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CHIEF CHERYL DEGROFF-BERRY Bureau of Administrative Services Florida Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement
In 1918, a plague swept across the world virtually without warning, killing healthy young adults as well as vulnerable infants and the elderly. Hospitals and morgues were quickly overwhelmed, with bodies piled in the streets to be carted off to mass graves. But 1918 was not the Middle Ages, and this didn’t just hit third-world countries; in Philadelphia, 4,597 people died in one week alone. History’s most lethal influenza virus killed as many as 100 million people. It killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years.* What will your role be if avian flu or another pandemic flu strikes? Many of you have been researching policies to help your agency deal with the police response required, but you also need to think about the impact on your resources and the individual toll this type of unusual occurrence will take on each of your employees. During a pandemic, it will be essential to maintain public safety services and public order. Civil disturbance and breakdown in public order are possible throughout the community including at health care facilities, points of dispensing, and at food distribution sites. Law enforcement agencies may even be required to secure quarantine facilities. The task will be Herculean, now add the fact that law enforcement services will suffer from limited staffing when their own employees are infected or when many employees will need to stay home to care for their infected family members. Outside of the law enforcement function, agencies will need to decide how to deal with quickly diminishing staffing levels. Normally, management is concerned that people don’t come to work – during a Pandemic Influenza outbreak, they will be concerned with those that DO come into work! Will employees be encouraged to work from home? How will minimum mandatory staffing levels in patrol be addressed? How will an agency ensure that mission critical areas of operation continue to function with potential staffing reductions of as much as 75%? Does your Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) address these issues? In Florida, the Department of Health, in conjunction with the Division of Emergency Management, is creating an annex to the Florida Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) specifically for Pandemic Influenza. It addresses state-wide resources and responsibilities. Several decision-making tools have been created to begin planning for state-wide staffing shortages, as well as evaluating the pros and cons of important issues such as if schools should be kept open, even in a severe pandemic. I have attached the Executive Policy/Position/Order Worksheet that may provide some ideas for your agency’s policy. In addition, I have the draft annex and a power point available in electronic format for any of you that would like these items. Please send me an e-mail ([email protected]) if you would like copies. Lastly, this newsletter also contains a copy of the Avian Influenza Precautions for Law Enforcement that was distributed last year. I hope all of this information will help you help your agency prepare for what could be the deadliest of unusual occurrences that we may ever have to deal with.
* The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, by John M. Barry
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
President’s Corner 1
Corrections Accreditation 2
Police Accreditation 3
New Managers 4
Grammar Gab 4
Congrats 4
CALEA News 5
Where’d That Come From 5
Your Health 6,7
Fallen Officers Remembered 8
Agencies to be Reviewed 9
Thank You 10
2008 FLA-PAC Conferences 10
Communications 5
Corrections News 2
Book Review 4
ACCREDITATION NEWS YOU CAN USE
P res iden t ’ s Corne P res iden t ’ s Corne P res iden t ’ s Cornerrr
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The Florida Police Accreditation Coalition
www.fla-pac.org
Editor Karen Gilbert
Photographer/Historian Tammie Jacobs
Contributing Members Cheryl DeGroff-Berry
Debbie Gailbreath Tammie Jacobs
See inserts for additional information
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C O R R E C T I O N S : R E C E N T L Y A C C R E D I T E D A N D R E A C C R E D I T E D
Oakloosa County Corrections Department
Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office
Hardee County Sheriff’s Office Department of Detention
Be sure to download a copy of the change notice from the October 2007 FCAC Commission meeting. There was a significant change to the seven PREA standards (5.02, 5.10, 5.11, 6.21, 9.15, 9.16, and 19.19). These standards are mandatory as of October 30, 2007. FCAC will be reviewing the Alachua County Pretrial Services at the February 2008 conference. They will be the second pretrial agency in the nation to be reviewed for accreditation. Congratulations to the Alachua County Pretrial Services! Commissioners Bob Seaman and Mike Tidwell will be attending the February Commission meeting for the last time as FCAC Commissioners. Both Commissioners served the “coveted” position as Chair of SRIC and will be missed. We wish them well on their future endeavors.
