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EXPANDING THE FBINAA NETWORKING REACH– IS THERE A CHAIR FOR US?

JOHN BLACKLEDGE

The single most defining term descriptive of the FBI National Academy Associates is NETWORKING . It was the primary reason the FBI created the National Academy. It is the lifeblood of our existence today. As a young city police officer at Palm Bay Police Depart- ment (FL) in the early 1980s, I was laden with this term constantly—probably because it did not describe my natural modus operandi at the time. I was the ultimate lone wolf, running and gunning, making arrests, creating stats and, unfortunately, not in focus with the full mission of public service. Sound familiar? NETWORKING and the FBINAA

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