For those programs, Liz or Jim would send the necessary curriculum and instructor bios to our sponsor, the City of Honolulu PD, whick made it available to the neighboring island police agencies: Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii Counties. Hawaii is the only state that doesn’t have a formal POST board. That required the company to send the entire 24-hour curriculum along with the 188-page workbook, and our professional resumes to the 49 individual state POST boards for approval. Their first task, which actually began months before the seminar date, was to make contact with the individual state POST (Police Officer Standards and Training) boards to make sure our curriculum was POST certified so attendees could get reimbursed for their tuition (and sometimes hotel and meals) expenses. We’d arrive in the sponsor city the day before, in some cases on a Sunday or even Saturday.Īll the advance work was handled by Liz or Jim, and it was a monumental job. Most often the three-day programs ran Tuesday through Thursday, Wednesday through Friday, or sometimes Monday through Wednesday. In a few cases, to keep ticket prices down, we had to leave two days early. Bob would fly in from Milwaukee, our Calibre coordinator from Chicago, and me from either Rochester, N.Y. We’d meet in a connecting city be it Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, or Charlotte, depending on the air carrier we’d be using. The instructors and Calibre’s seminar coordinator (Liz Neary or Jim Crimmins) arrived at least one day before the program began. Although it’s been updated under new ownership, the aim remains true to its roots: presenting up-to-date, relevant officer survival content to American law enforcement.įor us, the day before the seminar was a travel day. Also, this piece won’t deal with the seminar content. He was the co-instructor I worked with the longest. To simplify matters, and keep the word count down, I’m going to use Wisconsin-based trainer Bob Willis and I as examples. In other words, what made those three-day seminars so memorable and thought-provoking? As the lead instructor for a dozen years, it’s my intention to give a little insight into what the students who attended those seminars never got a chance to see-a peak behind the curtain, if you will.
See, I was lead instructor from 1988 to 2000. It provides the platform on which to build your career.īut my personal, lived experience with Street Survival comes from a prior iteration. I highly recommend it, especially to newer officers.
Under the leadership of Jim Glennon, it has been transformed to reflect the realities affecting today’s officers. The Calibre Press Street Survival Seminar continues to inform and inspire American law enforcement.
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