Tulsa Police Major Featured at Local Symposium
Major Paul Williams of the Tulsa Police Department will be a featured speaker at the KPM Symposium. The Symposium will be held at OSU Tulsa on October 3-4. The KPM Symposium is a unique opportunity to bring people together from industry and academia and explore recent developments, emerging trends, and cutting edge research. Researchers, practitioners, students, end users, and system developers are encouraged to attend and consider presenting their work at this unique event. In the fall of 2006, Major Paul Williams and Major Rob Turner of the Tulsa Police Department met with Chuck Tryon, of Tryon and Associates, and Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh of the University of Oklahoma, to discuss how to capture the knowledge base of the members of the Tulsa Police Department and retain that knowledge for future use. Over the next six months many officers and staff members of the Tulsa Police Department were involved in the creation of what became known as the "Knowledge Retention Policy". During the course of creating this new policy the members of the Tulsa Police Department discovered that they were doing well in knowledge retention in some areas, but lacked formal documentation of these efforts. They also found that other areas lacked any process by which knowledge could be retained, resulting in the potential loss of years of accumulated expertise. The "Knowledge Retention Policy" serves as a basis for organizing and retaining the department’s institutional knowledge, and also acts as a quick reference guide for those inside, and outside, the organization on where to go and who to ask to learn the answers to their questions. For additional information:
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