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Registration Fact Sheet

Program Objectives

1. To offer early/mid-career police members a uniquely challenging and high value professional development option.
2. To embed Design Thinking skills and expand the members’ understanding of the interplay between factors external to policing, and how they can impact society today and in the future.
3. To build capacity for Strategic Foresight in Canadian police members to improve their recognition and navigation of seismic shifts in public policy. 
4. To develop evidence-informed trends and plausible future scenarios, each with their own implications. These can be shared for consideration by the CACP and policing agencies. 
5. To advance the goals of authentic inclusion through the empowerment and development of more diverse middle ranks & civilian populations

Target Audience

This program applies a collaborative, creative, and design-thinking problem-based learning model that will develop new and enhanced lateral thinking skills, and an ability to see connections and their impacts differently. It will require research, including the learning and application of new qualitative methods, and a fair degree of rigour and scholarship.  In the absence of residential sessions in this fully virtual model, candidates must be able to devote sufficient time to attend periodic virtual engagement learning sessions, along with the self-directed online study and team collaboration involved, anticipated to require about 4 hours minimum per week in total throughout the program’s duration.

The program aims to include a mix of sworn and civilian members of Canadian police services, widely representative of all demographics and police functions, and with at least 10-15 years of career runway remaining ahead of them.  Ideal candidates will be at the ranks of Corporal, Sergeant, Staff Sergeant, or similar sworn or civilian equivalents.  Exceptions on rank may be made on the discretion of nominating agency executives, and on approval by the CACP.

All candidates for the program are subject to CACP approval. 

Online Self-Study, Sub-Team Projects and Scheduled Virtual Sessions

This program includes extensive online interactions that will commence on December 17, 2024 and will continue framed around periodic virtual engagement learning sessions to be held via MS Teams.  Asynchronous (24/7) self-study and sub-team collaborations will occur as scheduled by the cohort members between January 14, 2025 and April 29, 2025; cohort members may also be involved in presenting deliverables to the CACP Board and/or select audiences after which the program will conclude.

CACP Guidance on Candidate Selection

This program applies a collaborative, creative, and design-thinking problem-based learning model that will develop new and enhanced lateral thinking skills, and an ability to see connections and their impacts differently. It will require the learning and application of new qualitative methods of research, and a fair degree of rigour and scholarship.  In the absence of residential sessions in this fully virtual model, candidates must be able to devote sufficient time to attend periodic virtual engagement learning sessions, along with the self-directed online study and team collaboration involved, anticipated to require about 4 hours minimum per week in total throughout the program’s duration.

The program aims to include a mix of sworn and civilian members of Canadian police services, widely representative of all demographics and police functions, and with at least 10-15 years of career runway remaining ahead of them.  Ideal candidates will be at the ranks of Corporal, Sergeant, Staff Sergeant, or similar sworn or civilian equivalents.  Exceptions on rank may be made on the discretion of nominating agency executives, and on approval by the CACP. 

All candidates for the program are subject to CACP approval. To assist with candidate approvals, nominees are required to include a 1-2 paragraph bio, outlining relevant work and study experience, along with reasons for their own and their agency’s interest in the CACP Strategic Foresight program. This can be submitted upon registration or e-mailed to taylor@cacp.ca. 

Program Registration Policy

Registrations can be immediately held by agencies, with candidate name(s) to follow if required.  All nominated candidates must be named and approved by the Program Director no later than December 11, 2024 after which registrations will be considered final and not subject to a refund.