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Every year the Springfield Police Department hosts a three-week-long Leadership in Police Organizations (LPO) Training. LPO is the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s (IACP) leadership development training program. LPO is modeled after the training concept of dispersed leadership (“every officer a leader”) and delivers modern behavioral science concepts and theories uniquely tailored to the law enforcement environment. Although primarily police-focused, we have found that the leadership concepts taught in this course apply to other public safety disciplines and have expanded the offering to include supervisors within the Springfield Fire Department and Cox EMS.
The three-week LPO course explores leadership at different levels in the organization: leading individuals, leading groups, and leading organizations. The course teaches students about these levels of leadership using the following methods:
At the end of the course, students are able to: