friends, you ain’t got nothing.

Until you’re facing possible death,

tool I have been using to “fi ght the fi ght.”So if you fi nd yourself falling into the

“victim mentality” and turning into a chronic complainer, shake it off. Keep things in perspective. You may not have everything in life that you want, but if you have your health, a spiritual base, a strong diverse group of friends and family, then consider yourself “having it all.” ■ F B IN A A

Commander Josef Levy has been with the Long Beach (Calif.) Police Depart-ment since 1985. He designs and delivers diversity training and was his depart-ment’s cultural awareness instructor. Levy is currently the president of the Na-tional Law Enforcement Cancer Support Foundation, which he helped to create.

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STAYING ON THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD

SANDSandbags are one great way to develop the functional strength you require. The sandbag lift is a total body exercise that en-hances motor control and core strength. Pictures #1 and #2 demonstrate a 100-pound sandbag lift. Lift the sandbag dy-namically from the fl oor to the shoulder in one continuous mo-tion. Keep your back as straight as possible and exhale force-

fully when lifting the sandbag. But you don’t need to use sand for this exercise. In a pinch, you can make a “sandbag” by throwing heavy objects into a duffl e bag.

ROPEShort rope is another odd object that provides many benefi ts in training. It builds core strength as well as grip strength.

Odd Object TrainingKEV IN T. CH IMENTO

USING NON-TRADITIONAL RESISTANCE EQUIPMENT CAN BOOST YOUR FUNCTIONAL STRENGTH FOR BETTER JOB PERFORMANCE.

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YOU CAN DEVELOP A GREAT DEAL OF STRENGTH in the weight room,

but when it is necessary to perform a real-life task such as pushing and pull-ing with your feet on the ground, that strength may not help you. With odd ob-

ject training, non-traditional forms of resistance such as sandbags, ropes, wa-ter, rocks, and tires allow you to trans-fer “weight room” strength to functional strength. This is what you rely on dur-ing many of the strenuous physical job

tasks in law enforcement. Because many odd object exercises mimic real-life move-ments such as picking things up off the ground and rotating, they better prepare your body for the situations you’ll en-counter on your shift.

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and #10 demonstrate a water-fi lled stability ball being used in a chopping motion. You can also use a PVC pipe fi lled slightly with water to perform a shoulder press, as shown in picture #11. Water-fi lled pipes require a person to push or pull even-ly; otherwise the water rushes to one side, causing imbalance. Therefore, you are forced to use your core to balance. You can perform many other traditional exercises with a water-fi lled pipe for an increased emphasis on core strength and motor control.

I recommend adding odd object lifting to your exercise regi-men to increase functional strength and add variety to your program. This article only introduces a few exercises, but there are many more you can perform following the same principles. Be creative and create your own, but keep in mind that safety should be your main concern when creating new exercises with odd objects. ■ F B IN A A

Kevin T. Chimento, MEd, CSCS, ACSM-HFS, has been a health and fi tness instructor for the FBI at the FBI Academy in Quan-tico, Va., for more than 15 years. He instructs special agents for the FBI as well as law enforcement personnel from around the world. Chimento designs strength and conditioning programs for FBI new agent trainees, SWAT personnel, FBI hostage res-cue team members, and law enforcement leaders. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Fitness and Cardiac Rehabilita-tion/Exercise Science from Ithaca College and his Masters of Education degree from the University of Virginia. Chimento is also a certif ied defensive tactics instructor for the FBI.

Grip strength, in particular, is much underrated. In a physical confrontation, it is highly important for pulling and control-ling a subject.

To begin, cut some worn climbing ropes into 10- to 11-foot lengths. You can drape the rope over a bar for rope pulls, as seen in pictures #3 and #4. If you tie one end of the rope to a bar you can perform rope walks by walking your hands up the rope and then back down, as seen in pictures #5 and #6. If you have a training partner you can perform two-person pulls, as seen in picture #7. Just remember that for two-person pulls you must maintain constant tension on the rope.

