99 Signs of Danger:  Identifying the signs that tell you that danger is staring you in the face

Many dashboard cameras and analyzed officer assault incidents have shown, consistently, that there is often signs that were identifiable indicating an officer was in danger, about to be attacked or involved in an escalating dangerous situation. This course illustrates over 99 signs of danger often displayed by criminals and other dangerous persons. This course is currently presented by instructors for the NY/NJ HIDTA Training Initiative.

Advanced Gang Investigation and Interdiction Course: The Advanced Gang Investigation and Interdiction Course provides strategies for targeting, investigating, prosecuting and preventing gangs as well as the resurgence of criminal street gangs.  Innovative and traditional techniques towards interdiction and investigation are taught with actual successful investigations discussed.  This course is designed for all types of agency sophistications (rural, urban, small agency, medium agency, large agency, corrections, probation, parole, federal, state, local).  This course is currently presented by our instructors at the Midwest Counterdrug Training Center (MCTC).

Advanced Patrol Concepts   If you are looking for a course that has it all, this is it!  This course will teach a proactive approach to patrol operations for police officers. This course will strengthen patrol techniques for officers at any stage of their careers.  This course focuses on gangs and gang identification techniques, safety and survival for dealing with gangs, hidden compartments, graffiti identification and investigation, using graffiti as an investigative tool, and identity theft awareness and interdiction.  In addition, teaching the skills, techniques and tricks for conducting successful prisoner debriefings, the art of the 15-minute debrief, physical surveillance, counterterrorism, patrol tactics including identifying armed perpetrators, safe and effective car stops, criminal profiling, and new drug trends.  This course is designed for Police Officers, Probation Officers, Corrections Officers, Federal Agents, Parole Officers, and other Law Enforcement Officers with the need to have a better overall understanding of what is occurring in our communities, and to provide a strong foundation of information for street cops so they can better understand what they are experiencing in their jurisdictions and be more effective and safe!

Asset Seizure and Forfeiture:   Drug traffickers are in the business of making money as a result of illegal drug sales. The acquisition of money, goods, vehicles and homes is their goal.  In order for law enforcement to be truly effective against drug traffickers, it is imperative to identify and seize assets wherever they exist and have these profits forfeited to the local law enforcement agencies and federal agencies respectively so the profits can be used in the fight against crime. This training course will expose the money laundering capabilities by drug traffickers and address ways to conduct proactive asset seizure and forfeiture investigations. At the completion of this course student officers will be able to define money laundering and identify  drug-profits for seizure and forfeiture, identify methods of transporting currency, understand the mission of  Asset Forfeiture while applying to get a search warrant and fully define Asset, Forfeitable, and Substitute Proceeds of a crime.  Student officers will also be able to list and understand the criminal activity where money is seized, the factors contributing to probable cause for a seizure of currency and be able to list the federal agencies involved in forfeiture adoptions.  Student officers will be able to list the types and criteria for a forfeiture, explain the problem when forfeiture isn’t implemented in an investigation, write asset forfeiture and seizure search warrants, utilize and/or create forfeiture paperwork, Testify in local, state or federal court and at any forfeiture proceedings and conduct Proactive Asset-Seizure investigations.  Within days of attending this course, officers will be able to utilize seized money for law enforcement purposes, utilize seized goods and vehicles for law enforcement purposes and seize money and assets from drug traffickers within their jurisdictions.

Basic Narcotics Investigations  This course is designed with the entry-level narcotics investigator in mind.  Explanation of terms, equipment, drug identification and buy/bust techniques are explained and practiced.  Basic narcotics operations including investigating a drug complaint, investigative techniques, buy and bust, search warrants, informants and other topics will be will be learned and practiced.

Characteristics of Armed Suspects: Identification and Apprehension   The most dangerous type of situation facing law enforcement officers, especially those tasked with working the streets, conducting investigations, protection details, and security, is armed suspects.  This course is the only training course that exposes literally dozens of characteristics displayed by armed suspects, personally, in a group, in a residence, or in a vehicle.  From physical aspects, clothing aspects to body language and clandestine hiding devices, armed suspects are exposed for the purpose of officer safety and apprehending armed suspects.  Although this course is predominantly about firearms, other concealed weapons, like razors, ice-picks, and shanks are exposed.  Safe and efficient suspect apprehension tactics will be taught.

Conspiracy Investigations This course will give the student an overview of the theory of conspiracy and its varied applications in law enforcement and prosecution. The student will receive a complete and thorough explanation and understanding of what constitutes a conspiracy, the major elements of a conspiracy and methods for developing conspiratorial evidence. This course will be taught by a team of law enforcement professionals who are well versed, both scholarly and in real world applications. One instructor is a former United States Assistant Attorney, who was second in charge of the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York’s Violent Crimes Section. The other instructor is an active Detective in a large Metropolitan Police Department. Together, they have innumerable experience in conducting conspiracy investigations and prosecutions.

