Post-Approved

POST-APPROVED COURSES (PAC)

ALL CLASSES ARE OFFERED IN-PERSON AND VIA ZOOM WITH THE SAME QUALITY, CREDITS, AND CONTENTS, EXCEPT LOWER COSTs (With Zoom).

The most comprehensive, intensive, and diversified
cultural education series for law enforcement professionals
in the USA to move from bias to the impartial policing

COURSES IN THIS SERIES ARE APPROVED FOR REQUIRED CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
BY THE MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS AND TRAINING (P.O.S.T.) PROGRAM

POST-APPROVED COURSES EDUCATION
WHAT IT IS - MISSION - VALUES - RATIONALE - METHODOLOGY

What Is Post-Approved Courses?
Post-Approved Courses (PAC) is a solution-oriented series of diversified and highly participatory cultural education courses designed to provide law enforcement professionals with enhanced knowledge that allows them to better understand cultural differences, and improve their skills in interacting with the multicultural citizens they protect and serve. The ultimate outcome of PAC is to assist both the community and law enforcement to overcome their biases and develop among them positive, fair, and impartial relationships.

Our Rationale
Research indicates that people who deeply understand the cultures in which they work and live are successful in providing better services to individuals in those cultures. Law enforcement professionals better interact with the citizens in a fair and impartial way, and build better relationships with their communities, when they understand the cultures of their citizens and the citizens theirs.

Our Mission
Promote trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve and protect, and provide law enforcement solution-oriented cultural education leading to the application of fair and impartial policing.

Our Lead Instructor
Emmanuel Ngomsi, Ph. D.

Our Instructor
Linda Hacker Bristow

Post-approved Schedule

2021 detailed schedule is coming soon.
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Our Values
To instill a commitment to bias-free, fair and impartial policing in officers, we first commit to bias-free, fair and impartial instructional strategies and contents. We present positive, non-accusatory content, ideas, and discussions that are proven to be far more effective than those that emphasize negative sanctions, accusations or fear. Fairness attracts fairness!

Our Methodology

Our cultural classes are very interactive and highly participatory. Participants discuss and find solutions to numerous real life cultural challenges that officers face during the execution of their professions. This is accomplished through numerous case studies, mini-lectures, and short video
Small group and face-to-face classroom settings allow officers to express themselves and learn from each other. This is accomplished through real scenarios in which it is sometimes a challenge to reconcile the application of the laws with the understanding of the cultures involved.
In order to instill a commitment to bias-free policing in officers, we first commit to bias-free instructional strategies and contents. We use positive, non-accusatory content, ideas, and discussions that are proven to be more effective than those that stress negative sanctions or fear.
Most courses include a short inventory to assess participants’ degree of cultural awareness, followed by an informative debriefing to help shine light on the importance of understanding the relativity of cultures even within the same department. It is important for participants to constantly progress on the continuum of the developmental process of cultural sensitivity.

"The [Racial Profiling] training shall promote understanding and respect for racial and cultural differences and the use of effective, non-combative methods for carrying out law enforcement duties in a racially and culturally diverse environment.”
International Association of Chiefs of Police

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