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The Bulletproof Mind for Law Enforcement
Lt. Col. David Grossman
Hours: 2
This course, created by a world-renowned legend in the military and law enforcement community, presents Col. Grossman’s recipe for ensuring that the officer’s mind is mentally prepared for combat encounters and the life after. He presents various topics ...
Bloodborne Pathogens
Scott Avery
Hours: 1
Firefighters, EMTs, and law enforcement officers often find themselves involved with situations involving bodily fluids, such as blood, which could possibly contain some type of pathogens. This course will increase the responder’s ...
Child Sex Abuse Prevention Training
Terry Hall
Hours: 3
Child abuse investigators face a tough task. Child sex abuse is one of the worst crimes committed against children but the least reported. This course will assist officers in getting the ...
Domestic Violence: Call Through Investigations
Rod Reder
Hours: 2
A proactive response by law enforcement to a domestic violence incident is key to a successful case. Knowing the state statutes, understanding the victim’s plight, and being able to use your training to read ...
Emergency Vehicle Operation Course (EVOC)
Richard Maxwell
Hours: 3
This lecture will cover the various aspects of operating a police vehicle. Topics will include model policies for vehicle inspection, understanding vehicle dynamics and learning effective control techniques ...
Verbal Judo
Gary Klugiewicz
Hours: 4
Verbal Judo will provide officers with career building, career changing, and career saving conflict prevention and conflict resolution communication tactics. Officers will learn how to make themselves a tactical communicator and keep physically and legally safe while ...
Less Lethal Force
Steve Ijames
Hours: 3
In this course, officers will be exposed to the primary issues involved in the safe and effective use of impact projectiles. The content will offer historical information on the evolution of these devices, outline the steps that increase the probability of ...
Mission, Vision, and Core Values
Chief Jo Vitek
Hours: 1
The importance of identifying and embedding core values into an agency’s organizational framework will influence the behaviors and decision making of all staff and ultimately develop future leaders within your organizations. Understanding the culture of your agency is critical ...
Officer Involved Domestic Violence
Rod Reder
Hours: 1
Law enforcement agencies have generally ignored officer involved domestic violence and allowed batterers to continue wearing a badge—enforcing the domestic violence laws that they violate themselves. This program encourages law enforcement officials to adopt a ...
Police Mental Wellness
Andy O'Hara
Hours: 2
This course explores the many issues and problems police officers commonly face with stress in their careers. It outlines the traps many officers fall into, the difference between stress and trauma, and how critical incidents and cumulative stress can shorten a career. Officers will also learn several easy steps to avoid the ...
Preparing for and Responding to Celebratory Riots
Chief David L. Kurz
Hours: 1
In this course, Chief David Kurz provides a detailed strategy to address the emerging national phenomenon known as celebratory riots. Many of these events are occurring in small college towns where police have limited resources to contain ...
Sovereign Citizens
Brice Allen
Hours: 2
This course will provide vital information about this growing challenge by discussing the most common theories and practices of the sovereign citizen as well as the movement’s ever-changing tactics and techniques, ways to better identify and recognize sovereign citizens, and what to do when encountering a sovereign citizen.
Police Response to Incidents Involving Psychiatric Disorders (Mental Illness)
Gary Klugiewicz
Hours: 2
Many law enforcement personnel do not receive adequate mental health training, which can result in ineffective and sometimes fatal outcomes. This course is designed to train first responders how to handle Point ...
Professionalism in the 21st Century
Ray Farris, J.D.
Hours: 2
Professionalism in the 21st Century will look at image problems within the criminal justice field and discuss ways to minimize their negative impact. This course will focus primarily on individuals and their motivation for achieving and maintaining a high level of professionalism.
Conducting a SWOT Analysis
Chief Jo Vitek
Hours: 1
A SWOT analysis is a proactive approach to organizational leadership. Course participants will be introduced to the process that will aid in the assessment of
the current status of an agency, division, unit, or squad.
Crime Mapping: Evidence-Based Policing
Richard Janikowski
Hours: 3
This course explores how police can effectively use crime mapping and analysis to adopt data-driven policing strategies to help reduce crime and enhance safety in their community.
Managing Personnel and
Organizational Change
Dave Corderman
Hours: 1
Understanding how to make effective change within an organization is a key to effective leadership. When change is introduced, there are certain psychological effects that are predictable.
