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Wichita Police Department Selects Acadis Readiness Suite to Increase Transparency & Efficiencies for Training Programs
February 18, 2021 GMT
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Envisage Technologies, the industry leader in training and compliance solutions built exclusively for first responders, announced that the Wichita Police Department (WPD) in Kansas has selected Envisage’s Acadis Readiness Suite to increase efficiencies and transparency for their Academy Training and Field Training Officer Programs.
Historically, WPD relied on time-consuming, manual processes to track their training, certifications, and testing. Officers provided data in a variety of formats (often entered more than once into different systems) employees were losing both productivity and valuable time.
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Noah Taborda, Kansas Reflector
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Kansas State Rep. Christina Haswood, D-Lawrence, speaks to the House chamber about HB2008, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka.
TOPEKA Bernard Francis Mulanax, 40, has not been seen in more than a decade since he went missing in northeast Kansas.
Mulanax failed to appear at a Dec. 26, 2009, doctor’s appointment in Manhattan. His roommates speculated he might have traveled to Topeka or an American Indian reservation in South Dakota.
Few details are available in this case.
Mulanax is 6 foot, 230 pounds, and one of three American Indians in Kansas who have been reported missing on the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.
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LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas Public Management Center has announced the graduates of the Kansas Certified Public Manager (CPM) program. The graduation ceremony was held virtually in December 2020 for COVID-19 safety reasons. Dale Dennis, retired deputy education commissioner and the 2020 Native Sons and Daughters Kansan of the Year, delivered remarks to the graduates.
Local graduates are: Austin LaViolette, City of Great Bend; Jordan Harrison, Russell Police Department; and David Adam, St. John Police Department.
Noah Taborda, Kansas Reflector
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Rep. Ponka-We Victors, D-Wichita, is cosponsoring legislation that would require the attorney general to coordinate training for law enforcement agencies on missing and murdered Indigenous people in Kansas.
TOPEKA While the world faces a global health crisis, advocates say, Indigenous people are facing an epidemic of their own with American Indians missing or murdered at disproportionately high rates.
Two legislators are acting to change that reality in Kansas.
As of Jan. 7, 2021, there are more than 696 missing American Indian or Alaskan Native people, including three in Kansas, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. A 2020 report using data from the Sovereign Bodies Institute, a nonprofit, Indigenous-led research organization, said 2,306 American Indian women and girls in the U.S have gone missing within the past 40 years, with 58% conne