NHTSA Training for the Enforcement of Motorcycle Laws- update
NHTSA Training for the Enforcement of Motorcycle Laws- update
http://www.iadlest.org/newsletter/oct09.pdf
International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and
Training
October 2009 Newsletter
Motorcycle related only:
June Kelly provided an update on the progress of the
Motorcycle Safety grant.
Enforcement of Motorcycle Law Training for Law
Enforcement:
Several surveys for training roll-out
and police academies interested in hosting the train the-
trainer were sent out via email, posted in the
IADLEST Newsletter, and have been distributed at
the IADLEST Conference in June. A total of 36
inquiries for training were received from the survey
and other email notices.
The curriculum has been completed and some pilot
training has been scheduled. A grant budget request
was submitted for year two of this grant, to present
training in each of the NHTSA regions. If you are
interested in hosting this training and did not see the
IADLEST survey, please contact June Kelly at the
Vermont Criminal Justice Training Academy. She
can be reached at email: June.Kelly@state.vt.us or
call her at (802) 483-2733.
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Recap:
www.iadlest.org/newsletter/jan09.pdf
Newsletter – January 2009
International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and
Training 3287 Tasa Drive; Meridian, Idaho 83642-6444
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NHTSA Training for the Enforcement of Motorcycle Laws:
This grant, for $152,000, was contracted with the Vermont Criminal
Justice Training Council, and June Kelly, Assistant Director, was
assigned as project manager. The purpose of this grant is to develop a
train-the-trainer program for law enforcement officers that are
presented nationally to train officers to proactively enforce motorcycle
traffic safety laws and regulations and avoid precipitating pursuit
situations. It is anticipated this training will reduce the number of
deaths and injuries that result from motorcycle related traffic crashes.
June Kelly in conjunction with NHTSA has developed a list of subject
matter experts, , to help develop the curriculum for a train-the-trainer
course for law enforcement officers on the enforcement of motorcycle
laws. A survey to determine existing motorcycle training programs was
sent out during October, and feedback from the survey confirmed that a
lack of training exists as well as little or no training materials
specific to law enforcement covering the enforcement of motorcycle laws
were found. She is asking all POST directors to notify her of any
subject matter experts (SME) in their state who can assist with this
project. Her first SME meeting is scheduled for Austin, Texas, in
January 2009. June can be reached at (802) 483-6228 or email
June.Kelly@state.vt.us
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www.iadlest.org/newsletter/apr09.pdf
Newsletter – April 2009
International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and
Training 3287 Tasa Drive; Meridian, Idaho 83642-6444
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TRAINING FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF MOTORCYCLE LAWS – GRANT UPDATE
by: June F. Kelly, Vermont Criminal Justice Training Center
Since the initial announcement of the grant award in September 2008, we
put out a pamphlet to the International Association of Directors of Law
Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST) members at their quarterly
business meeting in November 2008. This pamphlet gave a quick overview
of the existence of the “Training for the Enforcement of Motorcycle
Laws” NHTSA Grant Project, who the grant was awarded to, and the project
manager’s contact information. The pamphlet highlighted the critical
issues of motorcycle crashes, licensing, alcohol impairment, helmet use
and effectiveness, and other related statistics. The project has been
progressing with curriculum development well underway and a draft lesson
plan and PowerPoint completed. Individual subject matter experts (SME)
were identified with the help of NHTSA. A SME meeting was held on
January 18 and 19, 2009, in Austin, Texas. The following individuals met
to discuss the project drafts and provide their feedback: Mr. William H.
Cosby, Motorcycle Safety Programs, National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration; Mr. Richard Davis, Director’s Office, Arkansas State
Police, Arkansas Motorcycle Safety Advisory Council Chairperson; Lt. Jim
Halvorsen, New York State Police – Traffic Services Section; Ms. June
Kelly, Project Manager, Motorcycle Instructor & Assistant Director, VT
Criminal Justice Training Council; Lt. Michael Turcott, Washington State
Patrol; and Mr. John Young, Coordinator, Motorcycle Safety Unit, Texas
Department of Public Safety.
