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Bellevue's Chief Stacey Attends FBI Executive Leadership Seminar

Bellevue’s Police Chief John Stacey has just completed an executive-level FBI training course at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Chief Stacey spent two weeks at the Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar (LEEDS) with nearly 40 other police executives from around the world taking classes in leadership, strategic planning, legal issues, labor relations, media relations, and behavioral science.

The LEEDS program is an invitation-only experience, open solely to proven leaders in law enforcement. Chief Stacey said one of the most "overpowering" elements of the course was that there were people there from all over the world that, because of their own cultures, brought different perspectives to problems similar to ones they may all have faced. He said the experience will help him to look at Bellevue’s police issues from a different angle, and added "as we’re doing in this [LEEDS] setting, I will be able to do in my own setting, and tailor to my own agency and get us through some hurdles that we’re facing, or at least better understand what we’re facing."

Chief Stacey is now a member of the Law Enforcement Executive Development Association (LEEDA), and will continue to attend annual training conferences.

Photo: Chief Stacey with John Kerin, police executive from Limerick, Ireland.