Counterdrug Officer Safety and Survival Training (COSST) This course is an intensive reality training program that emphasizes  individual officer safety, team/unit safety, undercover officer safety and surviving imminent danger through proper tactics, planning, responses, techniques, observation, increased perception, synergistic team operations, efficient prisoner handling, controlled vehicle stops and searches, FIELD INTERVIEW© method, non-verbal/verbal communication between officers and potential threat analysis.

Counterterrorist Tactical Debriefing Method   The Counterterrorist Tactical Debriefing Course is a training course that teaches all types of law enforcement officers (Police, Corrections, Federal Agents, Parole, Probation, and other Law Enforcement Officers) from a variety of duty assignments (Narcotics, Patrol, Investigations, Terrorism, etc…), to conduct effective debriefings of new arrestees, jailed prisoners, prison inmates, probationers, parolees, and other individuals for the purpose of acquiring counterterrorist intelligence information and cultivating informants.  This training course has been taught to, and utilized, by members of the NYPD Intelligence Division plus Field Intelligence Officers (FIO) and hundreds of law enforcement officers within the seventeen (17) impact zones (high crime cities) throughout New York State with outstanding results and subsequent successes.  It has resulted in the development more counterdrug-related informants, terrorist-related informants, and ‘actionable’ intelligence (arrests, search warrants, buys, etc…) in these zones than ever before.  At the end of the course, the students will be able to conduct effective debriefings of any person coming into official contact with the student.  Students will be able to cultivate more informants in their official duties than ever before and utilize the learned techniques during street contacts, interviews, investigations, and other contacts with the public and develop ‘actionable’ intelligence (arrests, search warrants, buys, etc…)

Courtroom Testimony for Law Enforcement Officers   Courtroom Testimony is one of the most important tasks for any law enforcement officer and it is the one that receives the least training, or no training at all. In fact, most officers have complained that they never received any training on courtroom testimony and feel extremely nervous and unprepared for the courtroom. Prosecutors complain that many officers are ill prepared or provide poor testimony in trails and hearings causing trials to be lost or pleaded down to a lesser charge.  Today’s defense attorneys are much more savvy and cunning and are more prone to use dirty tricks and more intimidation than ever before.  This course is designed for any officer who wants to become a more effective witness in court, or any officer with the need to become more adept at the skill of courtroom testimony.  Police Officers, Federal Agents, Investigators, Corrections Officers, Parole and Probation Officers, and other law enforcement officers are urged to attend this course!

Crime Scene for First Responders   In this course, student officers will be instructed on the proper methods of responding to a crime scene, summoning appropriate assistance, identifying a crime scene, evaluating a crime scene, establishing an inner perimeter and outer perimeter, identifying victims, witnesses, and suspects, identifying potential suspect identification devices at or near a scene, sketching a crime scene, photographing a crime scene, searching a crime scene, identifying and gathering evidence, maintaining the integrity of a crime scene, note taking, documenting a crime scene, sealing a crimes scene, and closing a crime scene, and much pertinent information, techniques, and methodologies. 

Criminal Interdiction of Terrorist Cells   Criminal Interdiction of Terrorist Cells (CITC) is a training class designed for all local, state and federal law enforcement officers (Police, Corrections, Probation, Parole, Special Agents, Investigators) and empowers them to become involved in identifying, investigating and interdicting terrorist cells, supporters and sympathizers.   CITC covers proactive car stops, investigating terrorist leads, proactive interdiction, terrorism investigation and identifying localized threats and the tactics and techniques that should be deployed to interdict terrorist cells in the US that are threatening the US.

Criminal Investigations and Detective Operations Training Course   This training course is designed for new detectives and criminal investigators with the need to learn basic detective operations and criminal investigations. Techniques taught in this course include, but are not limited to, investigating crime complaints, interviewing complainants, crime scene investigation, interview and interrogation, note-taking, investigative report writing, drug investigations, burglary investigations, robbery investigations, murder investigations, case management, informants, dealing with the media and investigating a variety of crimes.

Criminal Profiling for Patrol Officers This Criminal Profiling Course (CPC) has been developed to train law enforcement officers (LEO) involved in highway patrol, street patrol/enforcement, street crimes interdiction, gang investigation, and other interdiction assignments, on the indicators of criminals and criminality.  These indicators have nothing to do with racial or ethnic profiles and train the LEO to search out criminals not persons.  Although this is a virtually new training course, it is expected to assist law enforcement agencies to concentrate their efforts on criminality not individuals.  This course also helps avoid litigation from racial/ethnic profiling and alert even the savvy LEO of Criminal Profile Indicators (CPI).  This is exceptionally useful in training new officers and trainees on Criminal Indicators.

