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ABOUT PRIG
Police Reform Insight Group (PRIG) is a women and veteran owned small business. PRIG is committed to the Reimaging Policing Pledge to review and reform use of force policies and also providing professional Accreditation management and policy guidance to public and private law enforcement and security agencies. PRIG provides assistance to agencies in every phase of participation in the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission program and consulting advice with all aspects of policing, security and technology.
BENEFITS OF ACCREDITATION
Law Enforcement Accreditation is a “Badge of Honor” in the Law Enforcement Profession. It is one of the Best Measures of a Police Department’s Compliance with Professional Standards. Being Certified or Accredited is symbolic of an agency’s commitment to professional excellence in the workplace. The benefits of Certification and Accreditation are many and will vary among participating agencies based on the state of the agency when it enters the process. In other words, the benefits will be more fully known when the agency quantifies the changes that were made to meet program standards. Generally, these changes involve policy writing, minor facility improvements, and in some cases, equipment purchases.
- Provide a norm for an agency to judge its performance.
- Provide a basis to correct deficiencies in an agency’s operations before they become public problems.
- Require agencies to commit policies and procedures to writing.
- Promote accountability among agency personnel and the evenhanded application of policies.
- Provide a means of independent evaluation of agency operations.
- Provide a quality assurance review of the agency.
- Enhance the reputation of the agency and promote public confidence in it.
- They are also effective risk management tools for preventing and reducing loss in professional liability claims.
National standards and best practices for the law enforcement profession provide the framework for the standards in the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Program. Topically, they address police management, administration, operations, and support services. Standards generally prescribe “what” agencies should be doing but not “how” they should be doing it. Those decisions are left up to each agency to make.
Standards address areas such as:
- Agency Authority, Jurisdiction and Use of Force
- Recruitment, Selection, and Promotion of Personnel
- Training, Discipline, and Internal Affairs
- Patrol, Traffic Operations and Criminal Investigations
- Victim/Witness Assistance
- Emergency Response Planning
- Detainee Transportation and Holding Facilities
- Records and Communications
- Collection and Preservation of Evidence
- Property and Evidence Control
OUR TEAM
Linda O'Brien
President
Deputy Chief Linda O’Brien (ret)
Linda received a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University and she has law enforcement expertise supported by more than 43 years of service in private law enforcement. She is a graduate of the Bowmac Critical Incident Management Training, Command Leadership Program N.E.I.L.M, P.E.R.F.- S.M.I.P, the FBI Leeda Supervisor Program and the FBI Leeda Command Level Leadership Institute amongst many others.
She has come up through the ranks and ultimately served as Deputy Chief of Police for a major university police department in the Boston area over seeing a full complement of both sworn and non-sworn personnel. Linda ran many critical areas of the department as well as being responsible for federal and local matters of compliance. Some of Linda’s extensive experience is in recruiting, interviewing, oversight of background investigations, grant writing, as a training manager and in policy and procedure development.
Linda also has many years of experience as an Accreditation Manager and successfully acquired Certification and Accreditation status for her department. She has also trained others in this area and has been a resource to many public and private agencies striving to reach Certification and Accreditation status. Linda has also provided services to MPAC in assessing both public and private organizations.
Michael Kiely
Director / Treasurer
Sergeant Detective Michael Kiely (ret)
Michael is a certified Accreditation Manager and Assessor through the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission and has extensive experience in assisting his department from self-assessment to full Accreditation in 2019. Michael is the immediate elected past Treasurer of the Mass Police Association (MPA) where he managed all aspects of a multi-million-dollar budget for operations, payroll, scholarships, charitable donations and investments for the past 4 years.
Michael has 30 plus years of federal, state and local law enforcement management specializing in Accreditation, Investigations, ICS, Emergency Management, public and private grant applications, procurement and management. He is known as a pragmatic, honest and effective advisor and leader.
Michael was assigned to the Somerville Police Office of Chief as the City of Somerville’s Homeland Security Liaison to the Urban Area Security Initiate and as the JPOC managing the Regions MBHRS. Michael has been an academy instructor at the Recruit and In-service levels and has authored dozens of Incident Action Plans as well as 75 search warrants.
Michael is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) Cohort 16. Michael also holds dual master’s degrees from Mass Maritime Academy in Emergency Management and Criminal Justice from Western New England University.