Announcing VMA’s new on-line “E-PRECINCT Management's Rights Center”

We constantly receive questions and requests for information and resources concerning issues impacting on agencies’ policies and practices.  In response, the on-line E-Precinct Learning and Resource Center has been developed.  As a subscriber, you will have access to a body of knowledge and resources not available anywhere else - - at any cost. 

The Center contains model policies, job aids, court and arbitration ruling, and learning articles of interest currently affecting management’s rights.  In the near future, video excerpts from VMA training classes will be added that can be used for in-house training.

Regular e-mail alerts notify subscribers when new information and resources are posted.

VMA has over 25 years of law enforcement training and consulting experience, nationwide.  We know the practical needs for information that are out there.  We are confident that as a subscriber you will find the Center to be one of most cost-effective and best investments you can make in directing your agency’s future.

ITEMS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOADING

JOB AIDS: TOOLS YOU CAN USE

Standard of Conduct: Attendance Rule – covers excessive, abusive, and patterned absenteeism problems with examples of violations and non-violations. Lists the elements of proof management needs to enforce the rule.

Standard of Conduct: Gross Misconduct – establishes management right to terminate, even for first time offenses, for acts of gross misconduct.  Defines Gross Misconduct and the offenses that constitute and elements of proof need to enforce the rule.

Statement of Mission – based on 20 years of experience and research this statement captures the true mission for a police agency.

Garrity in a Nutshell – a one-page diagram depicting the principles of Garrity.  Makes for a handy reference and training aid.

Investigation Decision Process Guidelines – taken from our Due Process: Internal and Internal Affairs Course.  Provides step-by-step procedures for handling complaints and internal affairs investigation. 

The Discipline Penalty Assessment Program – an easy to use computer program that applies the same factors arbiters, courts, and administrative review boards use to judge the fairness and appropriateness of discipline penalties. Eliminates accusations of favoritism or discrimination.

LEARNING AIDS: KNOWLEDGE YOU CAN USE

Mission Statement – you will learn why having the right mission statement is important and what the mission should be for every police agency.

Excessive Absenteeism – you will learn management rights to enforce absenteeism rules and how to establish excessive absenteeism standards that courts and arbiters support.

Understanding Just Cause – every labor contract has a ‘Just Cause’ standard.  You will learn what this standard means and the seven elements arbiters require when determining if management had just cause for its actions.

Setting Productivity Standards – based on one of our most successful and popular training program (Quota-free Police Productivity), you will learn how the 80/20 Rule from discrimination law can be used to establish enforceable productivity standards without creating a quota system.

Responsibility Conferencing – you will learn how to use a powerful and proven five-point model and the right questions to ask during an interview with an employee who is not accepting his or her full job responsibilities.
Assessing Fitness for Duty – not knowing and assessing the physical fitness of officers on a regular basis has been held to be ‘deliberately indifferent’ under the United States Supreme Court’s Canton v. Harris standard.  You will learn a practical approach developing a fitness-testing program that avoids all of the traditional pitfalls, costs, and obstacles that have plagued management efforts for the last 30 years.

Annual subscription only $145.00.  Each subscriber receives an individual account and password that can be shared with other members of the same agency, provided members did not log on at the same time.  Additional accounts for members of the same agency are only $10.00 each.

Easy ways to subscribe, call VMA at 1.800.331-8025; or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it