Criminal Street Gang Identification and InterdictionThis course introduces the student officer to today’s street gangs, their influences and their activities.  A variety of street gangs are discussed and exposed, including  West Coast, East Coast, Midwest, Ethnic, People/Folk, Prison, and Outlaw Biker Gangs. Sociological and Psychological factors contributing to gang membership are illustrated as well as other influences such as Music, Videos, Migration, Prisons, and Displacement.  Safety issues and legal issues will be discussed.  Interdiction and investigation methods are taught with an emphasis on the utilization of Synergy to fight gangs.  This course is especially useful to members of small agencies with little or no resources available. This course is currently presented by our instructors at the Northeast Counterdrug Training Center (NCTC), Midwest Counterdrug Training Center (MCTC), Western Regional Counterdrug Training Center (WRCTC) and the NY/NJ HIDTA Training Initiative.

Cultural Immersion for Law Enforcement  Cultural Immersion Training is designed for today’s law enforcement officers facing an ever-changing community.   The demand for law enforcement officers who can effectively manage and harness America’s complex cultural diversity is growing rapidly. As the world becomes virtually smaller, and each region more multicultural, success will come only to those law enforcement professionals who have the skills and understanding to respond appropriately to the challenges of working across cultural lines. The success of this course will be measured in the individual student’s understanding, the agency’s decrease in community complaints, increase in efficient community interactions, and a better interactive environment for officers and community members. The course is taught by a seasoned law enforcement officer with assistance from a civilian member of the SPECIFIC CULTURE and a law enforcement officer of the SPECIFIC CULTURE. There are no prerequisites for this course and all law enforcement officers will benefit from this course. Cultural immersion is available in the following cultures:  Arabic, Spanish, Asian, Haitian, South American, etc…

Detecting Fraudulent Documents:   Students will be taught the skills and techniques necessary to identify all sorts of fraudulent documents and conduct efficient field interviews of criminals utilizing fraudulent documents. Sufficient resources, official secret codes (unavailable to the average law enforcement officer), research material, continual update information, and tools will be provided for each student.  Practical role play exercises and table top exercises will be utilized to insure mastering of necessary skills.

Dignitary / Executive Protection Course   This course will introduce law enforcement officers to the concepts/tactics of Protective Security. The course is designed to train officers who are tasked with providing security for VIPs, visiting Dignitaries, or addressing threats to local government officials.  It is also designed to train local agencies to work in tandem with additional Local or Federal agencies tasked with providing protective services. Course topics include: Analyzing previous assassinations and attempts, History of Executive/Dignitary Protection, Addressing Necessity, Advances/Site Assessments, Utilization of Locals as Site experts, Venue threat Assessment, Liaison work with local venues, Organization of a Protective Detail, Agency assets (Snipers, Counter Snipers, etc…), Walking Formations and Tactics, Motorcade Operations, Responsibilities of various positions, Evacuations/Transfers/Vehicle Down, and Officer Safety during Protection Details.

Drug Recognition, Understanding and Manufacture (DRUM):  Drug Recognition Understanding and Manufacture (D.R.U.M.) is a specially designed training class for law enforcement officers with the need to recognize and understand the most common drugs encountered on the streets today. This class is meant to educate the law enforcement officer on the typical types of ‘street drugs and the related information.  It is highly recommended for patrol officers, narcotics officers and undercover officers. This class is currently being presented by our instructors for the NY/NJ HIDTA Training Initiative.

Field Intelligence Officer Program   The NYPD and dozens of other police agencies with high-crime problems have implemented the Field Intelligence Officer (FIO) Program with overwhelming and consistent success.  Now the Field Intelligence Officer training class, previously only available to those agencies, is now available for other agencies.  Developing and implementing a Field Intelligence Officer program for the purpose of combating crime and increasing community perception will be taught. 

First Line Supervisor’s Course: Leading and Managing today’s Law Enforcement Professionals   The First Line Supervisor’s Course: Leading and Managing today’s Law Enforcement Professionals is a training course for law enforcement officer’s who are first line supervisors who want to excel, or those soon to be promoted to first line supervisors who want to stand out, or those who strive to becoming great leaders.  Topics included in this course include: The most important job in law enforcement, The challenges of today’s law enforcement leaders, Preparing for the task of leadership, Management Style and Leadership Qualities, The Empowering Leader, Manager: The first line supervisor, One part cop, one part leader, Leading in the streets when danger lurks, Leadership when the assignment is unpopular, Leadership under fire, Identifying team leaders for the present and future, The Dynamic Law Enforcement Leader, Be a PIG: Have Pride, Integrity and Guts, Identifying and defeating pitfalls, Handling Internal investigations and citizen complaints, Rewarding, Awarding, and Compensation, Managing Community Policing Efforts, Responsibility to your officers and the public, Managing Multijurisdictional Task Force Operations, Dealing with Unions, Grievances, and Discipline, Pragmatic approaches to problem officers, Managing Subordinates, Leading People, The Crisis Manager, and Supervising Civilian personnel.

