Police Restructuring & Transformation Program
Our mission is to establish within cities a model of a symbiotic working relationship of mutual respect and agreement between the police and the community that will eventually evolve into trust.
Our program is designed to restructure police culture to eliminate the deadly and dysfunctional relationship between the police and the communities that they serve, thereby making the total environment safer for the public and the police.
Our training accomplishes this by transforming current policing into a holistic form of public safety, that protects and serves the community, and thereby reduces the costly lawsuits that have plagued police departments across the country for the last several decades.
Police Restructuring & Transformation Program
Hear From Our Founder and CEO Rev. Glen Benson
Millions of dollars are paid out each year in settlements by cities across the country for murders, injuries, battery, and assaults from unnecessary and excessive use of force by police. This liability, not only impacts the city budget, but does great harm to the community as a whole, and destroys trust. This drives a wedge even further between the police and the community in these racially charged times in which we live.
P.R.T.P. training develops a new form of policing - devoid of the racism - devoid of the militarization, with a return to the humanization of policing. Therefore, the motto of “Protect with Courage and Serve with Compassion” stands true in the eyes of the police and in the eyes of the community.
It is a very basic principle, treating people like you want people to treat you, will yield huge results. The Bible says it like this, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. P.R.T.P.’S training works in conjunction with the police department and the community to bring about a change in mindset.
That shift in mindset will create an atmosphere in which the police and the community respect each other and work together in symbiotic harmony to decrease crime, and thereby increase police productivity. This will simultaneously eliminate the atrocities we have witnessed in the news.
Our new model of policing will be transformational for both the police department and the community when the police become a part of the community that they are policing. The need to protect the community will override the motivation to harm the community when the police see themselves as part of “us” instead of “them vs us”. Then the paradigm of police culture will change.
The P.R.T.P. program and training are designed to make police officers more efficient and accountable for their duties and to their assignments. This makes a much more functional police department because statistics and studies have shown that increasing the number of police officers on the street does not decrease the amount of crime.
The monetizing of policing through pretextual stops has caused an increase in petty arrests. We see from current history that these arrests for petty offenses are what has caused the escalation in misuse of police force, and the escalation of murders by police on our streets and in our communities.
Utilizing the current police force more efficiently and in an accountable manner to arrest violent crime offenders, not only saves the city money, but takes violent crime offenders off the street by redirecting the police officers’ focus and reward system.
Change the reward system from petty arrests to violent crime offenders arrested and you literally begin to change the culture of policing. Thereby making the total community a safer place to live, work, and enjoy for citizens and police officers. With the implementation of P.R.T.P. training, everybody benefits - the community, the police department, and the city.
P.R.T.P. Provides Comprehensive Core Training on Two Fundamental Levels To Better Serve The Community
Module 1 - Restructuring Core Training on Two Fundamental Levels to Better Serve the Community
Current history has shown the incongruency between the training and what actually happens on the streets with police officers can lead to huge problems, sometimes resulting in deadly consequences.
Both the officers involved in the murders of George Floyd and Daunte Wright were F.T.O.’s – Field Training Officers. Their actions were in direct contradiction with Police Academy training and continuing education courses found in the police officer training manual.
Restructure Pre-service training - Police Academy.
Restructure Post-service training - Field Training Officers.
Ensuring that there is consistency in training fundamentals on both the Police Academy level and the Field Training Officers level to better serve the community.
Module 2 – Community Engagement
“To serve with compassion means to serve our neighbor as ourselves and to value one another. The officer must see the community as necessary for the existence of the police department as a whole and for the career of the officer.”
What does it mean to a police officer to be true to the motto of “Protect with courage and serve with compassion”?
Utilization of enhanced verbal skills before use of force.
Judgment skills training.
Module 3 - Critical Decision Making
“Transformative critical decision-making training is necessary because the police officer’s life and the lives of the public are dependent on the police officer making the best split decision in a critical moment.”
Transformative critical decision-making training.
Training for traffic and pedestrian stops.
Appropriate weapons training and use to avoid weapons confusion.
Transformative dispatcher training.
Module 4 - De-escalation and Use of Force Training
“The single greatest way that a Police Department can be judged by the public is based upon how the public perceives its use of force.”
Restructuring training in the use of force.
De-escalation tactics and techniques training.
Duty of care by an officer of an arrested individual.
Module 5 - Systemic Racism in Policing
How do you get police officers to see crime and not see color?
Changing the monetizing of Policing.
Pretextual Stops - ( Do Not Decrease Crime!)
Module 6 - Changing Police Culture
Decoding Dehumanization Tactics in Policing.
Implicit Bias.
Restructuring the Wall of Blue.
Module 7 - Establishment of a Community Review Board
Meetings with the community to gather concerns and elect representatives to the Board from each political subdivision.
Assessment of violent offenders arrested per officer/per precinct.
Transforming the reward system of policing.
Module 8 - Police Transformation
Transform what it means to be a Public Servant;
Officer Wellness
Psychological
Physical
Spiritual
Module 9 - Community Accountability
Restructure bonds of trust between the police and the community.
Establish an independent system with total anonymity for reporting violent perpetrators of crime in the community. This ends the retribution upon citizens for doing the right thing and taking back their neighborhoods from criminals.
Establish an independent system with total anonymity for reporting criminal police officers on all levels in the police department. This ends the veil of covering for crooked cops and ends the retribution on good cops for doing the right thing to establish safer neighborhoods for everyone, including the police.
Module 10 - Transformative End Result
A new form of policing is established by restructuring the right relationships between the police and the community for public safety, for all!
Bringing it all together - The community and the police meet periodically to assess progress and remediate any issues that may arise.
Making sure everything stays intact - all 10 levels of P.R.T.P. are monitored to make sure all newly restructured relationships between the police and the community remain intact, ensuring a transformative end result.
Meet Rev. Glen Benson
Experienced developer of organizational transformative programs to restructure law enforcement departments and other business entities. Author/educator and consultant with advanced degrees in public health administration and divinity. Developed workshops designed to dismantle racist behavior and practices and bring about racial harmony in diverse environments. Certified E.E.O.C. investigator and mediator. Distinguished ministerial and pastoral counseling experience complemented by proven marketing and public health initiative development track record. Clinical specialization focuses upon outpatient counseling and assisting clients of all ages and backgrounds to overcome physical and mental health stress-related problems.
Education:
Master of Public Health. (Cum Laude). Morehouse School of Medicine,
Atlanta, GA. majored in Public Health and Spirituality.
Master of Divinity. (Magna Cum Laude). Interdenominational
Theological Center, Johnson C. Smith Seminary; Atlanta, GA. majored in
(Pastoral Counseling). (Dual degree) (First dual-degree graduate of
M.P.H. and M.Div. in the country.)
Macy Scholar. Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA. (Post Baccalaureate
Program in Advanced Sciences (One of the first seven Macy Scholars
in the country.)
THE END RESULT: COMMUNITY POLICING REIMAGINED
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