The Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence provides training for local, county, state and federal professionals in law enforcement, public safety, fire science and homeland security along the US/Mexico border. Opportunities for professional growth and access to training will strengthen public safety and benefit those who make public service a career. South Texas College is dedicated to providing excellence in educational programs and accessibility to a diverse population.
TCOLE Training
Looking for training courses to complete your TCOLE certification? We offer training courses in Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced categories with experienced instructors. View our available courses and sign up today to reserve your spot!
Our Law Enforcement Program can bring you closer to a brighter future by preparing you to take the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) peace officer license examination.
The academy is both academically and physically demanding, with several major exams, skills tests and an exit agility exam.
Our Law Enforcement Program can bring you closer to a brighter future by preparing you to take the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) peace officer license examination.
The academy is both academically and physically demanding, with several major exams, skills tests and an exit agility exam.
Our Law Enforcement Program can bring you closer to a brighter future by preparing you to take the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) peace officer license examination.
The academy is both academically and physically demanding, with several major exams, skills tests and an exit agility exam.
Our Law Enforcement Program can bring you closer to a brighter future by preparing you to take the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) peace officer license examination.
The academy is both academically and physically demanding, with several major exams, skills tests and an exit agility exam.
Students attending this class will receive in-depth and hands-on introduction to the 870 shotgun.
Instructional topics will include but not be limited to: Basic operation and nomenclature Design and Function of the 870 shotgun Common field strip leading to a detailed disassembly Cleaning and Maintenance Troubleshooting malfunctions / diagnostics Advanced Repairs such as Ejector replacement and Hammer/Spring replacement Repair documentation for the departmental armorer
Each student is required to bring only an 870 shotgun to class and any tools they wish to use or bring.If you are unable to bring a 870 shotgun, please contact us prior to class. Basic armorer’s tool kits will be supplied, along with training and support materials.
A Martyr’s Psyche “Understanding the Extremist Ideology”
Date: Aug 5, 2025
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"A Martyr’s Psyche", a proprietary 1-Day course, is a powerful, eye-opening course designed for law enforcement, intelligence professionals, and concerned individuals in the West who seek to understand the true nature of extremist ideologies that have fueled global violence and terror. Delivered by a presenter with personal experience as a former child soldier in the Middle East, this course provides a unique and insightful perspective on the mindset behind violent extremism and terrorism. Now a seasoned U.S. law enforcement officer (Retired) with nearly three decades of experience investigating transnational criminal and terrorist organizations, the presenter bridges the gap between personal history and professional expertise.
Domestic violence and child abuse investigations remain among the most complex, dangerous, and emotionally charged cases law enforcement officers face. This two-day advanced training course provides attendees with the knowledge, tools, and strategies to tackle two critical and overlapping areas of investigation.
This course is designed for law enforcement officers, detectives, first responders. investigators, prosecutors, and medical professionals who handle domestic violence, strangulation, and assault cases. It is ideal for those seeking advanced investigative techniques, forensic evidence recognition, and trauma-informed approaches to improve case outcomes and support victims effectively.
Topics covered: • Understanding Generational Gaps • Perception • Task Analysis • Need Assessment • Stage Fright • Student Behaviors • Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology • Multimedia Development and Delivery • Student Presentation
Student Pre-Requisites: Students must be Texas Commission on Law Enforcement certified instructors and have held their Basic Instructor Proficiency Certification for 3 years.
Our AR15/M4 Armorer’s School uses detailed disassembly and reassembly to emphasize operation and the actual function of a direct impingement weapon. The class is 90% hands on from start to finish, with consistent emphasis on inspection of parts and the diagnostics associated with wear and failure. This AR15/M4 Armorer class is unbranded and relevant to all AR manufacturers. TTG carbines will be utilized for this class to prevent small parts loss or damage from occurring with duty weapons. Students are welcome to bring tools to class, however tools necessary to complete class will be provided for use in class, as well as support materials. 2 Day/16 Hour Class $450.00
Registration forms can be found at www.tritontraininggroup.com Register to le@tritontraininggroup.com Questions? Call us: (276) 266-4254
This course is designed to provide the most up to date information to law enforcement/military individuals who are assigned to uits working with confidential informants on a daily basis. This course will go over the good/bad and does/don'ts of all aspects when dealing with confidential informants.
Customer Service Excellence for Texas LE and Civilian Support Staff (#57008)
Date: Jul 29, 2025
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Providing excellent customer service in a law enforcement environment requires a unique blend of professionalism, communication skills, and the ability to navigate challenging situations. This interactive training will equip law enforcement and civilian employees with the tools to effectively engage with the public, manage difficult interactions, and uphold a standard of service that fosters trust and respect. Through real-world scenarios, group discussions and practical exercises, participants will learn strategies for clear communication, active listening, de-scalation, and maintaining professionalism in high-pressure situations.
Time: Two sessions, 8:00 am – 12:00 noon or 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
This 24-hour course, presented by Blue Shield Tactical, focuses on a real- world approach to communicating tactfully, which will allow you to have a pro-fessional image, build rapport, and even save lives. This hands-on, scenario-based course gets you involved in classroom participation that will provide re-sults. This course addresses necessary skills of persuasion that can be used immediately in the community. The course is a necessity for any law enforce-ment officer looking to expand on the ever-changing expectations of communi-cation. The strategies covered in the course will provide you with an effective blueprint to solve potential situations before they erupt. Our primary instructor for this program is a state recognized subject matter expert in de-escalation, a current law enforcement officer, and national trainer.
