More on partnerships. Agencies are like any other entity, they fall back to their confort level when partnering gets difficult. What I have seen is that applied to officers, their comfort zone is expanded the more they work with officers outside their agency and normal routine. This is critical to creating effective partnerships. It is [...]

Partnerships. It is hard to expect higher level managers to understand the minutia of resource protection and how it must be integrated with the interface of urban law enforcement. But what would be a strategic change would be the support that permeates the management arena. There certainly seems to be a lot of moral support [...]

Thinking strategically, it would be refreshing to see an agency document that stressed working on Interagency Partnerships at the highest levels, but in a compartmentalized fashion. What I am saying is that FWS LE program manager should be meeting and strategizing organizational mixes with other land management program managers in WASO and they…[Read more]