SSPD Captain Completes Police Leadership Training In Israel

SANDY SPRINGS, GA — Daniel Nable, a captain with the Sandy Springs Police Department, has wrapped up two weeks of public safety leadership training with top policing executives in Israel.

Capt. Nable was part of a 21-member delegation of senior law enforcement officials from Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee — to include police chiefs, sheriffs, public safety commissioners and a senior corporate security manager — who participated in Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange's 26th annual peer-to-peer training program in partnership with Israel.

While in Israel, these public safety personnel studied best practices and the latest advances in community policing, counterterrorism, emergency management, advanced technologies and homeland security policies.

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"In GILEE's 26 years, our partnership with the world's top public safety experts has returned more than 720 public safety officials home with the knowledge and skills they need to keep our communities safer," said Robbie Friedmann, GILEE's founding director and professor emeritus at Georgia State University. "Among the program's many benefits, our delegates return home with a better understanding of effective ways to address modern policing challenges and increased communications and collaboration among different agencies, external organizations and the greater community."

This year's peer-to-peer training emphasized community policing, the textbook definition of which was developed by Friedmann while he was a Georgia State University professor:

Community policing is a policy and a strategy aimed at achieving more effective and efficient crime control, reduced fear of crime, improved quality of life, improved police services and police legitimacy, through a proactive reliance on community resources that seeks to change crime-causing conditions. It assumes a need for greater accountability of police, greater public share in decision-making and greater concern for civil rights and liberties.

"The phenomenal GILEE program makes us think outside the box, understand the importance of building and maintaining strong relationships and partnerships," said Rome Police Chief Denise DownerMcKinney, who participated in GILEE's 19th delegation to Israel. "It is critical that we continue to work diligently to forge and build public and private partnerships in our local communities and throughout Georgia. We must continue to develop and strengthen these relationships, along with our local business and community partners, to ensure our children and communities are safe, and that we have the tools to make this happen."

Founded in 1992, GILEE is a Georgia homeland security program. The organization works continuously to improve public safety by enhancing inter-agency cooperation, partnerships and professional educational training among the world's top law enforcement communities, most recently in Israel and Hungary.

To date, it has offered more than 200 special briefings to more than 32,000 law enforcement officers, corporate security personnel and community leaders. GILEE has carried out more than 450 programs and produced more than 1,500 graduates.

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