C O R R E C T I O N S N E W S
Happy 10th Anniversary Happy 10th Anniversary Happy 10th Anniversary 1998 1998 1998 --- 2008 2008 2008
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L A W E N F O R C E M E N T : R E C E N T L Y A C C R E D I T E D A N D R E A C C R E D I T E D
Cape Coral Police Department
Lake County Sheriff’s Office (Initial) Citrus County Sheriff’s Office
Largo Police Department
Boyton Beach Police Department
Clermont Police Department
Collier County Sheriff’s Office
Coral Springs Police Department
Delray Beach Police Department
Juno Police Department
Lake Worth Police Department
Miami-Dade Police Department
Orange County Sheriff’s Office
Palm Bay Police Department
Palmetto Police Department
Port St. Lucie Police Department
Sana Rosa County Sheriff’s Office
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by Karen Gilbert
R E F R A I N V S
R E S T R A I N
“Restrain” is a transitive verb: it needs an object. Al-though “refrain” was once a synonym for “restrain” it is now an intransitive verb: it should not have an object. Here are examples of correct modern usage: “When I pass the doughnut shop I have to restrain myself” (“myself” is the object). “When I feel like throwing something at my boss, I usually refrain from doing so.” You can’t refrain yourself or anyone else.
NEW ACCREDITATION MANEW ACCREDITATION MANEW ACCREDITATION MANAGERNAGERNAGERSSS
Agency Name Phone Email
Gainesville PD Officer Robert Fanelli 393.7523 [email protected]
Maitland PD Terrell Hendrix 407.539.6224 [email protected]
Miami Shores PD Shawn O’Reilly [email protected]
Sunrise PD Sgt. Joe Capuano 954.746.3352 [email protected]
CAPT. JEFF TYSON, Lantana Police Department, recently graduated from the #231 FBI-National Academy Class.
CAPT. DAVE THOMPSON, St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, recently graduated from the #230 FBI-National Academy Class.
ZEVA EDMONSON, Orange County Sheriff’s Office, recently took a position at Vander-bilt University as their accreditation manager.
In the m idd le of d i ff i cu l ty l i e s opportun i ty. ~Albert Einstein
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approach, so leaders do the right thing for the right reasons. Uses Game of Poker: Rather than a dry approach that is all fact and no flavor, the game of poker is used as a lens in which to view leadership concepts.
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Leadership: Texas Hold ‘Em Sty leLeadership: Texas Hold ‘Em Sty le By Andrew J. Harvey and Raymon E. Foster S E L E C T E D P O L I C E - W R I T E R S . C O M 2 0 0 7 B O O K O F T H E Y E A R
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CongratulationCongratulationCongratulationsss
to the Following CALEA Awards Recipients in
Colorado
CORAL SPRINGS POLICE DEPT. FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL MELBOURNE POLICE DEPT.
ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE PLANTATION POLICE DEPT.
PORT ST. LUCIE POLICE DEPT
Future CALEA Conferences
Atlanta, GA March 12 - 15, 2008
Boca Raton, FL
July 23 - 25, 2008
Tulsa, OK December 3 - 6, 2008
By Debbie Gailbreath, Sarasota Sheriff’s Office
2007 was a very busy year for CALEA Communications Accreditation in Florida. All seven of our accredited Communications Centers had successful mock and onsite assessments during 2007; Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, Citrus County Sheriff’s Office, Coral Springs Police Department, Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, and West Palm Beach Police Department. In addition, Bradenton Police Department, Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office and the CSX Public Safety Coordination Center (in Jacksonville) are in the accreditation self-assessment phase. Florida has more accredited Communi-cations Centers than any other state in the country!
Training Information: The Florida Chapter of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) will hold their an-nual conference and vendor show at the Innisbrook Golf Resort in Palm Harbor, FL, May 5-9, 2008. The Florida Chapter of APCO also provides FREE call-taker/dispatcher training throughout the year. Additional information on both can be found at www.apco-florida.org.
C O M M U N I C A T I O N S A C C R E D I T A T I O N
To rack one's brains is to strain mentally to recall or to understand something.
