1. Criminal Street Gang Identification and Interdiction
This 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. (Currently Presented at the Northeast Counterdrug Training Center and Midwest Counterdrug Training Center)

2. 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.

3. Drug Smuggling and Hidden Compartments
This course explores the variety of hidden compartments utilized by drug dealers, smugglers, street gangs, gun runners, drug lords and organized crime. Extensive information and techniques are illustrated to detect contemporary hidden compartments in vehicles, trucks, tractor trailers, warehouses, commercial airliners, apartments, private homes, furniture and household items. Legal issues, search and seizure and money laundering techniques will be discussed. Small agencies deploying these tactics can greatly increase their budget through related asset forfeiture.
4. Major Case 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.
5. 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.

6. Russian Organized Crime (Eastern European) in the US)
Understanding, identifying, and 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.

7. 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.

8. StreetCop Spanish: Conversational Spanish for Street Officers Made E-Z
Because of the rapidly growing diversity of so many communities across the US and Canada, there is an overwhelming need to communicate with members of the Latino community, whether law abiding citizens or criminal suspects. Officers who have completed this course are more valuable to their agencies and more effective than before. In fact, all of those who have attended voiced an immediate feeling of confidence to perform safer in the streets of their diverse beats. This class is designed to assist Law Enforcement Officers with little or no conversational Spanish experience. Officers who attend this course will learn conversational Spanish in a methodical and effective pace with emphasis on the most valuable and useful commands. At the end of this training course, Officers will immediately feel more comfortable with the Spanish language and be able to start using it in their daily duties.

9. 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…

10. Street Legal: Understanding and 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.

11. Advanced Gang Investigation
The Advanced Gang Investigation Course provides strategies for targeting, investigating, prosecuting and preventing 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).

12. Synergistic Gang and Drug Investigation
Synergistic Advanced Gang and Drug Investigation is designed for Law Enforcement Officers involved in the investigation, incarceration and monitoring (Probation and Parole) of gangs and drug organizations. Innovative investigative and interdiction techniques will be illustrated from a synergistic approach for maximum results. Student officers (regardless of their agencies discipline and authority) will be empowered and motivated to work in a coordinated collaborative environment with all available resources and agencies against the targeted gang or drug organization.

13. Role of the Undercover
This course is designed to train new undercover officers and experienced undercover officers to conduct safe and efficient undercover operations and understand the roles and responsibilities of other team members so each UC operation is safely and more efficiently achieved. (Currently Presented at the Northeast Counterdrug Training Center)

14. 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. (Currently Presented at the Midwest Counterdrug Training Center and Northeast Counterdrug Training Center)

15. 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…) (Currently Presented at the Northeast Counterdrug Training Center and Midwest Counterdrug Training Center)

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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 indicting an officer was in danger, about to be attacked or involved in an escalating dangerous situation. This course illustrates 99 categories containing over 200 danger signs displayed by criminals and other dangerous persons.

23. 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.

24. 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.

25. 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!

26. 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.

27. 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!

28. 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.

29. Courtroom Testimony
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!

30. 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.

31. 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.

32. 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.

33. 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.

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. 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.

39. The Role of the Narcotics Supervisor
This course is designed for supervisors of narcotics interdiction or investigation units who are responsible for the day-to-day operations. Managing buy funds, confidential informants, field teams, buy and bust operations, integrity issues and practiced in depth from a supervisory standpoint.

40. Informants and Sources: Cultivating, Managing and Deploying
Every Law Enforcement Officer must endeavor to develop information and the best way to get timely and accurate information is through the utilization of informants. Developing informants is a valuable and necessary component of all facets of law enforcement and proper management of those informants is a necessity for efficiency, success, and safety. In this course, Officer Safety is paramount! Efficient and successful techniques, tactics, and investigative innovations will be analyzed. Proper utilization, deployment and management of confidential informants will be taught. Topics include: Dynamics of Confidential Informants, Sources of Information, Cultivating Confidential Informants (CI), Successful Debriefing Techniques for CI Development, Successful Debriefing Techniques for Information Development, Tactical Cultivation of CIs, Developing/Utilizing Team Synergy, Informant Motivations, CI Management for Safety and Efficiency, Policy, Procedures and Rules, Registration Packages and Administration, Paying Informants, Cooperation Agreements, Probable Cause, CI Deployment, Infiltration, Interdiction, Investigation, Officer Safety and Security, and Legal Considerations

41. 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.

42. 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.

43. 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.

44. The Complete Armed Suspect and Gun Apprehension Training Course
With the proliferation of firearm related crimes permeating more communities each day, coupled with the recent increase in gun-related deaths of our nation‟s law enforcement officers, it is far more necessary than ever for law enforcement officers to be able to identify and apprehend armed suspects and take illegal guns off the streets. This training course will instruct student officers on the specific characteristics consistent with armed suspects as well as providing a variety of proactive and innovative tactics for effecting the apprehension of armed suspects and other firearm violators. Skills taught in this course include recognizing armed suspects, uncovering guns in vehicles, tactical prisoner debriefing methodologies for the purpose of developing information on gun violators, obtaining gun search warrants, approaching armed suspects, and other methods that have been highly successful in increasing law enforcement‟s ability to seize guns, apprehend armed suspects and decrease gun violence in any community. The goals of this course are to provide student officers with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to recognize armed suspects, make more apprehensions of gun violators, conduct safer encounters with armed suspects, utilize intelligence information derived from prisoners to identify additional gun violators, and increase officer safety.

Counterterrorism Training Courses
After the events of September 11th, 2001, law enforcement had to step up to a higher level but, unfortunately, law enforcement training had not. We, at Homefront, partnered with the most successful counterterrorism investigators in the United States to tackle the challenge of combating terrorists within the US and with the resources and legal constraints available to local, state, and federal law enforcement. We have developed and implemented unique training programs that are designed to identify terrorist cells, interdict terrorist attacks, and investigate terrorists affecting the United States. In this booklet, we will highlight those training courses designed to stop the next terrorist attack before it happens. These are not „responder‟ courses, these are courses that will help any law enforcement officer identify, interdict and stop a terrorist attack during any stage, whether it be from conspiracy to cell development or from acquiring supplies to the final stages of attack.
As you will see, these courses are not offered anywhere else and are instructed by highly experienced successful law enforcement officers who have had „real‟ successes in interdicting terrorist cells within the borders of the United States.

1. 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.

2. 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 11th, 2001.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Domestic Terrorism and Extremism
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.

6. Narcoterrorism
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

7. Identity Theft: Understanding, Prevention, Interdiction and Investigation
The world‟s fastest growing crime, Identity Theft, is America‟s number one crime. It victimizes 1 in 5 Americans and affects over 90% of all Americans. It results in losses of over $50 Billion year and has become a major funding crime for terrorists in the US and overseas. Sadly, most Law Enforcement Agencies do not proactively combat Identity Theft, nor do they train their officers on Identity Theft interdiction. This course will show the officers how to identify it, prevent it, and investigate it effectively and efficiently while utilizing proactive investigative techniques.

8. Operation Empowerment: 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.

9. 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…)

10. 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.

11. 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.

New Training Courses Coming Soon:
 Arson Investigation for the First Responder
 Arson Investigation for Criminal Investigators
 Decoy Operations
 Counter-Terrorist Surveillance Operations
 Safety Officer Survival

Training Courses for the Community, Corporations and Citizen’s Groups

1. Understanding Terrorism and What the American Citizen can do!
Terrorism affects everyone! According to the US Government, there is still a serious threat that America will be attacked again. Americans have the power to stop terrorists and help in the fight against terrorism. This course will show how to identify terrorist indicators, understand the terrorist groups that are active in America, and what can be done by the average citizen to stop the next wave of terror.

2. Operation Empowerment: Preventing Terrorist Incidents through Education and Empowerment of the Community
This course focuses on educating and empowering communities to become the eyes and ears of law enforcement by educating them on the variety of ways that terrorists operate. Terrorist indicators, supply acquisition, and interaction within communities will be illustrated and reporting procedures will be explained.

