March 2025
Dear Members and Friends –
Your Washington State Crime Prevention Association has been hard at work. We want to share some brief highlights with you.
Basic Crime Prevention Course
Your Washington State Crime Prevention Association has been hard at work. We want to share some brief highlights with you.
Basic Crime Prevention Course
Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course Class, Marysville, WA February 28, 2025
We want to thank those that attended our basic Crime Prevention Certification Course the last week of February. It was great to have attendees from across Washington State – and from Oregon – at our training. A huge thank you to Snohomish County Sherrif’s Office for hosting us.
WSCPA Board in Action!
WSCPA Board in Action!
WSCPA Board, Leavenworth, WA March 5, 2025
Our Crime Prevention Board is working hard to support our mission of preventing crime, reducing criminal opportunities, and protecting communities across Washington! At our recent board retreat in Leavenworth, we updated the Association Bylaws, instituted a Conflict-of-Interest policy, mapped out the Crime Prevention Thursday offerings for the remainder of 2025 (please see below), reviewed training curriculum to make improvements, and discussed exciting plans for the future, including outreach and collaboration with other Crime prevention Associations throughout North America. Stay Tuned!
Upcoming training and events - mark your calendars and register!
Crime Prevention Thursday
As mentioned above, we have the schedule set for Crime Prevention Thursday for the remainder of calendar year 2025. Her’s what we have on tap for you (subject to change):
CPTED Certification Course
We will be holding our next Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Certification Course May 13-15, 2025. We will be hosted by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries at their Tumwater, WA campus. Upon completion of this training, you will be certified by the Washington State Crime Prevention Association as a CPTED-Trained Professional. Thank you to those who have already registered for the course. We still have some slots left. If you are interested in attending this training, please register here.
47th Annual Conference
Save the Date: September 16-18th, 2025, Vancouver, WA. We have our conference committee hard at work crafting the conference format. Are you interested in being a presenter at our annual conference this September? We are still working on our agenda and would love to hear your ideas. Please reach out to us directly. (More details and registration coming soon.)
Online Training
We have made some changes in how folks can register for our online training. Moving forward, please send requests to enroll to this email ([email protected]). This will enable us to streamline the registration process.
Dues Reminder
Our Association relies on membership dues to keep our operations running. Thank you to those individuals and agencies that have renewed their memberships. To those who have yet to renew, please do so ASAP so there is no lapse in your benefits. You can renew (or join!) here. Your renewal or new membership will carry through the 2025 calendar year.
Facebook and LinkedIn Pages
Please like and follow our new Facebook and LinkedIn pages as we expand our social media presence. Your support is greatly appreciated in helping us reach a wider audience. Thank you for spreading the word!
Thank you for all you do in your communities. Until next time, Take Care and Stay Safe!
Mark
Upcoming training and events - mark your calendars and register!
Crime Prevention Thursday
As mentioned above, we have the schedule set for Crime Prevention Thursday for the remainder of calendar year 2025. Her’s what we have on tap for you (subject to change):
- March 20th – Networking Check-in: "Cracking the Code: Crime Trends, Challenges & Solutions for Prevention"
- April 17th – Spokane Real Time Crime Center
- May – Skip (CPTED Training in Tumwater)
- June 12th – National Night Out/Night Out Against Crime/Summer Engagement Events
- July 17th – Flock: Law Enforcement and/or Community Applications
- August 21st– "Insight to Impact: How Crime Analysts Empower Crime Prevention Efforts" with Abby Elliott, Crime Analyst for Renton Police Department
- September – Skip (Conference in Vancouver)
- October 16th– Washington Organized Retail Crime Association
- November 20th– Scams and Fraud
- December – Skip (Holiday Break)
CPTED Certification Course
We will be holding our next Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Certification Course May 13-15, 2025. We will be hosted by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries at their Tumwater, WA campus. Upon completion of this training, you will be certified by the Washington State Crime Prevention Association as a CPTED-Trained Professional. Thank you to those who have already registered for the course. We still have some slots left. If you are interested in attending this training, please register here.
47th Annual Conference
Save the Date: September 16-18th, 2025, Vancouver, WA. We have our conference committee hard at work crafting the conference format. Are you interested in being a presenter at our annual conference this September? We are still working on our agenda and would love to hear your ideas. Please reach out to us directly. (More details and registration coming soon.)
Online Training
We have made some changes in how folks can register for our online training. Moving forward, please send requests to enroll to this email ([email protected]). This will enable us to streamline the registration process.
Dues Reminder
Our Association relies on membership dues to keep our operations running. Thank you to those individuals and agencies that have renewed their memberships. To those who have yet to renew, please do so ASAP so there is no lapse in your benefits. You can renew (or join!) here. Your renewal or new membership will carry through the 2025 calendar year.
Facebook and LinkedIn Pages
Please like and follow our new Facebook and LinkedIn pages as we expand our social media presence. Your support is greatly appreciated in helping us reach a wider audience. Thank you for spreading the word!
Thank you for all you do in your communities. Until next time, Take Care and Stay Safe!
Mark
January 2025
Dear Members and Friends –
We hope you had a wonderful Winter Holiday and a happy and safe New Year. Welcome to 2025!
For our January Message, we wanted to give a shout out and provide you with a few reminders.
Renton Police Department’s Battle of the Badges
I have to say, Renton’s Battle of the Badges event was a blast! There were so many great displays, and it was good to see so many familiar faces. For those that participated, you did a fantastic job. For those who attended for the fun of it, I hope you found it to be as cool of an event as I did. If you look in the dictionary for Community Engagement, this event is the definition of it.
And in case you were wondering, the 2024 Battle of the Badges: Holidays Lights winners are…
🏆 1st Place (The BIG Trophy): South Correctional Entity, A Hogwarts Holiday
✨ Clark Griswold Award: Issaquah Police Department, A Harry Potter Holiday
🎨 Festive Innovation: Renton Regional Fire Authority, Elf Academy
🎄 Holiday Spirit Award: King County 4x4 Search & Rescue, Over the River & Through the Woods (Presented by the Renton Chamber of Commerce)
Excellent job to all the participants and especially to the organizers. Stephanie Hynes, and the rest of the Renton Crew (Sandra Havlik, Zoe Birbeck) you outdid yourselves!
40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course
Our next 40-hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course February 24-28, 2025. We will be hosted by the Snohomish County Sherrif’s Office at their North Precinct in Marysville, WA. There are still training slots available, but we will cap the class to 30 participants, so please reserve your spot soon. Please share with those inside your agency (or with another agency) that would like to - or need to - receive this training. To register for this training, please go here.
CPTED Certification Course
We will be holding our next Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Certification Course May 13-15, 2025. We will be hosted by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries at their Tumwater, WA campus. Upon completion of this training, you will be certified by the Washington State Crime Prevention Association as a CPTED-Trained Professional. Registration is live and you can register for this training here.
Annual Crime Prevention Conference
Our 47th Annual Crime Prevention Conference will be September 16-18, 2025, at the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver, WA. A conference committee has been convened, and we are actively drafting the format and content for the conference. We have a very diverse conference committee, with representation for major metropolitan, suburban and rural law enforcement agencies, corporate loss prevention, school safety and security, and Federal community engagement. We are interested in your input and want to know what you want and need from our 2025 conference. Please share your thoughts with us by emailing us directly.
Crime Prevention Thursday
Our next Crime Prevention Thursday will be January 16th, 2025, at 11am via Zoom. Please join us to learn about HiveWatch. HiveWatch is an end-to-end Security Operations Management Platform built for corporate physical security teams to enhance their existing security technologies. HiveWatch was created to solve some of the industry's biggest challenges with features such as false alarm reduction, tailgate detection, local emergency services dispatch, and device health monitoring. Users are also able to store critical information and assets such as SOPs, site snapshots, and facilities/floor plans. Scott Callens from HiveWatch will present this information. To register for this session, please go here.
Dues Reminder
Our Association relies on membership dues to keep our operations running. Thank you to those individuals and agencies that have renewed their memberships. To those who have yet to renew, please do so by the end of January 2025 so there is no lapse in your benefits. You can renew (or join!) here. Your renewal or new membership will carry through the 2025 calendar year.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. Be Well and Stay Safe!
Mark
We hope you had a wonderful Winter Holiday and a happy and safe New Year. Welcome to 2025!
For our January Message, we wanted to give a shout out and provide you with a few reminders.
Renton Police Department’s Battle of the Badges
I have to say, Renton’s Battle of the Badges event was a blast! There were so many great displays, and it was good to see so many familiar faces. For those that participated, you did a fantastic job. For those who attended for the fun of it, I hope you found it to be as cool of an event as I did. If you look in the dictionary for Community Engagement, this event is the definition of it.
And in case you were wondering, the 2024 Battle of the Badges: Holidays Lights winners are…
🏆 1st Place (The BIG Trophy): South Correctional Entity, A Hogwarts Holiday
✨ Clark Griswold Award: Issaquah Police Department, A Harry Potter Holiday
🎨 Festive Innovation: Renton Regional Fire Authority, Elf Academy
🎄 Holiday Spirit Award: King County 4x4 Search & Rescue, Over the River & Through the Woods (Presented by the Renton Chamber of Commerce)
Excellent job to all the participants and especially to the organizers. Stephanie Hynes, and the rest of the Renton Crew (Sandra Havlik, Zoe Birbeck) you outdid yourselves!
40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course
Our next 40-hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course February 24-28, 2025. We will be hosted by the Snohomish County Sherrif’s Office at their North Precinct in Marysville, WA. There are still training slots available, but we will cap the class to 30 participants, so please reserve your spot soon. Please share with those inside your agency (or with another agency) that would like to - or need to - receive this training. To register for this training, please go here.
CPTED Certification Course
We will be holding our next Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Certification Course May 13-15, 2025. We will be hosted by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries at their Tumwater, WA campus. Upon completion of this training, you will be certified by the Washington State Crime Prevention Association as a CPTED-Trained Professional. Registration is live and you can register for this training here.
Annual Crime Prevention Conference
Our 47th Annual Crime Prevention Conference will be September 16-18, 2025, at the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver, WA. A conference committee has been convened, and we are actively drafting the format and content for the conference. We have a very diverse conference committee, with representation for major metropolitan, suburban and rural law enforcement agencies, corporate loss prevention, school safety and security, and Federal community engagement. We are interested in your input and want to know what you want and need from our 2025 conference. Please share your thoughts with us by emailing us directly.