The rack was a mediaeval torture device. The crude but, one presumes, effective racks often tore the victim's limbs from their bodies. It isn't surprising that 'rack' was adopted as a verb meaning to cause pain and an-guish. Shakespeare was one of many authors who used this. The term was called on whenever something or someone was under particular stress and all manner of things were said to be 'racked'
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Y O U R H E A L T H
A popular greeting card attributes this quote to Henry David Thoreau: “Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
With all due respect to the author of Walden, that just isn’t so, according to a growing number of psychologists. You can choose to be happy, they say. You can chase down that elusive butterfly and get it to sit on your shoulder. How? In part, by simply making the effort to monitor the workings of your mind.
Research has shown that your talent for happiness is, to a large degree, determined by your genes. Psychology pro-fessor David T. Lykken, author of Happiness: Its Nature and Nurture, says that “trying to be happier is like trying to be taller.” We each have a “happiness set point,” he ar-gues, and move away from it only slightly.
And yet, psychologists who study happiness -- including Lykken -- believe we can pursue happiness. We can do this by thwarting negative emotions such as pessimism, resentment, and anger. And we can foster positive emo-tions, such as empathy, serenity, and especially gratitude.
Happiness Strategy # 1: Don't Worry, Choose Happy
The first step, however, is to make a conscious choice to boost your happiness. In his book, The Conquest of Happi-ness, published in 1930, the philosopher Bertrand Russell had this to say: “Happiness is not, except in very rare cases, something that drops into the mouth, like a ripe fruit. … Happiness must be, for most men and women, an achievement rather than a gift of the gods, and in this achievement, effort, both inward and outward, must play a great part.”
Today, psychologists who study happiness heartily agree. The intention to be happy is the first of The 9 Choices of Happy People listed by authors Rick Foster and Greg Hicks in their book of the same name.
CHOOSING TO BE HAPPYCHOOSING TO BE HAPPYCHOOSING TO BE HAPPY
Strategies for Happiness: 7 Steps to Becoming a Happier Person By Tom Valeo Web MD Feature
Intention is the active desire and commitment to be happy,” they write. “It’s the decision to consciously choose attitudes and behaviors that lead to happiness over unhappiness.”
Tom G. Stevens, PhD, titled his book with the bold assertion, You Can Choose to Be Happy. “Choose to make happiness a top goal,” Stevens tells WebMD. “Choose to take advantage of opportunities to learn how to be happy. For example, repro-gram your beliefs and values. Learn good self-management skills, good interpersonal skills, and good career-related skills. Choose to be in environments and around people that increase your probability of happiness. The persons who be-come the happiest and grow the most are those who also make truth and their own personal growth primary values.”
In short, we may be born with a happiness “set point,” as Lykken calls it, but we are not stuck there. Happiness also depends on how we manage our emotions and our relation-ships with others.
Don't Worry, Choose Happy continued... Jon Haidt, author of The Happiness Hypothesis, teaches posi-tive psychology. He actually assigns his students to make themselves happier during the semester.
“They have to say exactly what technique they will use,” says Haidt, a professor at the University of Virginia, in Charlottes-ville. “They may choose to be more forgiving or more grateful. They may learn to identify negative thoughts so they can chal-lenge them. For example, when someone crosses you, in your mind you build a case against that person, but that’s very damaging to relationships. So they may learn to shut up their inner lawyer and stop building these cases against people.”
Once you’ve decided to be happier, you can choose strate-gies for achieving happiness. Psychologists who study happi-ness tend to agree on ones like these.
Happiness Strategy #2: Cultivate Gratitude
In his book, Authentic Happiness, University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin Seligman encourages readers to perform a daily “gratitude exercise.” It involves listing a few things that make them grateful. This shifts people away from bitter-ness and despair, he says, and promotes happiness.
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Happiness Strategy #3: Foster Forgiveness
Holding a grudge and nursing grievances can affect physical as well as mental health, according to a rapidly growing body of research. One way to curtail these kinds of feelings is to foster forgiveness. This reduces the power of bad events to create bitterness and resentment, say Michael McCullough and Robert Emmons, happiness researchers who edited The Psychology of Happiness.
In his book, Five Steps to Forgiveness, clinical psychologist Everett Worthington Jr. offers a 5-step process he calls REACH. First, recall the hurt. Then empathize and try to understand the act from the perpetrator’s point of view. Be altruistic by recall-ing a time in your life when you were forgiven. Commit to put-ting your forgiveness into words. You can do this either in a let-ter to the person you’re forgiving or in your journal. Finally, try to hold on to the forgiveness. Don’t dwell on your anger, hurt, and desire for vengeance.