3. Combating Everyday Crimes that Fund Terror: A Citizen’s Guide
Several billion dollars each year are funneled out of the US or used within the US to fund terrorist activities. The majority of this illegal money is profits from everyday, often overlooked crimes that the average citizen can identify, prevent, and help investigate by just being aware of such crimes. Cigarette smuggling, counterfeit cigarettes, stolen baby formula, expired food products, food stamp fraud, electronic benefit fraud, phone card schemes, counterfeit property, and a host of other crimes are being committed across the US right under the nose of law enforcement but are proliferating with the money from unsuspecting citizens. This eye-opening education course exposes the many terror-funding crimes committed everyday in all 50 states and a method for local citizens to avoid becoming a victim or a way to help authorities identify such crimes in their jurisdiction.

4. Identity Theft: Awareness and Crime Prevention
America‟s number one crime, Identity Theft, is becoming a major funding mechanism for terrorists, drug traffickers, and other criminals. Identity Theft affects over 90% of all Americans and results in losses of over $50 Billion each 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 citizens how to identify it, prevent it, and prepare their own case if they become a victim of identity theft. The mere prevention of identity theft will decrease funding to terrorists and other criminals.

5. Rape/Sexual Assault Prevention
Rape and Sexual Assault are crimes of violence, not sex! Rape affects everyone and can be prevented if the proper techniques and tactics are followed. This program exposes the signs and signals of the risks of rape and sexual assault, their most common perpetrators, and the tools of the trade. Common sense practices and alertness skills will be taught while self-protection options will be explored.
6. Drug Awareness: Identifying Drugs in the Workplace and at home
Learning to identify the signs, symptoms, behavioral patterns and paraphernalia of drug abusers will empower executives, managers, security staff and employees to avoid conflict, violence and the potential for theft, lawsuits and loss of revenue.

7. Interview Techniques
Techniques used by experienced law enforcement and corporate interviewers are taught by experienced, adept Police Detectives. Students of this course will learn effective questioning tactics, kinesic indicators and the importance of rapport.

8. Street Smarts: Safety & Security for Business & other Travelers
Today, business people must travel frequently and to a variety of places. Students of this course will learn how to maintain personal and business safety while having a safe, efficient trip. These techniques can be utilized for family vacations and personal travel.

9. The Verbal Advantage: Tactical Communication and Verbal Self Defense
Verbal Communication between your personnel, clients, potential clients, and employees can be the first step to developing fruitful relationships or disastrous relationships. Tactical Communication skills will guide your employees to manipulate productive, non-adversarial contacts and ultimately develop positive customer relationships. Altercations, loss of clients and potential litigation will be greatly minimized.

10. Recognizing Violence Behavioral Indicators (VBI)
Recognizing the indicators, obvious and discreet, of behavioral patterns can greatly minimize the chance of violent acts manifesting in your workplace. This course will teach how to identify such indicators that are shown through behavior, clothing, association, conversation, documentation, personal history and testing.

11. Preventing Violence in the Workplace, before it’s too late!
With the proliferation of violence in the American workplace, it is now necessary for corporations to establish prevention programs, identify potential violence, create a plan for the intervention and respond to such violence should it occur. This course will show your staff how to effectively conduct these important programs and ultimately create a safer, violence free workplace.

12. Gangs in Corporate America
Unknowing corporations and businesses are being bilked of millions of dollars by organized gangs through employee contacts, infiltration, violence, hijackings and fraud. Recognizing the signs of gang presence, identifying gang members and preventing infiltration, can save corporations and businesses large sums of money that can be lost through the gang‟s criminal activity.

13. Drug /Alcohol Abuse Assessment
Learn to assess the signs of drug or alcohol abuse in employees or potential employees as indicated in their behavior, work performance, relationships, demeanor and response to stimuli. Assessing problems early can lead to preventing violence, suicide or disruption of a working environment.

14. Computer/Online Safety: Protecting our Most Precious Resource: Kids
Today, more money is being stolen through computer crimes and Internet fraud than any other crime America suffers. Computer savvy sexual predators are preying on our youth and unsuspecting persons while hackers are sending destructive viruses across the web. A computer crime expert will show you how to develop safe computer crime prevention habits and identify potential weaknesses with your systems.

