True Blue Valor™ Training Program

What is “True Blue Valor™?”

Let’s start with these three questions:

What is the most frightening thing a police officer will ever face?

  1. What takes more courage to confront than any other single thing in law enforcement?
  2. What is the one thing that we have pledged above all to our brothers and sisters in law enforcement?

 

The answer to all three of these questions is the same: “Taking care of our own” and more specifically:

  1. Confronting a peer who is losing control of their life or their career, and working to get them some help;
  2. Having the strength to maintain the “thin blue line” and rescue a co-worker who is battling alcoholism, depression, drug addiction, or suicidal thoughts: and
  3. “Never Leaving Anyone Behind” because if we don’t take care of our own, who will?

Unfortunately, many times that pledge is a hollow one if we don’t have the courage to confront the people we should care about before things get way out of control.

At The Law Enforcement Survival Institute (LESI) we have coined the term, “True Blue Valor™”. The concept of “True Blue Valor” is where one law enforcement officer has to muster the courage to confront a peer who is slipping both professionally and personally and endangering themselves, their peers and the public. It takes a system of organizational support and professional leadership to support and foster the concept of courage and intervention.

As part of our Law Enforcement Institution training, we recommend that you consider the concept of “True Blue Valor”. Most importantly, when you are talking about the team concept…in law enforcement and planning for whose responsibility it is to help a brother os sister officer in need, your discussion should include this concept. It takes a system of organizational support and professional leadership to establish and foster a system of intervention using the concept of “True Blue Valor”.

If you are facing an intervention with a fellow officer, here are some resources that can help you.

Hotlines for Help

Safe Call Now
206.459.3020
www.safecallnow.org
To learn more about “Safe Call Now,” read our CopsAlive.com article and listen to our interview with Executive Director Sean Riley at this link.

CopLine
1.800.267.5463
www.copline.org

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1.800.273-TALK (8255)
www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

If this topic interests you, please keep referring back to our website as we are launching a “True Blue Valor” instructor’s program some time later in the summer of 2012. This will be an online program that will equip the instructor with all the tools and materials they need to start a program within their agency.

We do this by helping Law Enforcement professionals plan for happy, healthy and successful lives on the job and beyond. We think the best strategy is for each officer to create a tactical plan for their own life and career.

The Law Enforcement Survival Institute (LESI) works with individuals and organizations to help them create and sustain success in their lives and careers as law enforcement professionals. It is the primary goal of The Law Enforcement Survival Institute to become the preeminent source for training, resources and information about how to create and sustain a happy, healthy and successful life and career while providing superior law enforcement service to your community.

Please also visit our sister website at CopsAlive.com, which was founded to provide free information and strategies to help police officers successfully survive their careers. Together, we help law enforcement officers and their agencies prepare for the risks that threaten their existence.

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