The alternative to forgiveness is mulling over a transgression. This is a form of chronic stress, says Worthington.
“Rumination is the mental health bad boy,” Worthington tells WebMD. “It’s associated with almost everything bad in the mental health field -- obsessive-compulsive disorder, depres-sion, anxiety -- probably hives, too.”
Happiness Strategy #4: Counteract Negative Thoughts and Feelings
As Jon Haidt puts it, improve your mental hygiene. In The Happi-ness Hypothesis, Haidt compares the mind to a man riding an elephant. The elephant represents the powerful thoughts and feelings -- mostly unconscious -- that drive your behavior. The man, although much weaker, can exert control over the ele-phant, just as you can exert control over negative thoughts and feelings.
“The key is a commitment to doing the things necessary to re-train the elephant,” Haidt says. “And the evidence suggests there’s a lot you can do. It just takes work.”
For example, you can practice meditation, rhythmic breathing, yoga, or relaxation techniques to quell anxiety and promote serenity. You can learn to recognize and challenge thoughts you have about being inadequate and helpless.
“If you learn techniques for identifying negative thoughts, then it’s easier to challenge them,” Haidt said. “Sometimes just reading David Burns’ book, Feeling Good, can have a positive effect.”
Happiness Strategy #5:
Remember, Money Can’t Buy Happiness
Research shows that once income climbs above the poverty level, more money brings very little extra happi-ness. Yet, “we keep assuming that because things aren’t bringing us happiness, they’re the wrong things, rather than recognizing that the pursuit itself is futile,” writes Daniel Gilbert in his book, Stumbling on Happi-ness. “Regardless of what we achieve in the pursuit of stuff, it’s never going to bring about an enduring state of happiness.”
Happiness Strategy #6: Foster Friendship
There are few better antidotes to unhappiness than close friendships with people who care about you, says David G. Myers, author of The Pursuit of Happiness. One Australian study found that people over 70 who had the strongest network of friends lived much longer.
“Sadly, our increasingly individualistic society suffers from impoverished social connections, which some psychologists believe is a cause of today’s epidemic levels of depression,” Myers writes. “The social ties that bind also provide support in difficult times.”
Happiness Strategy #7:
Engage in Meaningful Activities
People are seldom happier, says psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, than when they’re in the “flow.” This is a state in which your mind becomes thoroughly ab-sorbed in a meaningful task that challenges your abili-ties. Yet, he has found that the most common leisure time activity -- watching TV -- produces some of the lowest levels of happiness.
To get more out of life, we need to put more into it, says Csikszentmihalyi. “Active leisure that helps a per-son grow does not come easily,” he writes in Finding Flow. “Each of the flow-producing activities requires an initial investment of attention before it begins to be enjoyable.”
So it turns out that happiness can be a matter of choice -- not just luck. Some people are lucky enough to possess genes that foster happiness. However, cer-tain thought patterns and interpersonal skills definitely help people become an “epicure of experience,” says David Lykken, whose name, in Norwegian, means “the happiness.”
