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Message from WSCPA President - Mark Solomon
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
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