The minnesota chiefs of police association will use FY24 CPD accreditation funding to expand their current part time accreditation specialist position into a full time position to support their…

The minnesota chiefs of police association will use FY24 CPD accreditation funding to expand their current part time accreditation specialist position into a full time position to support their accreditation efforts, provide microgrant to agencies within the state seeking accreditation and to contract with an electronic public safety platform to help facilitate a well documented program and create efficiencies for agencies engaged in the program. As we educate ourselves on building an accreditation program, IT is clear that this type of electronic platform is vital to the sustainability and success of a program.funding will also be used to enhance the assessor training program that we identified in our initialrequest,. We would now anticipate inviting experienced and established assessors from other states to come to minnesota to train and educate our initial team of assessors. IT would be our goal to create this training program with the intent of sharing the content with any other state seeking to train assessors. This funding will allow our agency to continue our commitment to establish a state-of-the-art program that will allow law enforcement in minnesota the opportunity to reach professional best practices that are affordable and obtainable for all agencies in the state, regardless of their geographic location and economic resources.