Highland Village Police Department to Host International Visitor Leadership Program

The Highland Village Police Department will be presenting their Community Policing Model to the International Visitor Leadership Program. The group of international visitors are from various Latin American countries who are sponsored by the U.S. State Department. The group is studying "Community Policing in the US". The Highland Village Police Department has been asked to present due to the Department’s reputation and success in this area. Police and government officials from Argentina, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela will be present. The presentation will take place on Wednesday morning, September 1, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the Highland Village City Council Chambers.

 

 

The Highland Village Police Department has received the prestigious Community Policing Award by the International Association of Chief of Police. The award recognizes the meaningful change that can occur when law enforcement officials and their communities are empowered to utilize all available resources for building partnerships, solving problems, and preventing crime. The Department has also been recognized by the Texas Municipal League and the Texas Chiefs Innovations Awards. HVPD has mentored many other police agencies in their community policing and models.

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs funds and administers the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), one of its premier professional exchange programs. The IVLP is designed to build mutual understanding between the U.S. and other countries through carefully designed visits that reflect the participants’ professional interests and support U.S. foreign policy goals. Participants are established or potential foreign opinion makers in government, public policy, media, education, labor, the arts, and other key fields. Selected by American embassies abroad, International Visitors come to the United States to meet and confer with their professional counterparts and to gain an appreciation of the ethnic, cultural, political, and socio-economic diversity of the U.S. In 2009, approximately 4,400 International Visitors participated in 761 projects through the program.