Crime Prevention Thursday
Our next Crime Prevention Thursday will be January 16th, 2025, at 11am via Zoom. Please join us to learn about HiveWatch. HiveWatch is an end-to-end Security Operations Management Platform built for corporate physical security teams to enhance their existing security technologies. HiveWatch was created to solve some of the industry's biggest challenges with features such as false alarm reduction, tailgate detection, local emergency services dispatch, and device health monitoring. Users are also able to store critical information and assets such as SOPs, site snapshots, and facilities/floor plans. Scott Callens from HiveWatch will present this information. To register for this session, please go here.
Dues Reminder
Our Association relies on membership dues to keep our operations running. Thank you to those individuals and agencies that have renewed their memberships. To those who have yet to renew, please do so by the end of January 2025 so there is no lapse in your benefits. You can renew (or join!) here. Your renewal or new membership will carry through the 2025 calendar year.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. Be Well and Stay Safe!
Mark
December 2024
Dear Members and Friends –
We hope you had a great Thanksgiving Holiday. As we approach the end of 2024, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on what we’ve been able to accomplish together this past year. We will then highlight what we have in store for you in 2025.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Training:
We were able to hold two CPTED certification trainings, one in Spokane in April and one in Renton in May. The Renton training was specifically for key management staff for the City of Renton. Renton’s Mayor has made incorporating CPTED into City thinking and planning a priority. I feel we may have the opportunity to do additional training with them and want to make that opportunity open to other municipalities.
Crime Prevention Thursday
We held nine Crime Prevention Thursday Sessions. Subjects ranged from presentations from the National Insurance Crime Bureau, the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Community Engagement Program, Project iGuardian, a discussion on Swatting hoaxes and appropriate responses, as well as our periodic check in with our Crime Prevention and Community Engagement Specialists from around the state. The sessions that were recorded (not all were, depending on subject matter) are available for viewing via the Members Only section on our website. Additionally, we were joined by partners from other states, including Michigan and Oregon.
Annual Crime Prevention Conference
We had a successful statewide in-person Crime Prevention Conference in Wenatchee in September. We were fortunate to have both Tessa Gorman, US Attorney for Western Washington, and Vanessa Waldref, US Attorney for Eastern Washington, as our Keynote speakers. The focus of our conference was to provide information on programs and plans that you can take back and implement in your communities. Based on the feedback we received from those of you who attended, we will continue this focus at future conferences.
Online Implicit Bias Training
We continue to offer online our “Identifying and Adapting Your Bias” Training on our Moodle training platform. We want to give a special acknowledgement to WSCPA member Jim Baylor, who teaches at Clover Park Technical College, for encouraging his students to take this training. To date, over 100 Clover Park students have successfully completed this course.
Before we delve into our plans for 2025, I want to give a special shout out to a community engagement event and some training opportunities.
Renton Police Department’s Battle of the Badges
Renton PD will be holding their annual Battle of the Badges event on December 14th, 2024, at Renton Technical College. As of this writing, over 30 agencies and departments have registered to participate. For those who haven’t seen the video about this event, you can watch it here. Check out City of Renton’s webpage here for more information, or contact our colleague Stephanie Hynes here.
Free DHS CP3 Trainings
Additionally, we wanted to remind you of free training offered through the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3). There is the three-hour Threat Evaluation and Reporting Overview (TERO), which is an introductory training focusing on a behavioral approach to violence prevention. Secondly there is the one-day Basic Threat Evaluation and Reporting Course (B-TERC) that teaches participants how to help assist in preventing acts of targeted violence, such as, but not limited to, terrorism, school shootings, or mass attacks in public spaces by identifying those threats or observable behaviors that may indicate the potential for violence. Finally, there is the three-day Threat Evaluation and Reporting Course (TERC), which trains federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (F/SLTT) homeland security partners on applying behavioral threat assessment approaches, as it relates to tips and leads, to prevent targeted violence in their areas of responsibility. WSCPA is partnering with DHS CP3 to spread the word about these free trainings. For more information about these trainings, or if you have interest in hosting a training, please reach out to our colleague, Salliejo Evers of DHS CP3 here.
Looking forward to 2025, here’s what we have on tap for you.
40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course
We will be holding our next 40-hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course February 24-28, 2025. We will be hosted by the Snohomish County Sherrif’s Office at their North Precinct in Marysville, WA. The registration link for this training is live. Please share with those inside your agency (or with another agency) that would like to - or need to - receive this training. To register for this training, please go here.
CPTED Certification Course
We will be holding our next Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Certification Course May 13-15, 2025. We will be hosted by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries at their Tumwater, WA campus. Upon completion of this training, you will be certified by the Washington State Crime Prevention Association as a CPTED-Trained Professional. Registration is live and you can register for this training here.
Annual Crime Prevention Conference
Our 47th Annual Crime Prevention Conference will be September 16-18, 2025, at the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver, WA. While our 2024 conference has recently concluded, we are already planning our 2025 conference. A conference committee has been identified and will be meeting virtually in the next few weeks. If you are interested in shaping the next conference, please reach out to us directly so we can include you in the planning.
Crime Prevention Thursdays
In an effort to bring to you information about technology that may benefit your communities, we will occasionally hear from companies in the safety and security industry. To this end, our January and February Crime Prevention Thursday sessions will feature representatives from two companies in the security field.
Our next Crime Prevention Thursday will be January 16th, 2025, at 11am via Zoom. Please join us to learn about HiveWatch. HiveWatch is an end-to-end Security Operations Management Platform built for corporate physical security teams to enhance their existing security technologies. HiveWatch was created to solve some of the industry's biggest challenges with features such as false alarm reduction, tailgate detection, local emergency services dispatch, and device health monitoring. Users are also able to store critical information and assets such as SOPs, site snapshots, and facilities/floor plans. Scott Callens from HiveWatch will present this information. To register for this session, please go here.
Our February Crime Prevention Thursday session will be February 20th, 2025, at 11am via Zoom. Please join us to learn about Verkada. Verkada is a cloud-based, natively integrated physical security that delivers intuitive systems for end users to easily manage facility and community security and quickly respond to events - as well as stopping events as they occur with alarms and proactive security systems. Clay Cooledge from Verkada will present this information. To register for this session, please go here.
We are actively seeking topics for future Crime Prevention Thursday sessions, including such topics as Fraud and Identity Theft, and using Crime Analysis to inform and support your Crime Prevention and Community Engagement Strategies. If there is a particular topic you would like to have covered, or a topic you yourself would like to present, reach out to us directly and we’ll get you scheduled.
Online Implicit Bias Training
We will continue to offer online our “Identifying and Adapting Your Bias” Training on our Moodle training platform. If you or someone you know have interest in this training, please send an email to [email protected].
Dues Reminder
I would be remiss if I didn’t give you a reminder about membership dues. Our Association relies on membership dues to keep our operation running. Please renew your individual or agency memberships dues so there is no lapse in your benefits. You can renew (or join!) here. Your renewal or new membership will carry through the 2025 calendar year.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. We hope you have a wonderful holiday season, however you celebrate. Be Well and Stay Safe!
Mark
We hope you had a great Thanksgiving Holiday. As we approach the end of 2024, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on what we’ve been able to accomplish together this past year. We will then highlight what we have in store for you in 2025.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Training:
We were able to hold two CPTED certification trainings, one in Spokane in April and one in Renton in May. The Renton training was specifically for key management staff for the City of Renton. Renton’s Mayor has made incorporating CPTED into City thinking and planning a priority. I feel we may have the opportunity to do additional training with them and want to make that opportunity open to other municipalities.
Crime Prevention Thursday
We held nine Crime Prevention Thursday Sessions. Subjects ranged from presentations from the National Insurance Crime Bureau, the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Community Engagement Program, Project iGuardian, a discussion on Swatting hoaxes and appropriate responses, as well as our periodic check in with our Crime Prevention and Community Engagement Specialists from around the state. The sessions that were recorded (not all were, depending on subject matter) are available for viewing via the Members Only section on our website. Additionally, we were joined by partners from other states, including Michigan and Oregon.
Annual Crime Prevention Conference
We had a successful statewide in-person Crime Prevention Conference in Wenatchee in September. We were fortunate to have both Tessa Gorman, US Attorney for Western Washington, and Vanessa Waldref, US Attorney for Eastern Washington, as our Keynote speakers. The focus of our conference was to provide information on programs and plans that you can take back and implement in your communities. Based on the feedback we received from those of you who attended, we will continue this focus at future conferences.
Online Implicit Bias Training
We continue to offer online our “Identifying and Adapting Your Bias” Training on our Moodle training platform. We want to give a special acknowledgement to WSCPA member Jim Baylor, who teaches at Clover Park Technical College, for encouraging his students to take this training. To date, over 100 Clover Park students have successfully completed this course.
Before we delve into our plans for 2025, I want to give a special shout out to a community engagement event and some training opportunities.
Renton Police Department’s Battle of the Badges
Renton PD will be holding their annual Battle of the Badges event on December 14th, 2024, at Renton Technical College. As of this writing, over 30 agencies and departments have registered to participate. For those who haven’t seen the video about this event, you can watch it here. Check out City of Renton’s webpage here for more information, or contact our colleague Stephanie Hynes here.
Free DHS CP3 Trainings
Additionally, we wanted to remind you of free training offered through the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3). There is the three-hour Threat Evaluation and Reporting Overview (TERO), which is an introductory training focusing on a behavioral approach to violence prevention. Secondly there is the one-day Basic Threat Evaluation and Reporting Course (B-TERC) that teaches participants how to help assist in preventing acts of targeted violence, such as, but not limited to, terrorism, school shootings, or mass attacks in public spaces by identifying those threats or observable behaviors that may indicate the potential for violence. Finally, there is the three-day Threat Evaluation and Reporting Course (TERC), which trains federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (F/SLTT) homeland security partners on applying behavioral threat assessment approaches, as it relates to tips and leads, to prevent targeted violence in their areas of responsibility. WSCPA is partnering with DHS CP3 to spread the word about these free trainings. For more information about these trainings, or if you have interest in hosting a training, please reach out to our colleague, Salliejo Evers of DHS CP3 here.
Looking forward to 2025, here’s what we have on tap for you.
40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course
We will be holding our next 40-hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course February 24-28, 2025. We will be hosted by the Snohomish County Sherrif’s Office at their North Precinct in Marysville, WA. The registration link for this training is live. Please share with those inside your agency (or with another agency) that would like to - or need to - receive this training. To register for this training, please go here.
