We’re not your Daddy’s LETN anymore
A lot has changed since my first day at LETN in March of 1989.
We signed on with our first live Roll Call broadcast in July
of that year and we created a lot of noise as the first public
or private organization to ever deliver Law Enforcement training
via encrypted satellite twenty-four hours a day, thee hundred
and sixty five days a year. The mammoth undertaking predates
the internet, Learning Management Systems and even the term “distance
learning”. It was a very exciting time for us, certainly
for the technological accomplishment, but more for the role we
would play and the contributions we would make to the enhancement
of officer safety and risk management within the criminal justice
community.
With the rapid proliferation of the digital desktop and the learning
requirements of the new on-demand generation, it became as clear
as a TASER hit that LETN needed to re-tool and overhaul our distance
classroom to meet the new profile of PC students. But the challenge
was to seamlessly integrate our extensive, widely respected and
well branded video library of LETN training modules and curriculums.
The task before us was to build the on-demand platform, digitize
the LETN archive and support all that with an easy-to-use and
affordable Learning Management System. It took about a year –
but mission accomplished and all successfully and effectively
embodied in a system we call PRIMEnet™ which allows training
LEOs to access over two hundred full motion video programs from
the LETN library. The system will also test, track and record
the requirements necessary for the fulfillment of continuing education
units, be they in-service or state specific.
PRIMEnet™ enables training managers to:
- Assess learners'
knowledge gaps
- Prescribe individualized curriculums
- Enroll
students and schedule classes
- Deliver consistent
training to all learners - no matter how widespread
- Track learner progress
- Generate custom reports
- Certify skill competencies
PRIMEnet™ makes managing a training program simpler and
more cost-effective than ever before. And less time spent on
administrative chores means more time available to keep skills
sharp. More on the latest news from PRIMEnet™ in this Newsletter
from LETN Accreditation Manager, Nancy Bauer.
Having said all that, don’t rush out to take that lonely
satellite dish off your roof because the satellite is still the
most secured and dependable method of sending and receiving emergency communications. Our company is currently in dialogue with the
Department of Homeland Security to participate in a national
plan that will offer our highly encrypted satellite infrastructure
to be utilized as a ubiquitous communications platform from which
the DHS and FEMA would be capable of message distribution during
times of increased need and/or threat.
So no – we’re not your Daddy’s LETN anymore – we’re
your LETN and we have grown into the digital desktop requirements
you demanded. As a direct result of this growth, the increased
role we play today in the maintenance of life and infrastructure
protection is evidently a greater priority and clearly a higher
calling for all of us on this end of your training and communications
needs – and your Daddy never had it so good!
Be safe out there.
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