WELCOME FROM PRESIDENT BEJARANO
Dear CPCA Members:
Welcome to the Winter 2015 edition of our magazine, California Police Chief. Our
magazine highlights some new programs and innovative successes our member
agencies have experienced and may be of great benefit for other agencies.
Since our Legislative Day in June, our focus has been on legislative issues
and those will be highlighted in our “Cal Chiefs at the Capitol” column. Our
legislative team did a great job of advocating on our issues, and we are happy
to announce that we have expanded that team with the hiring of Jonathan
Feldman, as our in-house lobbyist. Jonathan joins our Legislative Affairs
Manager, Lauren Michaels and our Senior Policy Advisor, John Lovell in
rounding out the team. They will be working closely with the Law & Legislative
Committee and our leadership in developing our legislative priorities for the
coming year.
The past few months also saw the formation of some new Emerging Issues
Workgroups, to include, Recruiting, Homelessness and Mental Illness and
Public Perception in the Media. These workgroups are meeting regularly and
engaged on delivering resources to our members in these areas. As new issues
arise, we will continue to respond by developing additional workgroups whose
scope of work will benefit our members.
We celebrated the 10th Anniversary of our Women Leaders in Law Enforcement
Training Symposium in November and had more than 700 attendees. We
will be celebrating Cal Chiefs’ 50th Anniversary during our Annual Training
Symposium in Ontario March 13-17, 2016. I hope to see many of you there. I also
want to acknowledge the work of our Technology Committee who is planning
our 1st Annual Technology Summit, January 14th in Sunnyvale. We expect all
120 available spots for this summit to be filled.
Your participation and engagement help set us apart as an association. Thank
you for the critical role you play in making Cal Chiefs the voice of and resource
of choice for California’s municipal police chiefs.
Sincerely,
David Bejarano, President
California Police Chiefs Association
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