Chief Jailer Colonel Mark Adger of the Fulton County
after an intensive two weeks of public safety leadership
training with Israel’s top police executives. He trained in Israel
with 13 Georgia police chiefs and command staff, a commander
inspector and executives from the Georgia State Patrol, Stone
Mountain Park and the Georgia Command College.
Colonel Adger was in a 21-member delegation of senior
Carolina, participating in the Georgia International Law
Enforcement Exchange’s (GILEE) 27th annual peer-to-peer
training program in partnership with Israel. While there, the
delegates were shown best practices and the latest technologies in
policing and public safety.
A highlight for Colonel Mark Adger was the opportunity to
tour a prison training facility in Israel. Colonel Adger said, “This
trip to Israel allowed me to see many things that enhanced my
perspective on American law enforcement. It was a great personal
and professional experience.”
The focus again this year was community policing, a policy and
control, reduced fear of crime, improved quality of life, improved
police services and police legitimacy, through a proactive reliance
on community resources that seeks to change crime-causing
conditions.
Community policing assumes a need
for greater accountability of police,
a greater public share in decisionmaking
and a greater concern for
civil rights and liberties, according to
Robbie Friedmann, who formulated
Georgia State University and GILEE’s
founding director, he led this year’s
delegation.
Sheriff Ted Jackson has traveled
to Israel for the same training with
the GILEE program along with three other members of his top
command staff over the years. More than 770 public safety
Israel. Nearly 35,000 have attended additional GILEE trainings,
world.
“Our GILEE delegates return with new ways of developing,
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collaborating on and using strategies to minimize the production
of crime and terrorism,” said GILEE executive director Steve
Heaton. “In GILEE’s 27 years, many of these graduates have
gone on to serve in key leadership roles in Georgia and beyond.”
GILEE is a research unit within Georgia State’s Andrew Young
School of Policy Studies. It enhances public safety by nurturing
existing and new partnerships within and across public agencies
and the private sector. It has received multiple awards and honors,
including the Special Service Award from the Georgia Association
of Chiefs of Police and the Georgia Governor’s Public Safety
Award.
“I believe GILEE offers one of the best leadership development
training programs globally,” said Donald De Lucca, a three-time
police chief and past president of the International Association
of Chiefs of Police (IACP), in a recent letter to GILEE. “The
inside look and hands-on learning provide executives with a
broader view of some of the best practices available to the police
profession.”
In fact, several U.S. and international professional policing
associations and academic institutions have written this year in
professional development. You can learn more about the GILEE
at gilee.gsu.edu.
Above and
right: Colonel
Adger and
members of
the delegation
trips to critical
sites as part of
the educational
exchange
program.
(Photo courtesy
of GILEE)
Colonel Mark Adger
(right) displays an FCSO
patch he brought with
him on the leadership
training trip to Israel.
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