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The Association of Natural Resources Enforcement Trainers
(ANRET)
was founded in 1986 out of a need to share, and where possible,
standardize training information and materials for the benefit of
environmental enforcement agencies. It does not presume to dictate
training and development practices to member agencies, but to assist
them.
Goals & Objectives of the Association:
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to promote a
more efficient and safer working environment for natural
resource officers and to enhance their safety;
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to encourage
and develop efficient cooperative law enforcement practices
among natural resource enforcement agencies;
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to encourage
individual agencies to conduct research utilizing their own
independent experts to develop new and improved training
requirements and standards which will meet the changing
political, social and environmental environments in which
natural resource enforcement officers work in to-day and in the
future;
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to encourage
the individual agencies and subject matter experts to develop a
net work of individuals within ANRET to ground truth new
training requirements and standards enabling in the long term
the ability to share with other agencies new training techniques
and requirements thus reducing the need to reinvent the wheel
and thus maintaining a standard of training which will continue
to ensure officer and public safety, public credibility and
diminishing and or removing chances of civil and or criminal
liability for officers and their respective agencies
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to provide new
chiefs of training and new trainers a net working system where
they can seek out, verify and corroborate information from other
trainers/agencies which will assist them in supporting or
justifying any of their training needs, for budget purposes and
/or matters which could arise out of civil and criminal
liability issues if no training or improper training was not
provided.
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to provide a
medium for the collection and dissemination of training
information; and
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to hold an
annual workshop/conference where trainers can bring issues,
ideas and new training techniques and/or seek out assistance,
advice, verification of current agency training techniques
and standards. To
discuss and seek out current information with respects to issues
surrounding hiring and recruitment of new enforcement officers.
Since ANRET’s inception in
North America, the association has grown to become a
world wide net work of natural resource agencies welcoming
participants from national, federal and state/provincial levels of
government.
The common mandate of all agencies is to protect and sustain the
environment and to investigate and take appropriate action when
legislation is violated. ANRET has over the years and continues to
do so, provide a net working mechanism for trainers in game, fish,
park, marine and environmental agencies, in which the individual
agencies are able to continue to enhance their standard of training
and equipment for all of their natural resource enforcement
officers. This living growing embryo of better training and
equipment has resulted in more confident and professional officers
who continue to maintain and uphold the integrity and credibility of
each of our individual agencies.
The association is an
incorporated non-profit entity with a duly elected Board of
Directors comprising four officers: president, vice president,
secretary and treasurer. Each of these positions is filled with a
person from a different agency. Minutes of annual meetings and
committee meetings are recorded.
The annual conference is held in a different location each year,
decided by the membership following the offer of one or more
agencies to host it. The conference spans four days .A number of
guest speakers cover a spectrum of training and safety issues.
Agency members are encouraged to bring their new training and
development materials with them, including videos and computer
diskettes for viewing sharing and discussion. Besides the guest
speakers, attendees are provided the opportunity for networking,
bouncing ideas of off other trainers, providing support and
encouragement to new members/trainers and developing a list of
contacts with which individuals can call upon if and when help is
needed.
There is an association membership fee of US $50 USD and an annual
conference registration fee for conference attendees.
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The agency
membership fee entitles the agency members to receive a copy of
the ANRET semi-annual newsletter and correspondence from the
board and other members
and it assists in paying for travel of non agency guest speakers
presenting at the conference.
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The conference
registration fee covers a wide range of necessary items, such
as, room rentals, stationary items such as binders, inserts,
paper, printing and distribution of meeting minutes, and
presentation papers, and other general costs associated with
putting on a conference.
ANRET has become the forum where members can exchange lesson plans,
video training tapes, and computer diskettes with each other and
subject matter experts (a variety of subject matter experts may be
found listed in the member zone) can be invited by one agency to be
a guest lecturer for another member agency.
An association newsletter is published semi-annually and distributed to
current members. Members are encouraged to provide articles of
interest of their own or from other sources which would be of
valuable information for all association members. These articles can
range from the trying out of new equipment, to new training
standards to describing the success of an enforcement operation and
why it was successful, etc.
The benefits derived from membership in ANRET are very tangible ones.
The sharing of new materials and ideas along with an already
excellent quality and quantity of training materials and information
throughout the membership allow trainers to provide state of the art
instruction and materials to their classes. In turn, this enhances
the professionalism of the officers and their agency. It also
creates a large network of like-mined trainers offering consistent
and time tested enforcement which is one of the Goals and Objectives
of the Association: sharing training information.
The news letter can be found inside the Members Zone. To be able to
enter the Members Zone you need to be a paid up member of ANRET.
Complete an application and join ANRET today!
Associate
Membership
Agency Membership
For further information concerning ANRET, contact:
Executive Secretary
Scotty
Roxburgh
4718 Beardsley Avenue
Lacombe, Alberta.
Canada
T4L 0C1
Phone: 403-782-6595
roxburgh_scotty@shaw.ca
OR
President (Interim
Feb 2011)
Capt. Dave Windsor
IGCS Rm #255D
402 West Washington St.
Indianapolis
Indiana
46204
Phone: 317-232-4010
DWindsor@dnr.IN.gov |