Black Diamond Police Chief Jamey Kiblinger has graduated from the School of Police Staff and Command (SPSC) at Northwestern University.

The 10 week staff and command program was held in Burien from Sep. 19 – Dec.16. The program was implemented by the Center for Public Safety in 1983 and has graduated over 14,000 students both nationally and internationally. Chief Kiblinger was a student in SPSC Class #321 which accommodated a total of 23 students for the 10 week period.

The School of Police Staff and Command provides upper-level college instruction in a total of 22 core or mandatory blocks of instruction and utilizes nine additional optional blocks of instruction during each session. The major topics of study include management and management theory, organizational behavior, human resources for law enforcement, budgeting, staffing allocation and personnel deployment.

Each student is academically challenged through a total of eighteen written examinations, projects, and quizzes in addition to two research papers that are a required part of the curriculum. Upon successful completion, students may be awarded a total of 8 units of undergraduate credit from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

The Center for Public Safety was established at Northwestern University in 1936 with the specific goal of expanding university-based education and training for the law enforcement community. Since its inception, the Center has broadened its original objective and now provides a variety of courses and programs in the area of police training, management training, and executive development.