At CPI, we believe that opportunities for leadership training should be available at every juncture of your public safety career. That’s why we start with an intensive program for future leaders—and continue to offer cutting-edge, holistic training for sergeants, lieutenants, and beyond.
This course is specifically geared toward civilian supervisors. This 5-day, 40-hour course highlights include: material in the core content areas of decision-making, communication, management, and leadership.
$550 per person
Date - Registration Closed
Location - Center for Brain Health, 2200 W Mockingbird Ln, Dallas, TX 75235
This 80-hour course is specifically designed to address issues that front-line supervisors may encounter in all stages of their careers. The 2-week program includes but is not limited to the following topics: critical incident stress identification, an assessment from A Deeper Way to identify leadership potential and growth, training on nutrition and fitness, mental health, practical instruction on leadership, career development, leadership transitions, procedural justice, current topics in police leadership, conflict resolutions, and stress solutions and mental flexibility training from UTD's Center for Brain Health. Upon completion of the course, students are eligible for 80 hours of TCOLE credit. *The program meets TCOLE's 3737 requirements.
$850 per person
Date - Registration Closed
Location - Center for Brain Health, 2200 W Mockingbird Ln, Dallas, TX 75235
This course is designed for newly promoted police lieutenants or lieutenants seeking to enhance their leadership development. This one-week, 40-hour, course emphasizes foundational leadership considerations, including: communication; motivation; planning and decision-making; political management and public testimony; legal issues; a Use of Force Case Study presented by a recognized subject matter expert, future trends in police organizations; policing technology; building trust; policing a diverse society; evidence-based and intelligence-led policing and ethics.
Register Now$550 per person
Date - July 17-21, 2023
Location - UNT Dallas, 7300 University Hills Blvd, Dallas, TX 75241
This advanced leadership course is designed for upper command-level police leaders. The course, which was designed by a board of police chiefs from across the state, requires an application for attendance. Course materials focus heavily on skills needed for success at the top tier of police organizations. Modules include a practical focus on community policing programs; advanced topics in servant leadership; advanced communication with the public, the media, city councils, and political stakeholders; Constitutional law; employment law and human resource practices; crisis management; public value; procedural justice; and accountability in leadership. The course requires a problem-focused course deliverable and presentation, as well as selected readings.
$895 per person | Currently not registering
This course is for patrol officers, senior corporals, and detectives and requires an application for admission. The two-week course (80 hrs.) is intended for those who wish to develop their leadership skills as informal leaders or as they seek eventual promotion to supervisory/executive ranks. The course includes an emphasis on followership; communication; conflict resolution; personal health and wellness; career development; 21st Century Policing; procedural justice; and the future of policing.
$865 per person | Registration Closed
Date - April 3-7, 2023; April 17-21, 2023
Location - Center for Brain Health, 2200 W Mockingbird Ln, Dallas, TX 75235
An intensive, two-day class that centers on effective communication within police organizations; city councils and commissioners courts, public testimony, communications with the community; live, recorded, and print media; and with political stakeholders. Each course will have an in-class practicum required for completion.
$250 per person | Currently not registering
Resources for families of first responder, including panels and presentations around mental health; resiliency; financial planning; wellness; and more.
Financial assistance is available. Please reach out to cpi@untdallas.edu for details.
$125 per person | Currently not registering