Military Liaison: Personal Experience Paper
Abstract
The Metropolitan Police Department of Washington DC had a few forward thinking leaders who saw the need for a Military Liaison person to help facilitate the deployment and redeployment of its members who serve in the Armed Forces. I was one of the members contacted to fill this position. My duties initially where that of adviser and mentor but along the way the opportunities to serve both the Departments and Militarys needs became evident, and with over 100 members of the department still serving in the Armed Forces and those forces still looking for career minded personal the line between the two organizations became very thin. In the fall of 2006 the International Association Chiefs of Police (IACP) started a Round table discussion group of Military Veterans on their experiences during the Deployment and Redeployment phases from their agencies. The IACP choose various locations around the United States to get the largest sampling possible. I was asked to represent my department in the last round table in the fall of 2007 in Baltimore Maryland. My panel represented approximately ten different law enforcement agencies from the northeast section of the United States. The group was very diverse with ranks from both from the Armed Forces side as well as the law enforcement side. The big rock that took away from the panel was the lack of consistency from department to department. As I headed back to my department full of ideas I quickly relearned the lesson of "Status Quo." Even with an Assistant Chief of Police on our side the journey has taken a much slower and less dynamic approached to implementation than I thought possible.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 30, 2008
- Accession Number
- AD1111418
Entities
People
- Rodney R. Ervin
Organizations
- United States Army Sergeants Major Academy