“Lexipol keeps up with changes in the law for us we no longer have to monitor that ourselves,” says Lt. Having these comprehensive policies in place also helped the agency gain CALEA accreditation in April 2022.ĪPSO’s Professional Standards & Accountability Unit is benefiting from the ability to keep policies up-to date and provide consistency across the department. “It’s been a game changer for us as an agency to help us move into the future, to help us progress, to help us communicate better with our employees,” Lt. With Lexipol, APSO has created a foundation based on nationwide standards and best practices. On the management side, it’s pretty intuitive,” Lt. “With the electronic manual, it’s so much easier to find what you’re looking for. Using an online system for policy management also increases productivity for APSO’s Professional Standards & Accountability Unit. We can reach the entire department at once with a Daily Training Bulletin,” Sgt. “We’re an agency that was recently accredited and we found the Daily Training Bulletins to be a very good portal for standards and to issue training on those standards, like pursuit training or bias training. Once the new policies were in place, APSO started using Lexipol’s Daily Training Bulletins to enhance employee policy comprehension. It was absolutely wonderful to have someone help us facilitate that.” “We were customizing policies to our specifications, including policies that were best practice and policies that we didn’t even realize we needed. “It wouldn’t have gone as smoothly without the Lexipol Implementation Services representative, because everything was all so new,” Lt. While going live with Lexipol took time, APSO had the help of Lexipol’s Professional Services to walk them through the process. “So we started making phone calls and eventually, we became the first sheriff’s office in Louisiana to have a Lexipol policy manual.” “We knew that if we were ever going to be an accredited agency through CALEA, we would probably need to be under the Lexipol model,” he says. I was at his two-hour seminar, and I was blown away by it,” Sheriff Webre says.Īt the time, Lexipol was not yet providing services in Louisiana. “I’d never seen anybody in my life that could make risk management interesting. In 2003 I was awarded Deputy of the Year.At an IACP conference, Sheriff Webre had the opportunity to attend a session with risk management expert and Lexipol co-founder Gordon Graham. In 1997 I was promoted to Sergeant and led the Narcotics Division with a 1-year stint as a task force agent with Drug Enforcement Administration. CRT was an ancillary duty until I was made commander in 2009. I stayed on the team for 25 years in every capacity, including 8 years as Team Commander. I was moved to Detective, and in 1993 I was selected as 1 of the original 7 members of the Crisis Response Team (CRT). What good is all the money in the world if you hate going to work every day? My father always told me there was no money in law enforcement, and it would only be a four-year job, but I proved him wrong. It was more than a career… it was a calling. For the next 30 years I did what I loved, so I never called it a job. In 1989 at the end of my first semester at Southeastern Louisiana University, I started as a patrolman at the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office. Amant, I still bleed blue and gold for the East Ascension Spartans! I graduated from East Ascension High School, and even though my kids now attend St. I was born in Ascension and have never lived anywhere else. Matthews, but most of you know me as “CJ” or “Josh,” and I am running for Sheriff of Ascension Parish.
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