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Rules of Engagement for the Suicide Bomber International Terrorism, Narco-terrorism
If we believe that the fight against terrorism in the form of suicide bombers only exists outside the bounds of the continental
Preventing Terrorist Suicide Attacks
Law enforcement officers will be able learn methods of disrupting the planning, preparation, and execution of Islamist terrorist suicide attacks within the
Afghanistan produces ninety-three percent of the world’s heroin. This is a thorough demonstration of the problematic fight for control of narcotics in the country of
Improvised Explosive Devices
The Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) recognition class is an 8-hour program. Primarily didactic in nature, the course contains open-source footage and illustrations of various IEDs and their components. The evolution of IEDs from the “primitive” to the “contemporary” will be compared. Current day examples of circuit components and detonation devices will be examined.
Mexican Traffickers & the Spiritual World
“Patron Saints of the Underworld” Drug traffickers, Human Smugglers, and others involve the spiritual world in their trade for protection from law enforcement and other criminal organizations. The course will include information on Jesus Malverde, “Patron Saint of Drug Traffickers”, and other “saints” or “spirits” that drug traffickers and others pray to for protection from law enforcement. The Instructor has visited several of their “shrines” and will display photos and video as well as paraphernalia that drug traffickers may have in their possession. This course is beneficial to law enforcement officers in all parts of the country who may encounter these items during or pursuant to an investigation. Several significant drug and money seizures throughout the country have been attributed to this course.
Raves & Club Drugs Narcotics Training for School Staff
Ecstasy and club drug abuse continues to be a serious problem for many communities here and around the world. Learn the effects and signs of ecstasy use as well as the greatest dangers associated with the use of club drugs. We will go to a rave and witness ecstasy use and over doses by young people in involved in the Ecstasy culture. See the different abuse patterns and signs of potential deadly over doses and how to respond.
Narcotics Instruction for Medical Staff
This four to eight hour course of instruction is intended for Emergency room staff, Treating Doctors, nurses and Emergency response personnel. The presentation includes the description and effects on the body of various illegal drugs and legal medications. Methamphetamine use and dangers associated with exposure to contaminated patients and visitors. How to protect yourself and staff from serious injury and potential liability will be discussed. Various drugs will be discussed and the common use and abuse methods and trends. The training will enable participants to demonstrate knowledge and skills to understand the most common signs of drug abuse and the dangers associated with illegal drug use. Training materials will be provided to each student along with follow up contact information with experienced training staff.
Narcotics Training for School staff, resource officers, substance abuse treatment personal, Community Trainers and parents. This four to eight hour course will include the effects and use of the most abused drugs by students. Focus on Methamphetamine use and manufacturing will be discussed and commonly used paraphernalia shown. Anti-drug education is critical for schools and communities to be proactive against drug abuse. Marijuana use and current trends will be discussed as well as information on health related issues. Ecstasy and poly drug use will be discussed and rave activities displayed. This course is for personnel involved with students between the ages of 11-18 years of age. A drug training book will be supplied to each student.
Hidden Compartments in Commercial Motor Vehicles
The United States has several major drug corridors, and many large seaports through which large amounts of commodities transit from all parts of the world. This produces a large amount of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) traffic. Law enforcement officers throughout the United States receive little or no training on commercial motor vehicles. This class will provide the skills necessary to conduct successful CMV interdiction. This class will also show Officers how to find contraband in natural voids of commercial vehicles, as well as constructed compartments. Commercial motor vehicle criminal indicators will be covered to show Officers what to look for when making a traffic stop. An overview of the trucking industry will be covered to build a platform on
whether a truck driver or companies are doing legitimate operations.
Interviewing Sexually Motivated Offenders
This one day course will take the mystery out of how sex offenders behave which is the first step to adding a behavioral component to your investigation. Having a working understanding of how sex offenders think and act, is the key to greatly improving your interviewing skills. The Five Trademarks of the suspect interview allow you to use the offender’s behavior against him and increase your confession rate. Have you ever asked yourself: Why did the suspect do that? He wants to talk, how do I get him to confess? Has the victim been in the presence of sex offender? These questions and many more are answered during this course. Interviewing young children is scary to many cops; this course includes a simple to use system that actually works and can be taught in one hour. Identifying and dealing with false reports is also covered.
