Law EnforcementLeadership and Accountability Training

//Methodology and Goals

Built for the StreetAnd The Squad Room

Thatcher Lewis provides law-enforcement leadership training for emerging leaders, corporals, sergeants, lieutenants, captains, command staff, and chiefs. Every course is scenario-driven and customized to your agency's general orders, standard operating procedures, supervisory expectations, operational risks, and community priorities. That customization is what separates police leadership training from a management seminar with a badge on the cover: the scenarios come out of your policy manual and your call load.

Patrol supervisor leadership gets the most room in the schedule, because the shift is where standards are either held or quietly lost. Participants work through realistic leadership situations involving decision-making under pressure, critical conversations, duty to intervene, employee coaching, documentation, shift briefings, call debriefings, and communication with personnel and the public. The emphasis is not abstract theory; it is practical leadership that can be applied on the next shift.

Led by Chief Jon Fehlman, a career law-enforcement leader serving since 1984 from patrol through chief of police, the training helps supervisors set clear standards, address problems early, make defensible decisions, and develop the people they lead.

From first-line supervisor development to executive command leadership, Thatcher Lewis equips agencies with a consistent leadership framework that supports accountability, credibility, organizational culture, and community trust.

Supervisor Essentials

Policy-Aligned to Your General Orders

Scenario-Based Decision-Making

Critical Conversations and Accountability

Coaching and Developing Those You Lead

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//Training Overview

What you'll learn

Patrol Supervisor Essentials

Police supervisor training for corporals and new sergeants. Conduct briefings, set standards, debrief calls, control scenes, document decisions, and brief-debrief every shift to keep crews safe and productive.

Executive Command Leadership

Classes for Command Staff. Align general orders, labor and risk, and public messaging. Communications with elected leaders, the community, and department personnel.

Leadership & Accountability Training

Leadership and accountability training for sergeants and supervisors. Build communication skills, coach performance, write the kind of record that holds up in an internal affairs review or an RMS and CAD audit, and use quick debriefs to improve every shift.

Culture, Ethics, and Accountability

Turn values into daily behaviors. Set clear expectations, use fair discipline, document well, and use early-intervention indicators to correct course before problems grow.

Duty to Intervene and Critical Conversations

Equip officers to intercede early, speak up, and report concerns. Run clear, policy-aligned performance conversations that correct behavior, protect credibility, and preserve trust.

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//How Our Training Works

From General Orders To Street Ready Skills and Scenarios

Essentials: Ideal for corporals and acting sergeants, sergeants and senior officers serving as supervisors, first-line unit leads or detectives, and field training officers.

Executive: Built for lieutenants and watch commanders, captains or commanders, division managers overseeing patrol, investigations, or corrections, and the deputy chiefs, chiefs of police, and agency heads who set organizational mission, vision, and values.

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Discovery call

A real conversation about your agency: goals, current friction points, supervision gaps, and what outcomes would make the training worth it. You leave the call with a clear picture of fit, and a written proposal follows.

Policy-aligned build

We align the curriculum to your general orders, SOPs, and policies. Scenarios are rewritten around the decisions your supervisors actually face, so nothing in the room feels like generic corporate training with a badge sticker on it.

Scenario-based delivery

Two to five days, taught personally by Chief Jon Fehlman, on-site at your agency, live online, or hybrid. Cohorts of 15+ work through accountability, tactical communication, and critical conversations by doing them, not by watching slides about them.

Reinforcement

Most leadership programs end when the workshop does, and old habits reassert themselves within weeks. Sustained coaching after class is what converts new skills into lasting, on-the-job habits: the difference between an event and a change.

//Why Choose Thatcher Lewis?

Protect the Mission, Your Community, Your People and Agency.

Effective law-enforcement leadership protects more than daily operations. It protects officer safety, public trust, organizational credibility, agency culture, and the mission your personnel are sworn to serve.

Thatcher Lewis provides police leadership training for emerging leaders, corporals, and sergeants, and for lieutenants, command staff, and police executives. Every engagement is customized to your agency's general orders, supervisory expectations, operational risks, and community priorities, never delivered as a generic leadership presentation.

Led by Chief Jon Fehlman, a career law-enforcement leader serving since 1984 from patrol through chief of police, the training connects leadership principles to the responsibilities supervisors face every shift. Participants work through realistic, policy-aligned scenarios involving decision-making under pressure, critical conversations, accountability, documentation, duty to intervene, briefing and debriefing, employee coaching, and communication with the community.

The goal is practical application: leaders who can set clear standards, make defensible decisions, address problems early, communicate with credibility, and build a culture in which personnel understand both what is expected and why it matters.

Whether your agency is preparing its next generation of supervisors or strengthening an existing command team, Thatcher Lewis builds the leadership habits that help protect your people, your reputation, your community, and your mission.

Police leadership training is one of four sector programs the firm runs; the fire, EMS, and local-government versions share this framework, and the sector-specific leadership training overview shows how they differ. POST credit is not yet available, so training units that need it receive the POST and continuing-education documentation required to submit a course for state or local approval.

Training built around your agency

Policy-aligned: Customized to your general orders, SOPs, and supervisory expectations.
Scenario-driven: Built around the decisions and conversations your leaders actually face.
Chief-led: Informed by leadership experience from patrol through executive command.
All ranks: Designed for emerging leaders, first-line supervisors, and command staff.

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//Testimonial

A Message From Our Founder, CEO and Leader

“Training saves lives. Leadership training provides the standards everyone in your agency needs to strive for. By training all levels of your agency, Thatcher Lewis helps your agency move forward to face the challenges ahead.”

Jon FehlmanOwner, Thatcher Lewis LLC