CPTED Certification Course
We will be holding our next Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Certification Course May 13-15, 2025. We will be hosted by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries at their Tumwater, WA campus. Upon completion of this training, you will be certified by the Washington State Crime Prevention Association as a CPTED-Trained Professional. Registration is live and you can register for this training here.
Annual Crime Prevention Conference
Our 47th Annual Crime Prevention Conference will be September 16-18, 2025, at the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver, WA. While our 2024 conference has recently concluded, we are already planning our 2025 conference. A conference committee has been identified and will be meeting virtually in the next few weeks. If you are interested in shaping the next conference, please reach out to us directly so we can include you in the planning.
Crime Prevention Thursdays
In an effort to bring to you information about technology that may benefit your communities, we will occasionally hear from companies in the safety and security industry. To this end, our January and February Crime Prevention Thursday sessions will feature representatives from two companies in the security field.
Our next Crime Prevention Thursday will be January 16th, 2025, at 11am via Zoom. Please join us to learn about HiveWatch. HiveWatch is an end-to-end Security Operations Management Platform built for corporate physical security teams to enhance their existing security technologies. HiveWatch was created to solve some of the industry's biggest challenges with features such as false alarm reduction, tailgate detection, local emergency services dispatch, and device health monitoring. Users are also able to store critical information and assets such as SOPs, site snapshots, and facilities/floor plans. Scott Callens from HiveWatch will present this information. To register for this session, please go here.
Our February Crime Prevention Thursday session will be February 20th, 2025, at 11am via Zoom. Please join us to learn about Verkada. Verkada is a cloud-based, natively integrated physical security that delivers intuitive systems for end users to easily manage facility and community security and quickly respond to events - as well as stopping events as they occur with alarms and proactive security systems. Clay Cooledge from Verkada will present this information. To register for this session, please go here.
We are actively seeking topics for future Crime Prevention Thursday sessions, including such topics as Fraud and Identity Theft, and using Crime Analysis to inform and support your Crime Prevention and Community Engagement Strategies. If there is a particular topic you would like to have covered, or a topic you yourself would like to present, reach out to us directly and we’ll get you scheduled.
Online Implicit Bias Training
We will continue to offer online our “Identifying and Adapting Your Bias” Training on our Moodle training platform. If you or someone you know have interest in this training, please send an email to [email protected].
Dues Reminder
I would be remiss if I didn’t give you a reminder about membership dues. Our Association relies on membership dues to keep our operation running. Please renew your individual or agency memberships dues so there is no lapse in your benefits. You can renew (or join!) here. Your renewal or new membership will carry through the 2025 calendar year.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. We hope you have a wonderful holiday season, however you celebrate. Be Well and Stay Safe!
Mark
November 2024
Dear Members and Friends –
It was good to see many of you at the Washington State Fusion Center Conference this past week in Vancouver, WA. The presentations were relevant and informative, and the networking among all the entities was stellar. I had the fortune to give an Association overview and highlight the work we are doing together.
This month’s message highlights upcoming opportunities for training and engagement.
Battle of the Badges
First, we want to advocate for your agency’s participation in Renton PD’s Battle of the Badges event on December 14th, 2024. This is a really cool event; some of you heard about it at our Crime Prevention Conference and saw the video from last year. For those who haven’t seen the video, you can watch it here. Check out City of Renton’s webpage here for more information or contact our colleague Stephanie Hynes here.
Free DHS CP3 Trainings
Additionally, we wanted to remind you of Free training offered through the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3). There is the three-hour Threat Evaluation and Reporting Overview (TERO), which is an introductory training focusing on a behavioral approach to violence prevention. Secondly there is the one-day Basic Threat Evaluation and Reporting Course (B-TERC) that teaches participants how to help assist in preventing acts of targeted violence, such as, but not limited to, terrorism, school shootings, or mass attacks in public spaces by identifying those threats or observable behaviors that may indicate the potential for violence. Finally, there is the three-day Threat Evaluation and Reporting Course (TERC), which trains federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (F/SLTT) homeland security partners on applying behavioral threat assessment approaches, as it relates to tips and leads, to prevent targeted violence in their areas of responsibility. For more information about these trainings, or if you have interest in hosting a training, please reach out to our colleague, Sallijo Evers of DHS CP3 here.
40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course
We will be holding our next 40-hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course February 24-28, 2025. We will be hosted by the Snohomish County Sherrif’s Office at their North Precinct in Marysville, WA. The registration link for this training is live. To register for this training, please go here.
CPTED Certification Course
We will be holding our next Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Certification Course May 13-15, 2025. We will be hosted by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries at their Tumwater, WA campus. Upon completion of this training, you will be certified by the Washington State Crime Prevention Association as a CPTED-Trained Professional. Registration is live and you can register for this training here.
Crime Prevention Thursday will resume January 2025
With the holiday season upon us, we are pausing our Crime Prevention Thursday sessions until after the new year. Take time to, regroup, relax, practice some self-care, and enjoy friends and family. We will resume our Crime Prevention Thursday on January 16th, 2025, at 11am via Zoom. Topic and registration information will be forthcoming.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. Be Well and Stay Safe!
Mark
It was good to see many of you at the Washington State Fusion Center Conference this past week in Vancouver, WA. The presentations were relevant and informative, and the networking among all the entities was stellar. I had the fortune to give an Association overview and highlight the work we are doing together.
This month’s message highlights upcoming opportunities for training and engagement.
Battle of the Badges
First, we want to advocate for your agency’s participation in Renton PD’s Battle of the Badges event on December 14th, 2024. This is a really cool event; some of you heard about it at our Crime Prevention Conference and saw the video from last year. For those who haven’t seen the video, you can watch it here. Check out City of Renton’s webpage here for more information or contact our colleague Stephanie Hynes here.
Free DHS CP3 Trainings
Additionally, we wanted to remind you of Free training offered through the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3). There is the three-hour Threat Evaluation and Reporting Overview (TERO), which is an introductory training focusing on a behavioral approach to violence prevention. Secondly there is the one-day Basic Threat Evaluation and Reporting Course (B-TERC) that teaches participants how to help assist in preventing acts of targeted violence, such as, but not limited to, terrorism, school shootings, or mass attacks in public spaces by identifying those threats or observable behaviors that may indicate the potential for violence. Finally, there is the three-day Threat Evaluation and Reporting Course (TERC), which trains federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (F/SLTT) homeland security partners on applying behavioral threat assessment approaches, as it relates to tips and leads, to prevent targeted violence in their areas of responsibility. For more information about these trainings, or if you have interest in hosting a training, please reach out to our colleague, Sallijo Evers of DHS CP3 here.
40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course
We will be holding our next 40-hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course February 24-28, 2025. We will be hosted by the Snohomish County Sherrif’s Office at their North Precinct in Marysville, WA. The registration link for this training is live. To register for this training, please go here.
CPTED Certification Course
We will be holding our next Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Certification Course May 13-15, 2025. We will be hosted by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries at their Tumwater, WA campus. Upon completion of this training, you will be certified by the Washington State Crime Prevention Association as a CPTED-Trained Professional. Registration is live and you can register for this training here.
Crime Prevention Thursday will resume January 2025
With the holiday season upon us, we are pausing our Crime Prevention Thursday sessions until after the new year. Take time to, regroup, relax, practice some self-care, and enjoy friends and family. We will resume our Crime Prevention Thursday on January 16th, 2025, at 11am via Zoom. Topic and registration information will be forthcoming.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. Be Well and Stay Safe!
Mark
October 2024
Dear Members and Friends -
Welcome to October! We have a lot of content for you in this month’s message, so grab a cup of coffee and settle in.
2024 WSCPA Annual Crime Prevention Conference
Thank you all who attended our 46th Annual Crime Prevention Conference in Wenatchee. From start to finish, we had an amazing line up of presentations, including our very special Keynote Speakers, Tessa Gorman (US Attorney for Western Washington) and Vanessa Waldref (US Attorney for Eastern Washington). I was personally ecstatic that they both agreed to join us. We will be hard pressed to find guests of their caliber to meet with us in 2025, but we will try.
Welcome to October! We have a lot of content for you in this month’s message, so grab a cup of coffee and settle in.
2024 WSCPA Annual Crime Prevention Conference
Thank you all who attended our 46th Annual Crime Prevention Conference in Wenatchee. From start to finish, we had an amazing line up of presentations, including our very special Keynote Speakers, Tessa Gorman (US Attorney for Western Washington) and Vanessa Waldref (US Attorney for Eastern Washington). I was personally ecstatic that they both agreed to join us. We will be hard pressed to find guests of their caliber to meet with us in 2025, but we will try.
We hope that those who attended were able to walk away with tools and resources you can put in place in your communities, whether it’s best practices for engaging business communities in crime Prevention, growing an effective law enforcement volunteer program, innovative law enforcement-community engagement ideas, or conducting school security assessments. We also hope you had a chance to engage with our vendors and sponsors; we are grateful for their attendance and participation and hope they join us again.
We have reviewed the presentation evaluations that were completed. Thank you for your feedback. We will use them to guide our 2025 conference program. We read very clearly that you wanted more Plans and Programs ideas and more “How To’s.” It is our goal to provide that. If you didn’t get a chance to fill out an elevation about a particular session or the overall conference, or if something came to mind after the fact that you’d like to share, please do so. Email us directly at [email protected]. Whether you have kudos or criticism, please let us know your thoughts.
We have the conference presentations that can be shared in the Members Section of our website for you to view to view at your leisure. We are awaiting a few more presentations and will update the site as they come in.
2025 Crime Prevention Conference
As we wrap up our 46th annual conference, we are already in the planning stages for our 47th Annual Crime Prevention Conference, currently scheduled for September 16th-17th at the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver, Washington. Registration for the 2025 conference will go live shortly, so you can reserve your spot and reserve your lodging at Heathman.
Several of you indicated you would be interested in being on the conference planning committee. Thank you for those who have agreed to step forward and craft our next conference; we have your contact information and we will be reaching out. There were a few of you who indicated that you’d be interested in being on the planning committee but neglected to include your name and contact information. If you are interested in shaping our next conference, please reach out to us directly so we can include you.
Crime Prevention Thursday
Our next Crime Prevention Thursday session will be October 17th, 2024. We hope to feature our partner from the Portland Police Bureau to speak about how they’ve upscaled their Community Police Academy to give us ideas about how we can do the same in our communities. If Officer Haunsperger is unable to join us, we will do our Crime Prevention/Community Engagement Specialist statewide check in. We will let you know soon via an email blast. Either way, you can register for our next Crime Prevention Thursday session here.