Methamphetamine Awareness Train the Trainer
The number of Clandestine Laboratories seized in any area of the country is a direct result of being able to recognize a Clan Lab for what it is. This course will provide you with the tools to go out and inform those in your areas, what to look for. You will be given instructional materials that will allow you to provide training to other Officers, Probation and Parole, Social Workers, EMS Personnel, and others who are out in the community every day.
Courtroom Presentations
A trial is not about the guilt or innocence of the Defendant. It’s about YOU!! How you look, act, and answer questions has just as much to do with a conviction, as does the truth. Learn how to handle Defense Attorney questions, as well as how to be an effective witness for the Prosecution
Clandestine Laboratory Trends
In the 1970s and 1980s Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs ruled the Methamphetamine scene. The 1990s brought about the age of “Tweaker” Labs. And now, Mexican National Super Labs are starting to pop up in the United States. What else is going on around the country, and maybe your own state?
Hotel/Motel Interdiction
Officers will be introduced to the different types of criminals using hotels and motels. This course will teach the officers how to use the hotel and motel employees as reporters for possible criminal activity occurring at hotels and motels. Officers will be taught how to “sell” the interdiction program to the hotel management and staff and how to make a presentation to the employees, as well as establishing and maintaining a rapport with hotel staff and employees. The course will also cover investigative techniques, consensual encounter (knock and talks) techniques, and room search techniques.
Survival Spanish
This class was designed to assist with advanced Spanish in the event of stopping a motorist who does not speak English. This class should help officers with the advanced skills needed to complete a traffic stop in Spanish. Officers will also be equipped with the ability to understand danger words which will assist the officer in maintaining a safe encounter. Officers will also be taught about different cultures within the Hispanic world, and how to handle the differences. Officers will also be taught advanced interdiction and how to read body language. (All pertaining to traffic stop of a Spanish speaking person). This segment was designed to give the students an advanced understanding of the Spanish language; in no way does it certify the officer as bilingual.
Street Level Interdiction Understanding Criminal Investigation
The small city and county roads are becoming more highly traveled with criminals trying to get through without being detected. The contraband is being delivered in passenger vehicles equipped with hidden compartments and by using the vehicles natural voids. Having an aggressive criminal enforcement team working in a local jurisdiction can have a big impact on problem areas in a community. Interdiction is an enforcement action that can be performed by any certified police officer, if they know what to do. This course teaches Vehicle Indicators, Courier Characteristics, Roadside Interviews, Physical & Verbal Indicators, as well as common concealment techniques. Interdiction is not just for drugs, it is beyond that. Interdiction techniques used properly in everyday, regular road patrol will increase your department’s criminal arrests and will lower the rate of crimes that take place. Highly trained interdiction officers will take a traffic stop beyond the traffic ticket to make major criminal arrests.
This class is an investigative class that has been designed to assist anyone interested in the investigative process and how to avoid the pitfalls of why cases fail. Criminal investigation has received a lot of interest since CSI and other such programs, but the real strategies for success are sticking to the basics of crime scene investigation. The investigator or patrol officer responding to a crime has a great impact of the future success in the investigation. They must understand the responsibilities of the first officer: protecting the scene; searching strategies, identifying and the documenting evidence, identifying and interviewing of victims, witnesses, and suspects; and understanding of the follow-up or latent investigative process. Introduction to Criminal Investigation is an intermediate to advanced level investigative class, but a must for many in the organization.
Death or Complex Investigation
When a major crime or tragedy occurs it becomes more of a crisis that takes over, dominating the agency and even the community. This course focuses on the difficulties of the complex investigations or homicide investigation associated to a major high profile investigation, for why repeat the error of others. The investigative process begins with an agency investigation and then the development to a multi-agency taskforce approach. Major focuses areas are: the crime scene; evidence; interview and interrogation; profiling; the autopsy; and managing a complex investigation. This is an advanced investigative class and if you do not have investigative experience it is strongly suggested you first complete introduction to criminal investigation or equivalent, but not required.
