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Early Career Development and Financial Planning
After years of hearing comments from the Pre-retirement Seminar students such as "Great class, but I needed this information 15 or 20 years ago…while I still had time to take advantage of it," we put together a two-day program designed to help you in your continuing career and well beyond. Combined over the two days are discussions about choices which reflect what you want from your career in the future and how best to get moving in that direction. Secondarily, but every bit as important, will be information about financial planning--steps you can take now with minimal difficulty that will provide maximum benefit when you approach retirement.
Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement Officers
Dr. Kevin Gilmartin, renowned speaker and author of the book Emotional Survival in Law Enforcement is scheduled to present a modified version of his "Emotional Survival in Law Enforcement" training. The course addresses the dynamics that can transform idealistic and committed officers/deputies into cynical, angry individuals who begin having difficulties in both their personal and professional lives. The course outlines the issues that can potentially see employees engaging in rationalized inappropriate behavior patterns and decision-making that leads to both administrative, and unfortunately in some cases, criminal difficulties. The purpose of the class is to provide information that lets the officer/deputy see how the deterioration process can take place and what specific preventative strategies can be employed. It also is geared to address the concept that "No-Contact no Complaint" Law Enforcement is actually a first step towards a "Continuum of Compromise" and identifies the foundational rationalizations employees utilize. The goal of the course is to provide information that keeps employees committed and engaged in productive law enforcement. The course also gives information to employees on how not to become a "self-perceived victim", a descriptor for an employee that spends inordinate amounts of time resenting and resisting organizational and supervisory directive, and at the same time suffering unnecessary destruction in the personal dimensions of their lives.
Field Training Instructor – Police
Department
Enrollment will be controlled by the Police Department Field Training Coordinator, through supervisory recommendation. Please contact that office to inquire. This course will certify all participants as an agency FTI. Interested officers should notify their supervisor of their interest.
Fraudulent Document Field
Identification
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Functional
Fitness Course
No enrollment required: No DCJS credit. The Functional Fitness classes are designed to improve speed, power and agility to better prepare the student for the spontaneous physical encounters often required in the performance of law enforcement duties. Students should wear athletic clothing and shoes designed to provide support during lateral movement.
Gang Prosecution Techniques
The goal of this course is to provide experienced investigators, prosecutors, and probation and corrections personnel with the knowledge and tools to "attack" organized criminal street gangs using a multi-agency, multijurisdictional approach. The concepts taught in this course have been used to effectively dismantle organized criminal street gangs and take back communities that previously had been controlled by these gangs. The course highlights specialized investigative techniques and concepts that have been used to successfully dismantle criminal street gangs that were previously unstoppable by traditional law enforcement techniques. Emphasis is placed upon charging all criminal activities committed by members of the organization in one Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) indictment. In conjunction with this, Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Hobbs Act elements are discussed as a means to enumerate all offenses in one RICO indictment. Additionally, a series of practical exercises will be used to demonstrate how to prepare for a case funding request as well as to submit and present a RICO case to the court. Students are encouraged, but not required, to bring a laptop computer to the class for use during the practical exercises.
Guide Dog Users—Interaction with
Law Enforcement
This course will identify some of the special concerns of the blind who have guide dogs and how blind people can work more effectively with police. It is designed to raise awareness of how officers respond to blind people and their use of guide dogs. Some of the target areas will include: attacks on guide dogs by off-leash dogs; 911 calls; dog-handler relationship; how officers approach homes on calls; domestic violence issues involving the blind with guide dogs; accidents, both pedestrian and vehicular; incarceration. This class is appropriate for Crime Prevention officers, DPSC dispatchers, Animal Control officers, Sheriff’s in Civil Enforcement/ADC/Courts, Fire Marshals and patrol officers.
Hostage Negotiations
This seminar will focus on the initial response by police officers and deputies to a hostage or barricade incident. Principles of hostage negotiations, including the psychological, legal and medical aspects of hostage situations, will be discussed. Psychodrama will be utilized extensively to depict hostage situations and to evaluate students during practical exercises in this interactive training course.
How to Avoid
Liability from the New E-mail and Cyberharassment Laws
This seminar provides updates on hidden e-mail liabilities and information on the following areas:
- Ten new wording strategies that must be in all your emails
- Eight costly mistakes of e-mailing public record information
- Avoiding new trapdoors of sending personal e-mail form work or sending work e-mail form home
- Five core strategies on what e-mails you can keep or delete
- New liabilities of subject line and forwarding e-mail
- Responding without liability to hate e-mail or jokes
- Seven biggest e-mail policy mistakes
- Six words that automatically trigger cyberharassment
- Three core strategies to avoid invasion of privacy claims
- Inside tips on avoiding group-send liability
- Understanding web-linking liability
- Hidden pitfalls of uploading and downloading copyrighted material
Instructor Development
NOTE:You must attend ALL of this class and the prerequisite is Public Speaking 101. This course is developed to provide the student law enforcement instructor with a better understanding of the standards and principles involved in developing, presenting and testing of training courses. Instructional topics include: determining objectives, writing lesson plans, performance evaluations, training aids, power point development and teaching techniques. This class requires the student to give a fifteen-minute presentation which will require extensive preparation. Personnel should ensure that they have no conflict in scheduling, court, medical appointments, etc., as missing even a small portion of this class would be detrimental. Following successful apprenticeship, state certification will be granted.
Instructor Re-Certification
Re-certification is required every three years. This class will re-certify instructors in the area of General Law Enforcement Instruction. Trainers will be presented with new training techniques and updated on current civil decisions affecting the training environment.
Interview and Interrogation-HIDTA
The goal of this course is to familiarize both new and seasoned investigators with the various disciplines of "detecting deception." This is accomplished though learning to recognize non-verbal body language and eye-assessing cues (neurolinguistics), and by being introduced to the newest form of conducting a detailed analysis of verbal and written statements. This unique course offers investigators insight as to what a person is actually saying, and, most importantly, what they are not saying. Additionally, the attendees are challenged to analyze a variety of written statements including the infamous cases of Susan Smith, Jon-Benet Ramsey and O.J. Simpson. Other more contemporary cases are reviewed, including a suspicious death in Alaska; an alleged suicide of a Washington state trooper; and cases of fraud, rape and theft. The students will view multiple recorded sessions of actual interviews. Students also are invited to participate in group and individual class assignments involving factual cases.
Investigating
Sexual Harassment
This two-day course will familiarize supervisors with what sexual harassment is, who is liable, the extent of the liability, the legal and appropriate courses of action to take and the complaint process. A clear understanding of Title VII is crucial to today’s supervisors. Students will learn proper investigative steps and documentation necessary for successful dispositions. This seminar uses active participant role plays and real case scenarios.
Investigating Use of Force
Incidents
Use-of-force liability strikes instant fear into the hearts of the most ardent police executives and risk administrators. The question is what can be done to minimize the risk of successful litigation stemming from a use-of-force encounter. Nothing can prevent a use-of-force lawsuit from being initiated. However, there are steps that can be taken before, during and after the incident to prevent the plaintiff from winning. The risk can be managed and the liability minimized by policies, training, supervision, post-incident procedures and legal support.