About Law Enforcement Development Center (LEDC)

The Law Enforcement Development Center (LEDC) at the Performance Institute promotes excellence in the law enforcement, first responder, public health and homeland security communities by analyzing best practices and performance-based methodologies to help solve managerial and operational challenges. Our mission is to identify, study and disseminate the leading management and training innovations pioneered by "best-in-class" agencies and public-sector organizations. We share this knowledge with federal, state and local law enforcement, first responder, public health and homeland security agencies to aid them in defining and reaching their institutional goals.

Through national conferences on pressing issues, interactive training programs, best practice research reports and strategic consulting services, the LEDC provides cutting-edge expertise in the design, implementation and evaluation of strategies to aid law enforcement agencies in solving operational challenges, improving public safety and well-being and enhancing overall agency performance.

The LEDC helps law enforcement, first responder, public health and homeland security agencies manage organizational change as well as assist in the design of cost-effective, outcome-oriented performance measures that are aligned with agency mission and citizen or "customer" expectations and needs. Through the use of the Government Performance Logic Model, administrators can utilize a simple and proven approach to measure program or agency performance. Using a goal-measure approach, the Logic Model framework illustrates the cause-and-effect linkages between program activities and outcome results.