SAN ANTONIO – Chair Harry J. Delgado, Ed.S. and the AccredNet Leadership Team are pleased to highlight the speakers being featured at the 2024 AccredNet Conference. These speakers were chosen as part of our continued partnership with the DOJ to create opportunities for open dialogue and discussion concerning police accreditation and best practices in the field of law enforcement.
This year’s conference will take place May 8-10 at the Historic Menger Hotel and will feature keynote speakers from the COPS Office Department of Justice, the Vincible Program, the Texas Municipal League – Intergovernmental Risk Pool and Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA).
Director Hugh Clements, Assistant Director Rob Chapman and Social Science Analyst Michael David from the COPS Office Department of Justice will address issues with COPS Grand Funding and Federal Standards.
Chief Stan Standridge is Chief of Police in San Marcos, Texas and he started the Vincible Program. “Vincible” is a play on the word “invincible” and was created by Chief Standridge. The program is comprised of hundreds of brief PowerPoint slides that depict real events that have occurred in Texas. The slides are intended to spark discussion regarding local police response to these various scenarios.
Irvin Janak is the manager of the Texas Municipal League – Intergovernmental Risk Pool. T.M.L. is Texas’s largest insurer of governmental entities in the state of Texas – supporting more than 800 clients. TML fully funds the Vincible Program because it helps manages risk.
Shannon Apple, a Special Agent with the Department Counterintelligence and Security Agency, will be speaking about a collaboration with AccredNet that will assist the agency in establishing criteria that ensures all prospective agencies seeking accreditation remain in compliance.
More details on the 2024 AccredNet Conference, including registration information and the conference agenda, can be found on the AccredNet website.
About AccredNet
AccredNet is a federation of state law enforcement accreditation entities, which provides guidance, advocacy and support to advance law enforcement accreditation at the state level and promote excellence in policing through standards that reflect state and national professional best practices. Member agency states include Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah, as well as the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA). To learn more, visit accrednet.org