6 ISF Officers Participate in Leadership Seminar in Texas
Six Brigadier Generals from the Internal Security Forces participated last month in an Executive Leadership Seminar at the Center for American and International Law”s Institute for Law Enforcement Administration in Texas, the U.S. embassy said in a press release on Wednesday.
It said the Feb. 9-20 seminar was part of the ongoing partnership between the ISF and the U.S. government.
"The Institute for Law Enforcement Administration is one of the United States premier learning centers for law enforcement executives, managers and supervisors, preparing course participants for today”s challenging management and ethical issues," the embassy said.
"The U.S. embassy and the ISF worked with the Institute for Law Enforcement Administration to tailor a customized curriculum to incorporate the unique requirements of the ISF as Lebanon”s national police and law enforcement agency," the press release said.
The Brigadier Generals got the opportunity to complement the training they received by observing U.S. police Emergency Operations Centers and Dispatch Centers as well as operational methods at the Dallas, Plano and McKinley Police Departments.
A visit to the Texas Collin County Fusion Center showed how a state-of-the-art data sharing and analysis system can bring together information from a wide variety of sources in order to detect and display relationships between people, places and events to uncover potential threats and investigate unsolved crimes.
The embassy said that head of the ISF Judicial Police Bureau Brigadier General Anwar Yehya followed up his participation in the seminar with two days of meetings in Washington with officials in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Department of State to discuss ongoing investigative programs and new training opportunities for ISF officers.