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InsIde ThIs Issue:• PCPA 100th AnnuAl eduCAtion And trAining ConferenCe

• CreAting A regionAl Crime fighting mAChine

• Just the fACts, mA’Am

Centennial Celebration

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Metro Technology Services honorsChief James Donnelly of theDoylestown Borough and NewBritain Borough Police Departmentswith an interview in this issue of thePCPA Bulletin. Enjoy this month’sDonnelly interview and look for Metroto recognize other police leaders withinterviews in future PCPA Bulletins.

The Doylestown Borough Chief recentlytook on an additional challenge as Chief of Police for neighboring New Britain Borough. He is leading a merger of thetwo departments, which will become oneregional force in early 2014.


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OFFICeRsJohn MackeyPresidentChief of Police • Bethel Park Borough

Thomas King1st Vice PresidentChief of Police • State College Borough

William Kelly2nd Vice PresidentChief of Police • Abington Township

Keith Keiper3rd Vice PresidentChief of Police • Kingston Borough

Mark Hall4th Vice PresidentChief of Police • Clarion Borough

Thomas DiMariaChairmanChief of Police • Swoyersville Borough

William RichendrferSecretaryChief of Police • South Centre Township

Michael KleinTreasurerChief of Police • Harrison Township

BOARd MeMBeRsHarold Lane – 2013Inspector • Allegheny County DA

Joseph Daly – 2013Chief of Police • Springfield Township

Robert Jolley – 2013Chief of Police • Dallas Township

Richard Hammon – 2014Superintendent • Silver Spring Township

Mike Flanagan – 2014Chief of Police • Laf lin Borough

David Mettin – 2014Chief of Police • Pennridge Regional

Thomas Gross – 2014Chief of Police • York Area Regional

Scott Bohn – 2015Chief of Police • West Chester Borough

William Grover – 2015Chief of Police • Etna Borough

David Spotts – 2015Chief of Police • Mechanicsburg Borough

Amy RosenberryExecutive Director

BudGeT & PeRsOnneLChair:John Mackey

Members:Thomas King • William KellyKeith Keiper • Mark HallThomas DiMaria • Michael KleinWilliam Richendrfer • Tom GrossRichard Hammon • Dave Mettin

eduCATIOn & TRAInInGChair:T. Robert Amann

Members:William Kelly • James BalavageWilliam Daly • Joseph EliasMichael Flanagan • Ashley HeibergerRobert Jolley • Thomas KokoskiDavid Laux • Dennis LoganDennis McDonough • Catherine McNeillyDavid Mettin • Leonard MickaviczWilliam Olszewski • James SantucciCarl Scalzo • John SnyderKevin Stoehr • George SwartzEarl Swavely, Jr. • Robert WilsonRaymond Zydonik

LeGIsLATIVeChair:Jason Umberger

Members:Mark Hall • James AdamsDarryl Albright • Scott BohnRobert Cifrulak • Diane ConradRandolph Cox • Richard DankoMichael Donohue • Eric GillErik Grunzig • Bryan KellyDaniel Kortan, Jr. • Joseph LawrencePatrick O’Rourke • Dean OsborneLawrence Palmer • David SouchickLeo Sokoloski • David SpottsRobert Then • Mike Vogel

MeMBeRshIP/BYLAWsChair:Mark Pugliese

Members:Keith Keiper • Mark BentzelDouglas Burkholder • Todd CaltagaroneHarry Clay, Jr. • Joseph DalySamuel Gallen • William GroverHarold Lane • Curt MartinezJohn Petrick • Leo RudzkiGuy Salerno • Michael ScottMatthew Sentner • John SlauchTimothy Trently • Paul Yost

ReTIRed ChIeFsChair:J. William Schmitt

Members:Richard Hammon • Donald Hunter, Sr.Joseph Ferrelli • Keith GuthrieStephen Ott • Wendell RichWilliam Eckert • William HowattWilliam Weaver

exeCutive BoArd & Committees

BULLETINPennsylvAniA Chiefs of PoliCe AssoCiAtion

usPs 425940 • issn 0031-4404sPring 2013 - vol. 115; issue 1

Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association BULLETIN (ISSN 0031-4404) is published quarterly (March, June, September and December) by the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association. Subscription to PCPA BULLETIN is included in PCPA annual dues. Periodicals Postage paid at Harrisburg, PA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to PA Chiefs of Police Association BULLETIN, 3905 North Front Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110-1536. The content of the PCPA BULLETIN is to be a practical reference featuring information of specific interest and relevance to law enforcement professionals. Topics of interest include professional development, current legislative and goals, news items, upcoming events and legal issues. Reviews, reports and articles are submitted by members, experts and other interested law enforcement personnel. Articles or ideas for content should be submitted to PCPA Headquarters c/o Amy Rosenberry, 3905 North Front Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110-1536 or emailed to [email protected].

in this issue

ArtiClesTraining Announcements .................................................................................................................................7PCPA 100th Annual Education and Training Conference ...................................................................15-22The Lancaster Model: Direct Collaboration Between Police and Crisis Services .......................................23, 34FEATURE ARTICLE by CODY SYSTEMS | Creating a Regional Crime-Fighting Machine for Local Law Enforcement .....................................................................................................................24-27

Metro Salutes Those Who Serve ............................................................................................................... 28-29Just The Facts, Ma’am ....................................................................................................................................30Online Training from the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association ...............................................................31Membership Products .............................................................................................................................. 32-33Statement of Ownership .................................................................................................................................34

Columns & dePArtmentsExecutive Board & Committees .................................................................................................................. IFCPresident’s Message ...........................................................................................................................................4Executive Director’s Message ............................................................................................................................5Memberships & Memorials ..............................................................................................................................6Legislative Report ......................................................................................................................................... 8-9The Chiefs Legal Update .......................................................................................................................... 10-13

PCPA stAffAmy Rosenberry, Executive Director • [email protected] Armstrong, Member Services • [email protected] Crist, Executive Assistant • [email protected] Braun, Grant Projects • [email protected] Miller, Offender Identification Technology • [email protected] Blackburn, Accreditation Coordinator • [email protected] Sullivan, Accreditation Assistant • [email protected] Campbell, Financial Administration • [email protected] Gibson, Physical Fitness • [email protected]

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Creating a Regional Crime-Fighting Machine for Local Law Enforcementpages 24-27

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SPRING 2013 issue www.pachiefs.org

hope this message finds you all in good health, good spirits and doing well. According to the great prognosticator, Punxsutawney Phil, spring is just around the corner. I don’t know about

you, but I will be glad to see the last snow fall and anxiously await the warmer temperatures of springtime. Obviously, I prefer golf to skiing.

With spring in the air, staff at headquarters and the Executive Board have turned their attention to the Annual Education and Training Conference. What a grand affair it will be as we celebrate 100 years of professional law enforcement training in Pennsylvania. The staff is working especially

hard this year planning and preparing for a Centennial Celebration for our members and guests. This is one conference you will not want to miss.

Please join us at the Radisson Hotel Harrisburg in Camp Hill, PA from Sunday, June 23, 2013 to Thursday, June 27, 2013 as we celebrate 100 years of conference events with the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association. A number of well-known speakers will be presenting this year and scheduling changes have been made to make this a memorable conference for all. Please refer to the conference planning section later in this magazine or visit our website at www.pachiefs.org/100thconference for more information and to register for the Centennial Celebration.

It is hard to believe that I have already served nearly eight months as President of the PCPA. It has been a terrific experience, not only serving as your President, but also serving on the Executive Board and other committees before that. It is an opportunity that I will cherish well beyond my career in law enforcement. That is why I encourage each one of our members to please get involved in YOUR Association. Sure it takes a little bit of time and effort, but the rewards are worth it. If I had not gotten involved with PCPA, I would have missed out on the opportunity to meet and interact with so many of you. It truly is a rewarding experience. Come on, give it a try. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

I am looking forward to the conference for another reason. I will be turning over the gavel to the very capable hands of my good friend Tom King. PCPA will certainly benefit from Tom’s leadership. He is the right man at the right time to lead us into our second 100 years.

Lastly, I would like to encourage all of our members to continue to take advantage of the many programs and services available to you and your agencies. One such program, the Pennsylvania Virtual Training Network (PAVTN), offers state of the art training AT NO COST to your agency and this year, all four mandatory in-service training classes are being offered. I am pleased to report that enrollment in the PAVTN grows every day with several hundred agencies and several thousand officers participating. Again, you can check out all PCPA programs and services by visiting our website or by calling headquarters. We are here to serve you and your agencies.

Take care and I hope to see you all at the Centennial Celebration.

Best Wishes,John W. MackeyPresident, PCPA

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ny of the staff here at PCPA Headquarters will tell you that I can be easily sidetracked! All you have to do is wave a PCPA magazine from the 1930s, pull out minutes from a Board

meeting in the 60s or grab a dusty box marked HISTORY and say ‘Hmmm…I wonder what’s in here?’…and that’s it, I’m lost for hours!

I often worry that advancements in technology are depleting some of our historical resources. Granted, things may be more organized and easier to find quickly – but I’ll take a dusty old

magazine or black and white photos with yellowed and curled edges any day over staring at a computer screen reading archived emails and word documents! As we prepared for this magazine and a Look Back at the 75th Annual Conference – we realized that the shift began even then! We may not have had a website or mass emails in 1988, but the magazines from that year reference a new computerization of the Association providing for better communication with the membership – just not as much for us to read in the future!!

Reading through magazines, reports and minutes from 1988 you get a feel for the excitement surrounding the forward progress and exciting advancements and a pride in reaching a milestone Anniversary – PCPA’s 75th Diamond Jubilee Conference. Many who have been around since 1988. (I know, give it a minute to sink in – 25 years is not really that long ago!!) know that shortly after reaching this great milestone – the PCPA fell on some hard times. But we also know the rest of the story – the membership, executive board and supporters rallied to the cause, pulled their bootstraps up and through hard work and dedication – weathered the storms and brought the Association out of those rough times even better than before.

PCPA is constantly looking forward, as we should be, but recognizing our history and tradition building on the ideals and principles that have served us for nearly a century is also important. Unity in action and the strength and knowledge of our membership have led us down a vibrant path and have brought us success and fulfillment in this increasingly complex and ever changing world. We take great pride in what we have achieved and who we are today as we approach our Centennial Celebration!