40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course
We will be holding our next 40-hourt Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course February 24-28, 2025. Please see the attached flyer. We will be hosted by the Snohomish County Sherrif’s Office at their North Precinct in Marysville, WA. The registration link for this training is now live. Please share with those inside your agency (or with another agency) that would like to - or needs to - receive this training. You should know that WSCPA is one of the only entities in the country that offers this type of training. And unlike others, we make it local and relevant to you. To register for this training, please go here.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. Be Well and Stay Safe!
Mark
We have the conference presentations that can be shared in the Members Section of our website for you to view to view at your leisure. We are awaiting a few more presentations and will update the site as they come in.
2025 Crime Prevention Conference
As we wrap up our 46th annual conference, we are already in the planning stages for our 47th Annual Crime Prevention Conference, currently scheduled for September 16th-17th at the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver, Washington. Registration for the 2025 conference will go live shortly, so you can reserve your spot and reserve your lodging at Heathman.
Several of you indicated you would be interested in being on the conference planning committee. Thank you for those who have agreed to step forward and craft our next conference; we have your contact information and we will be reaching out. There were a few of you who indicated that you’d be interested in being on the planning committee but neglected to include your name and contact information. If you are interested in shaping our next conference, please reach out to us directly so we can include you.
Crime Prevention Thursday
Our next Crime Prevention Thursday session will be October 17th, 2024. We hope to feature our partner from the Portland Police Bureau to speak about how they’ve upscaled their Community Police Academy to give us ideas about how we can do the same in our communities. If Officer Haunsperger is unable to join us, we will do our Crime Prevention/Community Engagement Specialist statewide check in. We will let you know soon via an email blast. Either way, you can register for our next Crime Prevention Thursday session here.
40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course
We will be holding our next 40-hourt Basic Crime Prevention Certification Course February 24-28, 2025. Please see the attached flyer. We will be hosted by the Snohomish County Sherrif’s Office at their North Precinct in Marysville, WA. The registration link for this training is now live. Please share with those inside your agency (or with another agency) that would like to - or needs to - receive this training. You should know that WSCPA is one of the only entities in the country that offers this type of training. And unlike others, we make it local and relevant to you. To register for this training, please go here.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. Be Well and Stay Safe!
Mark
September 2024
Dear Members and Friends -
We hope that you had successful Night Out Against Crime events in your community. We also hope you had a safe and happy Labor Day weekend. With many of us coming off of vacation and getting back into our Fall routine, this will be a brief message.
Last Call for the Conference!
Our 46th annual Crime Prevention Conference is just two weeks away. Thank you to those who have already registered. For those that have yet to register, you can do so here.
While it is not too late to register, be mindful that we had a limited number of rooms set aside at the conference rate. If you didn’t already make your room reservation, chances are you will have to look at another lodging option. Here are some options for you (in no particular order of preference)
Our conference’s tentative schedule is posted on our website and can be viewed here. And while this is subject to change, we have things pretty much locked in.
And just like last year, you have a chance to walk away with some pretty cool swag just for filling out workshop evaluations. Pictured below are some items you could walk away with.
We hope that you had successful Night Out Against Crime events in your community. We also hope you had a safe and happy Labor Day weekend. With many of us coming off of vacation and getting back into our Fall routine, this will be a brief message.
Last Call for the Conference!
Our 46th annual Crime Prevention Conference is just two weeks away. Thank you to those who have already registered. For those that have yet to register, you can do so here.
While it is not too late to register, be mindful that we had a limited number of rooms set aside at the conference rate. If you didn’t already make your room reservation, chances are you will have to look at another lodging option. Here are some options for you (in no particular order of preference)
- Comfort Suites Wenatchee Gateway
- Avid Hotel Wenatchee
- Coast Wenatchee Center Hotel
- Residence Inn Wenatchee
Our conference’s tentative schedule is posted on our website and can be viewed here. And while this is subject to change, we have things pretty much locked in.
And just like last year, you have a chance to walk away with some pretty cool swag just for filling out workshop evaluations. Pictured below are some items you could walk away with.
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Membership Meeting and Election of Directors and Officers
As a reminder, we will be having a general membership meeting during the buffet lunch on September 17th. We will be holding elections for Officers and Regional Directors. Submissions for Director or Officer Positions are closed. That being stated, nominations may be made from the Body (y’all) during the election process of the meeting. If you have a burning desire to nominate yourself or someone else to serve as an Officer or Director, you will have that opportunity.
Crime Prevention Awards
Nominations for awards are also closed. If you did not get an opportunity to nominate a person or program for an award, you will have that opportunity in the future. We are looking to expand the award categories, such as Outstanding Community Engagement Program and Innovation in Community Engagement Award. We are open to considering other award categories and welcome your input on this.
Crime Prevention Thursday
Our next Crime Prevention Thursday session will be October 17th, 2024. We hope to feature our partner from the Portland Police Bureau to speak about how they’ve upscaled their Community Police Academy to give us ideas about how we can do the same in our communities.
40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention Training
We will be holding our next 40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention Training Course February 24-28, 2025. We will be hosted by the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office at their Marysville facility. A formal training announcement will be posted on the website in the coming weeks.
CPTED Certification Training
We have been contacted by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries about hosting our next CPTED Certification Course. Based on their training space availability, and our current schedule, we are most likely looking at the middle of March 2025 for that training. As we firm up details with LNI, we will push that information out.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. I’m looking forward to seeing you in Wenatchee!
Mark
As a reminder, we will be having a general membership meeting during the buffet lunch on September 17th. We will be holding elections for Officers and Regional Directors. Submissions for Director or Officer Positions are closed. That being stated, nominations may be made from the Body (y’all) during the election process of the meeting. If you have a burning desire to nominate yourself or someone else to serve as an Officer or Director, you will have that opportunity.
Crime Prevention Awards
Nominations for awards are also closed. If you did not get an opportunity to nominate a person or program for an award, you will have that opportunity in the future. We are looking to expand the award categories, such as Outstanding Community Engagement Program and Innovation in Community Engagement Award. We are open to considering other award categories and welcome your input on this.
Crime Prevention Thursday
Our next Crime Prevention Thursday session will be October 17th, 2024. We hope to feature our partner from the Portland Police Bureau to speak about how they’ve upscaled their Community Police Academy to give us ideas about how we can do the same in our communities.
40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention Training
We will be holding our next 40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention Training Course February 24-28, 2025. We will be hosted by the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office at their Marysville facility. A formal training announcement will be posted on the website in the coming weeks.
CPTED Certification Training
We have been contacted by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries about hosting our next CPTED Certification Course. Based on their training space availability, and our current schedule, we are most likely looking at the middle of March 2025 for that training. As we firm up details with LNI, we will push that information out.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. I’m looking forward to seeing you in Wenatchee!
Mark
August 2024
Dear Members and Friends -
Night Out Against Crime upon us! We hope you have some spectacular events happening in your community. I’m sending out just a few brief notes this month.
Information from our partners at DHS Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3)
There is an upcoming training opportunity as well as a resource available to you that our CP3 partners wanted to ensure you know about. First is the Threat Evaluation and Reporting Course (TERC), which trains federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (F/SLTT) homeland security partners on applying behavioral threat assessment approaches, as it relates to tips and leads, to prevent targeted violence in their areas of responsibility. Second is the #Back2School with Know2Protect, a national effort to combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA). Information flyers about both are attached with this email.
Crime Prevention Thursday
At our last Crime Prevention Thursday Session (Thursday, July 18th) we were joined by Marcus Pickett, Community Outreach Specialist for the DEA serving Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. We learned about what Mr. Pickett does, and what resources are available for our communities. For those missed the session, it was recorded, and the session is available for viewing via our Members section of our website.
With many of us being gone for August following Night Out, and our annual conference being the 17th-18th of September, our next Crime Prevention Thursday session will be October 17th, 2024. We hop to feature our partner from the Portland Police Bureau to speak about how they’ve upscaled their Community Police Academy to give us ideas about how we can do the same in our communities.
Crime Prevention Conference, September 17-18, 2024, Wenatchee Hilton Garden Inn
Yes, yet another reminder about the conference. We are really looking forward to you joining us. Thank you to those who have already registered. For those that have yet to register, you can do so here. Great workshops, great networking. And just like last year, you have a chance to walk away with some pretty cool swag just for filling out workshop evaluations. Could be a signed football from the Seahawks. Could be a signed wall flag from the Kraken. Possibly a VIP Tour of the Museum of Flight. Want a wine tasting for four at a Guardian Cellars tasting room? How about a 6-pack of Bodhizafa from Georgetown Brewing? Other than our conference, where else would you have this opportunity? C’mon, you know you want to come.
Membership Meeting and Election of Directors and Officers
As a reminder, we will be having a general membership meeting during the buffet lunch on September 17th. We will be holding elections for Officers and Regional Directors. If you are interested in being an Officer or a Regional Director, we ask you to submit a resume, letter of interest, and a letter of support from your supervisor (if applicable) showing your organization’s support of you serving on the WSCPA Board of Directors. You must be an active (dues paid) member in order to hold office on the Board of the Association. We’ve extended the deadline for submissions to August 16th, 2024
Nominations for Crime Prevention Awards
Please make your nominations for Crime Prevention Award recipients. We will honor Outstanding Crime Prevention Program, Volunteer of the year, Crime Prevention Unit of the Year, Crime Prevention Practitioner of the Year, The President’s Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. Please make your nominations for these awards. To nominate an award recipient, please go here.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. Have a great Night Out Against Crime. We hope to see you in Wenatchee!
-Mark
Night Out Against Crime upon us! We hope you have some spectacular events happening in your community. I’m sending out just a few brief notes this month.
Information from our partners at DHS Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3)
There is an upcoming training opportunity as well as a resource available to you that our CP3 partners wanted to ensure you know about. First is the Threat Evaluation and Reporting Course (TERC), which trains federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (F/SLTT) homeland security partners on applying behavioral threat assessment approaches, as it relates to tips and leads, to prevent targeted violence in their areas of responsibility. Second is the #Back2School with Know2Protect, a national effort to combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA). Information flyers about both are attached with this email.
Crime Prevention Thursday
At our last Crime Prevention Thursday Session (Thursday, July 18th) we were joined by Marcus Pickett, Community Outreach Specialist for the DEA serving Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. We learned about what Mr. Pickett does, and what resources are available for our communities. For those missed the session, it was recorded, and the session is available for viewing via our Members section of our website.
