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School Resource Officer—Basic School
Note: This course is intended for current School Resource Officers (SRO) or those interested in becoming a SRO. Important: Each person that enrolls in this class MUST also enroll in the August 19, 2008, BulletProof Mind class even if you have taken it before. This is a requirement for the class. This two-day course is designed to provide participants with an introduction and overview to the school/law enforcement partnership. The training will define SRO roles and responsibilities in the school environment as well as provide a foundation for developing a problem-solving approach to school crime. Other topics include developing a memorandum of understanding between the school system and police, student and deviant behavior, principle and SRO relations, gangs in schools, school search and seizure and critical incident planning.
Search and Seizure
This course covers many aspects of search and seizure to include: legal authority, searches incident to arrest, consent searches, plain view doctrine, abandonment, exigent circumstances, vehicle and vehicle inventory searches, pre-textual vehicle stops, traffic checkpoints, profiling, stop and frisk, canine sniffs, and information on pagers.
Search Warrant
This is a working seminar designed to provide an understanding of search and seizure issues for uniformed officers, investigative personnel, sheriff’s deputies, and others that routinely deal with issues related to search and seizure. It is an excellent follow-up course to the Search and Seizure class, as it involves practical exercises in preparing search warrants.
Sheriff’s Office Basic Supervision
This course is designed for newly promoted supervisors at all grades. It is also a refresher course for existing supervisors. The course covers both practical and theoretical aspects of supervision. It introduces the student to the various responsibilities and duties of a supervisor. It covers supervisory investigations, discipline, and leadership as well as performance evaluations, use of force and worker’s compensation. While not an exhaustive course on supervision, it was designed to give the first time, or seasoned, supervisor the information and tools needed to lead and supervise successfully.
Spanish for Law Enforcement
This program is a non-academic approach to learning bite-sized Spanish terms and phrases that can be used on the job to improve communication between Hispanics and English-speaking citizens and to provide clearer instructions in safety and emergency situations. Rather than teaching grammatically correct conversational Spanish that relies on verb conjugation and sentence structure, workplace Spanish teaches participants to communicate through the use of occupation-specific words and phrases. Training will focus on basic helpful expressions, sobriety tests, immigration status, Miranda rights, gangs and drugs, weapons, crimes and criminals.
Sports Nutrition for Enhanced
Performance & Body Composition
In this course, Dr. Antonio will cover the latest science pertaining to macronutrient manipulation, diet, and the use of dietary supplements for the express purpose of enhancing performance, increasing muscle mass and decreasing fat mass. Topics may include, but are not limited to: the thermic effect of food, different types of dietary protein/fat/carbohydrate, dietary supplements such as creatine, beta-alanine, fish oil, and many others. Additionally, the attendees will learn the different bioenergetic systems and how to they specifically apply to law enforcement officers.
Strategies
for Effective Leadership
Updated to reflect current management practices and an emerging organizational emphasis on leadership, this seminar will enhance and develop the experienced supervisor’s leadership, knowledge, and skills. Topics include: management vs. leadership, new realities of policing, action targets, measurements of success, the challenge of negativity, high performance teams, personal mastery and leadership legal issues. Many of these topics are useful tools to enhance the supervisory role in community policing. This seminar will use a series of presentations, case studies, discussions and team exercises.
Street Crimes Seminar
This three-day informative and entertaining seminar is truly different in that the instructors are nationally recognized experts in many areas of police work. All instructors have been involved in the training of thousands of law enforcement officers throughout the United States and abroad. All instructors have at least 25 years of actual street experience. They are able to blend their many unique experiences in patrol, gang crimes, undercover work, S.W.A.T., and federal task forces to create the fastest growing training program in the country. Every officer who attends this training is given an extensive training manual and a certificate of completion.
Street Gang Investigation
Sworn officers only. This class will examine gang activity in and around Fairfax County. Gang structure, hierarchy, and methods of operation will be explored. The class will examine the broad spectrum of gang activity throughout the nation and how that network impacts gang activity locally.
Supervisory
Investigation
This course will review the elements of supervisory investigations, to include: objectives of internal investigations, supervisor’s initial complaint review, citizen complaint process, witness interviews, confidentiality, investigative techniques, departmental searches, domestic violence, and criminal misconduct.
Terrorism, Organized Crime &
Intellectual Property Theft
The United Trade Representative estimates that intellectual property theft worldwide costs United States companies $250 billion annually. Intellectual property theft not only damages our economy, it also can endanger our health and safety. All counterfeit products are destructive substandard products, such as placebo pharmaceuticals, batteries containing unsafe levels of mercury, and defective automotive and airplane parts. Today, counterfeiters create almost any fake product, anywhere in the world, and ship it to virtually any destination. Because of the tremendous profits and easy distribution associated with counterfeit products, they have become a fertile breeding ground for various organized crime groups. Sophisticated counterfeiting operations are now global enterprises, often with connections to drugs, money-laundering and terrorist activities.
Transformational Training
There's a HUGE training myth out there. The myth? Information + Information = Something of Value. FACT -- Information + Information = 0, zilch, nada -- unless your training connects emotionally with learners and inspires them to CHANGE or ACT. But how do we make our training inspirational … and transformational? Come find out. You just may discover training methods as big as your spirit. Learn how to:
- Tap your own passion for training and infuse it into any training topic.
- Connect with and inspire Generations X and Y.
- Create titles for training that stir the heart and engage the imagination.
- Create and execute attention grabbing openers that make your audience want more.
- Use stories, music, poetry, symbols, quotes, multi-media presentations, humor and interactive exercises to raise your training to an inspirational level.
- Design a show-stopping, heart-grabbing closing that will connect learners to each other and the work that needs to be done and inspire them to apply what they learned.
Train to Win
NOTE: Students must bring the following to class: full duty gear (gun belt, vest, boots, BDUs), brown bag lunch, snacks and sports drinks. This class is limited to 14 students, and will include a short classroom presentation, defensive tactics, DT scenarios, decision making drills, physically and mentally demanding scenario training and more. Questions should be directed to PFC Matt Domyancic at the Academy, or MPO Howie Scott, PFC Mike Riccio, or PFC Matthew Luik. The course will cover the following: (1) the importance of maintaining and training law enforcement related skills to increase survivability in violent encounters; (2) the basic understanding of fight, flight, freeze, and how stress inoculation training can help blueprint positive options for when situations escalate; (3) how physical fitness impacts the ability to handle stress and make critical decisions when heart rate is elevated as well as its effects on motor skills such as defensive tactics and firearms; (4) how fitness along with stress inoculation training will improve use of force decision making; (5) that training is not one-dimensional, nor something to do only when forced to. Officers should participate regularly in physical fitness, defensive tactics training, firearms training, as well as keeping a healthy and balanced lifestyle.
Use of Informants
This course is structured to give attendees knowledge and the skills needed to identify, develop, and supervise informants for criminal and drug/narcotic investigations. The course starts with defining characteristics of and developing informants, then continues through utilizing, supervising and directing the informants up through court proceedings. It concludes with segments on deactivating informants and compromised informants. The course is targeted at drug and criminal investigators, and anyone utilizing informants as an investigative tool.
Youth Internet Safety
Train-the-Trainer
This course is presented by the Virginia Attorney General's Office and is designed to facilitate local law enforcement's efforts in educating children about computer safety through two educational initiatives, the "SafetyNet" presentation for middle and high school students, and Faux Paw's: Adventures in the Internet, an Internet safety book for elementary school students. Topics include cyberbullying, online child solicitation, consequences of posting too much information on the Internet and Internet safety for children.