CLINTON The Clinton Police Department announced the recent graduation of Sergeant Jacob Jostes from the School of Police Staff & Command (SPSC), which is an academically rigorous full-time, 10-week management program for public safety professionals. Sergeant
Jostes successfully completed the program as a member of SPSC Class #593, which was held in Champaign, from September 16, 2024 – January 17, 2025.
Since 1983, when its first class commenced, approximately 21,000 law enforcement leaders have graduated from the internationally- recognized School of Police Staff & Command program. The School of Police Staff & Command provides upper-level college instruction in a total of 27 core blocks of instruction plus elective blocks during the challenging course. The major topics of study include such critical topics as: Leadership & Management; Human Resources; Employee Relations; Contemporary Policing; Organizational Behavior; Planning & Policy Development; Budgeting and Resource Allocation; and Media Relations.
Each student is academically challenged through written examinations, projects, presentations, and quizzes in addition to a staff study research paper that are all required parts of the curriculum. Upon successful completion, students may be awarded a total of 6 units of undergraduate credit from Northwestern University in Evanston.
The Clinton Police Department anticipates a variety of benefits from Sergeant Jostes’s participation in the program. Many of the program’s graduates go on to achieve a variety of leadership positions within their respective agencies.
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 then, the Center has broadened its original objective and now provides a variety of courses and programs in the areas of Traffic Crash Investigation & Reconstruction and Law Enforcement Management & Leadership Education.
