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The Graniteville Train Disaster:
How Accreditation Shaped Safety Response
 On January 6, 2005 in the
small mill town of Graniteville in Aiken County, South Carolina, a
Norfolk Southern train carrying 45 cars was heading north on the mainline track
and accidentally veered toward a side spur, colliding head-on with a stationary
train. The collision, which took place at 2:45 AM, caused 14 railroad cars to
derail upon impact, four of which were tankard cars filled with chlorine gas.
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Your Commissioner -
JIMMIE L. DOTSON
Commissioner Jimmie Dotson has over 30 years of progressive
experience in police investigation and law enforcement. He began in 1974 as a
patrol officer for the Houston (TX) Police Department, and served in or managed
several divisions, including Accident, Vice, Patrol, Training, Internal Affairs,
Planning and Research, and the Inspections and Public Integrity Review Group. He
also trained the entire police department in alternative self-defense
tactics/nightstick batons and assisted in developing the award-winning
Crimestoppers Program.
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CASF Grant Recipients
Announced
At
the 2005 CALEA Spring Conference held in Birmingham, Alabama, the Commission’s CALEA Agency Support Fund (CASF) Committee selected three agencies to be
awarded a CASF Grant for 2005. They are:
§ Roanoke
City (VA) E9-1-1 Center,
led by Superintendent Michael Crockett,
§ Munster
(IN) Police Department,
led by Chief Nick Panich, and
§ University
Park (MD) Police Department,
led by Chief Michael Wynnyk.
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A Recruit Peer-Mentoring Program
 People
are our most important resource.” This is without a doubt one of the most
common cliché you will hear from law enforcement executives – and in private
industry for that matter. But is it really true? And if it is true, what
can be done to improve the success rate and performance level of our most
important resource.
At the Blue Springs, Missouri, Police Department, hiring – and
retaining – the best people is one of our most significant goals.
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Most Wanted Interpretations
Property and Evidence Inspections
At the March Commission
Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, the Standards Review and Interpretation
Committee made a formal interpretation of the Law Enforcement Accreditation
standard 84.1.6, bullet (d). Approved by the full Commission, the
interpretation requires an unannounced inspection of the property and evidence
areas at least once per year. more
CHANGES TO
STANDARDS
At the March 2005 Commission Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, two changes to
CALEA standards were approved:
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Click
here
for a list of agencies
accredited, reaccredited, and recognized in Birmingham, Alabama.
Certificates of Meritorious
Accreditation Announced
Nine law enforcement agencies were
recognized during the CALEA Conference Celebration Banquet in Birmingham,
Alabama, for having been CALEA Accredited for 15 or more continuous years. These
agencies receive an enhanced Certificate of Meritorious Accreditation,
displaying a blue “Meritorious” ribbon and an inscription proclaiming their 15
or more years of accredited status.
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Farewell to
Our Intern
 CALEA recently said farewell
to the George Mason University student who served an internship with us since
September 2004. Megan Gantley, a senior Administration of Justice major, has
been involved with several internal projects dealing with agency tracking and
demographics.
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SRIC Focus Group
 --Status report
by commissioner mary ann viverette, vice chair
At the July 2003 CALEA
Conference in Detroit, Michigan, the Commission instructed the Standards Review
and Interpretation Committee (SRIC) to begin a review of the 4th
Edition of the Standards for Law Enforcement Agencies, and a Focus Group
was formed. It is the Commission’s responsibility to insure continued legitimacy
and soundness in each of its standards. Periodic review of the Commission’s
programs is consistent with the philosophy of accreditation to insure
contemporary professional standards and a continuing commitment to excellence in
an ever-changing world.
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Providing Critical Incident Support Services —
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Assistance
Program
 The
South Carolina Law Enforcement Assistance Program (SCLEAP) exists as a
partnership between four state police agencies in South Carolina: the South
Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the South Carolina Department of Public
Safety, the South Carolina Department of Probation, Pardon and Parole Services,
and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Shortly after the
leadership of these agencies signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding, the
state legislature took action, which mandated the existence of SCLEAP and made
the critical incident support services of the program available to any local law
enforcement agency upon request.
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New
Commissioner Named
 The Commission announced on March 1, 2005, the appointment
of A. DeWade Langley, Director, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI),
to a three-year term as Commissioner, effective immediately.
Director Langley started his law enforcement career in 1971
as an office deputy in the Custer County, Oklahoma, Sheriff’s Office.
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"Accreditation
Works"
presents first-hand testimonies of how
accreditation positively affects an agency or community. These success stories
can often go unheralded, so send your experiences to CALEA to be included.
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Colorado Internet Crimes
Against Children Task Force
Since
early 1999, the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) and the Colorado Springs
Police Department (CSPD) have maintained a proactive presence on the Internet to
target and interdict sexually exploitative and abusive acts toward children
through the interventions of the Colorado Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC)
Task Force.
These two departments were one of only 10 jurisdictions in
the nation funded that first year by the Department of Justice, Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to provide proactive
Internet enforcement.
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CALEA FLAGSHIP
AGENCY PROGRAM
Six agencies were recognized at the Birmingham, Alabama,
CALEA Conference under the new CALEA Flagship Agency program. The
Flagship Agency program was created to acknowledge the achievement and expertise
of some of the most successful CALEA Accredited public safety agencies, and also
to provide “flagship examples” to assist other agencies.
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WELCOME
TO CALEA
Between January 1, 2005
and April 30, 2005, the following agencies joined the CALEA family by signing
initial contracts:
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