OARPO - Board meeting - 2004-07-17

OARPO Board Meeting

Date, time, location

Saturday 17 July 2004, 09:30 to ~11:00
Tualitin Police Department

Attendance

Meeting minutes

ELECTIONS

The By-Laws and Ballots will be emailed out to current OARPO members for voting and nominations. This information will be sent out in a separate email. The voting will take place at the next Board meeting in September.

****If you, or someone you know is interested in a position on the board, please turn in your nomination as soon as possible*****

Nominations for Regional Representatives:

• Mark Meister, Lincoln County SO
• Bill Miller, Umatilla County SO
• Don Swift, Redmond PD

TRAINING

The next OARPO sponsored training

EVOC at Corvallis airport
Saturday September 11, 2004 0900 to 1700
There is a limit of 30 students
Lunch is provided by OARPO
$30.00 per student
Students should bring their own patrol car and provide their own fuel

EVOC Instructors for this class:
Greg Pickering, Tigard PD
Mark Gardner, Tualatin PD
Brent Schneider, Tualatin PD
Dan Jacober, Sherwood PD
Don Scott, Benton County SO

***There are still 10 (ten) slots open***

If you are interested in this class or other trainings, or if you would like to be an instructor for a class, please contact Sgt. Royanne Mathiesen at Tualatin PD 503-691-4852

Future training:

Agency Assistance Needed

Washington County Air Show needs reserves to help out.

West Linn Old Fashioned Fair

LEGISLATIVE CHANGES

Chief Grace attended the meeting, and brought the following information back from the Oregon Association Chief's of Police.

Committee Review & Suggestions

Members meeting this morning agree that having a classification of Certified Reserve Officer sounds reasonable and we liked the basic concept being proposal by the OARPO. We would be happy to meet with you and discuss our suggestions if requested. With that in mind, we make the following suggestions that might be included in your definitions or guidelines.

1. Regular reserve officer status I classification should remain open to individual agencies and per local regional standards.
   This means that agencies and reserve officers are hired based on acceptable standards as determined within any local area, and that the Certified Reserve Officer status is a goal and not an expectation for employment. Many agencies employ career reserve officers who have no intention of full-time police work.
2. Certified Reserve Officer (CRO) status I classification must meet State / OAR / DPSST standards and be optional for agencies, regions, and individual reserve officers.
   Reserve officers seeking to become a CRO must meet the required 84 training hours every three years standard and all other requirements should parallel those established for a full-time police officer. This would add creditability and could be a starting point for a CRO interested in obtaining employment as a full-time police officer. The CRO would only need to attend a 2-week "refresher" academy and not the full 10 / 16 week academy when hired full-time, This would translate into cost savings for agencies statewide and reduce the time it takes to hire full-time officers. Note: Adding a grandfather clause would require a system of checks & balances to ensure uniformity and maintain CRO standards.
3. CRO must have the endorsement of the Chief or Sheriff employing the reserve officer.
   The may screen out those person9s) who are long-term reserve officers, have numerous training hours, are not fully participating in their program, but want the certification.
4. Local agencies may set additional standards for advancement and/or require that the reserve officer complete FTEP.
   This gives the employing agency the ability to ensure the reserve officer is fully functional and meeting the standard based on merit and not longevity.
   
   Next Step
   
   • Chiefs reserve certification committee gives OARPO feedback on their proposal
   • OARPO returns proposal to Chiefs reserve certification committee
   • Chiefs submit OARPO proposal to the Oregon Chief of Police Association executive Board for endorsement consideration

Thank you Chief Grace for your help with this issue, and your presence at the OARPO Board meeting.

The OARPO Board is working on getting backing from OSSA, OPOA and DPSST.

Thank you Bill Miller for attending the meeting, and volunteering to be a Regional Representative for your area of the State (Umatilla County SO).

Bill also brought some training information to our attention

Cole Hughes
Law Enforcement Program Representative
cole <dot> hughes <at> state <dot> or <dot> us
503-373-1405 x 245

St. Petersburg College "If you are a law enforcement officer anywhere in the United States, please visit the web site at www.mctft.com to check out the new eDrug Training offered by the Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training Program at St. Petersburg College" "Apply once, then register for classes whenever you like. eDrug Training is available virtually anywhere, anytime. Our courses are interactive, self-paced, independent study (no instructor), and we offer a Certificate of Completion upon successful navigation of the course"

Available courses include: Airport Narcotics Investigations, Introduction to Clandestine Laboratory Investigations, Command and Control Overview, Criminal Street Gangs Overview, Drug Identification, Introduction to Interview & Interrogation, Introduction to Patrol Drug Investigations, Police Intelligence. To name a few.

Next meeting

Sat 18 Sep 2004, 09:30, Tualatin PD

Original agenda

(don't have copy)