|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
Theodore “Ted” Bremer Jr. has had a long and distinguished public safety and law enforcement career with a diverse range of assignments and accomplishments.
Ted’s public safety career began in 1988 when he became a member of the Denville Fire Department in Denville, New Jersey. His duties included, but were not limited, to fire suppression in structural, emergency medical services, rescue operations. During this time Ted helped to reestablish the Denville Fire Department Underwater Rescue and Recovery Team and served as one of its rescue divers.
His career in law enforcement began in 1991 when he joined the Denville Township Police Department as a dispatcher. While with the Denville Police Department he attended the Passaic County Police Academy and was certified as a Class II Special Law Enforcement Officer. In 1994 he left Denville to take a position with the Long Hill Township Police Department in Stirling, New Jersey.
Over the next 15 years, he served in various functional capacities. After spending several years as a patrol officer, field training officer, and supervisor, Ted’s career took on a more administrative role. His primary responsibilities were for the administrative support functions of the department, including research and development of all departmental policies and procedures, liability and risk management review, development and presentation of all training courses, management of the department’s training program, and maintaining the department’s Commission of Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) accreditation program. In every one of these areas, Ted developed innovative strategies and re-engineered the way business was done to improve on the overall product while increasing efficiency and decreasing expenses.
In 2001 Ted, along with seven other national accreditation managers, formed the New Jersey Public Safety Accreditation Coalition. Ted formed this multi-state, non-profit, organization with the noble vision of assisting law enforcement agencies, public safety communication centers, and public safety training academies in improving their operations and management functions by entering into a voluntary accreditation process administered by CALEA. In just over eight short years the organization has grown from its original 7 member agencies to over 140 member agencies. Ted served as its first President and now as its Executive Director. As Executive Director and a member of the Board of Directors, Ted is responsible for all aspects of the Coalition’s operations and management including the supervision a large volunteer staff. Some of his responsibilities include: fostering strategic partnerships (most recently with Princeton University), developing and managing all training courses and programs, network and internet solutions involving member interaction in a virtual environment, web site development, mentoring systems, developing volunteer personnel, scheduling, accounting and payroll, strategic planning, public information, and conference planning. Ted is responsible for organizing and managing the large annual conference held at Princeton University attended by hundreds of law enforcement executives. The Coalition is widely known as one of the most professional and most influential accreditation related law enforcement associations in the United States.
Over the years, Ted has expanded his accreditation experience and expertise allowing him to become recognized as one of the foremost law enforcement accreditation (police operations and management) experts in the country. In 2006 and again in 2009 Ted volunteered to act as an advisor to the New York City Police Department, Training Bureau (police academy), one of the largest and most diverse academies in the world, to perform a critical review (mock assessment) of their operations and policies that resulted in the academy achieving and maintaining national CALEA accreditation status. Since 2006, Ted has been both an accreditation advisor and strategist for the New Jersey State Police, one of the most complex and diverse law enforcement agencies in the United States, guiding their extremely successful accreditation program.
Ted has attended advanced accreditation related training at 14 different accreditation conferences including national CALEA Conferences in Greensboro (NC), Cleveland (OH), Orlando (FL), Pasadena (CA), Boston (MA), Jacksonville (FL), Montreal (CAN), Princeton (NJ), and Dallas (TX). Some of the courses were: Developing a Strategic Plan, Developing a Model Voluntary Police Fitness and Wellness Program, Developing an Early Warning Intervention System for Police Officers, Task Analysis and Classification, Conducting Law Enforcement Operations Analysis, Budget Development and Preparation, Critical Terms for Policy Development, Liability and Risk Management for Law Enforcement, and Assessor and Team Leader training.
In 2003, Ted was certified by CALEA in Orlando (FL) as an Assessor. In 2006, he was trained and certified as a CALEA Team Leader for the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police (NJSACOP) Law Enforcement Accreditation Program, an Alliance Program with CALEA. Ted went on to conduct numerous assessments of law enforcement operations. Some of the agencies he conducted assessments of, in New Jersey, were Stone Harbor, Middle Township, Ocean City, Manalapan, and the Saddle Brook Police Departments.
In 2008, Ted along with several of his colleagues formed a management consulting firm, The Rodgers Group. The firm is a full service management consulting enterprise specializing in assisting law enforcement and public safety agencies with improving the management of their operations. As a partner he is responsible for not only contractual work but also web site development, client/consultant interface, strategic vision and multi-year planning, program research and development, network solutions, and customer relations. His primary specialization within the firm is CALEA and the NJSACOP accreditation, risk and liability management, compliance auditor, project manager, and policy writer.
Ted earned an Associate degree in Science in Public and Social Services and a Bachelors degree in Administration of Justice from Thomas Edison State College. He is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Certified Public Manager (CPM) certificate program. As a sergeant he earned the prestigious Certified-Eligible Law Enforcement Executive (C-ELEE) certification from the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police. He is a graduate of both the 3rd session (2004) and the 5th session (2006) of the NJSACOP Police Executive Institute for law enforcement executives. In 2000 he earned the distinction of becoming one of New Jersey’s first certified community policing officers an honor bestowed upon him by the New Jersey Regional Community Policing Institute.
Ted has completed numerous courses and programs in the area of Emergency Management with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Ted has received numerous awards and commendations for his service in public safety including the Junior Fellowship Award, Senior Fellowship Award, and the Distinguished Leadership Award bestowed upon him by his peers on the Board of Directors for the New Jersey Public Safety Accreditation Coalition. He also received the coveted Honor Award for leading his agency (Long Hill Township Police Department) through CALEA national accreditation as an accreditation manager four times (2000, 2003, 2006, and 2009).
This distinction earned him the certification of Master CALEA Accreditation Manager.
Ted is married to Gina Bremer and has five children Matthew, Abbie, Mason and idenitcal twins Will and Wyatt.
BACK |
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
