b'F E A T U R EABLE Intervention By Chief Scott Fraser, Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement Brockville Police ServiceA sapoliceleader,areyouinterestedinThe ABLE program was developed to provide insight, reducing mistakes, preventing misconduct,knowledge,andunderstandingofthemechanicsof andpromotingwellnesswithinyourintervention, which includes the actual intervention itself organization?Ithinkallpoliceleadersand the barriers which prohibit intervention. It provides wouldansweryestothisquestion.Ifparticipants with the knowledge, skills, and ability to iden-so, you have just recited the three pillars on which Activetify a situation and intervene effectively. One might ask, Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) is based. Why is ABLE being introduced now? The simple answer The ABLE project, located at Georgetown University inis, change in policing is needed. We have many successes Washington, is a spin-off of the EPIC program designed anddaily in policing, but it only takes one mistake or case of developed for the New Orleans Police Department. Themisconduct to erase all the good things being done by our philosophy is simple: lets change the culture of policingofficers. ABLE builds off of the EPIC program and provides and empower people to intervene. We need only look tothe background to enable a cultural change in policing.cases such as George Floyds murder and ask, Why didntTools for Interventionanyone intervene? Intervention can be done easily and effectively, but we need to train our people on how to doThe ABLE program begins with an introduction and quickly it and how to accept it. leads to three case studies involving law enforcement. TheThe Official Publication of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police13'