Chief Paul Reynolds is pleased to announce the graduation of Sergeant Christopher Palmer from the New Jersey Chiefs of Police 13 week Command & Leadership Program on Thursday May 29th, 2014.
In 1993, NJSACOP officials traveled to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to work with the Academy’s department of behavioral sciences and leadership to adapt the fabled West Point model of command and leadership to the needs of law enforcement.
The result of this collaboration is the NJ Chiefs of Police Command & Leadership Academy, a unique blend of theory and application. candidates with the greatest leadership potential are selected for this highly competitive program from all areas of the State.
The Command & Leadership students study, learn and apply:
• Leadership as a science with logic, critical thinking, methodology and vision
• Using organizational theory in a law enforcement context with police-oriented case studies
• Behavioral and motivation theories
• Individual communicating and counseling
• Inter-group conflict management ‘
• Descison making
• Participants learn to be the leader – the decision maker 1 communicator I counselor I stress-manager – in a complex organization.
The State Chiefs Association holds this program in three regions, north, south, and for the last ten years, New castle County Delaware. Sgt. Palmer attended the New castle County class and at graduation received the Chief Harry Wilde Academic Award for highest overall grade average for his class.
Sergeant Palmer joins past graduates of this program from the Stone Harbor Police Department; Chief Paul Reynolds, Retired Chief William Toland, and captain Thomas Schutta.
