Internal Affairs

Navigating Internal Investigations

Avoid common procedural and legal pitfalls while building fair, complete, and defensible administrative investigations.

Course Overview

Practical Context Before the Next Decision.

Administrative investigations carry operational, legal, labor, and credibility consequences. This course gives supervisors, command staff, and internal-affairs professionals a practical structure for receiving allegations, defining the issue, preserving fairness, developing an investigative plan, gathering evidence, conducting interviews, documenting findings, and avoiding common procedural failures. The course connects agency policy and due process with the decisions investigators must make in real cases. Participants leave with a clearer understanding of how to build a complete record and support an outcome that is fair, organized, and defensible.

Designed ForSupervisors, command staff & IA professionals

FormatOne-Day In-Person Course

Course AreaInternal Affairs

Course Focus

Intake, scope, and investigative planningEvidence, interviews, and documentationProcedural and legal pitfallsFindings, accountability, and defensible outcomes

Instruction

Meet the Practitioners Leading This Course.

Course leadership is matched to the subject and grounded in direct professional experience.

Founder

John String

John String is a public-safety executive and co-founder of Aspirant Consulting Group. He serves as Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety for Narberth Borough and previously served as a lieutenant and patrol watch commander with the Lower Merion Township Police Department. His experience includes staff and inspections, accreditation, field training, canine operations, policy, internal investigations, and organizational leadership. John holds graduate training in public administration and is a graduate of Northwestern University's School of Police Staff and Command, the MALEEDS Regional Command College, and the FBI-LEEDA Leadership Trilogy.

Executive Leadership, Internal Affairs, Policy, Accreditation, and Organizational Performance

Navigating Internal Investigations

Practical Context Before the Next Decision.

Meet the Practitioners Leading This Course.

John String

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