2025 Law Enforcement Risk Specialist - Monroe County (Registration 8:00 AM, Program 8:30 am - 3:30 pm)

The Law Enforcement Risk Specialist (LERS) training is aimed specifically towards reducing departmental law enforcement risks. This training is structured to provide valuable law enforcement risk management concepts that will focus on reducing departmental exposure. GMA, ACCG, and LGRMS are sponsoring this program to assist Law Enforcement leadership and command staff alike, to identify risk associated with the day-to-day agency operations. The LERS training and certification will familiarize the risk specialist in each agency with the information needed to alert and support leadership before, during, and after a potential liability or officer injury event. With the current law enforcement landscape, it is crucial for an agency to identify, assess, and mitigate law enforcement risks before they happen.  An internal LE Risk Specialist can inform leadership before circumstances escalate into a significant loss event. The risk specialist works directly with agency head as either a primary or additional duty position and serves as point of contact to coordinate activities within the public safety risk and loss control field representatives from LGRMS. Who should be appointed or designated as the Agency LERS? Command staff or ranking personnel Agency Decision makers Attention to Detail Collaborates Well Across Organization Committed to reducing department risk Communicates Well Good Performance Reviews Experienced Law Enforcement Officer well versed in the goals and operations of their agency Knowledge of Local Issues and Community Structure Recognizes the Need for Confidentiality Topics to be covered: Identify, assess, and mitigate departmental risk. Proactive approach to managing law enforcement risk. Decreasing departmental liability and increasing professionalism. Evaluation, review, and revision of current risk management concepts. Integration of risk management principles and theories into daily operations. Strategies for reviewing policy, training, and supervision. Creating agency specific system to continuously evaluate departmental risk.

The Law Enforcement Risk Specialist (LERS) training is aimed specifically towards reducing departmental law enforcement risks. This training is structured to provide valuable law enforcement risk management concepts that will focus on reducing departmental exposure.
 
GMA, ACCG, and LGRMS are sponsoring this program to assist Law Enforcement leadership and command staff alike, to identify risk associated with the day-to-day agency operations. The LERS training and certification will familiarize the risk specialist in each agency with the information needed to alert and support leadership before, during, and after a potential liability or officer injury event.
 
With the current law enforcement landscape, it is crucial for an agency to identify, assess, and mitigate law enforcement risks before they happen.  An internal LE Risk Specialist can inform leadership before circumstances escalate into a significant loss event. The risk specialist works directly with agency head as either a primary or additional duty position and serves as point of contact to coordinate activities within the public safety risk and loss control field representatives from LGRMS.

 Who should be appointed or designated as the Agency LERS?

  • Command staff or ranking personnel
  • Agency Decision makers
  • Attention to Detail
  • Collaborates Well Across Organization
  • Committed to reducing department risk
  • Communicates Well
  • Good Performance Reviews
  • Experienced Law Enforcement Officer well versed in the goals and operations of their agency
  • Knowledge of Local Issues and Community Structure
  • Recognizes the Need for Confidentiality

Topics to be covered:

Identify, assess, and mitigate departmental risk.
Proactive approach to managing law enforcement risk.
Decreasing departmental liability and increasing professionalism.
Evaluation, review, and revision of current risk management concepts.
Integration of risk management principles and theories into daily operations.
Strategies for reviewing policy, training, and supervision.
Creating agency specific system to continuously evaluate departmental risk.

Breakfast and registration: 8am-8:30am

Lunch and registration: 12pm - 1:00pm

 Members:
ACCG Group Self-Insurance Workers’ Compensation Fund (GSIWCF) or Property & Liability Insurance Program (IRMA): NO CHARGE

GMA Workers’ Compensation Self-Insurance Fund (WCSIF) or Georgia Interlocal Risk Mgmt. Agency (GIRMA): NO CHARGE

Non-Members: $75 per person, payable in advance to LGRMS, 3500 Parkway Lane, Suite 110, Peachtree Corners, GA 30092

CANCELLATION POLICY: If you do not cancel at least three days prior to the workshop you registered to attend and do not attend, you will be invoiced a no-show fee of $25.
When
2/18/2025 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Eastern Standard Time
Where
Monroe County Sheriffs Office 145 L. Cary Bittick Drive Forsyth, GA 31029 UNITED STATES
Registration
Registration is closed.