With many of us being gone for August following Night Out, and our annual conference being the 17th-18th of September, our next Crime Prevention Thursday session will be October 17th, 2024. We hop to feature our partner from the Portland Police Bureau to speak about how they’ve upscaled their Community Police Academy to give us ideas about how we can do the same in our communities.
Crime Prevention Conference, September 17-18, 2024, Wenatchee Hilton Garden Inn
Yes, yet another reminder about the conference. We are really looking forward to you joining us. Thank you to those who have already registered. For those that have yet to register, you can do so here. Great workshops, great networking. And just like last year, you have a chance to walk away with some pretty cool swag just for filling out workshop evaluations. Could be a signed football from the Seahawks. Could be a signed wall flag from the Kraken. Possibly a VIP Tour of the Museum of Flight. Want a wine tasting for four at a Guardian Cellars tasting room? How about a 6-pack of Bodhizafa from Georgetown Brewing? Other than our conference, where else would you have this opportunity? C’mon, you know you want to come.
Membership Meeting and Election of Directors and Officers
As a reminder, we will be having a general membership meeting during the buffet lunch on September 17th. We will be holding elections for Officers and Regional Directors. If you are interested in being an Officer or a Regional Director, we ask you to submit a resume, letter of interest, and a letter of support from your supervisor (if applicable) showing your organization’s support of you serving on the WSCPA Board of Directors. You must be an active (dues paid) member in order to hold office on the Board of the Association. We’ve extended the deadline for submissions to August 16th, 2024
Nominations for Crime Prevention Awards
Please make your nominations for Crime Prevention Award recipients. We will honor Outstanding Crime Prevention Program, Volunteer of the year, Crime Prevention Unit of the Year, Crime Prevention Practitioner of the Year, The President’s Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. Please make your nominations for these awards. To nominate an award recipient, please go here.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. Have a great Night Out Against Crime. We hope to see you in Wenatchee!
-Mark
July 2024
Dear Members and Friends -
We hope you had a happy and safe Independence Day weekend. We wanted to share a few things with you.
Crime Prevention Thursday
At our last Crime Prevention Thursday Session (Thursday, June 20th), we were joined by commercial and residential property management representatives who shared with us their best practices for property management. We learned what they need most from us as well as informing them as to what we need from them. It was a great discussion. For those unable to attend the session, it was recorded and is available for viewing via our website in the Members Section.
Did you know that the DEA has Community Outreach Specialists? Me neither. Join us for our next Crime Prevention Thursday, July 18, 2024 to meet Marcus Pickett, Community Outreach Specialist for the DEA serving Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. Let’s learn about how the program started, what Mr. Pickett does, and what resources may be able for your communities. To register for this Session please go here. After you register, you will receive a link for the Zoom session.
Access to the Members Only Section of the website
We’ve noted some confusion about accessing the Members Only section of our website. First, you must be a dues-paying member, either individually or through your agency, to gain access. You would go to the Log In | Register tab on the upper right of the home page. If you are a member, we have your email on file, and you would use that email to register. Once you have registered you will get an email from “[email protected]” that looks like the one below.
You need to click the link to show the system that you have accepted your registration. From that point you can use Log In to access the Members Only portion of our website. We can see in our system that many of you have received this email but have yet to click the link to activate your access. We ask you to do so to take full advantage of your membership. If you encounter any issues or have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Others of you have asked for access but are not actual dues-paying members. For those who are not members, please do join the Association. Which brings me to…
Membership
We are a non-profit, all volunteer organization. Membership dues, conferences and training fees are how we stay afloat. WSCPA Membership Options are:
Crime Prevention Conference, September 17-18, 2024, Wenatchee Hilton Garden Inn
Yes, another reminder about our conference. We have a dynamic conference agenda for you to ensure you walk away with tools and resources you can take back to your communities. Please see the attached conference flyer. Thank you to those who have already registered for the conference. For those that have yet to register, you can do so here.
Membership Meeting and Election of Directors and Officers
As a reminder, we will be having a general membership meeting during the buffet lunch on September 17th. We will be holding elections for Officers and Regional Directors. If you are interested in being an Officer or a Regional Director, we ask you to submit a resume, letter of interest, and a letter of support from your supervisor (if applicable) showing your organization’s support of you serving on the WSCPA Board of Directors. You must be an active (dues paid) member in order to hold office on the Board of the Association. Deadline for submission is August 1, 2024.
Nominations for Crime Prevention Awards
Please make your nominations for Crime Prevention Award recipients. We will honor Outstanding Crime Prevention Program, Volunteer of the year, Crime Prevention Unit of the Year, Crime Prevention Practitioner of the Year, The President’s Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. Please make your nominations for these awards. To nominate an award recipient, please go here.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. We hope to see you at our next Crime Prevention Thursday and at our Conference in September in Wenatchee.
It’s hot out there. Stay Hydrated!
Mark
We hope you had a happy and safe Independence Day weekend. We wanted to share a few things with you.
Crime Prevention Thursday
At our last Crime Prevention Thursday Session (Thursday, June 20th), we were joined by commercial and residential property management representatives who shared with us their best practices for property management. We learned what they need most from us as well as informing them as to what we need from them. It was a great discussion. For those unable to attend the session, it was recorded and is available for viewing via our website in the Members Section.
Did you know that the DEA has Community Outreach Specialists? Me neither. Join us for our next Crime Prevention Thursday, July 18, 2024 to meet Marcus Pickett, Community Outreach Specialist for the DEA serving Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. Let’s learn about how the program started, what Mr. Pickett does, and what resources may be able for your communities. To register for this Session please go here. After you register, you will receive a link for the Zoom session.
Access to the Members Only Section of the website
We’ve noted some confusion about accessing the Members Only section of our website. First, you must be a dues-paying member, either individually or through your agency, to gain access. You would go to the Log In | Register tab on the upper right of the home page. If you are a member, we have your email on file, and you would use that email to register. Once you have registered you will get an email from “[email protected]” that looks like the one below.
You need to click the link to show the system that you have accepted your registration. From that point you can use Log In to access the Members Only portion of our website. We can see in our system that many of you have received this email but have yet to click the link to activate your access. We ask you to do so to take full advantage of your membership. If you encounter any issues or have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Others of you have asked for access but are not actual dues-paying members. For those who are not members, please do join the Association. Which brings me to…
Membership
We are a non-profit, all volunteer organization. Membership dues, conferences and training fees are how we stay afloat. WSCPA Membership Options are:
- Individual Membership - $35 per person, per year, which gives unlimited access to member benefits, for one individual.
- Agency/Business Membership - $199, per year, Unlimited access to member benefits, redeemable by all members of the agency/business for one membership fee.
- Discounted registration for trainings and our Annual Crime Prevention Conference.
- Immense networking opportunities with crime prevention professionals throughout Washington and beyond.
- Access to members-only collection of crime prevention training materials.
- A Regional liaison who can assist with best practices and information sharing in your specific area.
- Automatic inclusion in our mailing list to receive relevant crime prevention bulletins and information about upcoming training and conferences.
Crime Prevention Conference, September 17-18, 2024, Wenatchee Hilton Garden Inn
Yes, another reminder about our conference. We have a dynamic conference agenda for you to ensure you walk away with tools and resources you can take back to your communities. Please see the attached conference flyer. Thank you to those who have already registered for the conference. For those that have yet to register, you can do so here.
Membership Meeting and Election of Directors and Officers
As a reminder, we will be having a general membership meeting during the buffet lunch on September 17th. We will be holding elections for Officers and Regional Directors. If you are interested in being an Officer or a Regional Director, we ask you to submit a resume, letter of interest, and a letter of support from your supervisor (if applicable) showing your organization’s support of you serving on the WSCPA Board of Directors. You must be an active (dues paid) member in order to hold office on the Board of the Association. Deadline for submission is August 1, 2024.
Nominations for Crime Prevention Awards
Please make your nominations for Crime Prevention Award recipients. We will honor Outstanding Crime Prevention Program, Volunteer of the year, Crime Prevention Unit of the Year, Crime Prevention Practitioner of the Year, The President’s Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. Please make your nominations for these awards. To nominate an award recipient, please go here.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. We hope to see you at our next Crime Prevention Thursday and at our Conference in September in Wenatchee.
It’s hot out there. Stay Hydrated!
Mark
June 2024
Dear Members and Friends –
City of Renton CPTED Certificating Class |
Mayor Armondo Pavone |
CAO Ed VanValey |
I want to thank the City of Renton for entrusting us with providing Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Certification training for City of Renton's senior staff. Supervisors from Community and Economic Development, Public Works, Parks and Recreation, all took part in this training. A special thanks to Renton Mayor Armondo Pavone, whose vision is to incorporate CPTED into the fabric of Renton, and Chief Administrative Officer Ed VanValey, who made this training happen. I feel confident we will be doing additional trainings for the City of Renton’s senior staff. We can do the same for any of your municipalities and organizations as well.
Crime Prevention Thursday
At our last Crime Prevention Thursday Session (Thursday, May 16th) we were fortunate to have two representatives from the FBI present to our group. FBI Supervisory Special Agent Brian LeBlanc presented Responding to and Investigating Bomb Threats and Swatting Hoaxes: a review of statistics/current trends, characteristics of hoax calls as well as best practices for assessment and response. FBI Liaison Specialist Rachel Burney presented on the National Common Operational Picture Virtual Command Center on Swatting: an overview of the Virtual Command Center - a situational awareness tool available to law enforcement agencies, utilized for sharing information related to swatting incidents across the US. Both provided resources sheets related to their presentations that we were able to forward to the group via email.
For our next Crime Prevention Thursday on June 20th, we will be joined by commercial and residential property management professionals to discuss best practices for property management. Many of us work with commercial and residential property managers almost daily and advise them on what they should do from a law enforcement perspective. Yet, how often do we take the time to learn from them as to what their best practices are? What works for them? What doesn’t work? What restraints do they have in dealing with problem tenants? What support do they need? What would be helpful for us as crime prevention and community engagement specialists to know from them? We’ve invited senior level staff from Indigo Real Estate (one of our 2024 Conference Sponsors) and Kidder Matthews (a WSCPA member) to join us for a moderated discussion regarding working with property management. To register for this Session please go here. After you register, you will receive a link for the Zoom session.
Crime Prevention Conference
We are finalizing the 2024 Crime Prevention Conference program. As a reminder, the conference will be September 17-18, 2024, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Wenatchee. We want to ensure you get the best value for attending. It is our intent that you walk away with plans, programs, and resources you can take back to your communities to enhance what you are already doing or give you additional tools to try something new. Please see the attached conference flyer. Thank you to those who have already registered for the conference. For those that have yet to register, you can do so here.