The subject matter experts (SMEs) at the meeting on January 18 and 19
attended a presentation of the draft PowerPoint and the accompanying
draft instructor’s manual. During the meeting, each SME was given a hard
copy of the draft of the instructor’s manual for markup and an
electronic copy of the materials to edit and respond to with a deadline.
I received responses back from two of the SME experts by the initial
deadline. The other two asked for more time and I have received one
back. The other asked for more time and for me to send an electronic
copy of the instructor’s manual again. He advised he was working on
feedback and I should have his comments soon. I sent out a list for
materials needed from NHTSA that we discussed at our meeting. The
request list was for six videos to get the high resolution versions and
other resource materials to reproduce for the instructor’s manual. Bill
Cosby of NHTSA advised he was working on the materials list and should
have them to me sometime this month.
Inquiries are coming in on how states can use this program, once
approved. I am advising them that we have a draft done of the lesson
plan and are in the works of finalizing materials. There will then be
the approval process through NHTSA and the International Association of
Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST). The roll
out will be through IADLEST and all the police academies and Police
Officer Standards and Training (POST) facilities throughout the country.
The plan is to use a train-the-trainer approach, let each state use the
curriculum, get the training out, and look to develop a cadre of
trainers ideally in every state. This is a national project. I am
working with subject matter experts from around the country to develop
this course for all law enforcement. Each state will address the
motorcycle law section/module in the course to their specific state’s
laws and come prepared to the train-the trainer to do so. We’re excited
about the prospect of sharing this program. Those that are inquiring
about the program may ask to be added to the contact list as more
information on training dates and sites become available.
We will be looking for pilot sites and then will move on to delivering
the program. We should have the program ready for delivery by May 1,
2009, which is the goal date for piloting the train-the-trainers. If
you’re interested in participating and hosting the train-the trainer at
some point, let me know.
Costs and training benefits: The cost to departments will be the time
and cost to send your officers to training. The train-the-trainer will
be funded from the grant funding IADLEST received. The training will be
held at the various police academies/training sites that want to host
across the country. The goal is to get regions together that might need
the training first due to an upcoming motorcycle event, identify police
academies that want the training and are willing to host the training.
We’ll then travel to conduct the Train-the- Trainer course. Agencies are
responsible to pay officers’ salary, meals, and overnights lodging. The
train-the-trainer is proposed to be two days (16 hours) of training. The
train-the-trainer cadre of new instructors will then bring the training
to their own officers and other officers throughout the state. The
training draft is structured in training modules that can be taught in
one day (8 hours) or spread out in breakout training sessions over the
course of a couple evenings or as training modules to train all law
enforcement officers on all the basic issues related to motorcycle
safety, motorcycle laws, equipment, helmets, crash investigation,
pursuit issues, officer safety, best practices for stopping, DUI
detection, and public education. Please let me know if you have any
questions. June Kelly, Assistant Director & Grant Project Manager;
Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council Vermont Police Academy; 317
Academy Rd; Pittsford, VT 05763; Email: June.Kelly@state.vt.us / Direct
dial
(802) 483-2733
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http://www.iadlest.org/newsletter/jul09.pdf
Newsletter: July 2009
June 1, 2009
Dear POST Directors and IADLEST Members:
As you are probably aware, IADLEST as a part of the motorcycle grant
with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is about to roll
out a “Motorcycle Safety and Enforcement” Instructor workshop grant from
NHTSA. The curriculum development and training effort is being led by
the Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council (VCJTC) Assistant Director
June Kelly. She is also a motorcycle instructor for Vermont in her
spare time.
This grant provides for a minimum of 20 train-the-trainer workshops
throughou8t the United States, with a proposal of two trainings in each
NHTSA region. From that effort, a minimum of 20 workshops are planned
for law enforcement officers, traffic safety instructors, supervisors
and administrators. The proposed training represents 20 Safety and
Enforcement Instructor classes containing 20
instructor/train-the-trainers and then offering the Motorcycle Safety
and Enforcement Workshop with approximately 40 students attending. The
classes would be conducted jointly to get trainers ready to go with the
materials. This training model proposes the two day trainings back to
back to take advantage of brining in a local motor vehicle laws
instructor familiar with state specific laws.