Graffiti Deciphering, Interdiction and Investigation    This course is instructed by one of the nation’s leading experts on graffiti and graffiti investigations. We will reveal secrets to deciphering graffiti, using graffiti as an investigative tool, solving crimes using graffiti, and conducting interdiction to arrest graffiti criminals in the act or soon after.  Course content includes: a proactive approach to locating graffiti, Social website investigations and identifying taggers, identifying graffiti, its origins and author, documenting graffiti of all types, proven techniques for enforcing local laws, conducting graffiti interdiction initiatives, graffiti investigations and using it as an investigative tool, the nexus  between graffiti, gangs, crime, and violence, the difference between gang graffiti, tagger graffiti, and graffiti artists, Graffiti history and trends  Across America, related criminal activity, and international perspectives. Students attending this course will be taught how to become local experts in graffiti deciphering, interdiction, investigation and testifying in court.  Students will learn how to work with local laws and help enact new laws in combating graffiti.

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves: Traveling Criminals  Today’s gypsy-type criminals and related criminal organizations are becoming more frequently transient in nature.  Their ability to pack up and move elsewhere makes them a formidable adversary for any law enforcement agency.  Gypsies, Freight Train Riders, and other Traveling Organized Criminals (TOCS) are exposed and proactive interdiction measures and investigative techniques will be discussed.

Hidden Compartments and Drug Stashes:  Vehicles, Buildings, Houses, and Others  Secret hiding places have been utilized by drug traffickers and other criminals for many years.  This training course is unique since it will expose hidden compartments and other hiding places on people, vehicles, trucks, businesses, residences, furniture, everyday items and other places.  This is the most comprehensive training program on locating drugs and contraband. Topics covered in this class include: Drug trafficking Trends, Hidden compartment and drug stash indicators, Firearm and weapon compartments, Vehicle Aftermarket Hidden compartments, Vehicle manufacturers ‘option’ compartments, Trucks, vans, passenger vehicles and a Vehicle Search System, Residential and business drug hiding places and hidden rooms, Furniture and Hidden Compartments, Overlooked hiding spots, Personal hiding spots and Body carry, Hidden and Disguised weapons and much more.

Identity Theft:  Understanding, Prevention, Interdiction and Investigation America’s fastest growing crime, Identity Theft, affects 1 in 6 Americans and results in losses of over $53 Billion in losses last year.  The average Identity Theft victims spent an average of 175 hours and $800 in out-of-pocket expenses to clear their names.  It is the number one fraud complaint in the United States, according to the Federal Trade Commission and most Law Enforcement Agencies do not proactively combat Identity Theft, nor do they train their officers on Identity Theft. This course will show the officers how to identify it, prevent it, and investigate it effectively and efficiently.  This course is currently being presented by our instructors at the Midwest Counterdrug Training Center (MCTC).

Informant Management Course: This 24-hour course will instruct both new and experienced officers in the efficient, safe and legal protocols for developing, managing and deploy­ing confidential informants. The student will learn interview techniques to obtain information and to convince suspects to cooperate with law enforce­ment officers. Briefing, debriefing and interviewing of informants will be instructed, as a well as techniques used to maintain the confidentiality and integrity of the informant. The entire process from identification, registra­tion, cooperation letters and contracts, compensation to testimony prepara­tion will be covered with an emphasis on officer and informant safety. At the end of this class, student officers will  understand and identify different types of informants, Identify legal issues concerning the management of informants and techniques to make cases successful in court,  Identify the different ways in which an informant can be used in a narcotics investigation,  Demonstrate motivation techniques used to cultivate informants, Demonstrate techniques to maintain the safety, integrity and confidentiality of the informant, the officers involved, and the undercover operation itself, Identify techniques used to maintain the safety and integrity of both the information and the officers involved in an undercover operation.  This class is currently presented at the Northeast Counterdrug Training Center (NCTC)  by our instructors

Internet Investigations:  Intelligence and Undercover Operations online:  This unique law enforcement training course is designed for those officers who are involved or wish to become involved with the Investigation of Social Networking Sites such as MySpace, FaceBook, MiGente.com, YouTube, and more.  This course will instruct attendees on how to set up and work through an Undercover Online Account as well as searching for and identifying Gang members, drug dealers, and other criminals while identifying their criminal activities in every jurisdiction.  

Internet Jihad:  Identifying and Interdicting Terrorists through the Internet  This course is designed to help students become familiar with Terrorists and Extremists use of the Internet, and also to learn the basic skills that will help them navigate through cyberspace and identify terrorists and extremists. With these skills the student could become more proactive when monitoring and interacting with these groups and gather intelligence on their activities for the purpose of interdicting potential terrorist attacks. 

Interview and Interrogation   This training course is designed for new and experienced investigators needing the skills necessary to conduct effective interviews and interrogations. A variety of techniques used to obtain confessions and conduct information-cultivating interviews will be taught.  Topics include rapport building, theme development, body language, legal trickery, subconscious interviewing, and a host of other tactics that are effective in conducting successful interviews and interrogation.