Membership Meeting and Election of Directors and Officers
At the September conference, we will have a general membership meeting during the buffet lunch on September 17th. We will be holding elections for Officers and Regional Directors. We will be voting on the positions of President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Further, we will be electing regional Directors from Region 2 (King and Snohomish Counties), Region 4 (Clark, Cowlitz, Lewis, Pacific, Skamania and Wahkiakum Counties), Region 6 (Benton, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat and Yakima Counties) and Region 8 (Adams, Asotin, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Walla Walla and Whitman Counties). All active Association Members (meaning those who are current on their dues) have voting privileges. If you are interested in being an Officer or a Regional Director, we ask you to submit a resume, letter of interest, and a letter of support from your supervisor (if applicable) showing your organization’s support of you serving on the WSCPA Board of Directors. You must be an active (dues paid) member in order to hold office on the Board of the Association. Deadline for submission is August 1, 2024.
Nominations for Crime Prevention Awards
As a Reminder, we will be presenting our annual Crime Prevention Awards on Wednesday, September 18th during the buffet lunch. We will honor Outstanding Crime Prevention Program, Volunteer of the year, Crime Prevention Unit of the Year, Crime Prevention Practitioner of the Year, The President’s Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. Please, we need you to nominate people and programs for these awards. To nominate an award recipient, please go here.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. We hope to see you at our next Crime Prevention Thursday and at our Conference in September in Wenatchee.
-Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association
Crime Prevention Thursday
At our last Crime Prevention Thursday Session (Thursday, May 16th) we were fortunate to have two representatives from the FBI present to our group. FBI Supervisory Special Agent Brian LeBlanc presented Responding to and Investigating Bomb Threats and Swatting Hoaxes: a review of statistics/current trends, characteristics of hoax calls as well as best practices for assessment and response. FBI Liaison Specialist Rachel Burney presented on the National Common Operational Picture Virtual Command Center on Swatting: an overview of the Virtual Command Center - a situational awareness tool available to law enforcement agencies, utilized for sharing information related to swatting incidents across the US. Both provided resources sheets related to their presentations that we were able to forward to the group via email.
For our next Crime Prevention Thursday on June 20th, we will be joined by commercial and residential property management professionals to discuss best practices for property management. Many of us work with commercial and residential property managers almost daily and advise them on what they should do from a law enforcement perspective. Yet, how often do we take the time to learn from them as to what their best practices are? What works for them? What doesn’t work? What restraints do they have in dealing with problem tenants? What support do they need? What would be helpful for us as crime prevention and community engagement specialists to know from them? We’ve invited senior level staff from Indigo Real Estate (one of our 2024 Conference Sponsors) and Kidder Matthews (a WSCPA member) to join us for a moderated discussion regarding working with property management. To register for this Session please go here. After you register, you will receive a link for the Zoom session.
Crime Prevention Conference
We are finalizing the 2024 Crime Prevention Conference program. As a reminder, the conference will be September 17-18, 2024, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Wenatchee. We want to ensure you get the best value for attending. It is our intent that you walk away with plans, programs, and resources you can take back to your communities to enhance what you are already doing or give you additional tools to try something new. Please see the attached conference flyer. Thank you to those who have already registered for the conference. For those that have yet to register, you can do so here.
Membership Meeting and Election of Directors and Officers
At the September conference, we will have a general membership meeting during the buffet lunch on September 17th. We will be holding elections for Officers and Regional Directors. We will be voting on the positions of President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Further, we will be electing regional Directors from Region 2 (King and Snohomish Counties), Region 4 (Clark, Cowlitz, Lewis, Pacific, Skamania and Wahkiakum Counties), Region 6 (Benton, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat and Yakima Counties) and Region 8 (Adams, Asotin, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Walla Walla and Whitman Counties). All active Association Members (meaning those who are current on their dues) have voting privileges. If you are interested in being an Officer or a Regional Director, we ask you to submit a resume, letter of interest, and a letter of support from your supervisor (if applicable) showing your organization’s support of you serving on the WSCPA Board of Directors. You must be an active (dues paid) member in order to hold office on the Board of the Association. Deadline for submission is August 1, 2024.
Nominations for Crime Prevention Awards
As a Reminder, we will be presenting our annual Crime Prevention Awards on Wednesday, September 18th during the buffet lunch. We will honor Outstanding Crime Prevention Program, Volunteer of the year, Crime Prevention Unit of the Year, Crime Prevention Practitioner of the Year, The President’s Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. Please, we need you to nominate people and programs for these awards. To nominate an award recipient, please go here.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. We hope to see you at our next Crime Prevention Thursday and at our Conference in September in Wenatchee.
-Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association
May 2024
Dear Members and friends
CPTED Certification Class
CPTED Certification Class
I want to congratulate the April 2024 Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Certification Course Graduates. You were a great group from all across the state. And special Thanks for Gonzaga University’s Campus Security & Public Safety department for hosting us! Thank you, Director Becky Wilkey! Also, a special thanks to Spokane Community Oriented Policing Services (Spokane C.O.P.S.) for all their support in making the class happen. I must give a shout out to Dave Morris, retired Deputy with Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, former WSCPA Regional Director, and now Field Operations Manager with Spokane C.O.P.S. We couldn’t have done it without you, Dave.
Crime Prevention Thursday
At our last Crime Prevention Thursday Session (Thursday, April 18th) we discussed Summer Community Programming and Engagement. With many of our member agencies participating in Drug Take Back Day, Shred-a-thons, Night Out and other Crime Prevention and Community Outreach efforts over the next few months, there was good discussion regarding what is planned, how they are organized, who was partnered with, and how to possibly replicate those efforts in your community. Thanks to WSCPA Region 3 Director, and Community Programs Coordinator for Olympia PD, Rebekah Ziesemer for facilitating. A recording of this session will be available for viewing via our video library in the Members section of our website.
For our next Crime Prevention Thursday on May 16th, please join us for an in -depth discussion on Swatting. First, learn about the National Common Operational Picture Virtual Command Center on Swatting. The VCC is a situational awareness tool available to law enforcement agencies, utilized for sharing information related to swatting incidents across the US. This information will be provided by FBI Liaison Specialist Rachel Burney. Secondly, we will have a presentation on Responding to and Investigating Bomb Threats and Swatting Hoaxes. This will provide a review of statistics/current trends, characteristics of hoax calls as well as best practices for assessment and response. This information will be presented by FBI Supervisory Special Agent Brian LeBlanc
Due to the content of the material, this will be a 90-minutes session. To register for the Crime Prevention Thursday Session, please go here. After you register you will receive a link for the Zoom session.
Crime Prevention Conference
We are looking forward to having you join us at our 2024 Crime Prevention Conference on September 17-18, 2024, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Wenatchee. We continue to refine our offerings to ensure you get the best value for attending. We want you to be able to walk away with ideas, plans, and programs that you can put in place in your communities to enhance what you are already doing regarding Crime Prevention and Community Engagement. As a refresher, here is some of that we have planned for you:
Also, we will have a general membership meeting during the buffet lunch on the first day of the conference. We will be holding elections for Officers and Directors. All active Association Members (meaning those who are current on their dues) have voting privileges, and you must be an active member in order to hold office on the Board of the Association.
Thank you to those who have already registered for the conference. For those that have yet to register, you can do so here.
Nominations for Crime Prevention Awards
We will be presenting our annual Crime Prevention Awards on Wednesday, September 18th during the buffet lunch. We will honor Outstanding Crime Prevention Program, Volunteer of the year, Crime Prevention Unit of the Year, Crime Prevention Practitioner of the Year, The President’s Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. We need you to nominate people and programs for these awards. We really do rely on you. To nominate an award recipient, please go here.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. We hope to see you at our next Crime Prevention Thursday and at our Conference in September in Wenatchee.
-Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association
Crime Prevention Thursday
At our last Crime Prevention Thursday Session (Thursday, April 18th) we discussed Summer Community Programming and Engagement. With many of our member agencies participating in Drug Take Back Day, Shred-a-thons, Night Out and other Crime Prevention and Community Outreach efforts over the next few months, there was good discussion regarding what is planned, how they are organized, who was partnered with, and how to possibly replicate those efforts in your community. Thanks to WSCPA Region 3 Director, and Community Programs Coordinator for Olympia PD, Rebekah Ziesemer for facilitating. A recording of this session will be available for viewing via our video library in the Members section of our website.
For our next Crime Prevention Thursday on May 16th, please join us for an in -depth discussion on Swatting. First, learn about the National Common Operational Picture Virtual Command Center on Swatting. The VCC is a situational awareness tool available to law enforcement agencies, utilized for sharing information related to swatting incidents across the US. This information will be provided by FBI Liaison Specialist Rachel Burney. Secondly, we will have a presentation on Responding to and Investigating Bomb Threats and Swatting Hoaxes. This will provide a review of statistics/current trends, characteristics of hoax calls as well as best practices for assessment and response. This information will be presented by FBI Supervisory Special Agent Brian LeBlanc
Due to the content of the material, this will be a 90-minutes session. To register for the Crime Prevention Thursday Session, please go here. After you register you will receive a link for the Zoom session.
Crime Prevention Conference
We are looking forward to having you join us at our 2024 Crime Prevention Conference on September 17-18, 2024, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Wenatchee. We continue to refine our offerings to ensure you get the best value for attending. We want you to be able to walk away with ideas, plans, and programs that you can put in place in your communities to enhance what you are already doing regarding Crime Prevention and Community Engagement. As a refresher, here is some of that we have planned for you:
- Preparing Schools for an Active Shooter event
- Conducting a School CPTED Assessment
- Building a Volunteer Program
- Dealing with Chronic Nuisance Properties
- Scaling Up Your Community Police/Citizen’s Academy
- Crime Prevention Plans and Programs
Also, we will have a general membership meeting during the buffet lunch on the first day of the conference. We will be holding elections for Officers and Directors. All active Association Members (meaning those who are current on their dues) have voting privileges, and you must be an active member in order to hold office on the Board of the Association.
Thank you to those who have already registered for the conference. For those that have yet to register, you can do so here.
Nominations for Crime Prevention Awards
We will be presenting our annual Crime Prevention Awards on Wednesday, September 18th during the buffet lunch. We will honor Outstanding Crime Prevention Program, Volunteer of the year, Crime Prevention Unit of the Year, Crime Prevention Practitioner of the Year, The President’s Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. We need you to nominate people and programs for these awards. We really do rely on you. To nominate an award recipient, please go here.