The train-the-trainer workshop is 16 hours in length. The
train-the-trainer should be attended by master instructors familiar with
motorcycling and who are preferably riders themselves.
Motorcycle Safety & Enforcement – Train-the-Trainer (TOT 16 hours)
Motorcycle Safety & Enforcement Workshop (Second day- 8 hours with lunch
break included)
Despite everyone’s best efforts, motorcycle fatalities around the
country continue to rise. Nationwide, in 2007 there was a 7% increase
in motorcycle fatalities over the year before. Over the past en years,
fatalities have more than doubled. The fatality rate itself, measured
either in fatalities per vehicle or by fatalities by miles driven, have
each increased substantially.
Traffic safety strategies include programs that are multi-pronged and
include two major components of education and enforcement. This
workshop is intended for law enforcement personnel, highway safety
officers, traffic enforcement personnel and commanders, and other
working in the area of motorcycle safety. Specifically, it is for
personnel who are likely to:
. Be involved in motorcycle safety training, public education and
conducting enforcement details.
This workshop will introduce you to national and state specific
motorcycle enforcement issues. It
includes the best practices to reduce motorcycle fatalities and
injuries. Critical enforcement issues to be
covered include:
. Officer & Motorcyclist Safety
. Strategies for Stopping Motorcycles & Avoiding a Pursuit Motorcycle
Laws
. DUI/Impairment Detection
. Licensing – Motorcycle Endorsements
. Required Motorcycle Equipment
. Non-compliant helmets
This course material will be covered through an active training workshop
environment. We will use a
variety of formats that encourage discussion and participation that will
take advantage of the experiences
of the participants. The train-the-trainer class strongly encourages
attendance by officers who are (legally
licensed) motorcyclists themselves. Knowledge of the equipment and
firsthand experience on the issues to
be dealt with in the classroom will be a great asset to the course as it
is later presented around their state
and region.
The slots are reserved for master instructors in your state who will
train other police officers on
motorcycle enforcement issues at various academies around their state
and region. If you have master
instructors in your state who you would like to send to an initial TOT
and have them return with the
curriculum and train other instructors in your state to deliver this
training to your agencies and/or
associations, we need to hear from you so we can work with you to
develop a plan for your state and see
what funding is available. We are presently scheduling a handful of
field evaluation delivery of Train the-
trainer sessions dates until the end of the federal fiscal year.
Our grant provides limited funding for travel and per diem for
instructors attending the train-the-trainer.
There is also funding to compensate the motor vehicle law instructors
for their teaching time provided
they are not teaching on agency time. We are soliciting stakeholder
partners through IACP, NSA, FOP
and Governor’s Highway Offices to help with the marketing and
distribution of this training.
The purpose of this letter is to solicit your interest in providing or
hosting this training in your state.
If your agency does not have the infrastructure to deliver and provide
these TOT and workshop sessions,
we need to know that, so we can plan training workshops in your State
with your approval. We are under
a very short time frame to accomplish this training and need to hear
back from you in the next 30 days.
To receive your input as quickly as possible, we have provided a
response sheet. If you already sent one
in response to my email inquiry, please disregard this one.
We ask that you respond no later than July 15, 2009 to give us time to
organize the rest of the field
evaluations and plan the rest of the training roll-out. Please call or
email Assistant Director /Project
Manager June Kelly at June.Kelly@state.vt.us or by telephone at (802)
483-2733, or Mike Becar,
IADLEST at (208) 559-4751 MikeBecar@yahoo.com. Thank you for
prioritizing this effort and sending
your responses or thoughts back to us.
Michael Crews
President, IADLEST
June Kelly
Project Manager
Grant update:
Enforcement of Motorcycle Laws: This grant was to
develop a training curriculum for training law
enforcement officers on how to effectively enforce
motorcycle laws and help prevent motorcycleinvolved
accidents. June Kelly from the
Vermont Law Enforcement Academy has
completed most of the curriculum and is in the
process of pilot testing the training at this time.
