Page 7 - Second Annual EPIC Conference Brochure

President Jenerio Sanders
PRESIDENT
Jenerio Sanders, Commander New Orleans Police Department jsanders@nola.gov
1st VICEPRESIDENT
Ceasar Ruffin, Commander New Orleans Police Department ccruffin@nola.gov
2nd VICE PRESIDENT
Shannon Brewer, Instructor New Orleans Police Department shjones@nola.gov
RECORDING SECRETARY
Tracy G. Raney, Detective New Orleans Police Department tgraney@nola.gov
FINANCIAL SECRETARY
Kim Lewis-Williams, Lieutenant
New Orleans Police Department kiwilliams@nola.gov
TREASURER
Gina Cousin, Sergeant New Orleans Police Department gicousin@nola.gov
PARLIAMENTARIAN
Ernest Rieux, Special Agent LA DPSC Probation & Parole ejrieux@yahoo.com
SGT-AT-ARMS
Keith Joseph, Lieutenant New Orleans Police Department kjoseph@nola.gov
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF BLACK LAW ENFORCEMENT EXECUTIVES NEW ORLEANS METROPOLITAN CHAPTER
Dear Conference Attendees:
On behalf of the members of the New Orleans Metropolitan Chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, I welcome you to New Orleans and to the second annual New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) EPIC Police Peer Intervention Leadership Conference. NOBLE was founded in September 1976, to provide black law enforcement executives a unified voice regarding issues impacting the criminal justice system. Since that time, NOBLE has dedicated its energies to ensuring equality in the administration of justice and in the provision of public service to all communities. We are thrilled to lend the same energy to NOPD’s EPIC program.
EPIC is at the same time, both simple and bold. It takes what many of us have done for years (that is, take action to prevent mistakes and misconduct before they occur), and gives us a more effective way of doing things. By teaching practical intervention strategies and tactics, EPIC turns passive bystanders into active bystanders, and active bystanders into more effective active bystanders. In the end, everyone wins — civilians, police officers, our departments, and our profession in general.
This year, the NOPD has expanded its EPIC initiative to incorporate a greater focus on officer health and wellness. We call this the “third leg” of the EPIC stool (the three legs being preventing mistakes, preventing misconduct, and promoting officer health and wellness). We all are aware of the sad trend in police officer health and wellness data over the past decade. Indeed, police suicides now outnumber line of duty deaths. We in the NOPD are optimistic that by empowering officers to recognize potential problems and to step in and do something about them before they become real problems, we can help turn around that disturbing trend.
NOBLE is proud to join Loyola University New Orleans School of Law and other community supporters as a sponsor of NOPD’s second annual EPIC Leadership Conference. We are proud of our NOPD colleagues for the trail we are blazing in the area of police peer intervention. And we are proud of our Department and our City for supporting our efforts in that regard.
So please enjoy the conference and enjoy our New Orleans hospitality. And perhaps we will see some of you back here again in August for NOBLE’s 43rd annual Training Conference and Exhibit.
Commander Jenerio Sanders, NOPD President, New Orleans Metropolitan Chapter
P.O. BOX 871643, NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA 70127 Noblenola2018@gmail.com
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