Interviewing and the General Art of Communication
Interviewing and the general art of communication is a course on gather information, motivation, conflict resolution, and negotiation in resolving issues and conflicts. Research shows that it is the interview process that is the cause of why cases fail far more than the interrogation, for interviewing is more than a questioning process to gather knowledge. The major areas covered are: motivation strategies; the five steps of conflict resolution, and the cognitive interview process. This class requires participation and hands on learning.
Interrogation and the Gentle Art of Persuasion
Persuasion rather than interrogation is the strategy of this course. Interrogation and the gentle art of persuasion is designed for investigators in situations where the subject is not cooperating and/or lying and address persuasion strategies, question formulation, motivation enhancement, themes and rationalization development, probing processes, and negotiation strategies, for all of life is a continued process of negotiation. This class looks at real life cases, interrogations, and requires small group participation. It is suggested, but not required, that participants have completed “Interviewing and the General Art of Communication” for the best learning opportunity, for they build on one another. Also, “Interviewing and the General Art of Communication” and “Interrogation and the Gentle Art of Persuasion” have been taught many times as a two day class “Interviewing and the gentle Art of Interrogation”
Ethical Decision Making for the Ethical Officer and Leader
One of the greatest challenges in the public and private sectors is the supposed conflict between efficiency and ethics. This has been a topic of discussion even during the times of Socrates and yet is still a real issue today. Look at the many individuals, from all positions of life that learned this lesson the hard way, for ethics does matter. This course addresses what it takes to be an ethical officer and/or leader and how important ethics is at all levels of the organization, but critical at the top. Real life case studies will be used to address ethical dilemmas and special ethical issues of police discretion, use of force, racial profiling, gratuities and/or corruption, and other challenges facing law enforcement. Students need to be prepared to address real life issues.
Management/Supervision: A Quest for Leadership
Within an agency there are many roles and responsibilities, but none so critical than that of the managers and/or supervisors. This course addresses: the differences between the manager, supervisor, and leader; leading in a community policing era; the leadership models; ethics and the organization; and the fatal errors in management/supervision. Management/Supervision: a quest for leadership is designed for anyone that is anticipating becoming or has been promoted to a middle level management or supervision position. The key to be success in this new position is not to wait until you make mistakes and then look for help, for being a supervisor is of great responsibility.
Basic Spanish for Correctional Officers Basic Spanish for Jail Facilities Survival Spanish for EMTs and Paramedics
Command Spanish® Language Classes Available
Basic Spanish for Law Enforcement
This nationally-acclaimed course is a 2 and ½ day (twenty hours) intensive program that focuses on the 50 most common Spanish phrases, commands, questions, and statement that are most needed for routine police interactions with Spanish-speaking individuals. This program has been taught at dozens of police academies throughout the United States and has, over time, become the “gold standard” for police Spanish training. The course also includes four hours of cross-cultural training that addresses major cultural barriers between U.S. police officers and recently arrived Latinos. Basic Spanish for Law Enforcement is designed for patrol officers at the local level, deputy
sheriffs, and state police. Each participant will receive a training manual, accompanying CDs, and field guides. No prior knowledge of Spanish is required.
This course is a 2 and ½ day (twenty hours) intensive program that focuses on the 50 most common Spanish phrases, commands, questions, and statement that are most needed for routine, daily activities when dealing with Spanish-speaking inmates in state or federal prisons. This program has been taught at COs at many of the largest DOCs throughout the United States, including Texas, Florida, Washington, Iowa, Illinois, as well as the Corrections Corporation of America. The course also includes three hours of cross-cultural training that addresses major cultural barriers between U.S. correctional officers and Latino inmates. Basic Spanish for Correctional Officers is designed
for correctional officers at the state and federal Each participant will receive a training manual,
accompanying CDs, and field guides. No prior knowledge of Spanish is required.
