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:

• to promote a more efficient and safer working environment for natural resource officers and to enhance their safety;
• to encourage and develop efficient cooperative law enforcement practices among natural resource enforcement agencies;
• 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;
• 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.
• 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.
• to provide a medium for the collection and dissemination of training information; and
• 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.

• 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.
• 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)