Be a part of history and join us for the 100th Annual Conference in June!

All my best,

Amy K. RosenberryExecutive Director

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memBershiPsnew memBers

Chief Robert Avvisato, Jr., Pittston Township

Chief Louis Bender, White Oak Borough

Chief Richard Brandt, Lower Swatara Township

Regional Director Charles Crawford, PA Office of Attorney General

Chief John Dillon, Kutztown University

Inspector General Kenya Faulkner, Inspector General’s Office

Sergeant David Fisher, Apollo Borough

Chief Terrance Fisher, Overfield Township

Chief Michael Foltz, Lower Pottsgrove Township

Chief Rudolph Harkins, Marion Township

Chief Brian Hollenbush, Mount Carmel Township

Lieutenant David Hunter, Philadelphia City

In Memoriam We mourn the loss of the following members of the

Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association family. We extend our prayers and deepest sympathies to

their loved ones and remain grateful for the lives of:

george r. BrkoviCh, sr.Retired Chief of Policeelizabeth Township

russel h. Potter, Jr.Retired Chief of PoliceGettysburg Borough

Training announcemenTsLieutenant Samuel Iacono, West Chester Borough

Regional Director Robert Iuzzolino, PA Office of Attorney General

Chief Thomas Klawinski, New Kensington Borough

Director Dennis McCauley, Bucks County Community College

Chief Michael Mitchell, Armagh Township

Chief Darren Morgan, Marlborough Township

Patrol Commander Darren Nyce, Upper Dublin Township Police Department

Chief David Rachman, Slatington Borough

Chief William Reigle, II, South Londonderry Township

Sergeant Frank Remmick, Clarion University

Regional Director Anthony Sassano, PA Office of Attorney General

Chief Brian Thumm, Bernville Borough

Assistant Chief George Trosky, Pittsburgh City

Regional Director Henry Troutner, PA Office of the Attorney General

Chief Matthew Williams, East Vincent Township

Chief Joshua Winters, Sugarloaf Township

County Detective Courtney Wise, Bedford County District Attorney’s Office

2013PcPa

membershiP Drive

SponSor new MeMberS during the 2013 MeMberShip drive!talk to your neighboring Chiefs of police and get them to join pCpA. every current member who sponsors a new member application will win a prize!

• Sponsor 1 new member and receive a pCpA car emblem

• Sponsor 5 new members and receive $50 off your pCpA Conference registration

• Sponsor 10 new members and receive Free pCpA Conference registration

reMeMber: the new member must list you as their recommending Member on their application and renewing members do not qualify, only first-time applicants. All applications must be received by June 15, 2013 to qualify for discounted or free conference registration. prizes are non-transferable.



Training announcemenTsBASIC INCIDENT RESPONSE TO DIGITAL EvIDENCE PROGRAM (BIRDE)March 26-28, 2013 in Middleton, PAThis program will provide training necessary to any criminal investigator who may be a first responder in a situation in which computer based evidence is or may be recovered. There are no prerequisites for this class, other than the participants must be in a law enforcement occupation. Students are solicited from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.

THE 9TH ANNUAL PENNSYLvANIA LAW ENFORCEMENT ACCREDITATION TRAINING CONFERENCEApril 1-3, 2013 in Harrisburg, PAThis conference is for both currently certified PLEAC assessors in need of updating their active assessor training, as well as new assessors. Please note: new assessors must fill out an application on our website before attending this training.

BLOOMSBURG UNIvERSITY’S LAW ENFORCEMENT CAREER DAYApril 1, 2013 in Bloomsburg, PABloomsburg University is looking for PA police departments to participate in the 2013 LE Career Day for students interested in pursuing a career in law enforcement.

FBI LEOKA (LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS KILLED & ASSAULTED) OFFICER SAFETY AWARENESS TRAININGApril 9, 2013 in Lewisburg, PAFor active law enforcement officers. Topics include foot pursuits, drawn gun, handcuffing and controlling, street combat veterans, traffic stops, and other safety awareness training.

OFFICER SAFETY WORKSHOPApril 16-17, 2013 in Laflin, PAThis course provides students with basic skills in recognizing the characteristics of an armed individual during interactions with the public and enable them to more rapidly recognize, identify and articulate ever present dangers.

PCPA FITNESS COORDINATOR COURSEMay 6-10, 2013 in Allentown, PAThis 40-hour course will cover MPOETC Act 120 training and testing as well as the following topics:Labor and legal issues that influence fitness programming and testing, medical screening, fitness testing models, exercise prescriptions, setting up a facility, developing an “in-house” fitness program for your department, and more.

2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POLICING IN THE 21ST CENTURYMay 17-18, 2013 in Arlington, vAThe Penn State Justice and Safety Institute, in partnership with the Atlantic Police Academy and Canadian Association

of Chiefs of Police, is sponsoring the 2013 International Conference on Policing in the 21st Century.

BASIC INCIDENT RESPONSE TO DIGITAL EvIDENCE PROGRAM (BIRDE)May 21-23, 2013 in Dover, PAThis program will provide training necessary to any criminal investigator who may be a first responder in a situation in which computer based evidence is or may be recovered. There are no prerequisites for this class, other than the participants must be in a law enforcement occupation. Students are solicited from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.

QUOTA-FREE POLICE PRODUCTIvITY SYSTEMMay 21, 2013 in Hershey, PAThis course will provide the necessary information and system required for employer and employees to fulfill their obligations to one another and the citizens they serve.

PERFORMANCE IMPROvEMENT PROGRAM (PIP)May 22, 2013 in Hershey, PAPerformance Improvement Programs are well accepted as a non-punitive means for dealing with employee performance deficiencies. This course will cover how a PIP will reduce burden on management, reduce the basis for grievances and provide valid offense against claims of illegal discrimination.

CONDUCTING OFFICER INvOLvED SHOOTING INvESTIGATIONSJune 4-6, 2013 in York, PAThis course is intended for those investigators who are specifically assigned to the criminal investigation of officer involved shootings and in-custody deaths.

RAPID RESPONSE TO THE ACTIvE SHOOTERJune 17-20, 2013 in Danville, PAThis 40-hour course includes presentations on Columbine, Platte Canyon and Deer Creek school shootings from the SWAT operators who responded to those incidents.

THE PCPA 100TH ANNUAL EDUCATION & TRAINING CONFERENCEJune 23-27, 2013 in Camp Hill, PA (Harrisburg)PCPA is celebrating 100 years of the best training, networking and exhibits through the Annual Summer Conference! Join us for this Centennial Celebration as we invite the finest national law enforcement speakers to present new and innovative training to Chiefs in Pennsylvania while mixing in great networking events and opportunities throughout the week. This is THE event of the century and you do NOT want to miss out! See more information throughout this magazine and Register Today!



LEGISLATIVE REPORTThe 2013R Legislative Session began in early January. At the time this report was written, no new legislation of special interest to law enforcement has been enacted. As always, PCPA will be closely monitoring legislation of special interest to law enforcement throughout this Legislative session. Members are encouraged to regularly check out the “PCPA Bills To Watch” Page on the Association’s website for latest information on proposed and enacted Legislation. The Chiefs Bill, Pension Reform, Liquor Sales Privatization, Radar for Local Police and changes to the current Child Abuse Law are a few of the initiatives being monitored. A few proposed Bills of special interest to law enforcement are listed below.

hb 38Amends Title 42 (Judiciary) & 75 (Vehicles) establishing the Municipal Law Enforcement Accreditation Fund from funds collected from speeding violations. The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency shall create and maintain a grant program to distribute funds to nonprofits that administer and operate law enforcement accreditation programs. The use of radio-microwave speed timing devices is extended to full-time police officers employed by the full-service police department who have completed a training course approved by the Pennsylvania State Police and the Municipal Police Officers’ Education and Training Commission.

hb 56Amends Title 18 (Crimes & Offenses) by adding language to section 2702.1 relating to the assault of law enforcement officer. A person commits a felony of the second degree if the person intentionally or knowingly causes or attempts to cause a law enforcement officer to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, saliva, urine or feces by throwing, tossing, spitting or expelling such fluid or material, at the time of offense, the person knew, had reason to know, should have known or believed such fluid or material to have been obtained from an individual, including the person charged, infected by a communicable disease, including, but not limited to, HIV or hepatitis B. A person commits a felony of the third degree if the person intentionally or knowingly causes or attempts to cause a law enforcement officer to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, saliva, urine or feces by throwing, tossing, spitting or expelling such fluid or material.

hb 287Amends Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary) adding language imposing a five year mandatory minimum sentence for felons who illegally possess firearms. Also amends the definition of “crime of violence” to include felons who illegally possess firearms to trigger the second and third strike mandatory minimum sentence provisions.

hb 401Amends Title 75 (Vehicles) further providing for accidents involving death or personal injury by requiring the occupant of any vehicle resulting in injury or death of any person to report the accident as soon as the occupant is physically able. The report must be made to the nearest office of an authorized police department.

hb 412Amends Title 75 (Vehicles) stipulating that the driver of a vehicle required to yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk shall stop and remain stopped for a pedestrian crossing a roadway at a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon, or within one lane of, the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or onto which it is turning. Additionally, the driver of a vehicle required to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian under subsection (a)(1), (3) or (4) of the law shall stop and remain stopped to allow a pedestrian to cross the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon, or within one lane of, the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or onto which it is turning. Establishes penalties for failure to comply.



