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
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
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”.
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
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 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 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