Interview and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants/Terrorists  Law enforcement training in the field of Interview and Interrogation in the post 9-11-01 period needs to provide results with greater intricacy and skill.  Since identifying a terrorist within the borders of the US have become a necessity, local law enforcement officers need the skills, techniques, and knowledge necessary to conduct successful and efficient interviews and interrogations of Enemy Combatants and Terrorists.  Where basic and advanced Interview and Interrogation courses lack the knowledge, skills and techniques, this course continues.  It builds on the premise of identifying and permeating enemy combatant/terrorist ideology, defeating terrorist training and brain-washing, counteracting the terrorist organization’s mission, and  utilization of effective psychological aspects of interview and interrogation. This course also involves an in-depth knowledge of Islam and terrorist ideology and counter-interrogation tactics The course is taught by experienced counter-terrorism officers with countless hours of interviewing and interrogating terrorists and suspected terrorists involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, other terrorist investigations, and the attacks of September 11^th, 2001.

Major Narcotics Investigations  Supervisors, Special Agents, Case Investigators responsible to establish, maintain or coordinate “major” narcotics investigations will find this course innovative and extremely useful in preparing them for intricate major cases and problems related to major narcotics investigations.

Narcoterrorism and the Islamic Terrorist Threat  Students Officers from all aspects of law enforcement will be educated on the narcotics nexus to a variety of terrorist organizations and how they affect the United States, TODAY.  Recommended proactive approaches to terrorism investigations in all types of communities will be illustrated with an emphasis on drug-related issues. These tactics can be carried out by any law enforcement officer and will be successful in the fight against terrorism affecting the United States on the mainland. This course will also illustrate how Terrorist groups, such as Al Qaeda, FARC, and many Domestic Terrorist Organizations are prevalent in rural and suburban areas as well as urban regions.  Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) such as Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hizballah and FARC, Domestic Terrorist Organizations and localized ( US) Narco-terrorists will be discussed and their operations in America exposed. This course is designed for all law enforcement officers (Police/Sheriff, Probation, Corrections, Parole, Federal Agents, etcetera) regardless of the size of the respective agency.  This course is currently presented by our instructors at the Midwest Counterdrug Training Center (MCTC) and the Northeast Counterdrug Training Center (NCTC).

Narcotics Interdiction for Patrol and other Officers   Patrol Officers and other non-narcotics personnel will learn many useful tactics and information while motivating officers to become involved in narcotics interdiction.  This course will educate and empower patrol and other officers to more effectively identify and investigate narcotics violations.

Operation Nexus:  A Law Enforcement Program to Prevent Terrorist Incidents through Education and Empowerment of the Community   This training program provides all the information, materials, and skills necessary to thoroughly educate and empower the local merchants and community members of any community within the cities and towns across America to identify and interdict the activities of terrorists leading up to their planned attack.

Physical Surveillance The Synergistic Physical Surveillance course is designed for law enforcement officers involved in the tracking and monitoring of narcotics traffickers through urban, suburban, or rural conditions for the purpose of documenting activities and potentially interdicting upon these actions. This course covers diverse terrain and a variety of conditions.  There is an emphasis on adaptability and documentation. Objectives are to train a minimal force for maximum results. This course is currently presented by our instructors at the Midwest Counterdrug Training Center (MCTC) and the Northeast Counterdrug Training Center (NCTC).

Proactive ‘Street’ Spanish Immersion and Latino Culture for Law Enforcement:  
Forget the college Spanish, and the Rosetta Stone. This is a real street Spanish class for the active law enforcement officer by a law enforcement officer.  This class is for the LEO who wants a no nonsense vocabulary to deal with everyday situations and the proper way to deal with the variety of Latino Cultures that are prevalent throughout the United States. Topics instructed in this class include  Street Contact Spanish, Getting identification from a Spanish Speaking person, Arrest Situations, Danger Situations, Basic Commands, Danger Words, South Americans, Central Americans, Mexicans, Caribbeans (Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, etc...), American Born Latinos, Cultural immersion of local Latino Communities for Law Enforcement, The importance and influence of religion in Latino communities

Proactive Counter-Terrorism for Local Law Enforcement:  This course is specifically designed for local law enforcement officers. The current threat of Foreign Terrorism against America, within American shores and against American Interests, will be illustrated. This proactive method of counterterrorism is taught to student officers as a comprehensive program for their respective agencies.  Emphasis of this course will be on Understanding Terrorism, Terrorists and the Narcotics Trade, Identifying Terrorist Organizations, Current Intelligence, First Responders, Interdiction, Infiltration, Investigation, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Contemporary Narco-terrorism and Resources for Law Enforcement. Specific tactics will be taught with respect to patrol-level officers to provide a proactive approach to everyday duties that will greatly increase the ability to interdict a terrorist attack in progress.

Proactive Crime Fighting and Crime Reduction Strategies: Successful crime-fighting and crime-reduction strategies will be taught in this class.  Proven successful strategies and ‘new’ innovative strategies that have been successful for greatly reducing crime in previously high-crime jurisdictions are taught.  Highly effective strategies to combat crimes such as murder, robbery, burglary, auto crime, drug sales, arson, larceny, identity theft, and graffiti vandalism will be taught.