LEGISLATIVE REPORT

hb 505Amends Title 18 (Crimes & Offenses), in assault, further providing for the offense of ethnic intimidation to include malicious intent towards physical or mental disability.

hb 508Amends the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency Law allowing the commission to offer a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of perpetrators of an offense under 18 Pa.C.S. 2507 (relating to criminal homicide of law enforcement officer). The bill also establishes The Law Enforcement Line of Duty Death Reward Fund.

hb 602Amends The Controlled Substance, Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act to reserve certain sections relating to the sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine and to add sections limiting the sale of these substances by amounts to individuals and requiring purchasers to present an enumerated form of identification to the retailer upon purchase. The bill also requires retailer to submit purchaser information to enumerated national databases and further provides for violations.

hb 706 ( chieFs biLL)Amends the act entitled “An act extending benefits to police chiefs or heads of police departments of political subdivisions of the Commonwealth who have been removed from bargaining units by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board” further providing for salary of nonunion police officers by stating that except in cities of the first and second class, the chief, superintendent or commissioner of police and other ranking officers in a political subdivision of the Commonwealth who are not members of bargaining units under the Policemen and Firemen Collective Bargaining Act, shall receive not less than the same dollar increase including fringe benefits excluding overtime and festive holiday pay as received by the highest ranking police officer participating in the bargaining unit. “Bargaining unit” is defined as a collective bargaining unit as provided under the Policemen and Firemen Collective Bargaining Act.

hb 720Amends Title 18 (Crimes & Offenses) defining the offense of interference with police officers as when a person intentionally or knowingly interferes with a police officer, with the knowledge that the individual is a police officer, in the performance of his duties . This would be a summary offense.

sb 150Amends Title 44 (Law and Justice), in DNA data and testing, further providing for policy, for definitions, for State DNA Data Base, for procedural compatibility with FBI and for DNA sample required upon conviction, delinquency adjudication and certain ARD cases; providing for collection from persons accepted from other jurisdictions; further providing for procedures for withdrawal, collection and transmission of DNA samples, for procedures for conduct, disposition and use of DNA analysis; providing for request for modified DNA search; further providing for DNA data base exchange and for expungement; and providing for severability. The legislation requires individuals arrested for criminal homicide, felony sex offenses, and other specified offenses to submit DNA samples and authorizes the State Police to use modified DNA searches to assist investigators in identifying unknown crime-scene DNA profiles that contain enough common characteristics to indicate that the source of the crime-scene profile could be a close relative of an offender whose profile is already in the database. Provides for post-arrest collection procedure, certain offense for which DNA must be taken, and when to allow other law enforcement agencies to perform a DNA search of the database. Further provides for expungement. The legislation provides for the phase-in of the DNA collection program in conjunction with the offense and for the requirement of a report. The bill further provides language requiring the State Police to create and provide an expungement procedure informational pamphlet to any person whose DNA sample, record, or profile has been taken or created under the legislation.

sb 332Amends Title 75 (Vehicles) adding language providing a subject vehicle shall be exempt from the emission inspection requirements for ten years from the original registration. Further provides for an exemption for alternative fuel vehicles. Also provides subject vehicles and alternative fuel vehicles shall be subject to visual anti-tampering inspections for the presence of emissions control components installed on the vehicle by the manufacturer.

More detailed information, including links to this recently enacted legislation is available via the PCPA Bills To Watch Page of the PCPA website. PCPA Staff will continue monitor and track proposed legislation of interest to the Association. Members are encouraged to contact Headquarters if they have specific questions about legislative issues.



The Chiefs’ Legal UpdateUnited States v. Stallings, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 2551 (3rd Circuit, February 6, 2013)… The only issue before us on appeal is whether the District Court correctly determined that the officers had reasonable suspicion for the Terry stop made of Stallings and, thus, that his motion to suppress was properly denied. We will affirm.

On the night of April 4, 2009, Philadelphia police officers Ivan Rosado and David Marcellino were on patrol in a neighborhood in northwest Philadelphia. The neighborhood is considered a high-crime area that has “a lot of gun crimes, a lot of shootings, [and] a lot of robberies.” …

At approximately 8:15 p.m., a woman signaled the officers as they approached the corner ... When the officers stopped to speak with her, she told them that there was an African-American man armed with a gun, sitting in a black Cadillac with chrome rims around the corner. The officers immediately went to investigate. As they rounded the corner onto Chelten Street, they saw a black Cadillac with chrome rims parked directly facing them. As they drove past the Cadillac, the officers noticed an African-American man, later identified as Stallings, reclining in the driver’s seat and talking on his cell phone. When Stallings saw the officers, he lowered his seat.

The officers doubled back, parked behind the Cadillac, and shone a light on it. They then approached the car, with Officer Rosado on the driver’s side and Officer Marcellino on the passenger’s side. Officer Rosado knocked on the driver’s window: Stallings looked at him, but otherwise did not respond and continued to hold his cell phone in his left hand. His right hand, however, was obscured, and this concerned Officer Rosado. Officer Rosado told Stallings to “open the door.” …. Stallings ignored the order. Still concerned that he could not see Stallings’ right hand, Officer Rosado opened the driver’s side door and said to Stallings that “somebody just said you have a gun. Is there any weapons in this car?” Stallings asked “who called the cops on me?” Officer Rosado patted Stallings’ waist area while he sat in the car, and felt no weapon, but because Stallings’ hands were shaking and he appeared “really nervous,” he told Stallings to step out of the car so that he could be frisked. Id.

Meanwhile, Officer Marcellino approached the open driver’s door. Given the position of the seat, the floor underneath the seat was visible, and when Officer Marcellino shone his flashlight on the floor area he saw the handle of a gun—a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. A subsequent search of the car uncovered a semi-automatic rifle in the trunk.

Before trial, Stallings moved to suppress evidence of the two weapons found during the search of his Cadillac, arguing that reasonable suspicion to conduct the Terry stop did not exist because the anonymous tip that led to the stop was insufficiently reliable. The District Court concluded that the totality of the circumstances, including the reliable tip, high-crime environment, and Stallings’ suspicious actions, created reasonable suspicion to believe that criminal activity was afoot.

…The Fourth Amendment prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.” U.S. Const. amend. IV; … An established exception to the general rule that searches without a warrant are presumptively unreasonable is a Terry stop, that is, “police can stop and briefly detain a person for investigative purposes if the officer has a reasonable suspicion supported by articulable facts that criminal activity ‘may be afoot,’ even if the officer lacks probable cause.” … Moreover, an officer may then frisk a person “where he has reason to believe that he is dealing with an armed and dangerous individual.” …. However, if an officer conducts a Terry stop without the requisite reasonable suspicion, any evidence recovered is “fruit of the poisonous tree” and must be suppressed. …

We assess whether reasonable suspicion existed based on “the totality of the circumstances” from the viewpoint of objectively reasonable law enforcement officers, which involves dealing not “with hard certainties, but with probabilities… In this regard, while we afford deference to law enforcement officers “draw[ing] on their own experience and specialized training to make inferences from and deductions about the cumulative information,” acting on “a mere ‘hunch’” is insufficient to satisfy the reasonable suspicion standard. …

In addition to evaluating law enforcement officers’ independent observations, where the genesis of an investigation involves an anonymous tip, we “must scrutinize the informant’s “’veracity, reliability, and basis of knowledge.’” … “’[A]n anonymous tip alone seldom demonstrates the informant’s basis of knowledge or veracity,’ . . . however, there are situations in which an anonymous tip, suitably corroborated, exhibits ‘sufficient indicia of reliability to provide reasonable suspicion to make the investigatory stop.’” … The following factors are relevant to this inquiry: (1) [whether] the information was provided to the police in

a face-to-face interaction, allowing an officer to assess directly the informant’s credibility;

(2) [whether] the informant can be held responsible if her allegations are untrue;

Provided by Chris Boyle, Esq. and reprinted with permission from Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin



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(3) [whether] the information would not be available to the ordinary observer;

(4) [whether] the informant has recently witnessed the criminal activity at issue; and

(5) [whether] the witness’s information accurately predicts future activity.

…Officers Rosado and Marcellino were patrolling a neighborhood with a reputation for violent crime when a woman flagged them down to indicate that a man in a Cadillac with chrome rims had a gun. The interaction occurred face-to-face and the officers had the opportunity to assess the woman’s credibility and demeanor. … (“[T]he circumstances support the reliability of the tip: [among other circumstances,] the officers could assess the informant’s credibility as he spoke, knew what the informant looked like, and had some opportunity to find the informant if the tip did not pan out.”).

Additionally, the information that the woman provided was immediately corroborated by the officers’ independent observations as they drove around the corner, that is, the type of car, its location, and the description of the driver. …”The police corroboration of the anonymous tip’s innocent details, the cases teach, bolsters the veracity and reliability of the tip . . . The circumstances at the time of the seizure also informed the reasonable suspicion calculus. First, it was after dark when the woman approached the officers and the area was described in uncontradicted testimony as one prone to gun violence. … Second, some of Stallings’ actions appeared evasive. He reclined his seat as far back as possible, ignored Officer Rosado when he knocked on the window, and continued to hold his cell phone in his left hand while his right hand remained hidden from view. Officer Rosado had reason to be concerned for his safety and for the safety of Officer Marcellino.

The District Court correctly concluded that, under the totality of the circumstances, reasonable suspicion supported the Terry stop of Stallings, and the motion to suppress was, therefore, properly denied. The judgment of sentence will be affirmed.

Comment: Checklist? I love checklists! High crime area? Check. Fits the description? Check. Reclines his seat in a maneuver about as effective as covering his own eyes to make himself invisible? Check. Attempts suicide by failing to show his right hand to the nice police officer? Checkmate. Truly anonymous information is not going to cut it, and if you receive information by radio, you are going to have to go a step further in confirming it before making the stop, but the circumstances here are common enough in day to day policing, that the checklist is certainly of use. And, finally, the Golden Restraint Award to Officer Rosada for not giving this chucklehead a couple more holes to breathe thru.