A second year extension for this grant was
recently submitted to NHTSA for $211,102.85 to
present 20 two-day train-the-trainer classes in the
ten NHTSA regions throughout the United
States. If you are interested in hosting one of
these classes, please contact June Kelly at (802)
483-2733.
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http://www.lifesaversconference.org/handouts2009/Kelly.pdf
Lifesavers 2009 Conference
Presentation:
Motorcycle Enforcement & Education Initiative
Lifesaver’s Conference – Nashville
June Kelly, Project Manager
International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and
Training & National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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Training for the Enforcement of Motorcycle Laws
International Association of Directors of Law
Enforcement Standards and Training & National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This project is supported by cooperative agreement
DTNH22-07-H-000160/003 awarded by the Department of Transportation (DOT)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Grantee:
International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and
Training (IADLEST) www.iadlest.org
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Grant Purpose
We’re working with NHTSA.
. to develop, implement, support and deliver training of motorcycle laws
and the associated publications, activities and technical assistance
requirements.
The goal.
. provide sufficient train-the-trainer sessions
. assure that each NHTSA region will have a cadre of available
instructors . train law enforcement officers.
Grant Purpose
. Training programs for the enforcement of motorcycle laws
. Training goal is to reduce the number of deaths and injuries from
motorcycle related traffic crashes. . Training courses to be offered: -
Train-the-Trainer Level Program – Training Program for the Law
Enforcement Officer
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Survey
. Survey of Motorcycle Training
. Police Training Content
. What was the consensus?
The Concept
Program rolled out in phases
Phase I – Program Planning and Development
Phase II- Pilot Delivery and Evaluation
Phase III- Incremental Implementation
Phase IV- Self Sustainability Updating of Materials
The Concept
Phase I – Program Planning and Development
. Research and Development of Draft Curriculum
. Met with SMEs in January 2009
. Incorporating the feedback
. Resource materials
. Draft done of the lesson plan
. We are in the works of finalizing materials
. Approval process through NHTSA and IADLEST
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Course overview
This training will look at situations unique to the enforcement of
motorcycle laws such as the following: . Officer and Motorcyclist Safety
. Strategies for traffic stops . Strategies to avoid pursuit situations
. Motorcycle equipment requirements
Course overview
This training will look at.
. Motorcycle licensing and speeding issues
. Detection of impaired motorcyclists
. Detection of non-compliant helmets
. Latest on enforcement & public education
The Concept
Phase II – Pilot Delivery and Evaluation
. We will be looking for pilot sites
. Deliver the program
. Roll out will be through IADLEST
- Police Academies and
- Police Officer Standards and Training (POST) facilities
. Pilot program ready for delivery by May 1, 2009
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Course contents – 8 Modules
. Module 1: Introduction – Why? > National Statistics & State Statistics
. Module 2: MTC Types and Characteristics . Module 3: Motorcycle Laws >
Equipment & Operation
. Module 4: Officer & Motorcyclist Safety > Strategies for stopping
motorcycles; Avoiding pursuits > Gangs versus clubs
. Module 5: Crash Investigation
. Module 6: DUI Detection
. Module 7: Helmets
. Module 8: Public Education > Best Practices > Safety Checkpoints
The Concept
Phase III – Incremental Implementation
. This is a national project
. Train-the-trainer approach
. Let each state use the curriculum
. Develop a cadre of trainers
. Technical Assistance
. Motorcycle law module – state specific
. Trainer candidate will address their specific state’s laws
Phase III – Incremental Implementation
. If you’re interested in participating or hosting the trainer at some
point, please leave me your business card at the end of this workshop.
TRAINING COST
. Your cost for training limited to personnel costs.
. Time and cost to send officers to training
. Train-the-trainer funded by the grant
. Training to be held at police training sites
. What regions need the training first?
. Upcoming motorcycle events
. Identify police academies willing to host the training
Training Train-the-trainer
. Two days (16 hours) of training
. Cadre of new instructors
. New instructors will train their own & other officers throughout their
state. . The training draft is structure in 8 training modules .
Officer’s Course taught in one day (8 hours) . Training modules
breakouts
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