Analytical Edge: Converting Raw Data To Actionable Evidence (Critical Thinking)

Course Description: This course is essential for law enforcement, criminal analysts, and community-based partners who need to build stronger, more defensible analytical conclusions in their counter-narcotics efforts. By mastering Structured Analytical Techniques such as Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Red Team Analysis, and Key Assumptions Check, you will move beyond intuition to systematically evaluate evidence and clearly articulate your reasoning process. This practical, exercise-driven class will empower you to improve collaboration, write more effective reports, and deliver persuasive briefings, ultimately making your analysis more impactful in the mission to disrupt criminal activities.
Prerequisites: None
Course Length: 1 Day / 8 Hours

Basic Threat Finance

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. Students will explore the history of crypto and virtual currencies, along with how criminals procure and store these assets. Students will also observe how cryptocurrency seizures are conducted and documented. 

Chemical Shadows: Analyzing Illicit Production (Illicit Drug Manufacturing)

Course Description: This comprehensive course is essential for law enforcement, criminal analysts, and
community partners who must navigate the complex and dangerous landscape of the illegal drug market.
You will gain the critical ability to identify a wide array of threats, from Fentanyl and its related substances to
various clandestine operations including meth labs, BHO labs, illegal marijuana grows, and pill mills.
Beyond just identification, this course equips you with current tactics for hazard mitigation, provides
planning considerations for your specific jurisdiction, and covers practical skills such as proper PPE
selection, presumptive field testing, and leveraging available local, state, and federal resources, ensuring
you are prepared to respond safely and effectively to any illicit drug scene.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 4 Hours

Clan Lab Recognition & Safety (Enhanced Illicit Drug Manufacturing)

Course Description: The rising danger of illicit drug manufacturing makes this safety course essential for
law enforcement, criminal analysts, and community-based partners who may encounter these hazardous
sites. You will gain the critical skills to detect the presence of a lab, identify the specific chemical and
physical dangers involved, and implement proven mitigation strategies to ensure your safety and the
public's. With content that can be tailored to the specific drug threats your organization is facing, this course
provides the vital knowledge needed to protect all responders during any counter-narcotics operation.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 8 Hours

COMING SOON: Wilderness Medicine

This course equips law enforcement officers with the essential medical knowledge and skills required to provide life-saving care in austere, remote, or prolonged field environments where traditional EMS support may be delayed or unavailable. Built on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) guidelines and adapted for the law enforcement mission set, the training emphasizes practical interventions that sustain life until evacuation or higher-level care becomes available.

Counter Drone Fundamentals (Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Fundamentals Training)

Course Description: Upon completion of this course, participants will possess the critical skills to detect,
identify, and counter the illicit use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), directly supporting and enhancing
their agency's counter-narcotic efforts. This course provides the fundamental knowledge needed by the
entire public safety community - including law enforcement, corrections officers, and firefighters - to address
the escalating threat of drones in drug trafficking and other criminal enterprises. Participants will learn to
identify UAS capabilities and vulnerabilities, operate within the legal framework for interdiction, and
seamlessly integrate foundational counter-drone tactics into existing intelligence and enforcement
operations to ensure mission success.

Prerequisites: None  

Course Length: 8 Hours

Criminal Analyst Course (Analytical Tradecraft for Law Enforcement)

Course Description: Designed for law enforcement personnel, criminal analysts, and community-based organizations, this intensive course will elevate your ability to combat narcotics trafficking by mastering the full intelligence cycle. Through immersive, hands-on exercises and a realistic capstone project, you will sharpen your critical thinking, learn to dissect threat finance networks, and harness advanced tools to transform raw information into actionable intelligence. Enroll to gain the essential analytical skills needed to dismantle criminal enterprises and make a decisive impact on your community's counterdrug efforts.
Prerequisites: None
Course Length: 3 Days / 24 Hours

Dark Capital: Analyzing Illicit Financial Flow (Threat Finance Analysis)

Course Description: To dismantle narcotics operations, it is imperative for law enforcement, criminal analysts, and their community partners to attack the financial lifelines of threat actors. This course provides a comprehensive understanding of counter-threat finance, teaching you how criminals generate, move, and store illicit proceeds through both traditional financial systems and emerging cryptocurrencies. Through practical exercises and real-world case studies, you will master the fundamentals of money laundering, identify system vulnerabilities, navigate financial intelligence databases, and observe the exact procedures for seizing and documenting virtual assets, equipping you with the critical skills to disrupt and dismantle criminal enterprises at their core.
Prerequisites: None
Course Length: 1-2 Days / 8-16 Hours

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 Frontline: The Survival & Interdiction (Fentanyl Safety & Awareness)

Course Description: Given the lethal threat posed by even incidental exposure to fentanyl and other
synthetic opioids, this course provides essential, life-saving training for law enforcement, criminal analysts,
and community partners on the front lines of the narcotics crisis. This is not just a briefing; it is a hands-on
class where you will learn to identify specific hazards, apply current tactics to mitigate them, and master the
proper selection and wear of personal protective equipment. By also learning basic first aid for exposure,
you will be equipped with the critical knowledge and skills necessary to protect yourself and your team when
responding to any scene where these deadly substances may be present.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 4 Hours

Fentanyl Overdose Awareness (Fentanyl Facts & First Aid)

Course Description: As the risk of encountering fentanyl becomes a daily reality, this essential course is
vital for law enforcement, criminal analysts, and community partners in the counter-narcotics mission. You
will gain a comprehensive understanding of what fentanyl is, its origins, how it's transmitted, and the specific
hazards it poses, equipping you to protect yourself and your team. Crucially, this training provides practical,
life-saving instruction on how to recognize an overdose and properly administer naloxone, empowering you
to effectively render aid and save lives in the most critical moments.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 Hour

Foundations of Communication Technology (Introduction to Communication Technology)

Course Description: In a world where every crime involves a digital footprint, this foundational course is essential for law enforcement, criminal analysts, and community partners in the counter-narcotics mission who have little or no technical experience. We will demystify modern communication technologies, providing a clear understanding of cellphone architecture, geolocation, IP addresses, and online communication strategies used by criminals. Through practical instruction, you will learn to read, analyze, and interpret complex communication data, stay current with critical iOS and Android updates, and gain the confidence to improve your investigative performance when handling digital devices and evidence.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 4 Hours

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. 

Military Leadership for Law Enforcement: Decision making under conditions of uncertainty (Time-Constrained Mission Planning for Patrol Officers)

Course Description: The Military Leadership for Law Enforcement course will be a “choose your own adventure” experience for students. Students will be introduced to military leadership methods that have been battle tested through centuries of armies trying to win wars in complex contexts. After students initial exposure to the time tested methods, they will then choose which military leadership avenues to examine further. Ultimately, students will leave with practical tools and leadership methods that will improve their decision-making skills in all situations to include dynamic and uncertain situations, thus improving their overall leadership effectiveness.
Prerequisites: None
Course Length: 1 Day / 8 Hours

Military Leadership for LEOs

Course Description: The ‘Military Leadership for Law Enforcement Officers’ class is a one-day, 8-hour course based on the Army’s manual ADP 6-22: Army Leadership and the Profession.  The first part of the class will focus on the Army’s definition of ‘leadership’.  Students will spend time discussing the different components of this definition, they will assess the effect on the unit if these components are missing, and they will assess how they can improve their ability to lead regarding these components.  The second part of the class will analyze ‘law enforcement leader attributes’: students will brainstorm what these attributes should be for an effective law enforcement leader, they will identify the cost if these attributes are absent, and they will assess how they can become a better leader regarding these attributes.  Students will repeat this process for ‘law enforcement leader intellectual attributes’ and for ‘law enforcement leader competencies’. The goal is that officers by the end of the course will have an effective definition of ‘leadership’, a model for an effective law enforcement leader, an enhanced awareness of the qualities and effects caused by ineffective leadership, and a strategy for improving their personal ability to lead.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 8 Hours

Mission and Operational Planning (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.

