Sergeants Gregory Pyle and Sergeant Anthony Penna of the McHenry County Sheriff's office recently successfully completed a ten week course in the School of Police Staff and Command (SPSC) at Northwestern University, Evanston. This program was implemented by the Center for Public Safety in 1983 and has graduated over 10,000 students both nationally and internationally.
The School of Police Staff and Command provides upper-level college instruction in a total of twenty-two core or mandatory blocks of instruction and utilizes nine additional optional blocks of instruction during each session.
The major topics of study include: management and Management Theory, Organizational Behavior, Human Resources for Law Enforcement, Budgeting, Staffing Allocation and Personnel Deployment. Each student is academically challenged through a total of 18 written examinations, projects, and quizzes in addition to two research papers, that are a required part of the curriculum. Upon successful completion, students may be awarded a total of eight units of undergraduate credit from Northwestern University.
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 INS the area of Police Training, Management Training, and Executive Development.
Many of the program's graduates do go on to achieve a variety of leadership positions within their respective agencies. Currently over 750 graduates hold the title of Chief of Police and 39 of the 50 Directors of State Police Agencies are also graduates of this program.
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