Who Should Attend: Law Enforcement, Patrol, Supervisory Personnel
Agencies are required to do the following: 1. Provide a Letter of Recommendation from the Supervisor/Chief/Sheriff. Please include the spe-cific course, location, and date of the training your officer will attend. 2. Promote support for the project and its importance. 3. Assure the trainer will be given every opportunity to educate staff on the need for and tech-niques involved in de-escalation within law enforcement. 4. Conduct an in-house training within 90 days of completion of the Instructor course and report the training data (i.e., dates and number of attendees at each training session) required by the fun-der. A data collection form will be provided to you. Please send your letter of recommendation to Attention: Robert Alfonso, De-Escalation Training Coordinator, St. Petersburg College, via email at alfonso.robert@spcollege.edu
Drug Unit Supervisor: Strategies for Managing Narcotics Units, Personnel, and Operations
Date: Oct 16 - 17, 2025
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Leading a successful drug enforcement unit requires more than just operational knowledge—it demands strategic leadership, sound decision-making, and a firm grasp of legal and ethical responsibilities. This course is designed to provide drug unit supervisors, team leaders, and commanders with the essential strategies and skills needed to minimize liability, protect officers and command staff, uphold operational integrity, and ensure community safety. Participants will gain critical insight into selecting the right personnel, developing and implementing effective policies, and establishing operational procedures that enhance efficiency and accountability. Additionally, the course will explore proven leadership tactics that foster teamwork, maintain discipline, and mitigate risks associated with drug enforcement operations. Through real-world case studies, legal considerations, and best practices, this training equips supervisors with the tools necessary to navigate the complexities of managing a specialized drug enforcement unit effectively.
The Drug Unit and the Drug Unit Supervisor
Identifying and Choosing the right personnel
What a Drug Unit supervisor needs to know
Supervising detectives and their use of informants
The importance of the Officer/Unit Partnerships with Prosecutors
Managing the unit’s funding, finances, and payments
Methods of Corrective Management and Discipline
Supervisory Strategies for Safe and Effective Undercover Operations
This comprehensive course is designed to enhance the communication skills of law enforcement professionals, focusing on conducting objective interviews and investigations during daily public encounters. By understanding effective communication elements, participants will be able to conduct unbiased interviews, minimize unnecessary citizen complaints, and protect both the officer and agency from vicarious liability. With an emphasis on improving officers’ ability to evaluate behaviors exhibited by both themselves and citizens, the course teaches techniques to effectively analyze, interpret, and evaluate dialogue in face-to-face interactions. Participants will gain critical skills in recognizing factors that influence law enforcement and citizen interactions, enabling them to minimize miscommunications, de-escalate hostile situations, and conduct unbiased investigations. The course also covers the detection of deceptive behaviors, understanding cultural differences, and communication styles, ultimately helping officers articulate their findings in reports and testify confidently in court proceedings.
This course is designed to provide individuals with a knowledge and understanding of how the implementation of recommended protocols, or best practices, can improve the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness evidence
Topics covered:
• Reliable Eyewitness Evidence/Identification • Field Identification Procedure • Mugbooks and Composites • Procedures for Eyewitness Identification of Suspects
This course is designed to provide individuals with a knowledge and understanding of how the implementation of recommended protocols, or best practices, can improve the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness evidence
Topics covered:
• Reliable Eyewitness Evidence/Identification • Field Identification Procedure • Mugbooks and Composites • Procedures for Eyewitness Identification of Suspects
This course is designed to provide individuals with a knowledge and understanding of how the implementation of recommended protocols, or best practices, can improve the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness evidence
Topics covered:
• Reliable Eyewitness Evidence/Identification • Field Identification Procedure • Mugbooks and Composites • Procedures for Eyewitness Identification of Suspects
The FBI LEEDA Command Leadership Institute is an inspiring and dynamic 4 and one half day course specifically and uniquely designed to prepare law enforcement leaders for command level positions As part of the Trilogy series of leadership courses, the Command Leadership Institute focuses on real life contemporary strategies and techniques for those aspiring to or in already in command level assignments Students will be engaged in such topics as command responsibility, discipline and liability, team building, resilient leadership, and leading change within an organization.
The FBI-LEEDA Executive Leadership Institute (ELI) is an innovative 4 1/2-day program designed for executive-level law enforcement leaders and those leaders aspiring to executivelevel leadership positions. ELI focuses on the emerging challenges facing 21st century police leaders, as well as planning and navigating the political waters of executive leadership. This highly interactive program follows the FBI-LEEDA “cops talking to cops" model of professional development where students will engage in guided leadership discussions with instructors and other students. The course first looks inward to identify the forces of change and emerging trends within law enforcement, such as the challenges of recruiting, hiring and leading different social generational cohorts and different cultural groups within the workforce. The ELI also presents leadership strategies that emphasize the importance of public trust and legitimacy, officer wellness, social and emotional intelligence.
The FBI LEEDA Supervisor Leadership Institute (SLI) is a foundational 4 and one half day course that helps prepare the next generation of police leaders for their critical first steps in police leadership Supervisors and managers at higher levels will benefit from the topics covered in this course, appreciating how first line supervisors are critical to the success of the organization To lead others, we must first know ourselves and SLI takes us on that part of the leadership journey Among the modules covered in this course, students will find out how the DISC factors, Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance, can predict your behavior towards others in day to day interactions The students will thoroughly examine the concepts of credibility, accountability and motivation, while becoming familiar with aspects of liability and discipline that are vital to leadership at all levels of the organization
FUGINET provides Texas parolee/parole violator information to law enforcement agencies throughout the country. This investigation tool helps to facilitate the location and apprehension of these targeted offenders.
Who should attend: Texas law enforcement
Host Agency: South Texas College Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence Training Location: 3901 S Cage Blvd, Pharr, TX 78577 Course Date: July 23, 2025 Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Length of course: 3 hours (Training hours will be reported by CLEAT) Cost per attendee: FREE Attendees will need to bring to class: Laptop
Hostage Negotiations and Crisis Intervention, Phase I and II (Pierpoint)
Date: Jun 9 - 13, 2025
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Fundamentals of Hostage Negotiation: Students will receive general theoretical concepts on hostage negotiations that include the three different types of response incidents, the reason law enforcement agencies negotiate, emotion verses rationality, managing an incident, profiles of hostage-takers and hostages, negotiator selection, time management; amongst others. This portion of the training will be presented in lecture and power point and video format.