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O F F I C E R R E M E M B E R A N C E F L O R I D A ’ S F A L L E N H E R O E S
Law Enforcement Officers Killed in the Line of Duty in 2007Law Enforcement Officers Killed in the Line of Duty in 2007Law Enforcement Officers Killed in the Line of Duty in 2007
SGT. NICHOLAS G. SOTTILE, Florida Highway Patrol EOW: January 12, 2007 Cause of Death: Gunfire
POLICE OFFICER JOSE SOMOHANO, Miami-Dade Police Department EOW: Thursday, September 13, 2007 Cause of Death: Gunfire
DEPUTY SHERIFF HAROLD MICHAEL (MIKE) ALTMAN Jackson County SO EOW: January 30, 2007 Cause of Death: Gunfire
POLICE OFFICER ALFRED L. GORDON SR., Orlando Police Department, FL EOW: Thursday, October 4, 2007 Cause of Death: Gunfire
LIEUTENANT COREY DAHLEM, Gainesville Police Department EOW: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 Cause of Death: Vehicular Assault
OFFICER SCOTT ERIC BELL, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office EOW: Friday, October 12, 2007 Cause of Death: Vehicular Assault
LIEUTENANT DELMAR TEAGAN, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission EOW: Friday, April 13, 2007 Cause of Death: Automobile Accident
WILDLIFE OFFICER MICHELLE A. LAWLESS Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission EOW: Saturday, October 27, 2007 Cause of Death: Accidental
SERGEANT KARL STROHSAL, Longwood Police Department EOW: Saturday, July 14, 2007 Cause of Death: Struck by Vehicle
DEPUTY SHERIFF PAUL REIN, Broward County Sheriff’s Office EOW: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Cause of Death: Gunfire
SERGEANT CHRISTOPHER REYKA, Broward County Sheriff's Office EOW: Friday, August 10, 2007 Cause of Death: Gunfire
DEPUTY SHERIFF DONTA MANUEL, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office EOW: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Cause of Death: Struck by Vehicle
SERGEANT RON HARRISON, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office EOW: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Cause of Death: Gunfire
DEPUTY SHERIFF JONATHAN WALLACE, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office EOW: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Cause of Death: Struck by Vehicle
RESERVE DEPUTY JOE BILL GALLOWAY Holmes County SO EOW: Monday, August 20, 2007 Cause of Death: Vehicle Pursuit
DEPUTY SHERIFF ROBIN TANNER, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office EOW: Thursday, December 13, 2007 Cause of Death: Automobile Accident
SHERIFF’S EXPLORER GERALD RABON, Lee County SO EOW: Friday, August 31, 2007 Cause of Death: Gunfire
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AGENCIES TO BE REVIEAGENCIES TO BE REVIEAGENCIES TO BE REVIEWEDWEDWED
Ocala Police Department – initial
Plant City Police Department
Sanford Police Department
South Daytona Police Department
DeLand Police Department
Flagler County Sheriff’s Office
Tallahassee Police Department
Florida Highway Patrol
Coral Springs Police Department
Martin County Sheriff’s Office
Hollywood Police Department
Miramar Police Department
Pinecrest Police Department
Plantation Police Department
Palm Beach Police Department
Ft. Pierce Police Department
Alachua County Department
of Court Services
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cover there are more like you.
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CONTRIBUTING AGENCIES Clearwater PD Gulfport PD
Largo PD North Port PD
Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Sumter County Sheriff’s Office
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Monday FCAC 10th Anniversary Reception
Tuesday ROARING 20’S NIGHT A throwback to Prohibition
Wednesday GHOST TOURS
Features a tour of the property with all the ghastly stories of the hotel’s ghoulish history
Thursday WINE DOWN NIGHT
An evening to relax and enjoy quiet conversation with colleagues
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TTHANKHANK YOYOUU... ... on behalf of all the PAC Members
2 0 0 8 C O N F E R E N C E S
PLANTATION GOLF RESORT AND SPA
Crystal River
Oct 5th – 10th
CORAL SPRINGS MARRIOT HOTEL, GOLF CLUB
& CONVENTION CENTER
Coral Springs
June 8th - 13th
The June conference was held in Central Florida. A HUGE THANKS to all the host agencies and committee members.
SEMINOLE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Sgt. David Gray
Catherine Perkins
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT Lt. Chuck Stansel
Cheryl Turner
CASSELBERRY POLICE DEPARTMENT Karen Gilbert
LAKE MARY POLICE DEPARTMENT
Sgt. John Woods Jeanne Appel
MAITLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT
Peter Loomis Richard Gleick
ORLANDO POLICE DEPARTMENT
Lt. Sue Manney Sgt. Russ Waters
Inspector Diego Toruno
OVIEDO POLICE DEPARTMENT Officer Debra Jacobs
SANFORD POLICE DEPARTMENT
Jim Krazenski Chuck Wood
WINTER SPRINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT
Lt. Kevin Presley Corporal Danny Accomondo
WINTER PARK POLICE DEPARTMENT
Lt. Tom Pearson Sgt. Pam Marcum
Seminole County Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard
Chief Ball Winter Park PD
Chief Pavlis Casselberry PD