United States v. Rose, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16366 (W.D. Pa. February 7, 2013)… On September 2, 2009, the Johnstown Police Department received a report of a missing .40 caliber handgun. … The firearm was previously located at a building that had since been broken into. … Detective Larry Wagner, who—at the time of the suppression hearing—was a twenty-three year veteran of the Johnstown Police Department, conducted an investigation of the break-in and the stolen firearm. … On September 10, 2009, a juvenile (J.M.) at the Cambria County Juvenile Detention Home informed Detective Wagner that another juvenile (A.P.) previously had the firearm in his possession and had sold the firearm to an older black male at an apartment building on Cypress Avenue, across from the Old Cypress Avenue school…. J.M. did not see A.P. with the firearm and was not present at the sale, but J.M. explained that A.P. had told him that A.P. sold the firearm to an older black male at the apartment building on Cypress Avenue for $300. … J.M. also informed Detective Wagner that he accompanied A.P. to the apartment following the sale to retrieve the firearm… J.M. described the apartment complex and further informed Detective Wagner that the apartment to which he and A.P. had gone several days before speaking with Detective Wagner was located on the top floor on the top left of the building. …

On September 10, 2009, after receiving the above information from J.M., Detective Wagner, Detective Eckenrod, Officer Kabler, and Officer Britton responded to the apartment complex described by J.M… Although J.M. did not provide the street address of the apartment complex, Detective Wagner knew exactly the building to which J.M. was referring because Detective Wagner had been to that location several times and served search warrants in the building. …The officers did not have a search warrant when they arrived at the apartment. … Detective Wagner intended to meet with the occupant of the residence, advise him of the information the officers possessed regarding the firearm being sold to an individual at the apartment, and request consent to search the apartment. …Detective Wagner knocked on the front door, which was opened by Brandon Grayson, the resident of the unit. … Detective Wagner asked Mr. Grayson for consent to search his apartment and informed Mr. Grayson that the officers would have to obtain a search warrant if he did not consent… Mr. Grayson declined to permit the officers to search his apartment and told the officers that he would like them to obtain a search warrant for the premises… Detective Wagner then informed Mr. Grayson that the officers were going to enter the apartment to secure the location for officer safety and to ensure that evidence of the firearm would not leave the apartment or be tampered with.



When Detective Wagner entered the apartment, he observed five adult individuals and a child. … Shortly after the officers entered the apartment, a series of events took place that culminated in, among other things, the arrest of Defendant Rose, statements made by Defendant Rose, the seizure of a .38 caliber revolver that Defendant Rose identified as belonging to him, and the seizure of a sum of money and a substance which tested positive for the presence of cocaine base from Defendant Rose’s person. … After the occurrence of these events, the officers obtained a warrant to search Mr. Grayson’s apartment. … Mr. Grayson’s apartment was searched on September 10, 2009 pursuant to this warrant, but the .40 caliber firearm that caused the officers to respond to Mr. Grayson’s apartment was not recovered. …

The individuals present at Mr. Grayson’s apartment on September 10, 2009 intended to socialize, eat food, and watch television. … Defendant Rose was present in the apartment when the officers arrived…Defendant Rose was a casual acquaintance of Mr. Grayson but was primarily a friend of Mr. Grayson’s brother… Defendant Rose had stayed with Mr. Grayson as an overnight guest of Mr. Grayson when Mr. Grayson lived at another address, but Defendant Rose never requested permission to sleep over or stay as an overnight guest at Mr. Grayson’s Cypress Avenue apartment, nor did Mr. Grayson ever grant Defendant Rose such permission. …

[T]he Court asks “whether the individual, by his conduct, has exhibited an actual expectation of privacy; that is, whether he has shown that ‘he [sought] to preserve [something] as private.’” … With respect to the objective prong, the Court inquires “whether the individual’s expectation of privacy is ‘one that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable.’”..

Despite the text of the Fourth Amendment, its protections are not limited only to people in “their” houses. … “[I]n some circumstances a person may have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the house of someone else.” … For example, an overnight guest in another’s home has the sort of expectation of privacy that the Fourth Amendment protects, … and therefore may raise a Fourth Amendment challenge to a search of (or entry into) the premises, ….

In this case, Defendant does not contend that he was an overnight guest of Mr. Grayson, or that he ever stayed as an overnight guest at Mr. Grayson’s Cypress Avenue apartment. The evidence merely demonstrates that defendant was a short-term guest or casual visitor of Mr. Grayson who was present at the apartment at the time the officers arrived. Despite Defendant’s arguments to the contrary, in the Third Circuit “[s]hort term guests . . . have no expectation of privacy in the house

[of another] and therefore cannot suppress the fruits of the illegal search.”

COMMENT: Dude, none of your stuff is here, your girl doesn’t live here, and this is not your mother’s house. Dude, this is not your crib. Period. Now, maybe it’s the lawyer in me, but the question forms in my head: “If we had enough to get a warrant before we knocked on the door, why didn’t we get a warrant before we knocked on the door?” Don’t get me wrong, I am certainly happier than a tornado in a trailer park that it all worked out for the troops, but we kinda rolled the dice here when we didn’t necessarily have to. Specific information that the gun has legs if we wait that long is one thing, but this one was a days- long investigation with no indication that the gun would only be there for a short time. All things considered though, at the end of the day, I’d still pick Detective Wagner for my team, as the lad shows real talent for chasing down a lead, and the streets of Johnstown are one criminal short as a result.

STUMP THE CHUMPChump:You have to be 21 years old to get a concealed weapons permit, but it appears you can be 18 years of age and get a sportsman’s permit and carry concealed while hunting and fishing. Do I understand that correctly? Best Regards, Long time Reader, First time Stumper

Dear Long Time:You are correct, indeed. An 18 year old can obtain a Sportsman’s permit, but you have to be 21 for a permit to concealed carry, otherwise. The difference, of course, is that the 18 year old would also need a fishing, hunting or furbearing license, and would only be permitted to concealed carry while engaging in those activities. Now, I am no furbearer, I could never spend long enough outdoors to drop a buck, and the fish just laugh at me, but there are a thing or two everyone should keep in mind regarding the Uniform Firearms Act’s exception for those of you who more the outdoor type, and everyone else for that matter:

1) State law prohibits the open carry of firearms in Philadelphia, unless you have a concealed carry permit (honest). 2) You remain permitted to engage in a mere encounter with someone who is open carrying. If they choose not to speak to you, and you have no articulable reasonable suspicion of a crime, they may as well be carrying a toaster, and you do not have a reason to detain them further. 3) Would you engage Joe the Plumber in a discussion of your views on abortion? How about Republican vs Democrat? Briefs or Boxers? Of course you wouldn’t. Do yourself a favor, and keep your views on open carry to yourself. Period. You won’t be changing their mind, and they won’t be changing yours. You are

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inviting an escalation, and doing so unnecessarily. On the other side of the coin, beyond the decorum associated and expected of a professional police officer, you are not obligated to listen to a speech from an open carry advocate, or to answer a pre-planned series of questions on your understanding of the law. 4) The vast majority of Open Carriers are, in fact, lawful, God-fearing, hard-working, pants-wearing, productive members of society, who believe in their right to open carry, as they should. It’s the law. They are carrying right in front of you because they know they can. Could a convicted drug dealer protecting his business interests start open carrying figuring, if he’s that brazen, you won’t stop him? Sure, and I could say “No” to another piece of cake. It’s just not very likely. First of all, you know the convicted felons on your sector, and if you see them carrying, you already have your reasonable suspicion. Second, what self-respecting drug dealer is going to take the chance of open carrying? Not many. Caution is indeed warranted, but the case law in Pennsylvania

definitely does not support drawing your weapon on someone who is open carrying if they are not committing another offense. The Chump

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one-hundred years ago, a small group of police Chiefs set out on a mission to, for the first time, host a training and networking event for their peers in pennsylvania law enforcement. I think it’s safe to say that those Chiefs never dreamed we’d be preparing for the 100th Conference, looking back at annual events of the past culminating in a century of training conferences.

Well, here we are! As we begin to chart a course for an equally remarkable second century, we see no better way to start than to look back at the gross achievements this event has preceded and how it has helped shape the Association itself. It’s impossible to separate the Association from the Annual Conference being that they’re synonymous with one another, as they should be. It’s the Association’s amazing leadership and determination for progress that shape our Annual Conference, and it’s the yearly event itself that brings the Association’s members, leaders, mentors and history together in one place.

So as you flip through the pages of this magazine, looking back at the 75th “Diamond” Conference Anniversary, help us fill in the blanks and relive the history of that momentous event. And of course, don’t forget to join us for the culmination of this trip down memory lane, and register today for the PCPA 100th Annual Education & Training Conference, our Centennial Celebration!

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thiS SeCtion inCludeS: highlights from past Conferences

Conference registration Formgeneral Conference information

proposed bylaws revisionstentative Schedule

Awards nominations

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June 23-27, 2013 • raDisson hoTeL harrisburg • camP hiLL, Pa www.pachiefs.org

The year is 1988; the venue is the Hyatt Pittsburgh at Chatham Center, and the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association has reached its 75th Diamond Jubilee Conference. As we look back at the 75th Conference Program, much has changed since 1988, yet much has stayed the same. It doesn’t seem that long ago that PCPA delegates gathered in Pittsburgh on a hot Sunday in July and began their festivities off with a morning round of golf. Many of our delegates today carry on that pastime and stay on the green until late afternoon, when the Exhibit Hall finally opens and they’re able to register and turn in their gift tickets.

In 1988, every evening’s dinner event went through a similar schedule to the banquet. In the main ballroom that 75th Conference Sunday, Chaplain Francis X. O’Shea performed the Invocation and President Louis Farnell gave welcoming remarks as the entire Association paid homage to the past presidents that brought PCPA to reach 75 years of successful events.

As PCPA’s “Diamond” week continues the conference boasts a 35-booth exhibit hall and attendees saw presentations regarding the important matters of policing at that time: Civil Liability, Stress Reduction, Violence Against Children Training and Automation for Police, a seminar presented by IBM, probably a very new type of seminar in this day and age. MPOETC also joined the 1988 delegates at the conference, ensuring Chiefs filled out applications during the week-long event.

As we said before, not much has changed; yet everything has. Fast forward to 2013 and PCPA’s conference venue holds over 80 exhibitor booths and MPOETC’s presence at our conference is through a joint-online partnership that brought the PAVTN to life last year. No longer are we worried about how to automate information faster through the “new” technology of bulky


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computers; we’re now hearing how the Local Technology Work Group has Pennsylvania connected to law enforcement networks across the entire country.

Everything from the hairstyles and dress suits worn to the Installation Banquet, to the black and white magazines surrounding the historic 1988 event, have changed slightly

throughout the last 25 years. But everything about the Conference still maintains the important history and significance of the occasion, even now, 100 years after that first event.

We’ll be continuing our journey through the past and recounting the best of PCPA conferences this summer at the Radisson Hotel in Camp Hill. Please join us on June 23-27, 2013 to celebrate our Centennial Year of excellent training, networking, professionalism, history and friendship through the Annual Education & Training Conference.




The Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association has long had a reputation for providing top-notch training regarding education on the most pressing law enforcement topics, 100 years long to be exact! That is why we want you to attend the 100th Annual Education and Training Conference and Exposition in Camp Hill, PA from June 23-27, 2013. This year’s event is a culmination of 100 years of building on the previous year’s event and making it better. New training, new exhibitors, new events, and a celebration of an amazing century await you in Camp Hill this year. Please complete the registration form found in this issue of The Bulletin, or visit www.pachiefs.org to register online today!

oPening DayRegistration and Exhibits are the main focus throughout your arrival day at the Radisson Hotel Harrisburg! You can begin registration as early as 11:00 AM in the Convention Center Lobby, and we’ll remain there until 5 PM. Check into your room or come to Registration and explore the historical memorabilia we’ve dug up from the past 100 conferences. Don’t forget to head to the exhibit hall early this year (we open at 2 PM!) to get your chances to win prizes throughout your stay. We will have information about upcoming events ready for you as well as ID badges for all registered attendees. Are you a social networker at heart? Check Facebook and Twitter continuously through your stay for extra chances to win prizes all week! We’ll also be displaying a full schedule of events at the Registration Desk so you’re sure to follow us as we stroll down memory lane!

iD baDgesIt is required that you and your guests wear an Identification Badge for all Conference functions. The ID Badge will distinguish your chosen meal plan, and it’s your ticket into all Conference seminars, business meetings, exhibit hall and the hospitality room. This is very important and your cooperation is greatly appreciated to ensure a smooth Conference for everyone.

exhibiT haLLThe Exhibit Hall, held in the hotel’s connecting Convention Center will house the vendor and membership booths on Sunday and Monday. Throughout the first 2 days of the Conference, the Exhibitors are your source for prize giveaways and this year’s Exhibit Hall Raffle with a chance to win up to $500 (Member

abouT The conFerence ~ generaL inFormaTionregistrants ONLY). Beyond that, our Exhibitors are the key to the best of all resources and offer a wide range of products and services, many of which have been discounted specifically for this event! A welcome cocktail reception will be held Sunday evening, and both a morning coffee break and lunch buffet will be held in the Exhibit Hall on Monday. What more could you ask for?

exhibiT haLL raFFLeBack again this year! Monday Only! In the Exhibit Hall on Monday, Exhibitors will be giving away raffle tickets when you visit their booths. Each Exhibitor will get 20 chances to give out at their discretion. We’ll be holding 3 drawings in the Exhibit Hall. These drawings could happen at any time throughout the day and here’s the tricky part, you MUST be PRESENT to win! Two (2) winners will win $250 each and one (1) lucky grand prize winner will walk out with $500 in their pocket! While you’re checking out the incredible new technology, educational opportunities and so much more, take a chance at winning!

PcPa PooLsiDe cenTenniaL ceLebraTion!On Sunday evening, as our attendees and exhibitors are getting settled in for this year’s Conference, we invite you to come relax with us poolside for our “Welcome Centennial Celebration!” As soon as you’re finished checking out the new products on display, head over to the hotel pool and courtyard for a sunny outdoor dinner as we fire up the grills for some down home cookin! And of course, no celebration would be complete without prizes! Back again this year, vendors will be donating their own products and services at discounts or no cost to your department during a prize raffle. Win that new software system or get a special deal on a police vehicle, just by coming to enjoy dinner! We hope you’ll join us and come catch up with attendees you haven’t seen since last year.

conFerence raFFLeFeeling Lucky? The Conference raffle drawings will be held during the Business Sessions. Just like in the Exhibit Hall, another two (2) members will each win $250, with one lucky winner walking out with $500! Here’s how to get as many chances as you can: • One chance just for registering for the 100th Annual

Conference! • One chance for recommending a new member who

has never attended the conference before. Call your


A Time for ReflectionA Time for Reflectionneighboring Chief and get them to come! Just give Headquarters staff a call to let them know you’ve recommended someone (717) 236-1059!

• One chance if this is your first Conference. Welcome! We’re glad you registered!

• One chance if you register before April 15th. • One chance if you haven’t been to a Conference in at

least 5 years. Welcome back! • Look for more chances throughout this magazine

(hint: we need help identifying these old photos!)

Deposit your chances at the Registration Desk or as you enter the business sessions. YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN!

Free nighTBeing that we’re back in our state’s capital, we thought you’d like to go out and see some of the beautiful sights while you’re here. Visit the Registration Area or the hotel front desk for information on nearby restaurants, attractions and transportation. Take the kids to City Island, head to a baseball game at the Senator’s Stadium, head downtown to walk along the river or stop in a swanky lounge… it’s your night to choose!

PresiDenT’s cenTenniaL ceLebraTion!Incoming President Tom King and his first lady Kelley welcome everyone with a different trip down a different memory lane. As we pay homage to our 100 years of conferences, they’re paying homage to 100 years of great music! DJ Larry Moore will spin a mix of everything from

swing and jazz to sock hop and disco, and we might have a bit of swing and disco dancing to go along with the tunes! Dress in your favorite decade attire and join us for an amazing night of “Dancin’ through the Decades!”

100Th annuaL PcPa banqueTWednesday night is our crowning glory, and this is the time to honor our traditions and look toward our future. This evening of distinction is a time to reflect on our rich history and the leaders who have brought us to this time of great success. It is also a night when current achievements are acknowledged, including those departments who have achieved accredited status. We will gratefully acknowledge our President, Chief John Mackey, for his dedication over the past year. As he transitions to the Chairman of the Board he will pass the presidential gavel in a ceremony full of pomp and circumstance which also installs our new officers and PCPA’s new President, Tom King. Dress to impress!

LaDies evenTsAs always, this week promises relaxation and fun with something for everyone. You should sign up on Sunday for all week’s exciting events (spots will be limited). In addition to the Annual Ladies Luncheon and Chinese Auction, we’ll have creative new seminars and exercise classes to keep your schedule packed with fun events all week long! We’ve also added training to the schedule this year that fits your needs as well as your spouses, so check the training schedule and join the Chiefs for some quality education in classroom as well!

A TIME FOR REFLECTION…As we look back on these milestones in pCpA conference history, we realize that the most important aspect of celebrating our 100th Conference event is celebrating 100 years of our members and their contributions to the Conference. this event would not hold the significance it does if our members did not make it so great.

please share your fondest memories of pCpA conferences with us! we’ll be printing your anecdotes in the next magazine as well as sharing them in a special way during the 100th Annual installation banquet. we look forward to reading your stories and fond memories of the event that brings the most pride to this Association, the Annual Conference.

please mail or email your memories to us so we can share them with the entire membership: pCpA headquarters, 3905 n. Front Street, harrisburg, pA 17110 [email protected]




sunDay, June 23rD 11 AM - 5:00 PM Registration12:00 - 2:00 PM “Mass Murder, Active Shooter and School Shootings- The Latest Lessons Learned”, Presented by Lt. Earl Saurman2:00 - 6:00 PM Exhibit Hall Open 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Poolside Centennial Celebration

monDay, June 24Th 8:00 AM Registration Opens8:00 - 9:00 AM NPLEX Seminar, Presented by Jim Acquisto of Appriss, Inc.8:00 - 9:00 AM “Facilitating Police Facilities: Successful Strategies for Planning, Financing & Constructing Improvements to Your Headquarters”, Presented by Kimmel Bogrette Architecture9:00 AM Coffee Break9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Exhibit Hall Open 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch Buffet1:00 - 5:00 PM Legal Issues Seminar, Presented by Chris Boyle, Esq. of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin1:00 - 3:00 PM Technology Workgroup Seminar, Presented by PCPA3:00 - 5:00 PM Pittsburgh Action Against Rape Seminar, Presented by Allison Hall, Executive Director of PAAR5:00 - 8:00 PM Free Night8:00 - 10:00 PM Hospitality

TuesDay, June 25Th 8:00 AM Registration Opens8:00 - 9:30 AM Business Meeting9:30 AM Coffee Break9:30 - 11:30 AM “You Have the Right to Remember”, Presented by Paul Mellor of Success Links9:30 - Noon Leadership Seminar, Presented by Colonel Danny McKnight, US Army (Ret.)11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Ladies Luncheon & Chinese AuctionNoon - 1:00 PM Lunch Buffet1:00 - 5:00 PM Leadership Seminar Continued1:00 - 5:00 PM Sovereign Citizens, Presented by Det. Rob Finch, Greensboro (NC) Police6:00 - 10:00 PM Presidents Reception/Dinner

WeDnesDay, June 26Th 8:00 AM Registration Opens8:00 - 9:30 AM Business Meeting9:30 AM Coffee Break 9:30 AM - Noon Eyewitness ID Seminar, Presented by Marissa Bluestine9:30 AM - Noon “Building and Marketing the Public Service Brand” Presented by Lt. Col. James Vance, USMC (Ret.)Noon - 1:00 PM Lunch1:00 - 5:00 PM “Building and Marketing the Public Service Brand” Continued3:00 - 4:00 PM Collective Bargaining/Grievance Seminar, Presented by Michael Palombo, Esq., Campbell, Durrant, Beatty, Palombo & Miller1:00 - 4:00 PM Accreditation (PLEAC) Meeting6:00 PM Reception7:00 PM -Midnight 100th Annual Installation and Accreditation Banquet

Please note that the schedule is tentative and not yet confirmed. Please check PCPA’s Website for updates.

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EACH YEAR AT THE ANNUAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING CONFERENCE, AWARDS ARE PRESENTED TO INDIvIDUALS FOR A vARIETY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS. The Association personally makes award presentations for a Medal of valor Award and the Award of Excellence. The stories that lead up to the presentations are always amazing, touching and awe inspiring.

As we perform our daily duties, day after day, week after week throughout the year, many of us encounter people who deserve nominations for these awards. Please take a moment to review the requirements and consider nominating a professional in your area for recognition.

meDaL oF vaLor aWarDEligibility for this award includes any full-time, sworn law enforcement officer, of any rank, who works for an agency within the boundaries of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This award is presented for bravery or valor and/or for life saving of another human being while placing nominated officer at risk. The nomination procedure requires written nomination with all pertinent details of the event included, along with any newspaper articles, newscast videos, etc. Only one award will be presented each year. Any officer may be nominated for the same incident repeatedly.

aWarD oF exceLLencePennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association annually presents this award in recognition of superiority in some quality, skill or achievement that goes beyond the norm, the average or what is satisfactory in degree, amount or quality and which has substantial positive impact upon the mission of this Association. To nominate someone for this award, submit a letter including the nominee’s name, agency information, and home and work addresses. To this letter attach responses to each of these questions:

1. State the superiority in some quality, skill or achievement exhibited by the nominee that qualifies the nominee for consideration.

