Allen Graduates Police Command Program

The Kearney Missouri Police Department announced on Friday, June 28, tha Captain Brian Allen is a new graduate from the School of Police Staff and Command (SPSC) at Northwestern University, Class #580. Captain Allen is the first ever from the department to graduate from this course.

Allen and his fellow graduates completed the 10-week Staff and Command program held at the Clay County Sheriff's Office.

Their class consisted of 18 students from multiple agencies across the country including: Clay County Missouri Sheriff's Office, Gladstone Missouri PD, Lee Summit Missouri PD, Missouri State Highway Patrol, Quincy Illinois PD, Clinton County Missouri Sheriff's Office, St. Joseph Missouri PD., Platte County Missouri Sheriff's Office, Kearney Missouri PD., Prairie Village Kansas PD, Polk County Florida Sheriff's Office, and Overland Park Kansas PD.

The Northwestern School of Police Staff & Command is the most academically rigorous program available for experienced mid- and upper-level supervisory personnel. Through an innovative combination of academic principles blended with practical applications, this intensive curriculum focuses on areas critical to successful senior law enforcement leadership and management.

Since 1983, SPSC has graduated more than 565 classes, and more than 21,000 students consisting of some of the best and brightest professionals in the field. Through an innovative combination of academic principles with practical applications, the

The 10-week SPSC curriculum zeroes in on such critical command-level content as planning and policies, media relations, organizational behavior, budgeting and resource allocation, human resources, statistics, project management, traffic, and more. Students are academically challenged through written examinations, projects, presentations, quizzes, and a staff study paper which are required parts of the curriculum.

Brian Watts contributed to this story.