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...
CPSE President Mary Cameli, CFO CPSE Corner recently sat down with the CPSE's new President Mary Cameli, CFO, who is the Fire Chief of Mesa Fire and Medical in Arizona, to learn more about her career and thoughts on the future of CPSE.CPSE Corner: What was...
Tiffany Green is the chief of the Prince George’s County Fire/Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Department, located in Largo, Maryland, one of the largest combination fire departments in the nation. She has served the Department for over 27 years and has...
In February 2023, for the first time, the Commission on Professional Credentialing® (CPC®) surpassed 3,000 credentialed professionals. At 3,063 designations, this is the highest number of credentialed professionals CPC has ever awarded. Formed in 2000 to...
Jim White, CFO, has joined the Center for Public Safety Excellence as the Program Manager for the Commission on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI).Jim recently served as the Director of the Fire Rescue Institute for the Valencia College School of...
The CPSE Board of Directors welcomes three new members, Fire Chief Derek Bergsten (CFO, CEMSO, CTO, PIO), Poudre (CO) Fire Authority, City Manager Melissa Stevenson Diaz, Redwood City (CA), and Fire Chief Alec Oughton (CFO) from Henrico County (VA) Division...
Jeff PomeranzPresidentCPSE Board of Directors Jeff Pomeranz is the city manager for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is the first non-fire service president of the Board of Directors for the Center for Public Safety Excellence. As he reaches the end of his term, CPSE Corner...