2. State the degree, amount or quality that elevates the conduct or actions of the nominee above the norm, average or what is considered to be satisfactory.

3. State the substantial impact that the conduct or actions of this nominee has upon the mission of the Association.

Nominees are presented to the Education and Training Committee and recommendations submitted to the Executive Board for approval.

Deadline for all nominations is April 25, 2013

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Name: ___________________________________________________________________

Title: ____________________________ Agency: _______________________________

Telephone: ______________________ Email: _________________________________

CONFERENCE REGISTRATIONMember $200Retired $100Non-Member $300One-Day $125

Monday Tuesday Wednesday (Circle One)• Registration fee includes: Registration materials, Training Seminars, Exhibit Hall, Business Sessions, Coffee Breaks, Lunch (Mon-Wed), Hospitality Room, Conference Activities and Gift.

• Registration does NOT include Hotel Accommodations, Dinners and Receptions.

• All registrations must be received no later than June 1, 2013. A Late registration fee of $50 will be applied to all registrations received after that date.

Total: ________

MEALS/EVENTS — (Registrant Only - Guest/Family Meals indicated below for each individual registered.)

o Meal Package $165 - or - o Sunday Reception & Dinner $ 55 o Tuesday Reception & Dinner $ 60 o Wednesday Annual Banquet $ 65

• Meal Package includes: Reception and Dinner • Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday • Breakfast and Lunch are NOT included in the Package and are not sold separately.• Breakfast is included with all room reservations. Lunch is included in Registration fee. (Ladies Luncheon is included with Guest/Family registration.)

Total: ________

Total: ________GUEST/FAMILY REGISTRATION• Guest/Family registration includes: Registration materials, Training Seminars and Workshops, Exhibit Hall, Business Sessions, Coffee Breaks, Ladies Luncheon (Tuesday), Hospitality Room, Conference Activities and Gift. • Family refers to spouse or family member, not a business associate or fellow law enforcement colleague. • Registration and Meals for Children Under 12 are FREE. • There is no additional cost for guests staying in the same room as a registered attendee, however, meals must be purchased separately for each guest (package and individual meals available).

o Child/GuestName ___________________________________ Registration o Child/Guest $ 50 Meals o Meal Package $165 - or - o Sunday Reception & Dinner $ 55 o Tuesday Reception & Dinner $ 60 o Wednesday Annual Banquet $ 65 o Child/Guest Under 12 FREE

Sub Total: ___________

o Child/GuestName ___________________________________ Registration o Child/Guest $ 50 Meals o Meal Package $215 - or - o Sunday Reception & Dinner $ 55 o Tuesday Reception & Dinner $ 60 o Wednesday Annual Banquet $ 65 o Child/Guest Under 12 FREE

Sub Total: ___________

PAYMENT INFORMATION -o Check # ____________ Made payable to PCPA in the amount of $__________ o is enclosed o will followo Credit Card number: ________________________________________________________ Exp. Date _________ MasterCard Visa DiscoverCredit Card Billing Address: Street _____________________________________________________________________________________________________City _______________________________________________________________________ State ________________________ Zip ________________________

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS:Room reservations may be made at http://www.radisson.com/pcpa or by calling the Radisson Hotel Harrisburg at 717-763-7117 (indicate that you are with the PA Chiefs group code PCPA). The conference room rate is $160.00 plus tax and includes breakfast.

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The LancasTer moDeL: DirecT coLLaboraTion beTWeen PoLice anD crisis servicesBy Captain Brian Wiczkowski, Lancaster City Police

With the recent spate of high-profile mass shootings, mental health issues are dominating conversations across the state and across this nation. As first responders we understand that, although these incidents are tragedies, they are very infrequent and are not a reflection of what we deal with on a daily basis. More often than not, we deal with more mundane issues involving people with mental health issues. However, these “mundane” calls take valuable time and resources for agencies already struggling with reduced budgets and reduced staff. Police departments and mental health agencies need to work closely together to provide necessary services in a timely fashion. With decreased budgets, this is increasingly difficult to do. In Lancaster County, the Lancaster City Police and Lancaster County Crisis Intervention have joined in a unique partnership to provide services to members of the community they serve.

In 2007, Mr. James Laughman, Executive Director of the Lancaster County Behavioral Health and Development Services, approached Brian Wiczkowski, then a lieutenant with the Lancaster City Police Department, about improving the way police can leverage mental health services to members of the community. Lancaster City (2011 population estimated to be 60,000 by the US Census Bureau) is the county seat for Lancaster County (population estimated at 523,000). As the county seat, Lancaster City is the home of many of the County’s social service agencies. From the police perspective, a source of frustration is that officers deal with people in need of mental health services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Unfortunately, most social services only work Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 5 PM. Additionally, an officer will deal with a subject and have no knowledge of where the subject stands in the mental health system. This disconnect causes frustration for the police and for the subject in need of assistance.

This cycle perpetuates itself. From a mental health perspective, the police can only provide a band-aid solution to a serious problem. Laughman indicated “By diverting appropriate people with mental illness to the program, we could save valuable law enforcement, correction and hospital resources.”

The idea was to have a Crisis Intervention employee working at the police station in Lancaster City to assist officers who deal with people in need of mental health services. In addition, this employee could work at the front desk to assist with anyone walking into the station that may need services. Instead of working “conventional” 8-5, Monday through Friday hours, the Crisis Intervention employee would work evenings and Saturdays. Laughman knew it would impact his staffing but stated, “we went in with full understanding that, as an agency, we were going to assume a financial loss. However we had to take a broader look at the community, realizing that if this program was successful, it would benefit not only Lancaster City but also Lancaster County.” In 2008, the initiative between Crisis Intervention and the Lancaster City Police began when Dave Plummer, an experienced Crisis Intervention counselor, was assigned to his “front desk” duties at the Lancaster City Police station.

Since this time, Mr. Plummer has worked hand-in-hand with the Lancaster City Police in providing much needed assistance and insight. Plummer can access his database from his secured computer at the police station and can ascertain information on clientele. Because he is assigned at the front desk, he can hear radio calls and be accessible to anyone who walks into the lobby that may need services. This allows him to observe symptoms that are not seen by or reported to case managers. When not



CREATING A REGIONAL CRIME-FIGHTINGMACHINE FOR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENTHow Lehigh County, PA is setting a new standard in data-sharing and investigative supportCo-authored by Maggie Riker, CODY Systems and Julia Kocis, RIIC Project Manager

Budgets are tighter than ever. During our nation’s recent economic downturn, we know all too well that the small police department does not necessarily only handle small crime. In fact, according to recent statistics, the old adage of the “big city, big crime” may be becoming an outdated assumption.

While overall crime rates nationwide have declined, the percentage of violent crimes in small towns has risen by 18%, according to FBI statistics from last year. Obviously, this means that even with limited resources, the small town PD may have big city crime to fight.

Local law enforcement agencies are facing the challenge to make the most of the limited resources available to them. In Lehigh County, PA, District Attorney James B. Martin had a vision of giving the citizens of his county the investigative, analytical, and tactical crime-fighting tools they need to do just that. Supported by a county-wide COBRA.net information-sharing platform that provides the foundational core of disparate RMS data, Lehigh County has taken the next step to design, develop and build a Regional Intelligence and Investigation Center (RIIC) which is providing local agencies in the Lehigh Valley the help they need to fight crime in a big way.

Beginning with a feasibility study in 2007, the RIIC was conceived as a center to provide investigative case support to County law enforcement. The center was envisioned to be staffed by analysts and investigators armed with a consolidated information system that could deliver critical information quickly and conveniently in a way not previously possible. Now a reality, only 12 short months after commencing the project, the RIIC has delivered on the promise of providing a law enforcement data sharing capability that is focused on the needs of local and regional law enforcement investigations and could revolutionize the approach of leveraging information-sharing for local law enforcement.

Today the RIIC provides its users tools and services that are targeted directly at the needs of local investigators and task forces, allowing them to search and analyze local

police and prison records, public data and data sources from the Pennsylvania State Police Criminal Intelligence Center (PaCIC) and the Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET) all through a single system.

The RIIC provides intuitive, online tools for local law enforcement to collaborate on investigations easily with each other and to share information quickly and securely and is also staffed with a team of experienced criminal intelligence analysts who are available to assist during an investigation when requested by preparing products or performing inquiries. This team is also charged to proactively identify possible leads, crime patterns and trends across the region.

Data-Integration as the Foundation

In order to build this state-of-the-art crime-fighting center, the County needed to first create a centralized information repository for housing county-wide RMS data for investigative, analytical, and tactical use. Once this information hub was in place, the opportunity would exist to provide access to this data in a secure and meaningful way to serve both the officer on the street and the investigator on a case.

At the heart of the RIIC data architecture lies the COBRA.net Core, developed by PA-based CODY Systems, which offers the centralized and homogenized hub for the over 6 million incident, arrest, and person records from the disparate agency RMS databases in place across Lehigh County, including the Cities of Allentown and Bethlehem.

“This was a tremendous advancement for law enforcement and public safety in Lehigh County.”

- James B. Martin Lehigh County DA



Operational countywide for over 5 years, COBRA.net is an extensible county-wide law enforcement information-sharing network, complete with robust, bandwidth-lean data synch connections from each local agency which provides a centralized repository and broker, made up of segregated data spaces for each of the county’s 17 local police department’s synchronized, disparate RMS information. For the officer on the street, COBRA.net comes complete with a web-based tactical search tool, C.tac 5, which delivers a one-stop search of all connected data sources county-wide.

