The Center for Public Safety Excellence (CPSE) mourns the loss of one of our founders – Chief Ronny J. Coleman, State Fire Marshal, (Ret.), passed away peacefully on September 21, 2023, at Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento. “We will forever be indebted to Chief...
The CPSE appoints Battalion Chief James Mitchell, City of Carmel Fire Department, Indiana to the Commission on Fire Accreditation International® (CFAI®) as the Labor President of a CFAI accredited agency with a population of less than 100,000 representative. Since...
The CPSE appoints Captain Dave Coker, Greensboro Fire Department, North Carolina to the Commission on Fire Accreditation International® (CFAI®) as the Labor President of a CFAI accredited agency with a population of more than 100,000 representative. Dave Coker began...
Rick Potter is fire chief of the Shawnee, Kansas, Fire Department, a CFAI accredited agency. He began his career in 1990 with the Pueblo, Colorado, Fire Department where he moved up through the ranks to deputy fire chief until he retired and was appointed fire chief...
The 2023 Safety Stand Down theme is “Lithium-Ion Batteries: Are you Ready?” The Center for Public Safety Excellence (CPSE) is participating in this year’s Safety Stand Down by highlighting performance indicators (PI) and core competencies (CC) from the...
Last year, CPSE and Metro partnered to develop a series highlighting proven practices of Metro departments accredited by CPSE’s Commission on Fire Accreditation International. Each case study focuses on a particular topic and outlines the opportunity the agency faces,...
The CPSE appoints Cathy Ball, City Manager for Johnson City, Tennessee, to the Commission on Fire Accreditation International representing city manager overseeing a CFAI accredited agency.Cathy Ball has served as city manager for Johnson City, Tennessee...
CEO Preet Bassi, CPSE By CEO Preet Bassi, CPSEIn 2022, the Center for Public Safety Excellence (CPSE) entered the last year of our five-year office lease requiring an important decision to be made about the future of work at CPSE.For the preceding two...
Rebecca Grill is the City Administrator/Clerk of the City of West Allis, Wisconsin. Ms. Grill has held this position since January 2015. In these roles, she oversees the day-to-day operations of the municipal operations, the implementation of the Common...
The beginning of March brought the conclusion of another Excellence Conference. Again this year, we saw record attendance with close to 900 people. It was wonderful to see so many people and have the hallways filled with folks from the global CPSE community.Joint...