Dane County Lieutenants Graduate from Northwestern

January 06, 2009
Contact: Elise Schaffer, PIO Phone: (608) 284-6142 Email: schaffer@co.dane.wi.us
Sheriff's Office

The Dane County Sheriff’s Office is pleased to announce the recent graduation of Lieutenants Alecia Rauch, Brian Hayes, and Gordon Bahler from the School of Police Staff and Command at Northwestern University. All three completed the ten-week Staff and Command program hosted by Blackhawk Technical College in Janesville. The program was implemented in 1983, and has since graduated over 8000 students both nationally and internationally. A total of 29 students attended the school at Blackhawk Technical College. The School of Police Staff and Command provides upper-level college instruction in a total of twenty-two core or mandatory blocks of instruction and utilizes nine additional optional blocks of instruction during each session. The major topics of study include: Management and Management Theory, Organizational Behavior, Human Resources for Law Enforcement, Budgeting, Staffing Allocation, and Personnel Deployment. Each student is academically challenged through a total of eighteen written examinations, projects, and quizzes in addition to two research papers that are a required part of the curriculum. The Dane County Sheriff’s Office anticipates a variety of benefits from supervisors’ attendance at this program. Lt. Alecia Rauch of Madison has been with the Dane County Sheriff’s Office since 1996. She and Lt. Brian Hayes are both assigned to the Administrative Services division where they serve as Officers in Charge. Lt. Hayes of Cottage Grove has been with the Sheriff’s Office since 1994. Lt. Gordon Bahler, of Madison, is assigned to the Support Services division. He has been with the Dane County Sheriff’s Office for almost 17 years.