[479] MTSU Playing Host to Third Annual Law-Enforcement Training Seminar-Update

May 24, 2011
MTSU PLAYING HOST TO THIRD ANNUAL LAW-ENFORCEMENT TRAINING SEMINAR
UPDATE ON SESSION TOPICS:
Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 25:
9 a.m.: Officer Kristy Inglish will discuss domestic violence.
2 p.m.: Inglish will discuss Child Sex Abuse.

Thursday, May 26:
10 a.m.: Major Jim Gage will discuss Crime Scenes.
1 p.m.: Lt. Don Fanning will discuss Use of Force issues.

MEDIA: Please note that if you plan to attend, contact Tom Tozer, 615-898-2919, who will check with speakers ahead of time. Some speakers have expressed a wish not to be recorded. Thank you.


MURFREESBORO—The Department of Criminal Justice at Middle Tennessee State University is playing host next week to a third annual law-enforcement training seminar that provides police officers throughout Tennessee the necessary training to meet required certification standards and prepares them to better serve the public in times of crises.
The seminar will run Monday through Thursday, May 23-26, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the MTSU campus.
The training event has grown and attracted increased interest, organizers said. According to the original public-service grant proposal, one goal is to provide additional training seminars and establish the university as the center for police in-service training for the entire state.
Not only would developing such a center add prestige to the university, but it would provide more opportunities for developing student-oriented safety programs on campus and create more partnerships with public-service agencies, the proposal stated.
The seminar, which runs through Thursday of next week, will tackle such subjects as campus-police issues, stress management, juvenile law, domestic violence, child sex abuse, the use of force, and gang activity in communities throughout the region and state.
Speakers include Drs. Dennis Powell and Carter F. Smith, MTSU criminal justice professors; Sgt. Eric Anderson, supervisor of the Special Victims Unit with the Franklin Police Department; Rutherford County Juvenile Court Judge Donna Scott Davenport, MTSU alumna; Kim Rush, director of The Guidance Center in Murfreesboro; Major Jim Gage, assistant commander of the Criminal Investigations Division of the Murfreesboro Police Department; and Thomas Dale Robinson, former MTSU and Murfreesboro police officer, later assistant district attorney, and now legal instructor with the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy.
For more information about the training seminar or MTSU’s Department of Criminal Justice, call 615-898-2630.
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