This course is a 2 and ½ day (twenty hours) intensive program that focuses on the 50 most common Spanish phrases, commands, questions, and statement that are most needed for routine, daily activities when dealing with Spanish-speaking inmates in city and county jails. This program has been taught to jail personnel throughout the United States. The course also includes three hours of cross-cultural training that addresses major cultural barriers between jail personnel and
Latino inmates and their families. Basic Spanish for Jail Facilities is designed for correctional officers at any city or county jail. Emphasis is on prisoner management. Each participant will receive a training manual, accompanying CDs, and field guides. No prior knowledge of Spanish is required.
This course is a 2 and ½ day (twenty hours) intensive program that focuses on the most common Spanish phrases, commands, questions, and statement that are most needed for routine emergency assistance when dealing with Spanish-speaking patients. This program has been taught to EMS units throughout the United States. The course also includes two hours of cross-cultural training that addresses major cultural barriers that might be encountered between EMS personnel and Latino patients and their families. Survival Spanish for EMTs and Paramedics is designed for all emergency medical personnel. Emphasis is on assessment, chief complaint, and initiating treatment. Each participant will receive a training manual, accompanying CDs, and field guides. No prior knowledge of Spanish is required.
Emergency Spanish for 911
This course is a three-day (twenty-four hours) intensive program that focuses on the most common Spanish phrases, commands, questions, and statement that are most needed for telecommunicators (call-takers and dispatchers) when dealing with Spanish-speaking callers. This program has been taught to 911Centers throughout the United States. The course also includes two hours of cross-cultural training that addresses major cultural barriers that might be encountered between 911 personnel and Spanish-speaking callers. Emergency Spanish for 911 is designed as a front-line response for 991 telecommunicators, and it works well with the use of the Language Line. Emphasis is location and nature of call. Each participant will receive a training manual, accompanying CDs, and field guides. No prior knowledge of Spanish is required.
Special Topics:
Teambuilding
Teambuilding is more than several individuals working together; it is a synergist endeavor where great things can be accomplished. The team involves many unique individuals at different levels of skills, abilities, and motivation. This course will address the dysfunctions of a team: absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of communication, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results. Through the true dynamics of teamwork a taskforce or even an organization is a place of accomplishing far more than any one person could even do alone. Narcotics Instruction for Medical Staff Narcotics Training for School Staff
This four to eight hour course of instruction is intended for Emergency room staff, Treating Doctors, nurses and Emergency response personnel. The presentation includes the description and effects on the body of various illegal drugs and legal medications. Methamphetamine use and dangers associated with exposure to contaminated patients and visitors. How to protect yourself and staff from serious injury and potential liability will be discussed. Various drugs will be discussed and the common use and abuse methods and trends. The training will enable participants to demonstrate knowledge and skills to understand the most common signs of drug abuse and the dangers associated with illegal drug use. Training materials will be provided to each student along with follow up contact information with experienced training staff.
Narcotics Training for School staff, resource officers, substance abuse treatment personal, Community Trainers and parents. This four to eight hour course will include the effects and use of the most abused drugs by students. Focus on Methamphetamine use and manufacturing will be discussed and commonly used paraphernalia shown. Anti-drug education is critical for schools and communities to be proactive against drug abuse. Marijuana use and current trends will be discussed as well as information on health related issues. Ecstasy and poly drug use will be discussed and rave activities displayed. This course is for personnel involved with students between the ages of 11-18 years of age. A drug training book will be supplied to each student.
Time Management
Time is something that we all have, but it is limited. This is not a course on how to make lists or even prioritize your daily obligations, because time management is life management. This course is about how to live, how to say no, how to understand and focus on core values: personal and organizational. The reality is we only have so much time in a day, a week, a month, or even a life, so how do you want to spend it. This course is a skill building class and you will learn how to manage your time, rather than being managed by it. This is one of the critical differences in becoming a leader.