Please be aware that this class is a 40-hour training. Therefore, the first four (4) days of training will be 8am-4pm local time. The last day will be 8am-12pm local time. The remaining hours will be made of the tested portion of the training.
The ability to skillfully interview and interrogate suspects is paramount to being an ffective and wellrounded investigator. However, most law enforcement officers learn by watching “old-time” detectives or by simply doing it on their own without any formal training. Worse than that, some law enforcement officers learn from watching television shows. Often, some of the techniques and attitudes learned are ineffective, damaging, and illegal. This crash course in Interview and Interrogation is being presented by an accomplished, experienced police interrogator with two decades of experience, success and training as his guide. His method is complex yet simply learned and simply applied. The theme for his method of Interview and Interrogation is Tact and Respect, as well as Tactical and Scientific. This training is designed to prepare law enforcement officers, new and experienced, to develop good habits, utilize beneficial behaviors, detect and manage deception by suspects, and to be effective while staying the parameters of the law.
Internal Affairs Investigations: Complaint and Procedural Responsibilities
Date: Dec 4 - 5, 2025
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
This 12-hour course offers a global perspective to the subject of internal affairs investigations in a systematic framework designed to enhance thorough investigations. This information is relevant for agency command staff as well as the internal affairs detective or supervisor.
Training Hours: Day 1 8:00am - 5:00pm Day 2 8:00am - noon
Internal Affairs: Investigations, Oversight, and Accountability
Date: Nov 10 - 11, 2025
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
This two-day training is designed for both new and experienced internal affairs investigators, law enforcement supervisors, and command staff responsible for handling personnel-related investigations. The course delivers practical, real-world strategies for identifying and addressing police misconduct while maintaining fairness, transparency, and legal compliance. Topics include detecting early warning signs, conducting objective investigations, navigating legal and constitutional rights, and managing modern challenges such as social media use and First Amendment concerns. Proactive strategies such as integrity testing will also be covered to strengthen internal oversight and reduce agency liability.
This course is designed to help narcotic investigators understand the duties and/or responsibilities of drug investigations while assisting in disrupting the possession, distribution, and manufacturing of illegal narcotics. This course assists investigators with preparation for and the execution of narcotic related operations and furthering their drug investigatrions. This course is "Open Forum" style with everyone participating in and sharing their knowledge of new ways to get ahead of illegal narcotic distributors. Students attending will work through real life scenarios and conduct hands-on training.
This training features interactive lectures and discussions of actual case histories, videos, and laws specific to homicide investigations. This comprehensive seminar provides instruction in conducting investigations and prosecuting death cases from the start of the investigation, through evidence collection, witness/suspect interaction, interviewing & interrogation, press conferences, trial testimony, and ultimately conviction. Further, state specific legal research will be presented.
This class uses a combination of actual homicide case studies so participants work through a case from the beginning, through case closure. The training provides participants the techniques and structure to lead a professional and lawful investigation.
Each participant will receive an outline book and handouts supporting teaching points for the five day program.
Topics covered: 1. Brady & Morton Act CCP 39.14 2. Obtaining Spanish to English statements 3. Eyewitness Identification (photo lineup) with video presentation by each student 4. Search/Arrest warrants CCP 18.01 5. Miranda Warnings Statements CCP38.22 6. Cold Cases Investigations 7. Homicide Investigations 8. Interview & Interrogations 9. Polygraph Usage 10. Crime Scene Investigations, students will do hands on in finding/collecting/packaging physical evidence plus lab on casting, Mikrosil, Magnetic Powders, photographs, etc.
11. DNA for Detectives 12. Case Management
13. Court Procedures 14. Operational Plan 15. Digital Forensics
Topics covered: 1. Brady & Morton Act CCP 39.14 2. Obtaining Spanish to English statements 3. Eyewitness Identification (photo lineup) with video presentation by each student 4. Search/Arrest warrants CCP 18.01 5. Miranda Warnings Statements CCP38.22 6. Cold Cases Investigations 7. Homicide Investigations 8. Interview & Interrogations 9. Polygraph Usage 10. Crime Scene Investigations, students will do hands on in finding/collecting/packaging physical evidence plus lab on casting, Mikrosil, Magnetic Powders, photographs, etc.
11. DNA for Detectives 12. Case Management
13. Court Procedures 14. Operational Plan 15. Digital Forensics
Topics covered: 1. Brady & Morton Act CCP 39.14 2. Obtaining Spanish to English statements 3. Eyewitness Identification (photo lineup) with video presentation by each student 4. Search/Arrest warrants CCP 18.01 5. Miranda Warnings Statements CCP38.22 6. Cold Cases Investigations 7. Homicide Investigations 8. Interview & Interrogations 9. Polygraph Usage 10. Crime Scene Investigations, students will do hands on in finding/collecting/packaging physical evidence plus lab on casting, Mikrosil, Magnetic Powders, photographs, etc.
11. DNA for Detectives 12. Case Management
13. Court Procedures 14. Operational Plan 15. Digital Forensics
TEEX NIMS/ICS–300 Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents - Pharr
Date: Jun 9 - 11, 2025
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The NIC recommends that all mid-level management personnel should take ICS-300. The course material is specific to personnel who will be serving in the following positions: command staff, section chiefs, strike team leaders, task force leaders, unit leaders, division/group supervisors, branch directors, and multi-agency coordination system/emergency operations center staff. Federal, State, territory, tribal or local agency/organization/jurisdiction reserve the right to make the final decision as to who should complete this course.
