Contact Info- RCPI'S

In 1997, COPS funded the creation of the only national training network of Regional Community Policing Institutes (RCPIs) to provide comprehensive and innovative community policing education, training and technical assistance to COPS grantees throughout the nation. RCPIs develop innovative cutting edge curricula on emerging law enforcement issues to challenge and improve traditional training curricula. Topics include but are not limited to escalating school violence, cultural diversity, domestic violence, partnership building, domestic-preparedness, and terrorism. Training focuses on collaborative partnerships and problem-solving strategies for criminal justice practitioners, local government officials, business leaders and community leaders-including youth, volunteers, city employees, elected officials, and social service agencies. As a requirement, training is delivered using adult-learning principles via interactive classroom instruction, CD-ROMS, community forums, teleconferences and the Internet and strives to provide a forum in which law enforcement and community members can discuss sensitive issues.

Additional information about the Regional Community Policing Institutes can be obtained from: http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=115.

ARIZONA Arizona RCPI Director - Rich Kush Arizona Post 2643 E. University Drive Phoenix, Arizona 85034 Email: Rich_Kush@tempe.gov CALIFORNIA RCPI - Los Angeles Director - Lieutenant Bruce Pollack Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department 11515 S. Colima Road, Room I-102 Whittier, California 90604 Email: bjpollac@lasd.org RCPI - Sacramento Director - Sergeant Charissa Jarosick P.O. Box 233500 Sacramento, California 95823-0443 Email: cjarosick@cityofsacramento.org RCPI- San Diego Director - Lt. Margaret Schaufelberger 2820 Roosevelt Road, Suite A San Diego, California 92106 Email: WPS@pd.sannet.gov COLORADO Colorado RCPI Director - Troy Smith Colorado Department of Public Safety 700 Kipling Street, Suite 1000 Denver, Colorado 80215 Email: troy.smith@cdps.state.co.us FLORIDA Florida RCPI - St. Petersburg Community College Director - Eileen LaHaie P.O. Box 13489 St. Petersburg, Florida 33733-3489 Email: lahaiee@spjc.edu ILLINOIS Institute for Public Safety Partnerships Director - William Fitzgerald University of Illinois at Chicago 920 W. Van Buren Street, Suite 230 Chicago, Illinois 60607-7035 Email: ipsp@uic.edu Regional Institute for Community Policing Director – Dr. Patricia Rushing University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2930 Montvale Drive, Suite B Springfield, Illinois 62704 Email: prush1@uis.edu INDIANA Fort Wayne RCPI Director - Dan Meeks 1025 West Rudisill Boulevard Fort Wayne, Indiana 46807 Email: dnmeeks@comcast.net Web: www.rcpi.org KANSAS RCPI at Wichita State University Director - Andra J. Bannister School of Community Affairs Wichita State University 1845 Fairmont-Wichita St University Wichita, Kansas 67260-0135 Email: andra.bannister@wichita.edu KENTUCKY Kentucky RCPI Director - Gary W. Cordner 467 Stratton Building Richmond, Kentucky 40475 Email: cordner@eku.edu LOUSIANA Louisiana Community Policing Institute Director - Daphne Levenson Louisiana State University in Shreveport One University Place, Suite 124 Shreveport, Louisiana 71115-2399 Email: daphne@cox.net MAINE Maine Community Policing Institute Director – Richard Mears University of Maine at Augusta 46 University Drive Augusta, ME 04330-9410 Email: rmears@maine.edu MASSACHUSETTS Regional Community Policing Institute for New England Director – Sheila Smith Boston Police Department 85 Williams Avenue Hyde Park, Massachusetts 02136 Email: SmithSh.bpd@ci.boston.ma.us MARYLAND Mid-Atlantic Regional Community Policing Institute Director – Mike Bass Johns Hopkins University 201 North Charles Street, Suite 320 Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Email: mbass1@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu MICHIGAN Michigan State University Regional Community Policing Institute Director - Merry Morash 524 Baker Hall East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1118 Email: morash@pilot.msu.edu MINNESOTA Upper Midwest Regional Community Policing Institute Director – Dennis Cusick 1600 University Avenue, West St. Paul, Minnesota 55103-2044 Email: dennis@umcpi.org

MISSOURI RCPI at Missouri Western State College Director - Joanne Katz Missouri Western State College RCPI 4525 Downs Drive, Suite LRC 101 St. Joseph, Missouri 64507-2294 Email: Katz@griffon.mwsc.edu NEW JERSEY New Jersey RCPI Director - Patrick O'Brien 281 Campgaw Road Mahwah, New Jersey 07340 Email: obrien@bclpsi.net NEW YORK New York State RCPI Director - Launcelott Smith John Jay College of Criminal Justice 555 W. 57th Street, Suite 605 New York, New York 10019 Email: lsmith@jjay.cuny.edu NORTH CAROLINA Carolina Institute for Community Policing Director – Charlie Dean 4701 Park Road Charlotte, NC 28209 Email: cwdean@cicp.org OHIO Tri-State RCPI Director - Roger McHugh 3254 East Kemper Road Cincinnati, Ohio 45241 Email: mchughr@greatoaks.com OKLAHOMA Oklahoma RCPI Director - Bill Forman 3701 S.E. 15th Street, Suite B-1 Del City, Oklahoma 73115 Email: baforeman@yahoo.com OREGON Western Community Policing Center (RCPI) Acting Director - Caralyn Holmes Western Oregon University Adm. Bldg. 302 345 N. Monmouth Ave. Monmouth, OR 97361 Email: holmesc@wou.edu PENNSYLVANIA Pennsylvania Community Policing Institute Director – Alfred Dean 17th and Chew Streets P.O. Box 7017 Allentown, PA 18705-7017 Email: TENNESSEE Knoxville Police Department RCPI (SCOPE) Director - Mike Hill Southeastern Community Oriented Policing Education 105 Student Services Building Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0213 Email: jhill1@utk.edu TEXAS Texas RCPI at Sam Houston State University Director – Philip Lyons Criminal Justice Center Huntstville, Texas 77341-2296 Email: ICC_PML@shsu.edu University of Texas at Austin RCPI Director – Bill Spelman LBJ School of Public Affairs P.O. Box Y Austin, TX 78713-8925 Email: spelman@mail.utexas.edu VIRGINIA Virginia Community Policing Institute Director – Lynda O’Connell Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services 805 East Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 Email: loconnell@vcpionline.org WASHINGTON Western Regional Institute for Community Oriented Public Safety (WRICOPS) Director - John Goldman Washington State University at Spokane 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd., Box B Spokane, Washington 99202-1662 Email: goldman@wsu.edu WEST VIRGINIA West Virginia RCPI Director - Larry Nelson 100 Faculty Circle Dunbar, West Virginia 25064 Email: lnelson@wvrcpi.org