Navigate with Confidence: Essential Field Skills (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.

Operational Mindset: Performing Under Stress (Operational Mindset)

This class addresses the current high stress demands that face Law Enforcement Officers daily. Give specific tools, mitigation techniques and stress management techniques for LEO to address acute stress as it develops, 

A culmination of anatomy and physiology, sports science, de-escalation and force science techniques will be taught in a class room setting. The day will finish with a familiarization of the VR system prior to practical exercises on day two.  Utilization of Operator XR VR simulator to test practical application of the techniques taught. VR systems allows dynamic, rapid and continues scenario development. Each student will get a different look and feel to the scenarios presented. This allows for thousands of training options and observing students to get mental reps while observing. VR system also allows recordings for AAR after each scene is completed. VR system as a sketch tool that allows for the creation of any structure/room, multiple suspects, live roll player, additional partners, active shooter, force on force and much more. Specific needs of agencies can always be tailor made to meet specific training needs of the requesting agency.  

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 2 Days / 16 Hours

Performance Nutrition for Law Enforcement

Performance Nutrition for Law Enforcement (PNLE)

Course Description: PNLE will take you on a journey of education and self-discovery. The course will explain the basics of human nutrition, nutritional challenges most law enforcement officers face, the importance of nutrient dense food choices, mental reframing techniques, and ultimately, how to build an individualized and executable performance nutrition plan. LEO’s will walk away with a new sense of confidence and ownership over their nutritional choices.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 day / 4 Hours

Photo Analysis: What The Background Tells Us (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. In today's investigations, a single photo or video can be the key to breaking a case, making geolocation an indispensable skill for law enforcement, criminal analysts, and their community partners. This hands-on course provides the fundamental techniques to pinpoint where an image or video was captured by effectively combining reverse image searches with strategic online searching. Through a mix of direct instruction and practical exercises, you will acquire a powerful new capability to analyze digital media, develop critical leads, and significantly enhance your counter-narcotics investigations.

Prevention Ethics

Course Description: The Prevention Ethics Course identifies the standards of conduct for relating to service recipients, sets professional goals with prevention ethics standards, and describes methods of decision making for ethical situations. Participants will be instructed on the potential for moral and ethical dilemmas they may face when working in the prevention field and how to address them based on current knowledge and practice in the field. This training is designed to assist practitioners in reducing the likelihood of substance misuse and promoting well-being among individuals, families, workplaces, schools, and communities.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 Day / 8 Hours

Principles of Money Laundering (Money Laundering 101)

Course Description: This foundational course is critical for law enforcement, criminal analysts, and community partners seeking to strike at the financial heart of narcotics trafficking. You will gain a focused understanding of the complete money laundering cycle, from identifying criminal vulnerabilities to recognizing common layering methods used to hide illicit proceeds. The curriculum demystifies how criminals exploit cryptocurrencies, teaching you the basics of virtual currencies, how to trace funds on the blockchain, and the proper procedures for identifying and seizing assets from criminal wallets. Enroll to gain the essential knowledge needed to follow the money and dismantle the financial operations that fuel the drug trade.
Prerequisites: None
Course Length: 4 Hours

Resilience Training

Course Description: Resilience Training (RT) teaches students 14 distinct skills that allow them to develop themselves and others in the six RT competency areas: Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Optimism, Mental Agility, Strengths of Character, and Connection. With these skills, students develop the ability to understand their own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, as well as the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of others. Students master skills to to use during high and low stress situations to strengthen relationships through communication strategies and learn how to praise effectively, respond constructively to positive experiences, as well as discuss and manage stressful activating events effectively.