Field Training Programs: An Introduction
Lt. Steve Kellams
Hours: 2
This course will introduce officers to apprenticeship programs for law enforcement, corrections, communications, fire, and emergency medical services. This course focuses on the San Jose Model of field training ...
Field Training Programs:
Correcting Poor Performance
Lt. Steve Kellams
Hours: 2
This course is designed to provide officers with an understanding of the proper steps to correct poor performance in new recruits. This course will discuss ...
Field Training Programs:
Utilizing the Daily Observation Report
Lt. Steve Kellams
Hours: 2
This course will provide officers with the information necessary to complete a daily observation report for the San Jose Model of field training. This course will discuss the purpose ...
Ethical Leadership
Al Malinchak
Hours: 3
This course provides participants with a pragmatic understanding, reflection, and continued discussion of ethical issues and dilemmas in life and the workplace. Participants will engage in exercises to further determine their own ethics and
how to effectively apply ...
Generational Differences in the Workplace
Chief Jo Vitek
Hours: 1
The different generations in the workplace in today’s law enforcement agencies are identified and examined in this course. For the first time ever, there are four generations in our law enforcement ...
Introduction to Internal Affairs Investigations
Rick Courtemanche, J.D.
Hours: 4
An internal affairs process based on the principles of fairness and responsiveness demonstrates a police agency’s willingness to meet public expectations of unquestionable integrity and ethics.
Advanced Internal Affairs Investigations
Rick Courtemanche, J.D.
Hours: 4
This course is designed for chiefs, commanders, supervisors, and internal affairs/professional standards unit managers and investigators who are central to the administrative investigative process.
Maneuvering Successfully in the Political Environment
Chief Dwayne Orrick
Hours: 2
This course will serve as a primer for identifying key players within the environment and how to build successful relationships with each. This course is not designed to be a comprehensive ...
Recruitment and Retention of
Law Enforcement
Chief Dwayne Orrick
Hours: 3
The success of any organization is dependent upon the quality of personnel it attracts and retains. This course provides a comprehensive approach for identifying...
Reducing Liability for the Smaller Agency
Chief Paul Schultz
Hours: 2
Individuals (both pre-service and in-service) and agency managers will be provided with practical, real-life tools necessary to manage their personal careers and individual law enforcement agencies ...
Social Media for Public Agencies
Steve Holt
Hours: 1
Social Media for Public Agencies is a course that provides information and direction to public agencies who are ready to engage with their communities using social media tools. This course will provide specific direction on the ...
Strategic Planning
Chief David Kurz
Hours: 2
This course will discuss the importance of creating a strategic plan, implementing it effectively, and utilizing it as a means to not only achieve your agency’s mission but also to engage in the community and promote a positive image of law enforcement. Students ...
The Value Gap
Steve Barger
Hours: 1
The Value Gap module offers a direct path of self-discovery for participants who wish to increase their personal value in the eyes, minds and hearts of their intended audience. The Value Gap offers participants the opportunity to brand l ...
Connecting the Dots to an American Purpose
Chief Jo Vitek
Hours: 1
The concept of Connecting the Dots is about a police officer’s higher calling. Police are sworn to uphold the United States Constitution. Yet, the vast majority have never read the document they are required to uphold.
Leading By Example
Alan A. Malinchak
Hours: 3
The acronym “ICRELIEF” is used as a conceptual framework to present various leadership concepts germane to a professional position within an organization. These concepts can be applied to both an individual’s personal and professional life.
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Internet Tools for Criminal Investigators
Glenn Bard
Steve Dempsey
Hours: 4
The focus of this course is to familiarize officers with the Internet and online applications as tools for criminal investigations. Officers will also learn procedures for investigating crimes occurring online.
Basic Photography Techniques
John Williams
Kerry McClary
Hours: 3
Crime and accident scenes cannot physically be presented in court, nor can numerous objects and situations. Therefore, the court recognizes the next best evidence—the photograph. This 3-hour course is designed to teach basic and ...
Cellphone Technology and Data Recovery
Glenn Bard
Hours: 4
This training course is designed to increase the knowledge and effectiveness of investigators in the recognition, use, and display of information that can be derived from background research and cellular data records ...
Criminal Drug Interdiction
Greg Goltz
Hours: 4
Officers will see firsthand how criminal patrol techniques can yield large and small drug and other type arrests from traffic stops and other legal contacts. Officers will also learn of the incredibly advanced concealment places in land vehicles that smugglers and other people involved with drugs hide ...