15. Managing People: Building Leaders
Managers need to teach not tell; Lead not boss; Empower not order. Effective leadership skills are taught in a positive, upbeat way so your managers and executives can create a more productive and positive working environment. Employees need to be led into the work zone and motivated to perform to their fullest potential.

16. Crime Prevention
A variety of techniques and aids are successful in preventing crimes against corporations, buildings, employees, and property. These techniques and aids are illustrated by crime prevention experts who will show how and why criminals pick their victims. Following the concepts of this course will greatly decrease the loss of property or personal injury from crime.

17. Street Smart: Keeping You and Your Family Safe
Students who take this course will be taught street safety by a former street cop with over 20 years experience in combating crimes against persons, residences and property. This expert, who spent his entire career hunting those who hunt victims, will illustrate safety precautions and tactics. He will explain the criminal mind through real life accounts and quotes from actual criminals on how victims are chosen.

18. Conflict Resolution
An expert in conflict resolution will teach you how to conduct safe, effective intervention techniques and train your staff to resolve altercations without violence or escalation of tensions.

19. Check Fraud: Identification and Prevention
Check Fraud is at epidemic proportions but we, at CTS, as member of the National Check Fraud Center, exchanges current information on check fraud with thousands of law enforcement officers from local, State and Federal agencies as well as security professionals from major corporate and financial institutions. According to the National Check Fraud Center, 500 million checks are forged annually, with losses totaling more than $10 billion and an average of 1.4 million fraudulent checks was written daily, last year, worth $27.3 million. In today‟s world, any business in the practice of accepting checks must learn Our System of Identifying Check Fraud and Risk Mitigation. Developed by our Research and Development staff, “The System” involves a comprehensive system for identifying and preventing check fraud.

20. Identity Theft: Understanding and Prevention
America‟s fastest growing crime, Identity Theft, affects 1 in 6 Americans and results in losses of over $53 Billion EACH year. The average Identity Theft victim 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 know how to proactively combat Identity Theft, nor do they train their officers on Identity Theft. This course will show the average citizen, small business, or corporation how to identify it, prevent it, and investigate it should he or she become a victim of Identity Theft.

21. Understanding Terrorism & What the Average Citizen can do to stop it!
Terrorism affects everyone! According to the US Government, there is still a serious threat that America will be attacked again. Americans have the power to stop terrorists and help in the fight against terrorism. This course will show how to identify terrorist indicators, understand the terrorist groups that are active in America, and what can be done by the average citizen to stop the next wave of terror.

22. Identifying Gangs at home, at work, & in your neighborhood!
Street gangs are permeating every corner of the United States and affecting, not only our youth, but the average American with their spread of drugs and violence. Lou Savelli is the foremost expert on gangs across America, in fact, his book, The Pocketguide to Gangs Across America, has sold tens of thousands of copies within law enforcement circles but is now available to the public. This course has been taught to community groups, law enforcement officers, corporations and small businesses throughout the US, Caribbean Islands and Canada. This course is eye-opening and a must for parents of teenagers, suburban residents and anyone wanting to be aware of America‟s most dangerous criminals: Street gangs.

23. Safe & Secure: Crime Prevention Strategies for the Average Citizen and his/her Family
Yes, New York is the safest large city in America. But staying safe and secure from crime should be a way of life. In this course, Lou Savelli empowers his audience to develop good skills on being safe and secure and staying that way. His cutting edge information, proactive approach, and passionate presentation ability will help anyone who listens become safe and secure.

24. What Every Parent Should Know, But Doesn’t!
It‟s tough being a kid today, but it is tougher being a parent! While today‟s children have access to more information than ever before, they are also exposed to more dangers than before. In What Every Parent Should Know but Doesn‟t!, Lou Savelli exposes the everyday things that parents need to know to insure their child‟s safety and well-being. Presented in an upbeat, interactive forum, this course is a must for every parent of a child under 18.

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