Tulsa Police Department

One of the organizations that sponsors these trainings is the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The ADL is a non-profit that works to combat anti-Semitism and advocate for Israel. In this context, the ADL runs a National Counter-Terrorism Seminar that has sent hundreds of top ranking officials to Israel to learn about combatting terror since 2003. That same year the ADL established an Advanced Training School that brings delegations of Israeli law enforcement to speak to American law enforcement officials, involving over 1,000 U.S. participants since the program began.

The Police Department of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is among the departments that have sent delegates to Israel and trained with Israeli law enforcement in the US. Officials serving in the Tulsa Police Department attended a training in Israel with the ADL as delegates of the National Counter-Terrorism Seminar in 2011. Dennis Larsen has served as Deputy Chief of Tulsa Police Department since 2007. Deputy Chief Larsen attended a training in Washington, DC, with the ADL as a delegate of the Advanced Training School course on “Extremist and Terrorist Threats” in December 2012.