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GANG COURSES, GUNS and DRUGS COURSES

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. 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)

3. 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.

STREETCOP COURSES:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

UNDERCOVER AND NARCOTICS ENFORCEMENT COURSES

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

TERRORISM AND NARCOTERRORISM

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 indepth 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. Understanding Islam for Law Enforcemnet Officers

This is an extensive course on the history of Islam and radicalization. It examines the plots that were thwarted on American soil. Discussions include radicalization in the United States. Radicalization in American society and its prison system.

8. 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.

9. 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.

TACTICAL DEBRIEFING

1. 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)

2. 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…)

3. 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.