TEEX NIMS/ICS–400 Advanced ICS for Complex Incidents - Pharr
Date: Jun 12 - 13, 2025
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The NIC recommends that all command and general staff personnel should take ICS-400. The course material is specific to personnel who will be serving in the following positions: command or general staff in an ICS organization, select department heads with multi-agency coordination system responsibilities, area commanders, emergency managers, and multi-agency coordination system/emergency operations center managers. Federal, State, territory, tribal or local agency/organization/ jurisdiction reserve the right to make the final decision as to who should complete this course.
The course covers topics such as tactical considerations, decontamination/ first aid, protective masks and criminal and civil liabilities, and policies and procedures with a focus on instructor development to prepare the student to provide in-service training and documentation for their agency. Throughout the class, students participate in discussions with our instructors who are nationally recognized for their experience in real-world deployments of OC products. Upon completion of the course, and successfully passing the final exam, the student may provide in service training to their agency in specific areas for 36 calendar months from the testing date.
Prerequisites: Each attendee must be physically fit for duty and able to perform the physical skills associated with tactical applications. Students who have undergone any type of eye surgery in the past 12 months must notify the STA prior to enrollment. The Defense Technology Training Academy trains only sworn law enforcement officers, correctional personnel, state-licensed security personnel (OC only), or active military personnel.
Required Equipment Mandatory: Clear safety glasses used during inert spray force-on-force exercises, Duty gear normally utilized when deploying OC products, Duty belt
Overdose deaths have risen to epidemic proportions across the United States, surpassing car accidents in 2018 and continuing today. Many law enforcement agencies have been caught off-guard in their response, or lack thereof, to the crisis. Developing and implementing a law enforcement response to the overdose epidemic not only builds trust within the community, but it also holds those involved with drug trafficking accountable. More importantly, it saves lives. This course offers a thorough foundation for a departmental response to overdoses and how to investigate drug overdose deaths. This course is designed for narcotics investigators, homicide investigators, patrol officers, supervisors, task force directors and crime scene investigators.
Training Hours: Day 1 8:00am - 5:00pm Day 2 8:00am - noon
PepperBall products can help reduce officer and suspect injuries, save lives, decrease the risk of litigation, and improve public perception of law enforcement agencies. The PepperBall System is an affordable, non-lethal tool designed for patrol, corrections, and tactical officers in a wide variety of situations. The PepperBall Instructor/Armorer Maintenance Certification course involves intensive training in the use of the non-lethal PepperBall System, including operation, safety, maintenance, and deployment. This course certifies attendees as PepperBall Instructors for their individual agency, allowing the attendee to design a course in the safe and effective use of the PepperBall System.
Sexual assault cases are some of the most challenging types of investigations that criminal investigators face. Delays in reporting, uneasy victims, lack of evidence, and credible suspects often reduce the likelihood of successful prosecution. Participants in this course, whether new investigators or seasoned veterans, will learn innovative, courtroom-proven investigative techniques. Attendees will examine types and sources of evidence, rapport building with victims, suspect interview techniques, supportive services, beneficial pretrial motions, case law, and issues surrounding false reports. Case studies illustrate key points.
The course instructors are veteran sexual assault investigators who offer proven methods and are passionate about conducting aggressive investigations that lead to positive outcomes. Participants will leave with increased understanding, tools to conduct more in-depth investigations, resources to better manage victims, and tactics to obtain information from suspects.
This training is recommended for officers new to law enforcement, veteran investigators, and police supervisors.
A comprehensive proprietary course developed and delivered by instructors of Triple I Solutions, covering in-depth knowledge of all tiers of smuggling operations throughout North America. Developed based on personal operational experience of the staff at Triple I Solutions, the course covers an in-depth look at the business operations and tradecraft of clandestine smuggling groups, the active countermeasures used to maintain operation security, as well as what processes are exploited to operate in plain sight. The course enhances the student’s ability to identify smugglers, articulate the learned objectives and tactics in a report, as well as prepare the student to effectively testify to the observations in a court proceeding. Upon completing this course, the student will not only have the knowledge necessary to be more effective, but also the confidence to employ the learned tactics to produce and deliver solid interdiction cases to the prosecutors.
The program content focuses on the mechanical functioning, disassembly/reassembly, maintenance, troubleshooting, and field repair of the SIG SAUER P320 pistol. Following successful program completion, certification / re-certification to perform these procedures is valid for a period of three (3) years.
Brief Course Overview of subjects to be covered:
Introduction to SIG SAUER SIG P320 pistol
Examination of the P320 safety systems
Disassembly and assembly procedures: slides, frames, magazines
This course is designed for investigators who routinely use surveillance as one of their investigative techniques. This course is aimed at supplying all attendees with the knowledge and skills to successfully conduct surveillance without being identified. Attendees will participate in scenarios that mimic real life operations used by todays criminal enterprise.
Our Law Enforcement Program can bring you closer to a brighter future by preparing you to take the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) peace officer license examination.
The Full-Time Police Academy is a 21-week program. The academy is both academically and physically demanding, with several major exams, skills tests and an exit agility exam.
Our Law Enforcement Program can bring you closer to a brighter future by preparing you to take the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) peace officer license examination.
The academy is both academically and physically demanding, with several major exams, skills tests and an exit agility exam.
44th Basic Peace Officer Course (PT) - Mid Valley Campus
Part Time
Our Law Enforcement Program can bring you closer to a brighter future by preparing you to take the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) peace officer license examination.
The academy is both academically and physically demanding, with several major exams, skills tests and an exit agility exam.
Our Law Enforcement Program can bring you closer to a brighter future by preparing you to take the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) peace officer license examination.
The academy is both academically and physically demanding, with several major exams, skills tests and an exit agility exam.
