Law Enforcement Expertise Program (LEEP)

Strategic Capacity Group (SCG) has supported the United States Department of State to meet the ever-growing demand for technical expertise to train, mentor, and advise foreign nation counterparts who face serious hurdles strengthening their criminal justice sectors. Under the Law Enforcement Expertise Program (LEEP), SCG developed the Global Law Enforcement Experts Database, featuring experts with proficiency in 65 technical areas and professional proficiency in 52 different languages, and deployed them around the world to 23 countries, including to austere locations. Since 2018, SCG has managed 66 expert deployments for 49 short-term technical assistance and long-term capacity building missions, which included assessments and program design, tactical, technical, operational and management-level training, and ministerial- and unit-level advising.

For the original project for the Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) (2018-2023), SCG delivered more than 49 short-term technical assistance and long-term capacity building missions across 23 countries, including Afghanistan, Armenia, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Fiji, Georgia, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Kosovo, the Maldives, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and the West Bank. Subsequently, SCG has continued to deliver projects using the Global Law Enforcement Experts Database for the Department of State. Projects run from one or two months to almost two years. SCG experts conduct assessments, develop and deliver training, design, deliver, and support workshops and conferences for governmental and non-governmental entities, and embed in ministries to support criminal justice and security sector reform, to include counter-trafficking and combating transnational crime and terrorism. 

• Provided public order management and election security training for the police and/or gendarmerie in Sierra Leone and Haiti.
• Authored INL’s guide to criminal justice assessments and designed all accompanying training materials.  
• Designed and delivered a regional women leading law enforcement conference in the Philippines for 200 participants from 10 countries in Southeast Asia.
• Executed 17 advisory services and technical assistance projects, including the deployment of senior police advisors for Afghanistan, Fiji, Georgia, and Morocco.
• Completed 17 separate curricular design and development projects (specialized courses, core curriculum, training manuals, and local capacity building guides), including the development of specialized curriculum for newly formed police units in Nigeria and for the Palestinian Authority security forces.
• Conducted 21 training delivery programs (for nearly 1,100 specialized participants), including deploying training advisors to deliver High Risk Operations training at the International Police Training Centre (JIPTC) in Jordan, media and strategic communications training for police in Thailand, and combating the online sexual exploitation of children for police in Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
• Delivered 12 technical and/or country-level security sector assessments (including sub-sectoral assessments) in Armenia, Fiji, Jordan, Kosovo, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ukraine, and the West Bank.  
• Developed analytic tools to support partner institution self-sufficiency, including monitoring and evaluation frameworks to assess learning outcomes, data collection mechanisms, assessment rubrics, and learning dissemination protocols to support the implementation and sustainment of learning feedback loops.

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• Forensic experts train, advise, and mentor forensic laboratory personnel, investigators, prosecutors, and judges in obtaining and using forensic evidence in support of criminal prosecutions in St. Lucia, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago for SCG’s Caribbean Forensics Projects (2020-2024 and 2025-Present).  

• Experts developed and delivered training, advising, strategic planning support, and knowledge-sharing workshops and events for Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal, including working with their police, national guard, gendarmerie, local government, and civil society organizations, and delivering support to five regional networks for the INL Sahel Capacity Building and Logistics Support project (2017-2022).  

• Teams of experts deployed to conduct four assessments, one each for Mali’s National Police, National Guard, Gendarmerie, and Civil Protection training schools for the Mali Academies of Excellence Project (2018-2022).