Change Management
Change, even little change, can be a great stress to any individual or within an organization. Change can be very difficult, but even more difficult is to manage the changes of others. This course is about the impact of change and how to address issues and minimize the impact of those in the organization through communication, trust building, and understanding the different stages of stress management or grief. Little things don’t mean a lot; they mean everything to those going through this challenge. This course will greatly assist managers, supervisions, and leaders in accomplishing things through, not in spite of, people. Failing to address this change can be the one factor that becomes the bottleneck in you accomplishing results.
Conflict Negotiations
Everything in life and within an organization is a series of negotiations or conflict resolutions. This class is more of a class of survival for anyone who is a supervisor or leader. You need to lead through people, but leadership is accomplishing results. This course develops the leader’s skills in resolving real life issues and how to solve problems. Anyone who has been in a position of management knows the enormous amount of time you will spend on solving people problems again and again. This course is designed to help the supervisor in addressing issues and solving problems through negotiations skills.
Other Topics Include:
AVOID THE CIVIL LIABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH UNDERCOVER NARCOTICS WORK
SPECIAL OPS, UNDERCOVER, VICE, GANG INVESTIGATIONS, AND CIVIL LIABILITY
SUPERVISOR'S LIABILITY WITH FAILURE TO INSTRUCT, EQUIP AND UTILIZE RESOURCES
LIABILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH PROFILING
RULES FOR TESTIFYING IN A CIVIL CASE
WHAT IS IMMUNITY ANYWAY, OR IF WE ARE IMMUNE WHY DO WE GET SUED?
CRITICAL INCIDENT AFTERMATH
WHEN TO SEARCH, WHEN NOT TO SEARCH, HOW TO USE A POLICE DOG
WITHOUT INCURRING LIABILITY
WHAT ROLE DOES ETHICS PLAY IN POLICE WORK?
THE IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING TO AVOID CIVIL LIABILITY
THE LIABILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH PURSUIT
FAILURE TO PROTECT INFORMANTS
THE IMPORTANCE OF FOLLOWING AN OPERATIONAL PLAN
KEEP YOUR DEPARTMENT’S SOP UP TO DATE AND BE CERTAIN
YOUR OFFICERS UNDERSTAND THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR DEPARTMENT’S SOP
THE LIABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH SWAT
RACE, AGE, SEX DISCRIMINATION, AMERICAN DISABILITY ACT, ASSOCIATED LIABILITIES
COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING FOR ALL OFFICERS = AVOIDANCE OF CIVIL LIABILITY
ETHICAL LEADERSHIP FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
ASSET FORFEITURE, HIDDEN ASSETS, INVESTIGATING AND HOW TO
USE THE LAW TO YOUR ADVANTAGE
PATROL OFFICER'S RESPONSE TO DRUG TRAFFICKING
COVERT NARCOTICS OPERATIONS
SURVIVAL CONCERNS FOR UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS
UNDERCOVER SELECTION & ETHICS
INTERVIEWING TECHNIQUES & INTERROGATION PROCESS
INITIAL RESPONSES TO METH LABS
DRUG INDENTIFICATION & INVESTIGATION FOR FRONT LINE OFFICERS
DEATH INVESTIGATION
INVESTIGATION SEXUAL CRIMES
CHILD ABUSE INVESTIGATION
ETHICS: CAREER SURVIVAL
ETHICS FOR FIELD TRAINING OFFICERS
ETHICS & PROFESSIONALISM
FIRST RESPONDER TO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
POLICE DEVIANCE: CAUSES & RESPONSES
POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY: CIVILIAN REVIEW OR INTERNAL AFFAIRS
DEALING WITH AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR
RACIAL PROFILING: A "MELTING POT" PERSPECTIVE FOR L.E.
DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE
CRIME SCENE PHOTOGRAPHY
VIDEO AND STILL PHOTO SURVEILLANCE
LEGALIZATION ISSUES
ETHICS AND PROFFESSIONALISM IN POLICING
Call us at 915/ 373-7222, or via email at timsellers@nlesb.org for more information on topics and course descriptions.