Proactive Intelligence Collection   Intelligence is the basis for effective law enforcement strategies.  Intelligence is seldom aggressively collected and disseminated.  Proactive Intelligence Collection is the innovative and aggressive identification, collection, and dissemination of ‘raw’ intelligence and ‘actionable’ intelligence necessary for focused and effective crime-fighting strategies.  Proactive Intelligence Collection methods will be taught for the purpose of gathering intelligence and fighting crimes within any jurisdiction.

PROACTIVE INTERDICTION:  Apprehending Drug Smugglers and Terrorists on the Streets and Highways of America   Proactive Interdiction is a unique, high-energy training course designed for law enforcement officers working the streets and highways of America who want to proactively and aggressively impact drug smuggling and terrorism in their jurisdictions.  This course focuses on identifying and stopping drug smugglers and terrorists while exposing hidden compartments and smuggling techniques used by drug traffickers and terrorists.  The instructors for this course have probably seized more drugs and drug money and arrested more suspected terrorists than any other law enforcement officer in US history. Actual cases will be discussed and techniques will be taught to allow the student officer to put the techniques to work immediately regardless of their resources or size of their agency.       

Report Writing and Courtroom Testimony for the Drug Officer  Defense Attorneys are preparing every day to embarrass officers in court.  What are YOU doing to prepare yourself to defeat defense attorneys, save your reputation, and insure a conviction in ALL your arrests?  This course will teach officers how to easily gain a criminal conviction in every arrest made!  In fact, we’ll teach officers how to be so prepared and proficient with report writing and courtroom testimony that the perps will want to take a plea for fear of facing these officers in court.  Topics in this course include: The 3 tiered Process of Getting a Conviction, More efficient report writing and Probable Cause articulation, Case preparation and organization, Impressing a jury and Understanding how jurors learn, Identifying Defense Attorney tricks, Defeating Defense Attorney cross examination, Avoiding common testimony mistakes, Super-efficient pre-trial conferrals with the prosecutor, The Single most Important Word in Courtroom Testimony, and much much more!

RICO Investigations and Prosecutions Racketeering Investigations have become the most effective tool available for investigators to use against organized crime, drug organizations, and gangs.  It is, however, often misunderstood and improperly applied by prosecutors and law enforcement officers. This course teaches the intricacies, applications, tactics and related laws of RICO Investigations and prosecutions.  One of the most experienced RICO prosecutors, a highly successful former US Attorney teaches this training course in a dynamic, easy to understand style.      This class is currently presented at FLETC and the Western Regional Counterdrug Training Center by  our instructors

Russian Organized Crime (Eastern European) in the US: Understanding, identifying, Interdicting America’s newest and most cunning criminals: Russian Organized Crime, more specifically known as Eastern European Organized Crime, is responsible for a wide range of criminal activities including murder. From the criminal invasion of America to Interviewing and Interrogating Russian Organized Crime, a variety of specific topics will be covered in this course.

Search Warrants: Developing Probable Cause and Writing Search Warrants   Search warrants are an effective tool in crime-fighting and evidence gathering.  Search warrants can lead to the seizure of large amounts of drugs, drug money, weapons, and other contraband.  This course will teach the many ways to develop probable cause  leading to obtaining a search warrant, especially in drug cases, and how to create a search warrant application and develop a comprehensive warrant in a variety of investigations.

Street Intelligence for Drug Interdiction: How and where  to cultivate intelligence to assist and enhance in drug interdiction efforts  Better and more accurate acquisition of Street Intelligence can lead to more drug seizures, bigger investigations and a more effective and successful approach to combating the scourge of drugs in your jurisdiction.  Street Intelligence comes in many forms and can be acquired from a variety of sources.  Some of these sources are obvious and commonly cultivated by law enforcement officers but others are less obvious and seldom used by law enforcement officers. This class will expose and illustrate a wide variety of sources of street intelligence that can be cultivated and utilized in any jurisdiction. The purpose of this training course is to provide a wide variety of intelligence sources within any jurisdiction for the purpose of obtaining ‘actionable’ intelligence useful in more successful drug interdiction efforts.  This class has been instructed for the NY/NJ HIDTA Training Initiative by our instructors.

Street Legal:  Understanding  & Using the  Law  to  Catch  Criminals in the Streets  In today’s environment, Police Officers are second-guessed, criticized, and overturned in court more than ever before.  Lack of understanding and proper utilization of the law during interdiction, investigations, and everyday interactions can lead to acquittals, law suits, and quite possibly disciplinary action or dismissal.  Many officers do not have an adequate working knowledge and experience with the law, and seldom do these officers get the proper training.  Street Legal is taught by a street cop, who is also an attorney, with over twenty years of highly-successful street experience.  He is an expert in criminal law and police tactics and has effectively used the law in countless arrests, interactions, and investigations.  Street Legal teaches officers to use the law without giving up safety and aggressiveness in the streets.  Topics Covered in this Training Course, include:  The Law and the Lawman:  They go together and why!, Criminal Procedure, Legal Guidelines, Case law for the street, Developing Mere Suspicion, Reasonable Suspicion, Probable Cause, The Law relating to Vehicle Stops and  Vehicle Searches, Field Interviews:  Stop, Question, and Frisk, Terry Stops and other Commonly Utilized Criminal Law, The Law and Officer Safety, Articulating the Law and Police Procedure in Reports and in Court.

