{"id":18084,"date":"2025-04-14T11:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=18084"},"modified":"2025-05-20T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T17:22:08","slug":"duffey-leads-development-of-statewide-elderabuse-and-fraud-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/14\/duffey-leads-development-of-statewide-elderabuse-and-fraud-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Duffey Leads Development of Statewide ElderAbuse and Fraud Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column18084_287305-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column18084_287305-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column18084_287305-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column18084_287305-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column18084_287305-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column18084_287305-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column18084_287305-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column18084_287305-b6{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column18084_287305-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column18084_287305-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column18084_287305-b6 dynamic-main-col\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"365\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Scott-Duffey-web-scaled-1-365x480.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Duffey\" class=\"wp-image-3977\" style=\"width:150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Scott-Duffey-web-scaled-1-365x480.jpg 365w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Scott-Duffey-web-scaled-1-190x250.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Scott-Duffey-web-scaled-1-768x1011.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Scott-Duffey-web-scaled-1-1166x1536.jpg 1166w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Scott-Duffey-web-scaled-1-1555x2048.jpg 1555w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Scott-Duffey-web-scaled-1.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Scott Duffey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cji.wilmu.edu\/\">Criminal Justice Institute<\/a> Director <strong>Scott Duffey<\/strong> recently completed a yearlong course development initiative on Elder Abuse and Fraud for the Municipal Police Officers Education and Training Commission. The program addresses identifying, preventing, and investigating crimes targeting elderly populations, rolls out in April for Pennsylvania police officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the development process, Duffey collaborated with law enforcement agencies, community leaders,&nbsp;and subject matter experts, traveling to key locations such as Pittsburgh, State College, Harrisburg, and Blue Bell. These efforts ensured that the course integrates practical insights, real-world case studies, and the latest investigative techniques, equipping officers with new techniques to protect one of the state\u2019s most vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Maria Hess<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal Justice Institute Director Scott Duffey recently completed a yearlong course development initiative on Elder Abuse and Fraud for the Municipal Police Officers Education and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[240,916,14,15],"class_list":["post-18084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","tag-criminal-justice-institute","tag-magazine-spring-2025","tag-wilmington-university","tag-wilmu"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":135,"label":"MAGAZINE"}],"post_tag":[{"value":240,"label":"Criminal Justice Institute"},{"value":916,"label":"Magazine Spring 2025"},{"value":14,"label":"Wilmington University"},{"value":15,"label":"WilmU"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/criminal-justice-480x480.jpg",480,480,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Mckayla Imperatrice","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/author\/mckayla\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":135,"name":"MAGAZINE","slug":"magazine","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":692,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":431,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":135,"category_count":431,"category_description":"","cat_name":"MAGAZINE","category_nicename":"magazine","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":240,"name":"Criminal Justice Institute","slug":"criminal-justice-institute","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":797,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":12,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":916,"name":"Magazine Spring 2025","slug":"magazine-spring-2025","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1473,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":22,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":14,"name":"Wilmington University","slug":"wilmington-university","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":571,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":357,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":15,"name":"WilmU","slug":"wilmu","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":572,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":291,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18171,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18084\/revisions\/18171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}