In fact, this system was revolutionary in its conception and scope and, in 2009, was the only non-federal project named a finalist in the GSN Homeland Security Awards – “Most Significant Information-Sharing Program, Project or Agency” category and shared the spotlight with projects submitted by the U.S. Postal Service, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Department of Homeland Security. “This was a tremendous advancement for law enforcement and public safety in Lehigh County,” said District Attorney James B. Martin. This secure, homogenized central repository for county-wide information was a vital first step in reaching the County’s goals for data sharing and its success provided the impetus for future sharing initiatives. The RIIC is able to leverage police records through COBRA.net, which constitute the core information sources for most investigations, and then is also able to tap into local prison records, JNET, Lexis Nexis public records and PaCIC as further search options. “CODY’s COBRA.net product served as the underlying aggregator of the police data sources for the RIIC System,” said Julia Kocis, RIIC Program Manager at the Lehigh County DA’s Office. “Having this aggregation piece already in place meant the RIIC project could focus on analytics, collaboration and requested functionality, rather than breaking down silos of information.”

C.Tac 5 provides field officers in Lehigh County with a one-stop search of county-wide law enforcement data.

Inside the COBRA.net Core, each of the local agencies has a separate, unique, and dedicated data space so that no agency’s data is ever comingled with any others’. Security is such that the platform respects the permissions and security set at the local level and always resolves to the most restrictive choice. It is also flexible enough to support state and federal data-sharing regulations. This means that agencies across the region are able to participate in this sharing effort with complete confidence in the security and integrity of their data. “Data Security and local agency control are probably the most critical aspects of achieving success in a project of this scope,” commented David Heffner, Vice President of CODY Systems. “Fostering absolute confidence that the project’s technology solution and governance model allows each agency to remain in complete control over the security and access to their shared information leads to the buy-in that will make or break an information-sharing project.” The combination of the timely and accurate county-wide, cross-RMS information stored in the COBRA.net Core and the C.tac 5 web-based tactical tool gives officers across Lehigh County real-time access to a county-wide core of RMS data anywhere to aid in their preparedness, safety, and situational awareness in the field.

“Having this aggregation piece already in place meant the RIIC project could focus on analytics, collaboration and requested functionality, rather than breaking down silos of information.” - Julia Kocis, RIIC Project Manager

Barbara Falcaro, CODY Systems’ Executive Director of Technical Operations, has worked closely with Ms. Kocis since project inception as the RIIC’s dedicated and direct Point of Contact at CODY. “It has been a pleasure to be involved with such an innovative project and to work with such a dedicated team,” commented Ms. Falcaro. “We are proud that our COBRA.net product is providing the data integration foundation necessary for the RIIC to achieve its goals through its ability to aggregate data from disparate systems and other data sources.”


The RIIC provides its analytic services and information via a secure, collaborative, unified virtual workspace that helps connect, combat and reduce crime with the RIIC playing the role of “investigative assistant” when requested. The tools and content offered via the user-friendly RIIC portal was the result of a collaborative effort between thought leaders in the industry and the RIIC customers themselves including local Chiefs of Police and County Task Force investigators. The exemplary team in place at the DA’s Office, led by Program Manager Julia Kocis, was joined by CODY and Computer Aid, Inc. (CAI) who performed the entire design, construction and implementation of the RIIC systems as well as helping to define the CONOPS and policy for the center. Mr. Michael Newnham, lead architect and project manager from CAI for the RIIC, led a small team of seasoned law-enforcement software integrators, some of whom were veterans of other similar projects including the Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) at the NYPD and in Philadelphia. That experience combined with the sharp vision for the RIIC and the priorities outlined by its customers have led to a powerful, streamlined solution that is focused squarely on the needs of local investigators and was delivered and embraced in a very short amount of time to wide acclaim..

focused approach that dramatically improves access to regionally focused information, communication, productivity and efficiency for local investigators. John Russo, General Manager of Computer Aid, Inc. and Account Executive of the RIIC project stresses that the RIIC should not to be thought of as a fusion center. With its singular focus on providing investigative assistance to local law enforcement, it is truly a regionally focused crime-fighting portal that is built for local investigators and focuses on local information while allowing them to expand outward as needed.

While hundreds of millions of dollars are funneled into supporting fusion centers across the nation, the RIIC offers a cost effective and intensely focused approach that dramatically improves access to regionally focused information, communication, productivity, and efficiency for local investigators.

Funding for the project came from a combination of Department of Justice COPS Technology Grants and county sources that totaled roughly $1.8 million dollars. While hundreds of millions of dollars are funneled into supporting fusion centers across the nation, that have recently been under hefty criticism for not getting the job done, the RIIC offers a cost effective and intensely

Built with a sharp focus, collaboration and experience

Fighting crime needs a regional approach

By centralizing resources, a regional approach such as at the RIIC is helping local police departments to more effectively analyze and fight crime. Additionally, the shared environment allows investigators to connect with regional peers and to focus on trends and news that has local importance. The ability to data-mine across multiple local sources and then to interrogate external sources of information provides better and more actionable information and is of special importance to the County as it has seen a recent, steady influx of gang and drug activity originating from outside the region. According to Chief Detective Joseph P. Stauffer Commander of the Lehigh County Narcotics, Gang and Homicide Task Forces, “the region has seen an influx of gang and drug activity from New York and New Jersey, along with an increase in gang related violent crime. We are seen as an expansion market for drugs and weapons trafficking, and as a prime location for gangs to increase membership, power, and territory, thus creating a negative impact on our quality of life.”

The RIIC Web-portal offers a single search of all connected sources, including the COBRA.net Core


The RIIC is hard at work, targeting gang and drug activity and providing law enforcement with the services and technology necessary to help break apart these criminal enterprises operating in their communities.

“From the beginning of this project, there was a vision we could all feel was driving and molding its outcome.”

- Fran Heffner, Pres. CODY Systems

Designed with scalability in mind, the goal of the RIIC is to expand to include immediate surrounding counties and to connect with other regional centers inside and outside Pennsylvania. With over 250 users to-date, the RIIC is leading the way in the Commonwealth and is setting a new standard for cooperative, collaborate data-sharing efforts to serve the good of the whole. partnerships developed between the County and the companies involved with this project were only the tip of the iceberg when considering the business relationships that needed to be nurtured and

Cooperative Partnerships a Key to Success

fostered in order for a project of this scope to successfully get off the ground. Lehigh County was the first county to integrate with JNET and PaCIC in order to use new search services they offered. In return, PaCIC is able to connect to the RIIC and search Lehigh County Records. “From the beginning of this project there was a vision we could all feel was driving and molding its outcome,” commented Fran Heffner, President of CODY Systems. “It was more than just business and more than just a project plan. It was the culmination of a collaborative effort in Lehigh County to combat crime in a real, meaningful, and tangible way. CODY is proud and excited to be a part of the project at the RIIC and looks forward to other counties in the Commonwealth becoming part of this exciting initiative”.

The RIIC Web-portal helps target and reduce gang activity throughout the region

With Phase 1 of the project nearly reaching completion, the driven team at the RIIC looks to Phase 2 with determined resolve. The next phase of the RIIC project is to focus on adding more local data sources, proactive analytics, and expanding outwardly to connect to other partnering agencies including the High Intensity Drug Traffic Areas (HIDTA) of Camden-Philadelphia and New York-New Jersey; and potentially connecting to similar regional law enforcement centers within the Commonwealth if this model is adopted elsewhere.

For more information on this exciting initiative, please feel free to contact : Ms. Julia Kocis, RIIC Project Manager at 610.782.3823 or email [email protected]


Running the Doylestown Borough Police Departmentsince 1995, Chief James Donnelly recently took on an additional role as Chief of Police for neighboringborough, New Britain. With both of these BucksCounty departments sharing responsibility for protecting the Delaware Valley College campus andwith overlap in the communities they serve, the twoagencies are joining forces to become a regional policedepartment by early 2014.

Streamlining the operations of the two borough policedepartments will definitely save some money, but theChief sees the real benefit being in new professionaldevelopment opportunities for the New Britain officers.In the past, these officers have received only mandatorytraining because New Britain is such a small department.By combining the two forces, all officers will have access to additional training to help them further develop their careers in public safety.

Metro Technology: What are some of the challengesof running a police department?

Chief Donnelly: Coordination among the surroundingdepartments is key. As a small department, we(Doylestown Borough PD) are lucky to have goodpartners in the community, but communicating andcollaborating is still a challenge. We have 23 liquor licenses in the 2.2 square miles and we are also a touristlocation, leading to weekends during which a variety ofincidences occur. We also have a high school, a middleschool and three elementary schools, as well as a hospitalright outside the borough, and it is essential that wetightly coordinate our efforts with all these entities.

Metro Technology: How have you overcome the challenges?

Chief Donnelly: We focus on being responsive to the community.Our Metro Technology Visual Alert Records Management Systems, being used by both departments, are essential to help us be responsive. Once we regionalize, we will be able to move to one system. All of our officers will have access to the same infor-mation, be able to review reports and see what’s happening across the department, which is key to opening up the communications.

We began using Visual Alert in 2000. We have it in our cars,which enables our officers to spend more time on the street. Forexample, a number of years ago, we had 400 kids that hung out in the middle of town. It was disrupting businesses and causingproblems. We set up a program that if we instructed an individualto leave or they violated an ordinance, we would send a letter totheir parents as their first warning. The second instance would result in a citation. The challenge was the time it took to find outwhether we’d had contact with the person before. Now, with

Metro Salutes Those Who LeadSpotlight on Chief James Donnelly

At Metro Technology Services, we know firsthand the dedication of the men and women who have moved up through the ranks tolead police departments in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. We are privileged to have ongoing relationships with more than 400 of themwho have trusted us to provide and maintain the Visual Alert® software they use for records management, information sharing, resourcemanagement and computer-aided dispatch.

In this space, we are pleased to honor one of these leaders: Doylestown Borough and New Britain Borough Police DepartmentChief James Donnelly. Metro Technology will recognize other police leaders throughout the year with interviews published in thePCPA Bulletin. We hope you enjoy their stories. Send us your comments at [email protected]. Learn more about us atmetroalert.com.

Chief James Donnelly is leading the merger of two boroughpolice departments into one regional department.


Visual Alert, the officers have all theinformation in their cars, allowingthem to quickly determine if therehas been previous contact and take appropriate action.

The mobile access also allows us tobetter serve our schools, especially inthe wake of recent tragedies. Duringthe officers’ free time when they are writing their reports instead ofanswering calls, they sit at a school and write their reports – providing a police presence at the schools.

