Professional Management Program

Accenting professional law enforcement management through training and education.

The Law Enforcement Professional Management Program in association with Columbus State University provides a program of study that goes beyond what is currently available in law enforcement management development courses, serving as an “advanced school” for law enforcement executives, the Law Enforcement Professional Management Program offers a study that is distinctive, flexible, and comprehensive.

The Law Enforcement Professional Management Program brings together the leading thinkers in corporate and public management to provide police officers with intense training in the best available management theory and practice to render innovative solutions to organizational problems and to address important issues in managing public service organizations effectively.

Study Includes:

A 160 hour program divided into four 40-Hour modules, meeting four times a year. Three (3) semester hours of university academic credit and 40 hours of POST training are awarded for each module.

Module Topics

1. Personnel - Principles, practices, and programs relevant to managing personnel in a modern organization.
2. Budget - Planning, preparing and managing the financial resources of the organization.
3. Legal Liability - Constitutional and statutory law and agency policy affecting individual and organizational liability.
4. Decision Making - Developing the skills necessary to analyze and make decisions affecting the organization and service role.

Application Procedures:

• Completed enrollment application
• Resume outlining in detail both educational training and professional experience.
• Nomination from the head of the employing law enforcement agency. (If the head of the agency is applying, the person to whom the head of the agency reports to in the chain of command must provide the nomination.)