Calling him a top performer, Van Buren County Sheriff Daniel Abbott has announced that his Lieutenant James Charon has graduated from the School of Police Staff & Command at Northwestern University to further enhance his career in Michigan’s Great Southwest.
Charon successfully completed the 22-week long training program in late March in Class #472 which featured Charon and 18 fellow graduates in Evanston, Illinois. The training was launched on October 7th last year and concluded on March 22nd. It dates back to its original implementation in 1983 and has dispatched more than 25,000 graduate students both nationally and internationally in its 37 year run to date.
Abbott tells us that the School of Police Staff and Command provides upper-level college instruction in a total of twenty-seven core blocks of instruction and additional optional blocks during each session. The major topics of study include:
- Leadership
- Human Resources
- Employee Relations
- Organizational Behavior
- Applied Statistics
- Planning and Policy Development
- Budgeting and Resource Allocation
Each student is academically challenged through written examinations, projects, presentations and quizzes in addition to a staff study paper that are all required parts of the curriculum. Upon successful completion, students may be awarded a total of 6 units of undergraduate credit from Northwestern University in Evanston.
The Center for Public Safety was established at Northwestern University in 1936 with the specific goal of expanding university-based education and training for the Law Enforcement Community. Since its inception, the Center has broadened its original objective and now provides a variety of courses and programs in the area of Police Training, Management Training, and Executive Development.
The Van Buren County Sheriff’s Office anticipates a variety of benefits from Lt. Charon’s attendance at the program. Many of the program’s graduates do go on to achieve a variety of leadership positions within their respective agencies
Sheriff Abbott says, “I couldn’t be more proud of Lt. Charon for completing this program. I have no doubt Lt. Charon will take what he learned, and apply some of it here. Jim performs at a high level every day and takes a lot of pride in what he does, and here is just another example of that.”
