Overview

Sponsoring Agency: Monmouth Police Department and OPOA Non-member cost includes 1 year of OPOA Membership for qualified applicants. Overview: This course is intended primarily for newer union representatives who represent sworn police officers in Oregon. During this course instructors will discuss tactics in building a healthy relationship between labor and police management. This course will cover discipline processes, contracts, negotiations, in-custody deaths, and Officer Involved Shootings. The focus of this course will be to discuss tactics to work with management to craft policies and contracts which provides fair representation to officers while fostering a good working relationship with agency management. Instructors: Scotty Nowning is the President of the Salem Police Officers Union. Scotty has 30 years of experience as a police officer and 10 years on the Salem Police Employees Union Board, including the past seven years as president. Mike Staropoli is a criminal defense attorney who specializes in representing law enforcement officers who have been involved in deadly force and other critical incidents. Mike has been representing officers in this capacity for 30 years.

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