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Law Enforcement's
New Kids on the Beat
BY BILL SLOAN
A Post 570 Explorer, Montgomery
Co. Sheriff's Dept., takes
notes at the site of the accident
investigation competition.
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Tomorrow's law enforcement officers face a drastically more
demanding world of work than those of a generation ago—a
world in which they must confront such complex problems as
child abuse, extremist groups, deadly cults, gang violence, and
an epidemic of drug-related crimes.
It is also a world where they must perform their duties in the
glaring spotlight of the news media and where education and
communication will be just as important as sidearms and hand-
cuffs, perhaps more so.
These were the messages pre-
sented to 3,800 teen-agers and Ad-
visors at the 1990 National Law En-
forcement Explorer Conference. One
of the largest gatherings in Explor-
ing's history, the July conference took
place on the University of Colorado
campus and was sponsored by the
Boulder County Sheriffs Depart-
ment.
Explorers were given a clear, no-
holds-barred look at what they can
expect as law enforcement profes-
sionals in a series of seminars pre-
sented by experts from the F.B.I.,
Drug Enforcement Administration
(D.E.A.), National Center for Miss-
ing and Exploited Children, Secret
Service, local police departments,
and other agencies.
"If you think wearing a badge will
get you respect, then you're in the
wrong profession," Lee Fjelstad of
the Verbal Judo Institute of Albu-
querque, N.M., told the Explorers.
"People will respect you long
enough for you to open your mouth.
Then what you say has to be good.
Real control comes with communi-
cation."
Fjelstad, whose organization pro-
vides professional communications
training to law enforcement officers
across the country, cautioned the
Explorers that they are entering
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