Center for Problem-Oriented Policing

Appendix D. Effective Multi-Jurisdictional Collaboration in Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Cases eLearning Course

Effective Multi-Jurisdictional Collaboration in Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Cases is an eLearning course that explores how partnerships between tribal law enforcement and local, state, federal and private sector agencies can strengthen and help sustain their efforts to prevent and effectively respond to MMIP cases using a fair, victim- centered, and trauma-informed approach.

The course is three hours in length and teaches how tribal, federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, as well as private organizations, can form partnerships through the use of Memoranda of Understanding / Memoranda of Agreement (MOU/MOA) and other relationship-enhancing and shared resources to support communication and collaborative efforts to prevent and respond effectively to MMIP cases. Through a case study exercise, students will learn how MOU/MOAs can be used as a guide for law enforcement agencies seeking to enhance their MMIP efforts.

Learning objectives for the course include the following strategies for collaboration on MMIP cases:

• Identify gaps in jurisdictional authority, expertise, and resources that could impede an effective response to MMIP situations.
• Identify multijurisdictional partnership and collaboration agreements to supplement existing MMIP resources.
• Incorporate the key components of community policing into a tribal law enforcement agency’s approach to developing partnerships and agreements to effectively manage, investigate, respond to, and solve MMIP cases.
• Draft, develop, and implement MOU/MOAs that effectively facilitate the formalization and adaption of agreements and resource-sharing efforts for effectively addressing MMIP cases.
• Establish multijurisdictional best practice protocols and procedures for successfully investigating MMIP cases.