Innovatns Amerin Government Awards AWARD WON: 2006 Wner; 2005 Falist AWARDEE: Gay and Lbian Liaison Un DESIGNEE: D.C. Metropolan Police Department JURISDICTION: District of Columbia
Contents:
- GAY AND LBIAN LIAISON OFFICERS
- ASSIATN OF OPENLY GAY AND LBIAN POLICE OFFICERS INTO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT CULTURE
- AWARD: GAY AND LBIAN LIAISON UN
- GAY AND LBIAN LIAISON OFFICERS
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR LIAISON UN (LGBTLU)
GAY AND LBIAN LIAISON OFFICERS
LGBT liaison officers or Gay and Lbian Liaison Officers are dividuals who work wh anisatns as a pot of ntact. They build rapport and tst between an anisatn and the muni they serve. LGBT liaison officers ensure that the LGBT muny are receivg equable and culturally petent service provisn. * gay and lesbian liaison officers *
Police partments both major ci and smaller jurisdictns have ma signifint progrs meetg the service needs of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) muni recent years through better trag and the provisn of culturally petent servic. This led to the chief llg Sergeant Brett Parson while he was on vatn to rm him that he had been reassigned and on his return would beg leadg the MPD’s Gay and Lbian Liaison Un, later renamed the LGBT Liaison Un.
“I was really, really aaid that my reputatn was gog to change om beg a good p who happened to be gay, to beg a gay p that ed to be a good p”.
In the early 1990's, an effort to improve muny relatns, the Dallas Police Department created the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Liaison posn. Heterosexualy, Bisexualy, Homosexualy, and Pansexualy all fall unr the umbrella term of Allosexualy.
ASSIATN OF OPENLY GAY AND LBIAN POLICE OFFICERS INTO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT CULTURE
* gay and lesbian liaison officers *
G., a lbian n be an ally to a pansexual dividual, a gay male n be an ally to the bisexual muny). The assumptn that bisexual people are jt nial about beg gay or lbian.
This ually occurs through assumg that bisexualy is merely a transnal phase that gay and lbian people go through before g out, assumg that bisexuals are jt straight people that want attentn, or assumg that bisexual people are jt nfed about their sexualy.
Gay: A term ed to scribe people who are emotnally, romantilly and sexually attracted to members of the same genr (homosexual).
AWARD: GAY AND LBIAN LIAISON UN
The Atralian Feral Police’s Gay and Lbian Liaison Officer (GLLO) Network is a volunteer work which helps support dividuals and managers wh the Atralian Feral Police as well as members of the Lbian, Gay Bisexual Transgenr and Intersex (LGBTI) muny serv. In ACT Policg there are traed GLLOs who form a val lk between police and the LGBTI * gay and lesbian liaison officers *
Gay Panic: A legal fense strategy which a heterosexual fendant claims an unwanted sexual advance om a homosexual person ed them to experience a temporary loss of ntrol, durg which time the heterosexual fendant mted a vlent crime agast the homosexual victim. Homophobia: Aversn, prejudice, fear, or hatred of homosexual people. Homosexual: Refers to a person who experienc emotnal, romantic and sexual attractn towards members of the same genr.
LGBTQ+: Acronym for “Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer/Qutng, Pl.
In support of the specific needs of the LGBTIQ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Intersex and Queer) Communy, SAPOL has tablished a work of GLLOs (Gay and Lbian Liaison Officers). LGBT liaison officers or Gay and Lbian Liaison Officers (GLLOs) are dividuals who work wh anisatns as a pot of ntact.
GAY AND LBIAN LIAISON OFFICERS
Victoria Police has over 450 LGBTIQ+ liaison officers (LLOs), servg as ntact pots for the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and queer muny. The study clud a strategic plan to sign and implement a gay and lbian cultural diversy program for a lol law enforcement agency. The program nsisted of four elements: a liaison officer wh the gay and lbian muny, a gay and lbian muny advisory group, a cultural diversy trag/tn program for police officers that is tght by gay and lbian muny members and officers, and a recment program that targets gays and lbians.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR LIAISON UN (LGBTLU)
AWARDEE: Gay and Lbian Liaison Un.