When we regionalize, we plan to use the Visual Alert Geographic Information System for crime andcrash mapping, to help us better visualize what is going on in the borough, the different problem areas,and identify where we should be.Last year, for example, we had a series of 25 burglaries – and weresuccessful in arresting the person andclearing the burglaries – but becausewe didn’t have a mapping system, not all the officers were aware that so manyburglaries occurred in a particular area.This will help us be more responsive.

The reporting in Visual Alert is really good and helps us keepothers in the community informed. At council meetings, for example, someone may want to know how many incidences haveoccurred at a certain bar. We are able to easily generate reportswith the type of incident, where it occurred, when it occurred, etc. This is valuable.

Metro Technology: How has being a police officer changedsince you began?

Chief Donnelly: I’ve been an officer for 46 years. I became a police officer because of the job security it offered. My father wasin the trucking business and experienced many layoffs throughouthis career. I was looking for a career with more job security.

When I came on we didn’t have computers or any type of technology. It has changed quite a bit. I’d like to see where it is in another 20 years. However, I think the biggest change was themove to community policing in the mid-1980s. It changed howwe thought of ourselves and how the public thought of us. I was fortunate enough to be a district commander in Philadelphiaat the time and watching how we dealt with the communitychanged significantly from the mid-80s on. It made the job much better.

Metro Technology: What do you like most about your job?

Chief Donnelly: Teaching young officers how to be police officers and helping them to find their way to where they want to be as an officer. That’s what I get the most joy out of.

Metro Technology: What do you do in your spare time?

Chief Donnelly: I spend time at my place down the shore and enjoy reading and spending time with my wife, two kids and six grandkids.

Facts About Doylestown Borough Police Department• 22 employees• 20 sworn officers• 2.2 square miles • 8,400 residents• Daytime population = 15,000

Facts About New Britain Borough Police Department• 6 employees• 5 sworn officers• 1.1 square miles • 3,400 residents

A police car is a mobile office when equipped with Visual Alert, Chief Donnellypoints out. An officer with reports to write will park his vehicle at a school toprovide a police presence while he is entering data into the Visual Alert system.


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Just The Facts, Ma’amBy Lynn Shiner, Director, Office of Victims’ Services, Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency

The Victims Compensation Assistance Program (VCAP) prides itself on the relationships that have been forged over the past decade with the many segments of the Commonwealth’s criminal justice system. One of those bonds has been with the 1,200 police departments that serve and protect the 12 million citizens of Pennsylvania.

The VCAP is committed to helping victims and their families through the emotional and physical aftermath of crime by easing the financial burden imposed upon them. During calendar year 2012, with your help, the VCAP received 9,000 claims and paid out in excess of $11.5 million on behalf of crime victims.

The mandate of our enabling legislation, the Crime Victims Act, states in part that “the VCAP shall investigate the validity of each claim and examine the police, court and official records and reports concerning the crime.” Therefore, one of the first steps that VCAP must take in

processing a claim is requesting a copy of the incident report from the investigating police department.

The time lost while waiting for police reports delays VCAP’s ability to provide victims with financial reimbursement. By taking that extra effort to assist Pennsylvania’s crime victims by submitting your police reports as quickly as possible, our work is making an enormous difference in their lives.

With two former Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police on VCAP’s staff, we fully understand the burdens that you face on a daily basis and that your time and resources are at a premium. We would ask that you and the members of your department make an extra effort to assist the crime victims in your community by submitting the requested police reports within 15 days. By working together, we can continue to make a difference in the lives of those victimized by crime, and you are showing your concern for, and your commitment to, the victims in your community.



onLine Training From The PennsyLvania chieFs oF PoLice associaTion

the pennsylvania Chiefs of police Association provides online training through the pennsylvania virtual training network (pAvtn). www.pavtn.net

The PAvTN is the only place that has the MPOETC Mandatory In-Service Training Courses

The PAvTN provides: • Training that is free • Training that requires no travel or schedule changes • Training that is based on the latest instructional design • Training that delivers a clear and consistent content

FrequenTLy askeD quesTionsWhat is the PAvTN?The PAVTN is an online learning system for Pennsylvania’s Law Enforcement Community. It was developed by the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency and in partnership with other organizations that provide law enforcement training like MPOETC to deliver quality online training.

How do I get access to the PAvTN?The PAVTN is available to any law enforcement officer or law enforcement support personnel. To use it, you or your agency must register. You register by completing a spreadsheet available for download on the PCPA website http://www.pachiefs.org/pavtn . (If asked for a password when trying to download the spreadsheet just click cancel and proceed) Once you complete the spreadsheet, save it as a spreadsheet and email it as an attachment to [email protected]. Please note every officer must have their own individual email address. If the department does not provide email to their officers, then they can use personal emails or get free email through Yahoo or Gmail.

Is the MPOETC Mandatory In-Service Training (ACT180) available on the PAvTN?For 2013, four courses (12 hours) will be available and the all mandatory 12 hours for 2013 can all be completed online. All these courses are governed by MPOETC and require a separate enrollment and the approval of the department’s chief or agency head. For 2012, two courses (6 hours) Search & Seizure and Legal Updates 2012 are available.

How do I enroll my department for the Mandatory In-Service Training (ACT180)?First step is to make sure all your department members are registered users of the PAVTN. PCPA will provide a list of registered user by email to each department and they just have to check the information and return it by email. The chief of police or the agency head must approve their officers to take the MPOETC courses online.

How long are the courses and can they be stopped and started anytime?Currently, there are sixteen (16) courses available on the PAVTN. The time it takes to complete each course is dependent on the content, the nature of the course and ability of the learner. Each course is designed to present the material to engage the learner and for them to interact. The current courses range in length from 15 minutes to 3 hours. However, courses are designed so that they may be taken in segments, so a course does not have to be taken all at once. They can be taken over days or weeks and the learner can stop and start whenever they want. The only exception is the MPOETC course final examination section which is a 10 question quiz which once started must be completed within 30 minutes.

What is the cost for courses on the PAvTN?

Free – all the current courses are free including the MPOETC Mandatory In-Service Training.

Where can I get more information?Contact Chris Braun by email at [email protected]

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otherwise engaged on the phone or with a potential walk-in client, he can cross-reference any names or addresses to which police are responding. If police are dealing with a subject known to him, Plummer alerts the officer and provides non-HIPAA protected information to the officer. In addition, he routinely receives emails from officers who have been dealing with a subject with mental health issues. Plummer provides guidance to these officers and helps them navigate the mental health system to help provide the client with useful information and assistance. Because he is trained in observing and identifying symptoms, he routinely assists officers who otherwise would have a difficult time in bringing mental health patients into one of the local hospitals. According to Plummer, “programs like Mental Health first Aid and CIT, among others, have increased awareness and skills on both sides.” This system, though, goes further. Plummer indicates one of the advantages of this model is that it serves to “cut down the communication lag between systems.”

In November of 2012, Plummer and Lancaster City Police Lieutenant Michael Bradley, a platoon commander, presented a workshop entitled “The Lancaster Model: Direct Collaboration between Police and Crisis Services” at the 20th annual PA Forensic Rights and Treatment Conference. Attendees to the session provided positive feedback on this model and were interested in the inter-agency collaboration.

Lieutenant Bradley indicated that having the Crisis Intervention employee working at the front desk has been a tremendous asset for the Bureau. Recently, officers dealt with a subject several times who believed that he/she was a vampire killer. Although the subject had obvious mental health issues, officers did not have

enough to apply for a commitment for a mental health evaluation. This information was discussed with Plummer who was aware of this subject. Eventually, enough information was obtained for an involuntary commitment and word was received from Plummer that this subject was now carrying sharpened sticks to assist with vampire killing. Armed with this information, officers were able to safely approach the subject and get the subject the needed help.

Other municipalities employ their own functioning process and the model used in Lancaster City may not work for all municipalities or agencies. However, the model used by Crisis Intervention and the Lancaster City Police works well for these particular agencies. Through this inter-agency collaboration, the Lancaster City Police and Lancaster County Behavioral Health and Development Services are able to provide services expeditiously at the point they are the most effective: when first responders need them.

If you have any questions about this program or would like additional information, please feel free to contact any of the following:

Captain Brian Wiczkowski at (717) 735-3342 or email [email protected]

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Mr. David Plummer at (717) 989-8313 or email at [email protected]

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Please list a current member of the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association who has recommended that you apply for membership. If the applicant holds a rank lower than Chief, your recommending member must be your Chief, Superintendent or Commissioner.

Recommending Member Name and Title: ________________________________________ Department Name and Phone Number: _______________________________________ APPLICANT DEPARTMENT INFORMATION

Provide the number of sworn police officers in your department Full time ___________ Part time __________ If industry, number of security officers under applicant’s command ___________________ If other, state nature of business in relation to law enforcement _________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ MEMBERSHIP QUALIFICATIONS Section 4. Active Membership. “Active” membership shall be open to the following: (a) All full-time sworn chiefs of police, superintendents, or commissioners of municipal police agencies in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania who have police powers and MPOETC Certification (b) All full-time sworn municipal police officers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania who have police powers, MPOETC Certification and hold the rank of captain or above and persons who hold the rank of Captain or above that are members of the Pennsylvania State Police; (c) Special agents in charge, assistant special agents in charge, and resident agents of any law enforcement entity of the United States government if, at the time of application, such persons are headquartered in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and; full-time persons with command-level responsibility in any law enforcement agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provided that these individuals are not elected to their position by a popular vote of citizens Section 5. Affiliate Membership. “Affiliate” membership shall be open to those persons who, by occupation are Chiefs of Police who work part time, Police Officers In Charge of Police Departments, Directors of Police Agencies, and Ranking officers who have a supervisory role in a police department. This category also includes agency heads of Corporate Security and Police Academies . These individuals must share a mutuality of interests with the Association and its membership, enabling them access to information from the Association that is regularly provided to Active Members. Affiliate members may attend the Association’s Annual Meeting at the invitation of the Executive Board and under no circumstances shall such members have or exercise the privilege of voting, either by voice or ballot, on Association business. For the full by-laws regarding membership, please visit our website at www.pachiefs.org.

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