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2002 NCWP Conference Agenda

Featured Speakers

Tuesday - April 30, 2002

2:00pm Registration Opens
2:30pm Advisory Board & Regional Representative Meeting
6:30pm Lifetime Achievement & Breaking the Glass Ceiling Awards Ceremony
Held at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington Cemetery
Keynote Speaker: Brigadier General Wilma Vaught (Ret.), U.S. Air Force

Wednesday - May 1, 2002

Advancing Women's Opportunities in Law Enforcement

9:00am Welcome & Conference Overview
  Chief Penny Harrington, Founder, NCWP
Chief Ramsey, Metropolitan Police Department
  SAIC Margaret Moore, Director, NCWP
9:45am Fundamentalism, Terrorism and the Threat to Women's Rights
 

Eleanor Smeal, President, Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF)

10:15am Break
10:45am New Developments Impacting Women in Law Enforcement: Legal, Research & Leadership Initiatives
 

SAIC Margaret Moore, Director, NCWP
Katherine Spillar, Executive Vice President, FMF
Chief Penny Harrington, Founder, NCWP
Colonel Deborah Campbell, New York State Police
Deputy Sheriff Cande Ackler, Sacramento Co. Sheriff's Office
Lt. Margaret Mimms, Fresno Co. Sheriff's Department

11:45am Understanding How Organizations Change
 

Kathleen O'Toole, President, O'Toole Associates,
former Secretary of Public Safety for Massachusetts

12:30pm Lunch (on your own)
2:00pm Tearing Down the Wall: The Myth of Physical Prowess
 

Sharyn Tejani, Legal Director, FMF
Michael Churchill, Attorney, Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia
Chief Kay Baldwin, U.S. Department of Justice

3:00pm Challenges to Organizational Change
 

Chief Penny Harrington, Founder, NCWP
Eleanor Smeal, President, FMF

3:30pm

Breakout Sessions:
Accelerating Change for Women in Law Enforcement

  • State Police Session
  • Sheriffs/Corrections Session
  • Municipal/Local Session
  • Federal Agencies/Special Police
  • Civilian/Professional Support

Thursday - May 2, 2002

Countering Religious Terrorism in the United States and Globally

9:00am Domestic & International Religious Terrorism: An Overview
Who Are the Terrorists
Domestic & International Terrorism: Patterns & Parallels

Katherine Spillar, Executive Vice President, FMF

Drugs and Terrorism: Use of Drugs to Finance Domestic & International Terrorism

Ethan Nadelman, Executive Director, Lindesmith Center

Protecting Civil Liberties while Fighting Terrorism

Juliette Kayyem, Professor, Harvard University

10:30am Break
11:00am Preparing & Responding to Terrorist Attacks

SAIC Margaret Moore, Director, NCWP
Congresswoman Jane Harman
John Magaw, Undersecretary, Department of Transportation
Chief Edward Flynn, Arlington County Police Department
Chief Charles Ramsey, Metropolitan D.C. Police Department

1:00pm Lunch (on your own)
2:15pm Update on the Violence Against Women Office
 

Diane Stuart, Director, VAWO

2:45pm Showing of NOW LDEF Film "Women at Ground Zero"
3:00pm Break
3:30pm

Breakout Sessions:

  • Home-Grown Terrorism: The Army of God, Militias and Christian Identity Groups & Implications for Law Enforcement
  • Chemical and Bio-terrorism
  • Public/Private Partnerships in Combating Terrorism & Promoting Community Policing
  • Planning a Domestic Response to Terrorist Attacks
7:00pm Networking Reception at the Australian Embassy

Friday - May 3, 2002

Best Practices in Community Policing

9:00am New Information on DNA Evidence
 

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney
Sharyn Tejani, Legal Director, FMF

Humane Encounters with the Mentally Ill and Disabled

Susan Herman, National Center for Victims of Crime
Chief Penny Harrington, Founder, NCWP
Major Sam Cochran, Memphis Police Department
Dr. Lorraine Green, Nashville Police Department

10:45am Break
11am Breakout Sessions
  • Deaf Citizens/Suspects
  • Best Training Programs for Officers on Police Response to Mentally Ill
  • Disabled Citizens/Suspects
  • Establishing a Coordinated Response to the Mentally Ill
12:30pm Box Lunch
2:00pm Special Tribute Ceremony:
"A Celebration of the Contributions of Women in Law Enforcement"
Held at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Foundation

Saturday - May 4, 2002

10:00am - 4:00pm

Special Training Programs (Lunch Break: 12:30pm-2:00pm)

  • Strategies for Career Success
  • Preparing for Assessment Centers
  • Investigating Sexual Assault by Acquaintances
  • Recruiting & Retaining Women for Law Enforcement
  • New Technology and Policing
  • Tools for Tolerance for Law Enforcement
  • 7:00pm An Evening of Comedy

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