Thank you all and thank you for all you do for your communities. We hope to see you at our next Crime Prevention Thursday and at our Conference in September in Wenatchee.
-Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association
April 2024
Dear Members and Friends -
Happy April, everyone! We wanted to take a moment to share a few items with you.
Check Out Our New Website
We have a new look to our website. There are some new features that are exclusive to our members and member organizations, such as our Crime Prevention Library and past recordings of Crime Prevention Thursday. When you have a moment, please check it out. https://www.wscpa.net/
CPTED Training
We will be holding our Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) certification class in Spokane at Gonzaga University April 16-18. Our thanks to Gonzaga’s Campus Security & Public Safety Department and Spokane C.O.P.S. for hosting us.
Crime Prevention Thursday
While we will be involved in our CPTED training on Thursday April 18th, we will still hold Crime Prevention Thursday for those who will not be in Spokane with us. Our April 18th topic will be Summer Community Programming and Engagement. With many of our member agencies participating in Drug Take Back Day, Shred-a-thons, Night Out and other Crime Prevention and Community Outreach efforts over the next few months, join your colleagues in a discussion about what is planned, how they were organized, who was partnered with, and how you can possibly replicate those efforts in your community. This session will be facilitated by Rebekah Ziesemer, WSCPA Region 3 Director and Community Programs Coordinator for Olympia PD. To register for our 11am Pacific Time Crime Prevention Thursday Session, please go here.
Crime Prevention Conference
We are excited about what we have in store for you at our annual Crime Prevention Conference September 17-18, 2024, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Wenatchee. Some of the workshops we have planned for you include:
Workshop details and conference schedule will be forthcoming. Thank you to those who have already registered for the conference. For those that have yet to register, you can do so here.
Annual Awards are back!
After a few years’ hiatus, we are bringing back our annual Crime Prevnetion Awards, which will be presented at our conference on Wednesday the 18th during the buffet lunch. We will honor Outstanding Crime Prevention Program, Volunteer of the year, Crime Prevention Unit of the Year, Crime Prevention Practitioner of the Year, The President’s Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. We rely on you to nominate these programs and individuals to be awarded. To nominate an award recipient, please go here.
The Role of the Mental Wellness Field in Prevention
From our friend Salliejo Evers from Homeland, is an announcement regarding an upcoming webinar on Tuesday, April 16th, 10am Pacific time. Please see below.
Happy April, everyone! We wanted to take a moment to share a few items with you.
Check Out Our New Website
We have a new look to our website. There are some new features that are exclusive to our members and member organizations, such as our Crime Prevention Library and past recordings of Crime Prevention Thursday. When you have a moment, please check it out. https://www.wscpa.net/
CPTED Training
We will be holding our Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) certification class in Spokane at Gonzaga University April 16-18. Our thanks to Gonzaga’s Campus Security & Public Safety Department and Spokane C.O.P.S. for hosting us.
Crime Prevention Thursday
While we will be involved in our CPTED training on Thursday April 18th, we will still hold Crime Prevention Thursday for those who will not be in Spokane with us. Our April 18th topic will be Summer Community Programming and Engagement. With many of our member agencies participating in Drug Take Back Day, Shred-a-thons, Night Out and other Crime Prevention and Community Outreach efforts over the next few months, join your colleagues in a discussion about what is planned, how they were organized, who was partnered with, and how you can possibly replicate those efforts in your community. This session will be facilitated by Rebekah Ziesemer, WSCPA Region 3 Director and Community Programs Coordinator for Olympia PD. To register for our 11am Pacific Time Crime Prevention Thursday Session, please go here.
Crime Prevention Conference
We are excited about what we have in store for you at our annual Crime Prevention Conference September 17-18, 2024, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Wenatchee. Some of the workshops we have planned for you include:
- Preparing Schools for an Active Shooter event
- Conducting a School CPTED Assessment
- Volunteer Programs
- Dealing with Chronic Nuisance Properties
- Community Assisted Response & Engagement (CARE) Department: Seattle’s 3rd Public Safety Department
- Cyberfraud Awareness and Prevention
- Scaling Up Your Community Police/Citizen’s Academy
Workshop details and conference schedule will be forthcoming. Thank you to those who have already registered for the conference. For those that have yet to register, you can do so here.
Annual Awards are back!
After a few years’ hiatus, we are bringing back our annual Crime Prevnetion Awards, which will be presented at our conference on Wednesday the 18th during the buffet lunch. We will honor Outstanding Crime Prevention Program, Volunteer of the year, Crime Prevention Unit of the Year, Crime Prevention Practitioner of the Year, The President’s Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. We rely on you to nominate these programs and individuals to be awarded. To nominate an award recipient, please go here.
The Role of the Mental Wellness Field in Prevention
From our friend Salliejo Evers from Homeland, is an announcement regarding an upcoming webinar on Tuesday, April 16th, 10am Pacific time. Please see below.
That’s all we have for you today. I look forward to seeing some of you at Gonzaga, and others of you on Crime Prevention Thursday
Thank you for all you do in your communities.
-Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association
Thank you for all you do in your communities.
-Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association
January 2024
Dear Members and Friends,
Welcome to 2024!
2023 was a momentous year for the Washington State Crime Prevention Association. We conducted two CPTED certification courses (Issaquah in March and Everett in October), held a 40-hour Basic Crime Prevention Course in Richland in June, and our annual Crime Prevention Conference in Olympia in September. We have also hosted our Crime Prevention Thursday sessions to bring you subject matter experts in a variety of fields to provide education and resources for you to use in your communities.
As we come into 2024, I want to share a few items with you.
First, our next Crime Prevention Thursday of 2024 will be on February 15th at 11:00am-12:00pm. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent Jesse Miller will be our featured speaker and will be discussing Project iGuardian. Project iGuardian is presented by HSI Special Agents in partnership with local law enforcement. Project iGuardian is designed to inform students, parents, educators, and law enforcement about the risks that children face in the online environment. Special Agent Miller will also discuss the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Netsmartz program.
As we look at future crime prevention Thursday topics, we have some of the following: cyber fraud, CPTED for multi-family housing units; Business crime Prevention/Business watch best practices; construction suite security.
Secondly, our 46th Annual Crime Prevention Conference is September 17-18, 2024. The two-day conference will run Tuesday and Wednesday and will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Wenatchee, WA. You can register for the conference and book your room here.
We are accepting workshop proposals for the Conference. Share your expertise and present at the 2024 Crime Prevention Conference! You can submit your workshop proposal directly to us at [email protected]. The submission deadline is March 31, 2024.
Please Renew Your Membership!
Thank you to all who have joined the WSCPA as new members for 2024. For those who have yet to renew their individual or agency membership, we ask that you do so this month. Our organization relies on your membership dues to help us keep the doors open. The major benefits of membership are: access to members-only WSCPA Crime Prevention materials; access to the WSCPA YouTube Channel where you can view previous Crime Prevention Thursday Offerings; discounts on all WSCPA Trainings and conferences; and access to the wide network of the 114+ agencies and several hundred individuals throughout Washington State (and beyond!) that connect through the WSCPA. Individual memberships are $35/year and agency/organizational memberships are $199/year. To renew, or to become a new member of the WSCPA, please go here.
Thank you for all you do for your communities.
We hope to see you soon. In the meantime, Take Care and Stay Safe!
-Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association
Welcome to 2024!
2023 was a momentous year for the Washington State Crime Prevention Association. We conducted two CPTED certification courses (Issaquah in March and Everett in October), held a 40-hour Basic Crime Prevention Course in Richland in June, and our annual Crime Prevention Conference in Olympia in September. We have also hosted our Crime Prevention Thursday sessions to bring you subject matter experts in a variety of fields to provide education and resources for you to use in your communities.
As we come into 2024, I want to share a few items with you.
First, our next Crime Prevention Thursday of 2024 will be on February 15th at 11:00am-12:00pm. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent Jesse Miller will be our featured speaker and will be discussing Project iGuardian. Project iGuardian is presented by HSI Special Agents in partnership with local law enforcement. Project iGuardian is designed to inform students, parents, educators, and law enforcement about the risks that children face in the online environment. Special Agent Miller will also discuss the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Netsmartz program.
As we look at future crime prevention Thursday topics, we have some of the following: cyber fraud, CPTED for multi-family housing units; Business crime Prevention/Business watch best practices; construction suite security.
Secondly, our 46th Annual Crime Prevention Conference is September 17-18, 2024. The two-day conference will run Tuesday and Wednesday and will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Wenatchee, WA. You can register for the conference and book your room here.
We are accepting workshop proposals for the Conference. Share your expertise and present at the 2024 Crime Prevention Conference! You can submit your workshop proposal directly to us at [email protected]. The submission deadline is March 31, 2024.
Please Renew Your Membership!
Thank you to all who have joined the WSCPA as new members for 2024. For those who have yet to renew their individual or agency membership, we ask that you do so this month. Our organization relies on your membership dues to help us keep the doors open. The major benefits of membership are: access to members-only WSCPA Crime Prevention materials; access to the WSCPA YouTube Channel where you can view previous Crime Prevention Thursday Offerings; discounts on all WSCPA Trainings and conferences; and access to the wide network of the 114+ agencies and several hundred individuals throughout Washington State (and beyond!) that connect through the WSCPA. Individual memberships are $35/year and agency/organizational memberships are $199/year. To renew, or to become a new member of the WSCPA, please go here.
Thank you for all you do for your communities.
We hope to see you soon. In the meantime, Take Care and Stay Safe!
-Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association
November 2023
Dear Members and Friends –
It has been a very active time for the Washington State Crime Prevention Association.
CPTED Certification Course
This October, we held our 2nd WSCPA CPTED Certification course for 2023, hosted by the Everett Police Department. We are grateful to Everett PD for hosting and thank all of those who attended. The breadth of our class participants was inspiring, from Law Enforcement to Code Enforcement, from School Districts to Business Improvement Areas. Attendees travelled from Banbridge, Bellingham, Edmonds, Everett, Federal Way, Puyallup, Redmond, and Tacoma. Even Bently (and his human, Rebekah) travelled from Olympia to be with us!
45th Annual Crime Prevention Conference
In September, we held the 45th Annual WSCPA Crime Prevention Conference in Olympia. We had an incredible array of work workshops, presenters, and vendors. It was great to see you all there. A special thanks to all who attended, to the Olympia Hotel at Capitol Lake for hosting us, and to our very special Keynote Speaker, Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison.