Thank you for taking the next step in accepting our invitation to our Full-Scale Active Shooter Exercise (FSASE) being conducted by our South Texas College Department of Public Safety.
Please register each attendant by using the "Register Now" Link Below. Registrants will be Emailed once Confirmed. There is no Fee for the course; when Registering, please select "Individual" for Payment Option for submission purposes.
"21st Century Narcotics Investigations" aims to equip detectives and narcotics investigators with comprehensive knowledge of their legal authority and the available tools crucial for effective narcotics investigations. The course will center on these key focal points: 1. Strengthening narcotics conspiracy cases 2. Understanding the dynamics of narcotic trafficking as a business 3. Mastering the technique of converting targets into informants 4. Expanding surveillance methods beyond physical means (incorporating vehicle trackers, phone tracking, and more) 5. Identifying, investigating, and dismantling Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) through electronic surveillance. 6. Build search warrants for electronic surveillance
21st Century Policing: Building Trust and Legitimacy
This course will explore topics including police legitimacy, procedural justice, bias free policing, de-escalation and police reform, and participants will learn how they relate to the service that law enforcement agencies provide to the community which, it is hoped, will encourage a paradigm shift in the way agencies view and approach every day operations and interactions. The main goal of this course is for students to understand that in every organization, building trust and legitimacy is a top priority. This course is designed to be a proactive tool in order to prevent potential situations that could create a public and community relations problem for your organization.
This 5-day training will provide the Tactics, Techniques and Procedures when conducting criminal investigations. No matter the type of crime under investigation. Criminal investigations regardless of the investigation you are conducting require the same fundamentals. Applying determination, sound investigative practices, tactics, techniques and procedures will enhance the investigator’s ability to collect evidence in such a way as to ensure its admissibility in future criminal proceedings.
This five day training module will provide the attendee with the skills and competency to conduct complete and thorough homicide investigations with prosecutorial merit. Additionally, the attendee will be provided with the skills to recognize and handle other types of death investigations, bringing them to a successful conclusion.
The class will cover three basic steps in all homicide investigations: Crime Scene, Follow-up and Case Courtroom presentation.
Required Equipment: Good attitude, open mind, pen and paper, duty gear, body armor, groin protection, and appropriate clothing for "force-on-force" training (i.e. long sleeve shirt, gloves, etc.) Head, eye, and throat protection will be provided by ALERRT
Description: This dynamic course of instruction is designed to prepare the first responder to isolate, distract, and neutralize an active shooter. This course will cover shooting and moving, threshold evaluation, concepts and principles of team movement, setting up for and room entry techniques, approach and breaching the crisis site, secondary responder tactics, improvised explosive devices, and post engagement priorities of work. The course will culminate with dynamic force‑on‑force scenarios.
In Partnership with Tropical Texas Behavioral Health, the Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence will be offering theAdult Mental Health First AidCourse on October 29, 2024.
Adult Mental Health First Aid is an evidence-based course designed to give adults the skills they need to reach out and provide initial support to others who may be in crisis or developing a mental health or substance use problem and connect them to appropriate care. It teaches adults how to identify, understand and respond to signs & symptoms of mental illness and substance use disorders.
There is a minimum of 10 participants to complete the course. The 6.5 hrs training is provided by two certified MHFA instructors. There will be pre- & post- work for the training to get your certificate. The training is free to any school/ college personal, First Responders, Attorneys, Judges, Veterans, Family of Military, and any other Adult that is interested in taking this training.
Upon completing the training requirements, the participants will become certified as Mental Health First Aiders for three years!
To register for the course, please send an email to rcpsetraining@southtexascollege.edu with Subject: Register for Adult Mental Health First Aid with the following information in the body of the email: Name of Person Registering, Name of Agency or School District ISD, Campus/ School Name, Job Title/Position within the agency, Email Address, Phone Number, Note Military Status (SM= Service Member, V= Veteran, F= Military Family Member)
Dr. Wayman Mullins will be presenting Advanced Communications for Negotiators. This 16 hour course will present communication techniques and strategies for communicators that build upon skills already learned and in the negotiator toolbox. Topics will include Influence and Compliance Techniques, Social Media and Internet Communications, Cognitive Interviewing and others. This course focuses on exercises, scenarios, and practicing the application of techniques.
This 2-day course was created to provide your current Field Training Officers with advanced communication, teaching, and documentation skills to enhance their abilities. The course is designed for current FTOs or department FTO coordinators. Continued improvement in their skills is necessary when so much depends on new officer training and the liability that comes along with negligent retention. In a litigious society, training and thorough documentation is more important than ever.
This course will increase the law enforcement community’s awareness of the issue of human trafficking, through the exposure of information including: victim identification, investigation, rescue and prosecution considerations, referral and service providers availability, the critical need for development of a coordinated community response and the inter-connectivity of state, federal and global human trafficking concerns.
Advanced Incident Command System, Command and General Staff-Complex Incidents, ICS 400
Course Description: This course is intended to serve as a vehicle to share proven incident management strategies and practices, as well as to enhance teamwork and coordination among all response agencies’ officers directly responsible for emergency response to a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD)/terrorism incident or other Incident of national significance. The course is specifically intended for those emergency response personnel who have duties that require they be directly involved in incident management or command at either a field Incident Command Post (ICP) or in a city, county, or regional Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
Prerequisites & Other Information: There are no prerequisites for this course, however the following courses are recommended:
This hands-on course is designed to advance instructor knowledge and understanding of student motivations and generational values as well as advanced the development of instructor skills in preparation, presentation, and overall competency in training. Participants will learn modern methods for effectively training adults and techniques for creating a productive and thriving learning environment.
This course meets Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) requirements Advanced Instructor Course #1017.
