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Author Archives: Bill Booth
Hope Is Not A Plan
Most of the country has suffered through one of the hottest summers on record, and hurricanes the magnitude of which have not been experienced in decades pound Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Puerto Rico. As a first responder, your Public Safety … Continue reading…
Strategies For Funding a Fire or Police Department Training Center
There are many creative ideas and strategies when planning a fire or police department training center. Fire and Police Chiefs are continually searching for ways to generate funds for new or improved training centers, improve technologies, and prepare for the … Continue reading…
Public Private Partnership goes big with $22M Public Safety Training Center
It started as a simple request, simple at least for a charitable organization that distributes several hundred thousand dollars or more each year to various causes. When the City of Dothan realized it would need to expand the Omussee Wastewater … Continue reading…
Police & Fire Department Training Center Planning
If you are PLANNING a new Police or Fire Training Center If you are PARTNERING to build a new Regional Public Safety Training Center If you are RENOVATING an existing Police or Fire Training Center If you do not have … Continue reading…
Cost Reduction Ideas For Police and Fire Training
Last week a host of creative ideas and strategies were exchanged, along with many first hand experiences on how public safety training centers are generating funds to improve training operations, improve technologies, and prepare for the eventual unexpected expenses that … Continue reading…
Cyber Security – Training, Education and Funding
Earlier this year the White House established the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC). The CTIIC will be a national intelligence center focused on “connecting the dots” regarding malicious foreign cyber threats to the nation and cyber incidents affecting U.S. … Continue reading…
Training Accidents – Discipline or Machismo
As I wrote around this time last year, “Avoiding Training Accidents, It’s All About Discipline” it seems the number of training-related accidents continues to plague public safety. If (as I perceive it) training has become more dangerous than in the past, … Continue reading…
Training Center Planning, A Once-in-a-Career Project
If you are PLANNING a new Police or Fire Training Center If you are PARTNERING to build a new Regional Public Safety Training If you are RENOVATING an existing Police or Fire Training Center If you do not have LAND … Continue reading…
New Training Centers Dedicated and Planned Across the Nation
Over the past year it seems there are monthly headlines of newly dedicated, funded or planned public safety training centers across the nation. Community Colleges continue to be a major player in the new facility trend. From Massachusetts to California … Continue reading…
Training Center Funding; New Ideas and Old Favorites
It has been the experience of IBG that federal and state funding avenues for public services training facilities are generally difficult to come by. Many government agencies take the approach that facilities (bricks and mortar) are the responsibility of the … Continue reading…