WATERTraining with water-fi lled objects adds another dynamic to an exercise: inertia. When training with water-fi lled objects, water accelerates within the object to create more resistance when reversing the motion of the exercise. Water-fi lled objects challenge balance, motor control, and core stability/strength, depending on the exercise being performed. Pictures #8, #9,

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EXTRAORDINARY MEMBERS

ON MONDAY, APRIL 11, Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe named J.R. Howard of Searcy as

the new director of the Arkansas State Police.“J.R. has a long and respected history with the

Arkansas State Police and law enforcement in gen-eral,” Beebe said. “His experience ranges from his time on patrol, to being a member of State Police leadership and a state agency director. I am glad to have him back in service to the State of Arkansas.”

Howard is a Madison County, Ark., native and a graduate of the University of Arkansas. He was commissioned in 1971 as an Arkansas State Trooper assigned to the Highway Patrol Division.

During his 33-year tenure as an Arkansas State Police offi -cer, Howard spent more than half his career as an investigator assigned to the Criminal Investigation Division.

In 1999 Howard was assigned to the director’s staff, han-

dling special investigations. He rose to the rank of major, supervising the Enforcement Division, which encompassed both the Highway Patrol and Criminal Investigation Sections at the time.

Upon retirement from the State Police in 2004, Howard was appointed director of the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory by Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Later he accepted an appointment from President George W. Bush as U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Howard is also a licensed pilot for both private and commer-cial aircraft.

Howard is the third consecutive FBI NA graduate to serve as colonel of the Arkansas State Police. He replaces Winford Phillips (Session 98) who recently retired from the position. Col. Phillips had replaced Steve Dozier (Session 178) who took over as colonel in 2004 before leaving the department for the private sector.

FBI NA Graduate to Lead Arkansas State Police

MEET J.R. HOWARDSESSION: 195

FAMILY: Wife: Kathy; daughter: Leigh Howard; daughter: Lindsey Bell; son-in-law: John Bell; grandkids: Johnny Bell and Katy Jane Bell

HOME: Searcy, Ark.

EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree, University of Arkansas

CURRENT POSITION: Director, Arkansas State Police

ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP: Arkansas Chapter

CAREER HISTORY: High school science teacher 1969–1970; Arkansas State Police 1971–2004; director of Arkansas State Crime Laboratory 2004–2007; U.S. marshal, Eastern District of Arkansas 2007–2010; director of Arkansas State Police 2011–present

HOBBIES: Jogging, shooting, fl ying, playing with grandkids

FAVORITE BOOK AND MOVIE: Book, “One Ranger” by Joaquin Jackson; movie, “Tuskegee Airmen”

WHERE DID YOU GROW UP? Huntsville, Ark.

WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GREW UP? State trooper

WHAT WAS YOUR WORST JOB? Cleaning out chicken houses

WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT YOUR JOB? The people I work with

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU WOULD CHANGE ABOUT YOUR JOB? Would like to spend more time in the fi eld with those who are actually doing the work and cause the Arkansas State Police to be what it is today.

WHAT IS THE BEST CAREER ADVICE ANYONE HAS EVER GIVEN YOU? In the late ’70s, Capt. Paul McDonald told me, “J.R., if you don’t slow down, your little daughter is going to grow up and you won’t even know her.” Abso-lutely the best advice I have ever received.

WHO WAS YOUR MENTOR? In life, my Dad; in career, retired Arkansas State Police Lt. Col. John Paul Davis

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY MOST ABOUT BELONGING TO THE ASSO-CIATION? The fellowship with the other members

BEST THING YOU RECALL ABOUT ATTENDING THE NATIONAL ACADEMY? The friends I made.

WHAT WAS THE MOST CHALLENGING PART OF THE PROGRAM? Research papers

WHO WAS THE MOST INTERESTING CHARACTER YOU MET AT THE NATIONAL ACADEMY? My roommate Tom Jackson, chief of police in Longwood, Fla., and his friend, King Abdullah of Jordan. ■ F B IN A A

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