Death and Homicide Investigations
Tony Monheim
Hours: 4
This course is designed to enable the investigator to immediately interpret what he or she sees upon entering crime scene and to derive from that knowledge an analytical approach to the investigation. Participants will become familiar with the ...
Fingerprint Identification and Preservation Techniques
John Williams
Kerri McClary
Hours: 3
As law enforcement entities, we do not make the facts; we discover and report them. It is not what we think, but what we can prove. The physical evidence we seek will help build a strong ...
Firearms Investigations Training
Ben Hayes
Hours: 3
Increasingly, law enforcement officers and the public face the issue of armed offenders. Whether encountering firearms or investigating firearms related crimes, it is imperative to understand the nature of firearms in the United States. This course will cover...
Investigating and Prosecuting Cyber Predators
Steve Dempsey
Hours: 4
Internet crimes against children are among the most under-reported and rapidly-growing crimes. This intense training course is designed to provide officers with practical knowledge and skills to investigated ...
Officer-Involved Shooting Investigations
Chief Russell Fischer
Hours: 4
The purpose of this course is to provide attendees with a basic investigative model that is applicable to all officer-involved shooting incidents, regardless of the size of their department. Officer-involved shootings are vastly different ...
Practical Kinesic Interviewing Techniques: Phase I
Stan Walters "The Lie Guy"
Hours: 4
This course is designed to help develop a solid foundation for interviewing skills and maximize the amount of usable information gained from any interview. Officers will learn the basic ...
Practical Kinesic Interviewing Techniques: Phase II
Stan Walters "The Lie Guy"
Hours: 4
This course is designed to provide the smart practices needed to manage each interview and gain compliance and cooperation from the interview subject. A confession is NOT the objective—it’s ...
Statement Analysis® Interviewing Techniques
Mark McClish
Hours: 2
Statement Analysis® is the process of analyzing how a person phrases his statement in an effort to determine if the person is being truthful or deceptive. People will always word their statement based on all their knowledge.
AMBER and Silver Alert Initiatives: Protecting Our Most Vulnerable Populations
Gus Paidousis
Hours: 2
This module will examine the national and state efforts in developing and implementing protection strategies relating to our children and seniors.
Emergency Operations Planning for Schools
Chris Dorn
Hours: 3
In this course, officers will learn why most school emergency operations plans fail when tested by a major crisis and, more importantly, learn how to develop viable plans under the U.S. Department of ...
Six Senses of School Safety
Chris Dorn
Hours: 4
Despite recent events drawing the public’s focus to school shootings, violence is surprisingly not the leading cause of death in schools. And, as Chris Dorn explains in this course, a wide array of dangers can exist in schools beyond just violence. Thus, preparing for weapons ...
School Safety: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
MIchael Dorn
Hours: 3
This dynamic, fast-paced, informative and fascinating session will help dispel many of the school safety myths that dominate the American media and popular perception of school staff, students and parents. Course participants will hear a brief historical overview of ...
The Root of Violence
Part I: Lessons from Jonesboro on School and Gang Violence
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
Hours: 2
This course examines school massacres, common denominators, and preventative actions that can be taken by school administrators and law enforcement.
The Root of Violence
Part II: The External Threat and Predicting Terrorist Attacks
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
Hours: 2
Part II provides in-depth training in predicting terrorist attacks, along with effective police response to such attacks. Colonel Grossman believes “the greatest achievement is the crime that did not happen."
The Root of Violence
Part III: School Violence
Prevention Tactics
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
Hours: 2
The impact of the video game industry on school violence is explored, along with how parents can contribute to a healthier child in their home. Colonel Grossman also expounds on his Bulletproof Mind course, addressing how police officers can prepare ...
Courtroom Demeanor and Testimony
Gregory J. Harlin
Hours: 3
The purpose of this course is to train officers not only to better understand the total dynamics of the court process but, more importantly, to also improve testimony skills while on the stand. A variety of topics are covered, ranging from an ...
Introduction to Constitutional Criminal Law and Procedure
Marvin Zalman
This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appeals. Courses 1–4 focus ...
4th Amendment, Exclusionary Rule and Remedies
Marvin Zalman
This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appeals. Courses 1–4 focus ...
Search Warrants, Probable Cause, Plain View, and Consent
Marvin Zalman
This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appeals. Courses 1–4 focus ...