Prerequisites: Participants enrolling in this course must complete the following course prior to attendance:
The Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) course was developed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) with input from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), and the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police. ARIDE was created to address the gap in training between the Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST) and the Drug Evaluation and Classification (DEC/DRE) Program.
ARIDE bridges the gap between the SFST and DEC/DRE programs, providing officers with general knowledge related to drug impairment and promoting the use of Drug Recognition Experts (DREs). This course will train law enforcement officers, to observe, identify, and articulate the signs of impairment related to drugs, alcohol, or a combination of both, to reduce the number of impaired driving incidents as well as crashes which result in serious injuries and fatalities.
Please note:
Participants are required to pass a proficiency exam at the beginning of the course. Those who do not pass, will be dismissed and will not receive course credit. If you feel you would have difficulty passing the proficiency test, an SFST Refresher course might help. Visit our partner program, Texas SFST,Texas SFSTfor FREE training near you or delivered to your agency.
ARIDE prerequisites:
Commissioned Texas Peace Officer
Successful completion of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) 24-Hour Standardized Field Sobriety Testing Practitioner Course, 2176 or 2067; or the SFST taken with Academy
16 Hour Class – Techniques in Detecting Hidden Compartments and Concealed Contraband The course is packed with awesome actual video of seizures along with excellent supporting media. This is absolutely the best hidden compartment course available anywhere!
TOPICS:
Development of systematic search techniques
Search Objectives
X-ray equipment developments
Density detection equipment developments
K-9 failures
How officers are getting beat on concealment everyday
Pitfalls concerning concealment
Even experienced drug interdiction officers leave this class with a new outlook on concealment and adjust their searching techniques This class is a must for K-9 officers and any patrol officer who conducts vehicle searches.
Register @ WWW.HITS-TRAINING.COM or call- Office (325) 721-6000 Several payment options accepted: Purchase order – Check – Cash - Billing after course completion – Upon arrival at course, or pre-payment via mail. Please make payment payable to HITS P.O. Box 4055 Abilene, TX 79608
Tuition $350.00/Officer Class will begin at 8:00 a.m.
Participants will learn modern self defense concepts and principals for all levels of resistance that can be used if attacked in the line of duty. Officers will be able to return to their agency and train personnel in these defensive tactics.
This course meets Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) requirements for TEEX Defensive Tactics Course #78035.
Participant Testimonials:
“[The] objectives were clearly stated and highlighted by the instructor. [Those objectives] were addressed through both classroom and practical application which enhanced the learning process.“
“Our instructor was prepared and knowledgeable… Made the effort to ensure everyone gained the required knowledge to pass the course.“
Prerequisites
Participants enrolling in this course must complete the following course prior to attendance:
Please send proof of course completion via email toilepse@teex.tamu.eduat least two weeks prior to class start date. Participants will be contacted via email to confirm approval and admittance into course.
Analysis & Documentation of Medicolegal Death Investigations
This is a five-day, 40 hour, course that will cover basic topics in analysis and documentation of medicolegal death scenes, to include techniques of crime scene investigation. This course incorporates an interdisciplinary approach and is designed for death investigators, crime scene investigators, detectives, attorneys, and any other investigator involved in the scene. The course will assist the investigator with the knowledge and confidence needed to properly observe, document, and process a death scene through time of death indicators, wound characteristics, evidence collection, scene observations, etc.
Students will gain knowledge of best practices in crime scene investigation and medicolegal death investigation and analyze real-world case studies of equivocal deaths. The student will gain fundamental knowledge in all manners of death, including homicide, suicide, natural, and accidental.
Tuition: $609 | Hours: 8 am - 5 pm Location: Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence 3901 S. Cage Blvd. Pharr, Texas 78577
This course will cover the forfeiture of seized property. The student will be able to demonstrate understanding of this area to the level required by the Texas 77th in Senate Bill 563. The student will be able to identify the philosophy behind forfeiture and the extent to which it is appropriate as well as be able to identify search and methods of seizure.
The course provides individuals, community leaders and first-responders with information on how cyber attacks can impact, prevent, and/or stop operations and emergency responses in a community. It also serves as a cursory introduction to cyber threats, vulnerabilities and countermeasures. It explains vulnerabilities of computer systems and networks and how these vulnerabilities can affect communities. The course introduces actions communities can take in establishing a cyber security program.
Course Objectives:
Identify reasons why communities are vulnerable to cyber attack
Differentiate between the levels of cyber security threats
Recognize the terrorists are capable of, and planning use, computers to attack American communities and citizens
Recognize the purpose of the Community Cyber Security Maturity Model
This course is typically delivered in conjunction with MGT-384 (The EOC's Role in Community Cyber Security) or MGT-385 (Community Cyber Security Exercise Planning).
This course is designed for both background investigators, supervisors and human resource policy makers.
Law enforcement strives for professionalism; however, abuses by officers cast a negative light on entire organization. An examination of the past behavior of some involved officers reveals that a pattern of undesirable behavior existed prior to appointment as a police official. This behavior was unknown to the hiring agency due to inadequate or non-existent applicant screening. The integrity and ethical reputation of a police department mandates a thorough background investigation of police applicants. This course offers a systematic approach to background investigations which will assist in making informed hiring decisions.
Cost: $425.00 per attendee Length of Course: 8AM to 5PM, Day 1 8AM to Noon, Day 2
Taught nationally, this 12-hour course will enable investigators to uncover more about an applicant's past. Through a systematic approach to the investigation, you will become better prepared to spot important discrepancies. In this course, you will learn about:
This course provides basic hands on training for fire and rescue personnel in size-up, stabilization, hazard control, patient access, disentanglement and scene control techniques at automobile accidents involving one or two vehicles remaining on their wheels. Emphasis is placed on proper choice placement and use of equipment available locally, from hand tools to heavy hydraulic tools.
