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LEAPS
Dallas
LEAPS Chairman Marieta B. Oglesby, CSM, CPM
Security/Property Management Consultant
Defenbaugh & Associates, Inc.
8111 LBJ Freeway, Suite 1100 � Dallas, Texas 75251
972/560-6488 � 972/233-7358 Fax � 214/212-9404 Cell
[email protected]
� www.dannydefenbaugh.com
LEAPS-Dallas held a general meeting April 18 at the Dallas Police Department Headquarters. Our speaker discussed and explained the Metro Operations Support and Analytical Intelligence Center Fusion Center which will allow private security and law enforcement in North Texas to exchange information on a real-time basis. The presentation was designed to help those security managers/owners understand the Dallas Police Department�s Fusion Center. Most everyone involved with private security wanted to find out how to become part of this program. We were given a demonstration of the Fusion Center and questions were answered on how your company can be one of the first partners. The Fusion Center is designed to accept and disseminate information. Private security has been identified as one of the �pods� that will be linked to this center. Never before has there been anything like this Center. It is a regional operation, so those of you that conduct business anywhere in North Texas will want to explore how your company will handle the notifications that originate from this center. Does your current technology work? How will we benefit? Will my company pass the verification process? How do I explain this system to my clients?
Press releases are included below. You can contact the LEAPS Coordinator, Officer Keith Allen, with any questions.
The Dallas Police Department unveiled the new Metro Operations Support and Analytical Intelligence Center Fusion Center last month at the Jack Evans Police Headquarters building. The MOSAIC Fusion Center will serve as an information and intelligence-hub for the department to begin proactive intelligence-led policing efforts. The MOSAIC Fusion Center was created with the use of a $1.5 million dollar grant from the Department of Homeland Security.
Dallas is in the process of creating an intelligence command center that will allow officers to search through all 28 of Dallas� police databases, ranging from narcotics and homicide to traffic tickets, in one easy to use system. The Metro Operations Support and Analytical Intelligence Center, also know as the Fusion Center, will unify police information for the entire city and will help police identify the biggest threats and most dangerous criminals. This type of information unification is part of a new type of policing called �intelligence-led policing� that was first developed in Great Britain and has been used with great success. Similar systems are in use in New York, Los Angeles, and New Jersey, where last summer the system identified four gang members from different cities on a routine traffic stop, that normally might have gone unnoticed, helping analysis determine that the Nine Tre gang was more widespread and sophisticated then previously thought. This information helped lead to the arrest of 90 gang members, including the entire leadership of the gang.
LEAPS-Dallas has also completed our annual review of our bylaws and have everything updated for this year. Our 2007 calendar of workshops is posted on the website,
www.leaps.us.
In March, Kevin Thomas had to step down from treasurer due to increased business responsibilities. Howard Ford moved from secretary to treasurer and Brad Hellums will retain his position has website manager and will also hold the role of secretary.
The Texas Private Security Board has authorized continuing education credits for seven of the 10 workshops that LEAPS Workshops presently cover. What this means to you is that if you attend the LEAPS Workshops you will receive a certificate worth credits toward your mandatory continuing education credits for the Texas Private Security Board. Once the remaining three workshops have been updated, we will present them to TPSB for mandatory continuing education credits also. Larry Reagan, Vice Chair of LEAPS-Dallas coordinated this milestone.
The seven workshops presently approved are:
Crime Scene Preservation
Criminal Trespass and
Suspicious Persons
Homeland Security Update
Laws of Arrest
Search and Seizure in the Workplace
Thefts and Burglaries
Verified Response
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