Prerequisites: Value in Action Character Strength Survey

Course Length: 3 Days/ 24 Hours

Resilience Training Workshop

Course Description:The Resilience Training Workshops are a modular version of our larger three-day Resilience Training. Workshops can include any combination of the 14 Resilience skills that increase the use of six Competencies that have been found to increase overall resilience, performance, and optimal functioning of an individual. The Competencies are Self-awareness, Self-regulation, Optimism, Mental Agility, Strengths of Character, and Connection. Upon course completion, students will have tools that will increase their abilities to handle stressful situations efficiently, perform optimally and communicate more effectively. Contact the WRCTC to coordinate the length and number of skills desired to learn. The 14 skills are:

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 Day/ 2 Hours

SAPST

SAPST is broken down into four sessions:

• Session 1 - Setting the Foundation: From Theory to Practice – The theories that lead to the evidence-based curriculums of today
• Session 2 - SPF: Assessment and Assessing Capacity
• Session 3 - SPF: Building Capacity, Cultural Proficiency, and Planning
• Session 4 - SPF: Implementation, Evaluation, and Sustainability / Bringing It All Together

Synthetic Opioid Responder Safety (Synthetic Opioid Awareness)

Course Description: This course is critical for law enforcement, criminal analysts, and community partners
who must safely and effectively operate in environments contaminated with synthetic opioids. You will gain
the fundamental knowledge to identify Fentanyl, its related substances, and chemical precursors, while
mastering current tactics to mitigate the extreme hazards of clandestine labs and milling operations. The
training covers vital planning considerations for your jurisdiction, including proper PPE selection, field
testing methods, and leveraging external resources, all culminating in a practical tabletop exercise that
solidifies your team's response to a realistic fentanyl lab scenario.  

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 8 Hour

Synthetic Opioids: Beyond The Fentanyl Horizon (Synthetic Opioid Response)

Course Description: This vital course is designed for law enforcement, criminal analysts, and community
partners who must navigate the extreme dangers of the modern illegal drug market. You will gain
fundamental knowledge to identify not just Fentanyl, but also a broader spectrum of emerging synthetic
opioids including Upjohns, AH's, and W-series drugs. The curriculum provides current tactics, techniques,
and procedures to mitigate hazards during an incident and covers critical planning considerations for your
jurisdiction, including proper PPE selection, field testing methods, and how to leverage available local,
state, and federal resources, ensuring you are prepared to respond safely and effectively.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 4 Hours

Tactical Medicine (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.

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).

Tactical Patrolling for Drug Interdiction (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.

The New Money Trail: Decoding & Seizing Cryptocurrency (Cryptocurrency and Basic Seizure)

Course Description: As criminals increasingly use cryptocurrency to launder narcotics proceeds, it is crucial for law enforcement, criminal analysts, and their community-based partners to master the tools of digital asset investigation. This essential course demystifies the world of virtual currency, providing a solid foundation in how criminals exploit it and, more importantly, how you can fight back. Through hands-on exercises, you will learn to trace transactions on the blockchain, identify crypto users, navigate regulations, and master the proper procedures to establish an agency wallet and legally seize illicit funds, ensuring you have the skills to follow the money wherever it leads in the digital world.
Prerequisites: None
Course Length: .5 days / 4 hours

The Operational Edge: Managing Complexity In Large Scale Events (Deliberate Mission Planning)

Course Description: Elevate your tactical planning and execution with this essential course designed for law enforcement, criminal analysts, and community partners involved in counter-narcotics missions. Taught by instructors with over a decade of elite special operations and law enforcement experience, you will master the military's Deliberate Planning Process to dramatically improve time management, information management, and risk mitigation, all centered on the foundational goal of officer safety. This course will equip you to develop and brief comprehensive operations orders and conduct professional after-action reviews, ensuring your team executes complex missions with superior precision, safety, and success.
Prerequisites: None
Course Length: 1 Day / 8 Hours