Requirements: Participants must be a member of a fire department (paid or volunteer) and they must provide their own PPE. Structural firefighting ensemble or vehicle extrication PPE to include steel-toed footwear, fire helmet and eye protection.
Limited Spots Available
Location will be at City of La Joya Shooting Range 500 US 83 East La Joya, TX 78560
This comprehensive 40-hour workshop will provide participants training and assistance in the proper recognition of bloodstain pattern evidence. This includes actual laboratory experimentation of blood flight characteristics as a result of motion and force. These experiments will be augmented with lecture material and case presentations for the ultimate purpose of reconstruction of the sequence of events which occurred at the scene of a crime. This is a hands-on workshop that will allow the participants to work individually and in small groups as they acquire the necessary knowledge and skills required of a bloodstain pattern analyst. The bloodstain evidence that will be analyzed will include that which is present at the crime scene, in a vehicle, on a victim and/or suspect’s clothing, or on discarded evidence such as knives, firearms and other weapons. This course satisfies the International Association for Identification’s 40-hour Basic Bloodstain Analysis Course for the purpose of the requirements for acquiring Bloodstain Pattern Certification Examination by the IAI, and for certification hours for the Crime Scene Certification Board.
The Basic Civil Process course covers the civil jurisdiction of courts, officer’s responsibilities, the rules and codes that govern the service, execution and return of civil citations, wits, subpoenas and other documents.
Basic Firefighter/Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior S-130/190
S-130 This course is designed to provide entry-level firefighters skills. Field time is encouraged, and many of the units are set up so they can be taught in either the classroom or the field. The field exercise is required. The classroom portion will be completed online with a field day scheduled for written and skills examination portions.
S-190 This course provides instruction in the primary factors affecting the start and spread of wildfire and recognition of potentially hazardous situations. S-190 is typically taught in conjunction with or prior to Basic Firefighter Training, S-130. It is designed to meet the fire behavior training needs of a Firefighter Type 2 (FFT2) on an incident as outlined in the NIMS: Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide, PMS 310-1, and the position taskbook developed for the position.
Prerequisites:Successful completion of IS-100, Introduction to ICS Successful completion of IS-700, Introduction to NIMS Successful completion of L-180, Human Factors in the Wildland Fire Service
Fee: $0.00 Training Location: Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence 3901 S. Cage Blvd. Pharr, Texas 78577 Registration Dates: April 25 - May 17, 2024
Having the knowledge and skills for creating a successful learning environment for students is an essential attribute to being a successful instructor. This hands-on, professional development experience for new instructors will improve skills for effective instruction and enhance presentation techniques. Participants will learn modern methods for effectively training adults and techniques for creating a productive and thriving learning environment.
This course meets Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) requirements Basic Instructor Course #1014.
Upon successful completion, you will be able to:
Instructor responsibilities
Teaching-learning process
Domains of learning
Factors affecting learning
Phases of learning
Analysis and design foundations
Methods of instruction
Lesson plans
Instructional media
Testing and evaluation
Student presentation and teaching exercise
Suggested Audience: Currently commissioned Texas peace officers
Course is Free.
****If possible, please bring laptop for in class assignments.
Basic Gangs is instructed by Courtroom Expert, Nationally Recognized Gang Officer, Chris “Nasty” McAnulty who dives deep into the current trends, structure, identifiers, and culture of street gangs, prison gangs and hybrid gangs. Not only will “Nasty” instruct the most up-to-date Gang Information but you will leave this course with the ability to collect, manage and implement gang intelligence while putting together a solid case for prosecution from street level contacts to long term investigations. BWC/In-Car/Surveillance videos are used during instruction, not only to explain Basic Gangs but to also show hands-on implementation of what “Nasty” instructs!
Presented by: Texas Department of Insurance Fraud Unit
Insurance fraud is becoming the number one white collar crime in America. It cost businesses and consumers $300 billion dollars a year.
TOPICS
Concepts of insurance
Fraud Texas Penal Code chapter 35
Common fraud scams
Red flags of insurance fraud
Tools used to gather information and evidence
Taking statements
Interviewing
Techniques to prepare for court
And more….
TRAINING IS FREE
Students must be sworn law enforcement and have a current PID number with TCOLE. Students will receive 8 hours of TCOLE credit upon completion of the training. Questions contact SGT. Paul at joseph.paul@tdi.texas.com
This course is arranged to achieve the maximum student orientation to the fundamental duties and responsibilities of a narcotics investigator. The skills learned in this course will disrupt the operations of national / transnational organized criminal networks (TOC), limit their access to funding, reduce assets and raise their cost of operations.
Course Objectives:
• Identify drug enforcement strategies that work and those that do not work • Learn integrity issues and ethical dilemmas faced by drug law enforcement officers • Drug recognition, to include history and development of drugs, the Controlled Substances Act, and an orientation to the categories of drugs, and drug schedules. • Search and Seizure laws designed for the narcotics investigator who needs clear and concise answers to questions about warrantless search and seizure laws. Plus and overall review of the requirements of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. • Learn to write drug search warrants to include how search warrants may or must be obtained, the scope of a search pursuant to a warrant, the seizure of evidence, and post-seizure requirements. • Learn development, management and control of Informants • Learn the critical issues of working undercover to include techniques, undercover identity, operational plans, and the pitfalls prevalent in undercover operations. • Learn well-settled methods, techniques, and procedures that are utilized to help ensure the objectives and functions of physical surveillance activities. • Learn how to plan a raid. • Learn how to prepare for trial and give courtroom testimony
This class is intended to cover the “basics” of fire investigation. It will be directed to those just getting into fire investigation. It will also serve as a “refresher” to those who may have more experience in fire investigation. This list will cover some of the topics thatwill be covered in this short course.
