Analytical Tradecraft for Law Enforcement
This course sets a foundation in intelligence analysis and integration into law enforcement operations. The course focuses on the fundamentals of analysis, the intelligence cycle, and analysis. These classes provide students with an introduction to the intelligence process, community directives, information and source evaluation, and tools necessary to conduct analysis. Upon course completion, students will be able to recognize pertinent information and apply analytical skill sets in the law enforcement setting. These skills aid law enforcement and law enforcement support in providing effective actionable intelligence to strategic and operational initiatives.
Basic Patrolling for Drug Related Activity
Patrolling is a two-day course that covers the basics of tactical movement in a classroom and culminates in day and night patrolling to a simulated objective without compromise. Students will demonstrate knowledge of Tactical Leading Procedures, group movement formations/techniques, hand and arm signals, crossing linear danger areas, and reacting to contact.
Basic Tactical Medicine
This course is designed to teach Law Enforcement Officers and other first responders how to treat and manage trauma patients in a civilian tactical environment. Utilizing a mix of classroom presentation and hands-on evaluations, attendees will learn how to provide life-sustaining treatments in threatening conditions.
Critical Thinking
This course is designed to enhance the ability of criminal analysts to evaluate information or evidence in a thorough and systematic manner. By utilizing Structured Analytical Techniques students will be able to externalize the analytic reasoning process. This provides students the ability to describe their reasoning process to others, to work in analytic teams and make it easier for analysts to give briefs and write reports.
Cryptocurrency and Basic Seizure
The C&BS course provides an introduction to virtual and cryptocurrencies and how criminals utilize them to layer proceeds from specified unlawful activities. Students will be introduced to the history of cryptocurrencies, learn how to identify suspect wallets, identify transactions visible on the blockchain, and how to implement a seizure plan. Students will get hands on experience in seizing Bitcoin by transferring funds into an agency-controlled wallet.
Deliberate Mission Planning for Law Enforcement Supervisors
In this course, officers receive an overview of the Army’s “Deliberate Mission Planning Process” which is a tool for managing time when officers have more than 48 hours to plan a challenging mission like a high-risk arrest or large event. The course also provides a tool for managing information called the Operations Order. Officers then work through each step of this deliberate planning process to eventually reach a decision about how they will plan the mission. This mission is planned at lunch, and a students will fill out a portion of the Operations Order to brief the class their mission after lunch. The class concludes with a written final exam and then an after-action review of the course.
Enhanced Tactical Medicine
This course is designed to teach Law Enforcement Officers and other first responders how to treat and manage trauma patients in a civilian tactical environment. Utilizing a mix of classroom presentation and hands-on skills training, attendees will learn how to provide life-sustaining treatments in threatening conditions.
Fentanyl Safety & Awareness
Fentanyl Safety & Awareness provides an overview of the characteristics and hazards of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Students will learn about current tactics, techniques and procedures to mitigate hazards to first responders when fentanyl or other harmful illicit substances are present at a scene.
Illicit Drug Manufacturing
This course is designed for all Law Enforcement that enforce drug laws to include patrol, investigators, agents, corrections, probation, parole and all others who possess authority to investigate and come into contact with illicit drugs and materials. The object of this course is to develop the situational awareness of the students to safely identify, and effectively respond to the dynamic situations that illicit manufacturing entails. Topics include fentanyl pill press, illegal indoor/outdoor marijuana production, designer drugs, and meth labs.
Introduction to Communication Technology
This course introduces students to the basic understanding of communication technologies. Utilizing lecture the instructor will describe cellphone communication architecture, cellphone geolocation, IP address, online communication and strategies in analyzing communication. The instructor will teach students how to read, analyze, and interpret communication data and inform them of the latest updates on iOS/Android that could affect law enforcement investigation.
Introduction to Mission Planning
This course offers a standard for planning based on the spectrum of “tactical excellence” (accomplishing the mission with minimal costs) and “tactical failure” (a mission where the cost exceeded the benefit of accomplishing the mission). The course also introduces a tool for managing time called the “Time-constrained Planning Process”, and a tool for managing information called the “Concept of the Operation”.
Introduction to Threat Finance - Virtual
This course will introduce students to how threat actors utilize and exploit financial system to generate, move, store and use their illicit proceeds. The course develops the student’s understanding of threat finance covering the fundamentals of money laundering, financial system vulnerabilities, and financial intelligence support. Students will explore the history of crypto and virtual currencies, along with how criminals procure and store these assets.
Land Navigation
Students will be taught to interpret map marginal data, terrain features on a map, plot the grid of a location on a map, orient the map, determine elevation, create a route, use a compass to determine magnetic north, understand and use declination information to determine grid north, and shoot an azimuth. We will also do a 3-hour daylight navigation practical exercise, and a 3-hour night practical exercise.
Mission Planning
This course provides military planning tools and practical guidance that will help students become better organized mission planners. The course will introduce general frameworks to help students improve their information, time, and risk management to support the foundational goal of officer safety. This course is designed to be highly experiential and hands-on.
Photo Analysis
This course teaches students basic techniques to identify the location where a picture or video was taken through a combination of reverse image searches and online searching. This course uses both lecture and practical exercises to teach the students. Upon course completion students will have acquired new techniques to analyze pictures and videos in order to aid their investigations.
Synthetic Opioid Awareness
This course provides law enforcement with fundamental knowledge and overview of characteristics, hazards and availability of synthetic opioids such as Fentanyl within the illegal drug market, as well as hazards associated with clandestine lab production and milling operations.
Tactical Medicine Hemorrhage Control (HEMCON)
This course is designed to provide Law Enforcement Officers and other first responders with tools and techniques when caring for patients in tactical environments. Tactical Medicine Hemorrhage Control (HEMCON) for Law Enforcement emphasizes basic interventions for hemorrhage control used to treat one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in tactical environments (extremity and junctional exsanguination).
Threat Finance Analysis
This course will introduce students to how threat actors utilize and exploit financial system to generate, move, store and use their illicit proceeds. The course develops the student’s understanding of threat finance covering the fundamentals of money laundering, financial system vulnerabilities, and financial intelligence support. Using lecture, discussion and practical exercise students are introduced to the real life applicability of counter threat finance and the various record keeping databases which support financial investigation.
Time-Constrained Mission Planning for Patrol Officers
This course offers a standard for planning based on the spectrum of “tactical excellence” (accomplishing the mission with minimal costs) and “tactical failure” (missions where the costs exceeded the benefits of accomplishing the mission). The course also introduces a tool for managing time called the “Time-constrained Planning Process” which can be used when officers have between 2 and 48 hours to plan a mission. Officers are introduced to a tool for managing information called the “Concept of the Operation”. Students will break up into teams and plan a time-constrained mission over lunch. A class on giving a military-style mission brief is taught, and students then brief the class the mission they planned based upon that class. The final class is how to conduct an After-Action Review.