StreetCop Tactics:  Crime Fighting Strategies for Patrol and Plainclothes Officers   The student officers attending this class will learn techniques to combat street crime and violent criminals as well as being taught how to identify street crime prior to it happening or in progress.  The proper response to in progress felonies will be taught and many techniques to identify, combat and reduce street crimes.

Synergistic Approach to Gang Interdiction   The Synergistic Approach to Gang Interdiction is designed to make the smallest gang unit or singular gang officer so proficient that he/she/they can accomplish amazing results against any street drug gang no matter the size or sophistication. The award- winning program is the model for many National Gang Units.  It is the most successful program against gangs today. This course is an advanced sequel to the Basic Gang course.

Tactical Prisoner Debriefing Method  The Tactical Prisoner Debriefing Course is a three-day training course that teaches all types of law enforcement officers (Police, Corrections, Federal Agents, Parole, Probation, and other Law Enforcement Officers) from a variety of duty assignments (Narcotics, Patrol, Investigations, Terrorism, etc…), to conduct effective debriefings of new arrestees, jailed prisoners, prison inmates, probationers, parolees, and other individuals for the purpose of acquiring intelligence information and cultivating informants.  This training course has been taught to, and utilized, by members of the NYPD Intelligence Division plus Field Intelligence Officers (FIO) and hundreds of law enforcement officers within the seventeen (17) impact zones (high crime cities) throughout New York State with outstanding results and subsequent successes.  It has resulted in the development more counterdrug-related informants, terrorist-related informants, and ‘actionable’ intelligence (arrests, search warrants, buys, etc…) in these zones than ever before.  At the end of the course, the students will be able to conduct effective debriefings of any person coming into official contact with the student.  Students will be able to cultivate more informants in their official duties than ever before and utilize the learned techniques during street contacts, interviews, investigations, and other contacts with the public and develop ‘actionable’ intelligence (arrests, search warrants, buys, etc…) This class is currently being taught at the Northeast Counterdrug Training Center (NCTC) and the Midwest Counterdrug Training Center (MCTC) by our instructors.

Target America:  Exposing Domestic Terrorism and Extremism in the US   This course focuses on identification, explanation, and investigation of all factions of extremism in America with an emphasis on officer safety and Interdiction methods. This course also focuses on  an analysis of White Supremacists, Christian Identity, Black Separatists, Wise Use Movement, Environmental Extremists, Animal Rights Extremists, Pro-Choice Activists, Sovereign Citizens, Common Law Courts, Militias and Anti-immigrationists.  This class was previously presented at Regional Counterdrug Training Center (RCTA) by our instructors

Terrorist Asset Development:  Cultivating and Managing Confidential Informants within the Terrorist Community   This course focuses on developing informants from foreign countries who reside here in the United States as well as managing and deploying informants within terrorist-laden communities.  The course will take you through the steps of finding, recruiting and training of a confidential informant and several current successful cases where informants have been successfully utilized to infiltrate terrorist cells and interdict terrorist attacks before they happen.

Undercover Danger: Identifying & Successfully Dealing with Danger During Undercover Transactions and Negotiation  This course instructs the narcotics undercover officer/agent on the various danger signs associated with undercover drug transactions. Undercover officers must be observant to dialogue, body language and situations.  This course teaches undercover officers to quickly identify danger since it manifests itself in so many ways and in a just a few seconds.  The fact is, there are usually indicators that telegraph or ‘indicate’ danger but most undercover officers are untrained and unable to properly handle such situations. Undercover officers will be instructed to trust their gut feelings so they can be able to increase their safety, effectiveness and survivability. This training course exposes so many danger signs associated with dealing with drug dealers. Topics that will be instructed in this course include Situational Awareness for Undercover Officers, Weapon management for Undercover Officers, Identifying Cheating or short changing of the Undercover officer during a drug deal, Signs of a rip-off before, during or after a drug deal, Attempts to control the Undercover Officer by the drug dealer, Deception indicators during a drug deal and drug negotiation, Deception Indicators during telephone and internet drug negotiations, Listening under pressure and Identifying when the drug dealer is challenging your cover story, And many more danger signs and ways to deal with these signs and situations

Undercover Rules: The 22 Rules for Undercover Effectiveness, Safety & Survival©   Undercover work is dangerous! Not only is it dangerous for the undercover officer, it is dangerous for the other members of the investigative team responsible for the back-up, surveillance and safety of the undercover officer.  By minimizing the exposure to risk and adhering to critical protocols, undercover work can be performed in a safer and more efficient manner.  While most agencies who perform undercover work may identify the 7 Critical Factors, this training course goes way beyond and emphasizes, illustrates and teaches the 22 Rules for Undercover Effectiveness, Safety and Survival©. Undercover officers must practice and learn how to adhere to the most important rules in undercover work:  The 22 Rules! This class is currently being instructed for the NY/NJ HIDTA Training Initiative by our instructors.

