RCTPS is designed to create, expand, and sustain community policing initiatives across the country. This course, developed by the Western Community Policing Institute and the National Native American Law Enforcement Association, is designed to provide initial awareness-level training. Participants in this training serve as representatives for their community/region, by providing useful feedback regarding the issues, problems, resources, and existing initiatives within their region.
The course consists of topics including: Principles of Community Policing, Cultural and Tribal Sovereignty, Problem Solving, Regional Collaborative Partnerships, MOU/MOA Agreements, Stakeholders, and Law: PL-638 and PL-280. The course will provide participants with an understanding of the information and structure needed to begin regional Tribal collaboration between multiple sectors, jurisdictions, regions, and states; an understanding of how to build relationships and cooperative capabilities; specific instruction
in partnerships/team building, problem solving, and applicable organizational transformation to effectively use community policing principles in regional collaboration to solve cross
jurisdictional crime and livability issues; and instruction on overcoming cultural issues by focusing on what partners have in common rather than how they are different, identifying stakeholders, the need for regional collaboration, first steps to regional collaboration efforts, and how to develop MOUs and MOAs.