Harbourside LAC is hosting its third local leadership development program.

STORY INSPKRISTYWALTERS,HARBOURSIDE LAC

The Harbourside Leadership Development Program was

implemented in 2011, with 26 officers completing the first two courses and another 26 who have just started the 2013 course including some from Surry Hills LAC.

The six month program is open to both sworn and administrative officers at all ranks from within the command and is designed to develop the leadership skills of staff who have been identified as demonstrating

leadership potential in the workplace. Harbourside Commander, Supt

Allan Sicard says the local LDP is about offering opportunities and challenges to staff interested in stepping into leadership roles.

“We have seen a number of officers make the decision to plan the next two years of their careers and put in place strategies to make their plans happen,” he said. “It’s very satisfying to give all members of our team the opportunity of attending

these training sessions, and it is also beneficial to our LAC.”

Organised by the Harbourside Management Team, the program covers a number of key aspects of leadership including leadership and management, human resource management, media, incident and emergency management, professional standards, project management, time management, communication skills and teamwork.

Course content is delivered through a number of face to face workshops, training days, assessment tasks, presentations and field placement opportunities within various sections of the NSWPF.

Participants are provided with exposure to a number of leadership styles and methods from command and control in high risk incidents through to motivational leadership

within private industry. Guest presenters have been drawn

from a number of internal units and external organisations including Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas, Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch, Assistant Commissioner Alan Clarke, Deputy Commissioner Steve Pearce (SES), Professor Gordian Fulde (Director, St Vincent’s Hospital) and Commander David Jones (HMAS Waterhen).

The program finishes with a verbal presentation of a major group assignment to a scrutiny panel. Topics focus on strategies to address issues that have the potential to impact on the command in the short to medium term. Past assignment topics have included communication and training, demographics, technology and crime, electronic based record keeping and the probationary constable

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exchange program. One recent assignment, which focused on operational safety in the workplace, was presented at a region level and subsequently delivered to a group of over 300 trainees at the Goulburn Police Academy.

After completing the program, many officers have gone on to achieve long term personal and career goals including specialist placements and long term higher duties relief. Field placements and secondments have included Public Affairs, Customer Service Unit, Strike Force Raptor, Marine Area Command and State Crime

Command. Other participants have gone on to lead and contribute to major events and operations including New Years Eve Celebrations and the Sydney Running Festival.

Supt Sicard said Harbourside hopes to continue with the success of the past two years with a third program, which started last month.

I would like to commend Insp Kristy Walters for her role in this project. Kristy is a former EDO and an outstanding HR duty officer who has a significant influence on the course content.

ANTI-CORRUPTIONCONFERENCEWITH A DEDICATED POLICE STREAM

ABOVEGraduates from Harbourside LAC’s Leadership Program

The Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference returns to Sydney in 2013 with a dedicated police stream.

Learn from leading experts in exposing and preventing public

sector corruption. APSACC is jointly hosted every

two years by the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Queensland Crime & Misconduct Commission and the Western Australian Corruption & Crime Commission.

This year’s two-day conference will be held at the Hilton Sydney from 26 to 28 November 2013.

Topics will include managing high-risk functions, implementing post-investigation reforms, uses of force and critical policing incidents, the connection between

bullying and corrupt conduct, improving governance, and political corruption.

Dr Peter Eigen, founder of the Advisory Council of Transparency International and the Berlin Civil Society Centre, will deliver the keynote address. Dr Eigen is a lawyer who has worked in economic development for 25 years and his current work encompasses transparency in extraction industries and better governance to ensure wealth sharing for local populations.

The Hon James Wood AO, QC will open the second day of the conference. A former chief judge at Common Law of the Supreme Court of NSW, Mr Wood is Chair of the Law Reform Commission of NSW and Deputy Chair of the NSW Sentencing Council. He was recently appointed as a member of the Customs Reform Board and as head of the review into Cycling Australia.

Find out more online at www.apsacc.com.au. Early bird registration opens on 1 May 2013.

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