Undercover Drug Operations Involving Street Gang Members  95% of all retail drugs are sold everyday across the US by street gang members according to the FBI and the National Gang Intelligence Center.  Most police officers, drug interdiction officers, narcotics investigators and undercover officers deal with street gang members on a daily basis.  Undercover officers are asked more and more to engage in dangerous drug transactions with these street gang members but receive little or no training in this field.  Experienced gang officers and undercover officers who have dealt with gang members will instruct this training course and greatly increase the safety and efficiency of inexperienced and experienced undercover officers, investigators and supervisors dealing with street gang members.  Topics instructed include identifying a street gang connected to a drug operation, gang terminology used in street drug operations, clothing choices for undercover officers, developing an undercover persona online to reinforce street cover for undercover officers, utilizing an undercover persona (Social Networking Sites, etc…) online to enhance cover story, safer drug transaction techniques for street and inside drug buys involving gang members, and much, much more.

Undercover Management Course  This course is designed for supervisors who are tasked with supervis­ing or planning undercover operations. The course is designed to mo­tivate and empower the student supervisors to effectively and safely supervise undercover operations and to be cognizant of the skills, tac­tics, and dangers associated with conducting such undercover opera­tions. This course will also address methods of minimizing risks and focus on tactical operation planning, field team deployment, under­cover officer deployment, confidential informants, crisis management, documentation, officer safety, integrity, cover surveillance, case man­agement, drug recognition, common methods of drug packaging, and risk assessment. This course is composed of classroom instruction and practical exercises.  At the end of this course, student officers will  Have a better working understanding of the role of undercover officers in drug investigations, Have a better understanding of their responsibilities as a super­visor of undercover operations, Develop a safer and more effective tactical operation plan for undercover operations, Be able to Execute a tactical operational plan in the supervisor capacity, Conduct safer deployment of field teams, Conduct more efficient and safer deployment of undercover officers, Employ the safe use of confidential informants, Identify rules for undercover officer safety and survival, Implement and analyze crisis management methods, Implement proper and effective documentation procedures, Identify and recognize potential operational dangers, Develop and employ effective surveillance techniques, Recognize potential operational hazards (officer safety), Recognize the psychological danger signs relating to undercover officers, Identify and distinguish different types of drugs (drug recognition), Identify the most common methods of drug packaging and the paraphernalia associated with its use, Recognize and analyze the risk associated with narcotics inves­tigations and Be able to apply deconfliction procedures.  This class is currently being instructed at the Northeast Counterdrug Training Center (NCTC) by our instructors.

Understanding and Dealing with Today’s Youth at Risk, Gang Issues, and Preventing the Violence   Today’s youth are more affected by gangs and the fallout from gangs than ever before.  Today’s music spreads the word of violence, disrespect, and anti-social behavior in its lyrics.  The internet makes this type of behavior available to all our youth while the media glorifies it. Gangs and youth problems are becoming a rapidly growing and ever expanding problem for most communities and schools across the nation.  Without the proper understanding and strategies to identify, prevent, and intervene in the lives of our youth and young gang members, there will be no future for these children and the outlook for the communities in which they live will be bleak. This class is presented by two of the most knowledgeable and experienced gang and youth violence prevention experts EVER.  They have dedicated their lives to the prevention of youth violence, drug abuse, and gang violence from coast to coast and have trained nearly one hundred thousand counselors, law enforcement officers, educators, community members and youth in the strategies to stop the violence, avoid drugs, and resist gangs.

Understanding Islam and Middle Eastern Culture for Law Enforcement - 2 Days 
It has been almost a decade since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and almost 17 years since the first attack on the WTC. Law enforcement officers still know little about Islam, Muslims, Middle Easterners and radical Islam. American Law Enforcement Officers face a ever-growing prison population who increasingly convert to Islam as well as an aggressive effort on the part of terrorists to recruit and radicalize prison inmates. This class is a two day intensive training class on the history of Islam, the rise of radical Islam, Middle Eastern culture, Understanding Arabic names, Dealing with Muslims, Understanding and Dealing Middle Easterners and their Customs, Culture and Viewpoint of US Citizens and Non-Muslims. Topics include, but are not limited to Pre-Islamic Arabia, The Origins of Islam, The Schism Shi'a and Sunni Islam, The Foundations of Islam, The Five Pillars of Islam, The Six Pillars of Faith, Cultural Values, Islam Around the World, The Sixth Pillar of Islam – Jihad, The Extremist View of Islam in Modern Times, Middle Eastern Nationals in the US, Radicalization in the U.S and cultural etiquette for law enforcement officers.

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