Arrests, Terry Stops, Stop and Frisk, and Warrantless Searches
Marvin Zalman
This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appeals. Courses 1–4 focus ...
6th Amendment (Right to Counsel, Impartial Jury)
Marvin Zalman
This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appeals. Courses 1–4 focus ...
Police Interrogations, Confessions, Miranda Warnings
Marvin Zalman
This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appeals. Courses 1–4 focus ...
Suspect Identification (Lineup, Show up, Photographic Array), Entrapment
Marvin Zalman
This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appeals. Courses 1–4 focus ...
Pretrial Process, Bail, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Grand Jury, Discovery
Marvin Zalman
This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appeals. Courses 1–4 focus ...
The Criminal Trial
Marvin Zalman
This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appeals. Courses 1–4 focus ...
Tennessee Legal Update for Officers
Brian Grisham
Hours: 3
The Legal Update for Officers course is an annual update of developments in Tennessee Law, including recently enacted legislation and criminal case decisions affecting law enforcement. The recently passed legislation impacts ...
CORRECTIONS
Professionalism & Ethics
Fred Campbell
Hours: 3
Understanding that professionalism and ethical behavior ultimately ensure safety and consistency in the workplace, officers will be educated on the expectations of the department/agency and the choices they make, which will have an everlasting impact on their career ...
Personal, Cell, and Area Searches
Cheryl Price
Hours: 1
Maintaining control of an institution cannot be accomplished without effectively conducting searches by a distant surveillance method, cursory inspections, or through face-to-face action by professionally trained employees.
Fire Safety
David Jordan
Hours: 1
This training course was designed to prepare all correctional officers for any action or event that could result in a fire. Officers will learn specific tools and procedures for preventing fires and handling them if they should occur. Topics covered include evacuation procedures, the scientific ...
Use of Force
Cheryl Price
Hours: 1
The purpose of this course is to instruct correctional officers on which policies cover the use of force, when and when not to use force, the different levels of force that can be used, the level of force that should be used in a given situation, and the consequences of force used illegally.
Right to Know
David Jordan
Hours: 1
The purpose of this course is to provide correctional officers with a general overview of the hazardous chemicals they may come in contact with in a correctional facility and to provide instruction on the proper use and handling of these substances. Participants will be instructed on fire and ...
Security Audits and Count Management
Cheryl Price
Hours: 1
This course will focus on maximizing the benefit and credibility of security audits. Physically counting inmates to ensure around-the-clock accountability of all inmates assigned to the institution is the very heart of institutional security.
Segregation
Cheryl Price
Hours: 1
Maintaining full control of inmates and protecting those who are not capable of or simply refuse to function properly in the general population requires having resources to separate those inmates from the rest of the population.
Asbestos Awareness
David Jordan
Hours: 1
This course is designed to enable the officer, administrator, and or custodial worker to describe the physical properties of asbestos, list the most common asbestos containing products, list exposure methods, identify common ways asbestos fibers are released, identify health problems associated with ...
Cultural Diversity
Cheryl Price
Hours: 1
Cultural diversity continues to be a major focal point of the workplace and our communities. In this course, students will learn how having a healthy perspective on diversity makes an organization more effective by capitalizing on all the strengths of each employee.
ADMINISTRATIVE
Critical Thinking and Time Management
Kiffen McCoy
Julie Birdsong
Hours: 3
This course will explain the value of critical thinking and time management skills and give the viewer real tools to increase their own effectiveness and efficiency on a daily basis.
Computer Applications
Kiffen McCoy
Jordan Shaw
Hours: 3
This course will serve as an introduction to Microsoft Office programs and also includes a discussion on effective electronic communication in a workplace environment.
Performance Management
Diane Titus
Hours: 1
The basics are included in this module as an introduction to the critical role of Performance Management in organizations. Performance Management processes in different settings may vary in scope and level of detail, but the ...
The Value Gap
Steve Barger
Hours: 1
The Value Gap module offers a direct path of self-discovery for participants who wish to increase their personal value in the eyes, minds and hearts of their intended audience. The Value Gap offers participants the opportunity to brand l ...
Workplace Harassment
Amber Aziza
Brad Minor
Jonathan Motley
Hours: 2
This course covers a handful of important subjects, including diversity and inclusion, harassment in the workplace, how to resolve conflict, and managing within the law.
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