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2009 AFAC Executive Leadership Program

On Sunday the 21st of June, one of the AIPM’s premier programs, the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council’s (AFAC) Executive Leadership Program, commenced at Manly. The program aims to meet the needs of police, law enforcement and public safety organizations by developing and preparing a national cadre of highly trained and credible practitioners with the capacity and potential to achieve the most senior leadership roles within their respective organizations. <read more>

 

AFAC Executive Development Program 1/2009

The first AFAC Executive Development Program for 2009 commenced at the Australian Institute of Police Management, Manly on Monday, the 4th of May and concluded on Friday, 22nd of May. There were a total of 17 participants on the program, representing emergency management agencies from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Hong Kong. <read more>

 

AFAC Volunteer Leaders Program (VLP) 1/2009 & 2/2009

The AIPM in partnership with the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service conducted two Volunteer Leaders program at their facility at Manly during April and May. The Volunteer Leaders program runs for five days and has a central theme of ‘Leadership and the individual”. The educational philosophy underpinning this theme is the concept of personal growth through education and experience. As a result, the Program will enable participants to explore their individual strengths, increase their understanding of effective leadership and refine strategies for improving personal growth. <read more>

 

111th Police Management Development Program (PMDP)

AIPM’s second academic program for 2009 commenced on 2 March 2009 with 25 participants attending the residential component of the 111th PMDP. Australian police jurisdictional representation came from Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Federal Police (AFP). The group’s experience was augmented by the inclusion of participants from the international police jurisdictions of Bangladesh and the Philippines, and the local influence of a participant from the Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales. <read more>

Australasian Policing Forum

The AIPM, in partnership with the Australian Research Council funded Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS), recently hosted the first session of the Australasian Policing Forum from the 11th – 13th March, 2009. The Australasian Policing Forum is modelled on the Executive Session format held at Harvard University and involves 24 senior police practitioners, academics and community members meeting regularly over a two year period to examine difficult contemporary and emerging policing issues. <read more>

Executive Director AIPM farewelled

Commissioner Keelty yesterday farewelled Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM) Executive Director Jim Hann at a retirement afternoon tea in Manly. The occasion was attended by all staff at the Institute as well as guests from the National Executive Institute of the FBI and faculty staff from Charles Sturt Universities Australian Graduate School of Policing.

AFP Commisioner Mick Keelty, AIPM & CSU staff and friends gather to farewell outgoing Executive Director Jim Hann

The Commissioner presented Dr Hann with a Certificate of Service from the AFP and a framed photograph of the Institute, in his capacity as the Chair of the AIPM Board of Control on behalf of all the Commissioners of Australasian Policing. <read more>