We have uploaded pdfs of the workshop presentations to our webpage. You can find them by going to the ‘Conferences’ tab on our website and selecting ‘2023 Workshop Presentations’. If you missed the conference, or want to refresh yourself with what was presented, please visit this page. We hope to add more presentations soon.
It has been a very active time for the Washington State Crime Prevention Association.
CPTED Certification Course
This October, we held our 2nd WSCPA CPTED Certification course for 2023, hosted by the Everett Police Department. We are grateful to Everett PD for hosting and thank all of those who attended. The breadth of our class participants was inspiring, from Law Enforcement to Code Enforcement, from School Districts to Business Improvement Areas. Attendees travelled from Banbridge, Bellingham, Edmonds, Everett, Federal Way, Puyallup, Redmond, and Tacoma. Even Bently (and his human, Rebekah) travelled from Olympia to be with us!
45th Annual Crime Prevention Conference
In September, we held the 45th Annual WSCPA Crime Prevention Conference in Olympia. We had an incredible array of work workshops, presenters, and vendors. It was great to see you all there. A special thanks to all who attended, to the Olympia Hotel at Capitol Lake for hosting us, and to our very special Keynote Speaker, Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison.
We have uploaded pdfs of the workshop presentations to our webpage. You can find them by going to the ‘Conferences’ tab on our website and selecting ‘2023 Workshop Presentations’. If you missed the conference, or want to refresh yourself with what was presented, please visit this page. We hope to add more presentations soon.
Other Updates
2024 Crime Prevention Conference
Our 46th Annual Crime Prevention Conference will be September 17-18, 2024, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Wenatchee, WA. We are excited to bring together a diverse group of professionals to identify pathways to advance crime prevention. The registration link for the September 2024 conference will be live shortly.
Seeking 2024 Conference Presenters
Are you passionate about Crime Prevention? Do you have a unique initiative you are working on or success you’d like to share? WSCPA is now accepting session proposals for the September 2024 Conference in Wenatchee. Share your expertise and present at the 2024 Crime Prevention Conference! You can submit your workshop proposal directly to us at [email protected]. Submission deadline is March 31, 2024.
Crime Prevention Thursdays
Crime Prevention Thursdays will resume on Thursday January 18, 2024. The first Crime Prevention Thursday of 2024 will be our quarterly statewide Check-in. Please join us to share what's been happening in your communities, things you are working on, or areas in which you might need assistance. Please register for January’s session here. If you have ideas for future crime Prevention Thursday topics, or have a topic you would like to present, please let us know by emailing us directly.
Please Renew Your Membership!
As we will soon close out 2023, we ask that you renew your WSCPA membership for 2024. As reminder, the major benefits of membership are: Access to members-only WSCPA Crime Prevention materials; access to the WSCPA YouTube Channel where you can view previous Crime Prevention Thursday Offerings; discounts on all WSCPA Trainings and conferences, and; access to the wide network of the 114+ agencies and several hundred individuals throughout Washington State (and beyond!) that connect through the WSCPA. Individual memberships are $35/year and agency/organizational memberships are $199/year. To renew, or to become a new member of the WSCPA, please go here.
Thank you for all you do for your communities. We hope to see you soon. In the meantime, Take Care and Stay Safe!
-Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association
Our 46th Annual Crime Prevention Conference will be September 17-18, 2024, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Wenatchee, WA. We are excited to bring together a diverse group of professionals to identify pathways to advance crime prevention. The registration link for the September 2024 conference will be live shortly.
Seeking 2024 Conference Presenters
Are you passionate about Crime Prevention? Do you have a unique initiative you are working on or success you’d like to share? WSCPA is now accepting session proposals for the September 2024 Conference in Wenatchee. Share your expertise and present at the 2024 Crime Prevention Conference! You can submit your workshop proposal directly to us at [email protected]. Submission deadline is March 31, 2024.
Crime Prevention Thursdays
Crime Prevention Thursdays will resume on Thursday January 18, 2024. The first Crime Prevention Thursday of 2024 will be our quarterly statewide Check-in. Please join us to share what's been happening in your communities, things you are working on, or areas in which you might need assistance. Please register for January’s session here. If you have ideas for future crime Prevention Thursday topics, or have a topic you would like to present, please let us know by emailing us directly.
Please Renew Your Membership!
As we will soon close out 2023, we ask that you renew your WSCPA membership for 2024. As reminder, the major benefits of membership are: Access to members-only WSCPA Crime Prevention materials; access to the WSCPA YouTube Channel where you can view previous Crime Prevention Thursday Offerings; discounts on all WSCPA Trainings and conferences, and; access to the wide network of the 114+ agencies and several hundred individuals throughout Washington State (and beyond!) that connect through the WSCPA. Individual memberships are $35/year and agency/organizational memberships are $199/year. To renew, or to become a new member of the WSCPA, please go here.
Thank you for all you do for your communities. We hope to see you soon. In the meantime, Take Care and Stay Safe!
-Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association
August 2023
Washington State Crime Prevention Association Conference
Dear Members and Friends –
We hope your Summer has been well and that you had great Night Out Against Crime events.
With our annual Crime Prevention Conference just one month away, we wanted to get our draft schedule out to you now so you can see what offerings we have for you. Please see below.
Additionally, we’ve included the conference flyer for you that has the conference and hotel registration information. Please make your conference and room reservations as soon as you can; the hotel is only holding a certain number of rooms for us at this rate.
And if you need additional incentive to come to the conference, take a look at the raffle items we’ve secured. Here’s the thing about the raffle; we are not asking you to buy tickets. We are saying that for every conference workshop evaluation you fill out, you will receive a raffle ticket. In addition to maybe picking up a bag of coffee, a Chick-fil-A gift card, a swag basket from Elysian Brewing, and other items (more to come), you could also win a signed picture of Seattle Storm Guard Jewell Loyd and four tickets to a 2024 Storm home game. Or you could walk away with a Seattle Kraken hockey stick signed by the 2022-2023 team roster. Have we got your attention now?
Please join us! We’d love to see you at our conference.
Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association
Dear Members and Friends –
We hope your Summer has been well and that you had great Night Out Against Crime events.
With our annual Crime Prevention Conference just one month away, we wanted to get our draft schedule out to you now so you can see what offerings we have for you. Please see below.
Additionally, we’ve included the conference flyer for you that has the conference and hotel registration information. Please make your conference and room reservations as soon as you can; the hotel is only holding a certain number of rooms for us at this rate.
And if you need additional incentive to come to the conference, take a look at the raffle items we’ve secured. Here’s the thing about the raffle; we are not asking you to buy tickets. We are saying that for every conference workshop evaluation you fill out, you will receive a raffle ticket. In addition to maybe picking up a bag of coffee, a Chick-fil-A gift card, a swag basket from Elysian Brewing, and other items (more to come), you could also win a signed picture of Seattle Storm Guard Jewell Loyd and four tickets to a 2024 Storm home game. Or you could walk away with a Seattle Kraken hockey stick signed by the 2022-2023 team roster. Have we got your attention now?
Please join us! We’d love to see you at our conference.
Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association
July 2023
Dear Members and Friends
40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Training.
Our thanks to the Richland Police Department for hosting our 40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention certification course June 19-23, 2023. We are so grateful to them for their hospitality. Great participation from agencies from all over Washington State, from Anacortes to Spokane, Mattawa to Federal Way, and all points in between. Please welcome our 21 newly certified Crime Prevention Specialists!
WSCPA Annual Crime Prevention Conference
Our annual Crime Prevention Conference will be held at the Olympia Hotel at Capitol Lake in Olympia Washington, September 19-20, 2023. We have an exciting lineup planned for you and hope that you can join us. For a tentative schedule of offerings, please go here. To find conference registration and hotel information, please go here.
CPTED Certification Class
Because of the overwhelming interest in Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Certification class we held in Issaquah in March, we are holding a second CPTED Certification Class this calendar year. This class will be hosted by the Everett Police Department, October 17-19, 2023, at their South Precinct (1121 SE Everett Mall Way, Everett, WA 98208). You will find the training announcement and registration link here. As of this writing, there are 15 participants registered for this class. We are capping registration to 30 attendees, so if you are interested in receiving this training, please sign up soon.
Crime Prevention Thursdays
Due to upcoming events (Night Out Against Crime/National Night Out, the Annual Crime Prevention Conference and the upcoming CPTED Certification training) Crime Prevention Thursdays will be on hiatus until November 16, 2023. We would like your feedback as to the subjects we’ve covered to date and would like to hear from you about topics you’d like to have covered. Please feel free to email us directly at [email protected], or contact us at the conference or the CPTED training.
Thank you, everyone. We appreciate everything you do for our communities.
Be Well and Stay Safe!
-Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association
40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention Certification Training.
Our thanks to the Richland Police Department for hosting our 40-Hour Basic Crime Prevention certification course June 19-23, 2023. We are so grateful to them for their hospitality. Great participation from agencies from all over Washington State, from Anacortes to Spokane, Mattawa to Federal Way, and all points in between. Please welcome our 21 newly certified Crime Prevention Specialists!
WSCPA Annual Crime Prevention Conference
Our annual Crime Prevention Conference will be held at the Olympia Hotel at Capitol Lake in Olympia Washington, September 19-20, 2023. We have an exciting lineup planned for you and hope that you can join us. For a tentative schedule of offerings, please go here. To find conference registration and hotel information, please go here.
CPTED Certification Class
Because of the overwhelming interest in Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Certification class we held in Issaquah in March, we are holding a second CPTED Certification Class this calendar year. This class will be hosted by the Everett Police Department, October 17-19, 2023, at their South Precinct (1121 SE Everett Mall Way, Everett, WA 98208). You will find the training announcement and registration link here. As of this writing, there are 15 participants registered for this class. We are capping registration to 30 attendees, so if you are interested in receiving this training, please sign up soon.
Crime Prevention Thursdays
Due to upcoming events (Night Out Against Crime/National Night Out, the Annual Crime Prevention Conference and the upcoming CPTED Certification training) Crime Prevention Thursdays will be on hiatus until November 16, 2023. We would like your feedback as to the subjects we’ve covered to date and would like to hear from you about topics you’d like to have covered. Please feel free to email us directly at [email protected], or contact us at the conference or the CPTED training.
Thank you, everyone. We appreciate everything you do for our communities.
Be Well and Stay Safe!
-Mark A. Solomon, CPD, PSP
President, Washington State Crime Prevention Association