The use of NFPA 921 and NFPA1033
Understanding fire behavior
Recognizing basic firepatterns
Recognizing the effects ofventilation
Examination of the firescene and determining the area of origin
Fire Cause Determination
The student should bring along the 2017 Edition of NFPA 921 and NFPA 1033. The entire course will be presented using this reference material
Registration Fee $350.00 Includes training materials and a Certificate of Completion.
If you have any questions please call 800-365-0119
Prerequisite: You must have taken, passed and received the TCOLE Award: Basic Instructor #1014.
Required Equipment:
You will shoot the ammo you bring. You will need 700 rounds for semi-automatic handgun and 30 rounds of 9 Pellet 00 Buckshot (for scoring purposes).
Optional due to ammunition shortage:
A revolver and a box of 50 rounds (nomenclature and weapons handling purpose only). 10 rounds of rifled slugs, Patrol Rifle, 200 rounds of ammunition.
Performance Requirements: You will be required to shoot 2 courses of fire (pistol/shotgun) on the first day with a minimum of 90% (2 attempts). If you are unable to achieve 90%, then you will not be allowed to participate in the course at this time.
Note: If your agency does not have a shotgun, the South Texas College Department of Public Safety will lend you one. You must bring your ammunition, 12 gauge, for the qualifications and for use during the course.
After this course, you will be prepared to conduct up to date firearm training that addresses the needs of your officers and your community while minimizing the liability of your agency. Our marksmanship training is designed around modern understanding of conditioning, body mechanics and responses to lethal stress. Our instructors integrate behavioral learning and contextual learning principals into their teaching.
Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs is instructed by Courtroom Expert, Nationally Recognized Gang Officer, Chris “Nasty” McAnulty who dives deep into the current trends, structure, identifiers, and culture of OMGs. Not only will “Nasty” instruct the most up-to-date OMG Information but you will leave this course with the ability to collect, manage and implement gang intelligence while putting together a solid case for prosecution from street level contacts to long term investigations. During class, “Nasty” goes hands-on with proven techniques to safely execute traffic stops with OMG members who are known to be armed and using the motorcycle to law enforcement advantage. BWC/In-Car/Surveillance videos are used during instruction, not only to explain OMGs but to also show hands-on implementation of what “Nasty” instructs!
Basic Physical Surveillance Strategies for Law Enforcement Professionals
In this course we will explore the art and science of gathering intelligence discreetly and effectively. As law enforcement professionals, your ability to observe without being seen, to gather evidence without leaving a trace, and to stay one step ahead of those who would evade justice is what sets you apart. In this course we will embark on a journey to sharpen these critical skills, skills that can mean the difference between catching a criminal in the act and letting them slip through the cracks. Surveillance is not just about watching; it's about understanding, anticipating, and strategically responding to the moves of those we pursue.
South Texas College in partnership with the City of Pharr is providing this course. The Basic Telecommunicator Licensing Course is designed to provide the new career Telecommunicator with an understanding of the emergency communications environment, and the core competencies in both emergency and non-emergency situations required by the Commission for licensing. Participants will also be shown the proper use of technology and how to effectively communicate under stressful situations. This course is designed to prepare participants to perform successfully as a telecommunications call taker or dispatcher.
This course consists of ten learning modules. After all modules have been completed, the participant will receive a comprehensive final exam. All examinations must be passed with a minimum score of 80%. Participants have three attempts to pass each module exam and one attempt to pass the final examination. Module quizzes and the final examination are timed events that can only be done in a single seating. Participants will be eligible to sit for the TCOLE Telecommunicators Licensing Examination at a TCOLE approved testing site upon successful completion of the course.
The class is open to individuals who are already working for a public safety agency and are seeking to obtain their licensing requirements mandated by TCOLE. This course meets TCOLE requirements for Basic Telecommunicator Course #1080.
Registration is free. Required Prerequisites listed on Flyer.
The 4-day course is based on the Park Tool Training Curriculum and includes additional information about the unique demands and uses of patrol bicycles. The 32-hour training is a hands-on maintenance and repair clinic taught by certified experts at your department or a designated location.
Body Worn Camera is a recording device that is capable of recording, or transmitting to be recorded remotely, video or audio, and is worn on the person of a peace officer, which includes being attached to the officer’s clothing or worn as glasses. This purpose of this course is for the student to be able to discuss when a camera should be activated due to privacy and departmental situations as well as a location in which a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, including a person’s home.
Building Financial Strength in First Responder Families
This training is the premier financial wellness course taught by cops, for cops. Learn why it’s important to start the conversation about financial wellness as a first responder. Expand your tools in the topics of budgeting, will and estate planning, Legacy Go-Bag preparation in case the worst occurs, Debt – key principles and how to build a plan to become debt free, understanding pensions and retirement planning, how to interrogate financial planners to find the best one for you, financial pitfalls we first responders make, and the 8 phases of financial training to build a proven plan to strengthening your financial wellness.
The purpose of this course is to provide officers with knowledge of the Texas State Animal Laws and tools to be able to recognize and understand canine behavior to avoid and defend against canine attack.
In partnership with the Alton Fire Department, the South Texas College Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence will host a training to familiarize fire instructors, and potential fire instructors, on the use of the propane fueled car fire simulator.
The course will consist of:
Transporting the Training Aid
Assembling the training aid for Operation
Discussion of Potential Safety Issues and Safety Protocols
Attendees will need to bring to class: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Today's criminal element is heavily relying on cell phones and its ever-advancing technology to conduct illegal activity. The ability to exploit this information is crucial for law enforcement success. This class will assist investigators and officers in understanding the data and terminology involved in a cell phone investigation and how to successfully utilize that information in developing probable cause, identifying co-conspirators, and expanding the breadth and scope of criminal investigations.
Cell Phone Technology and Forensic Data Recovery Certification
The PATCtech Cell Phone Technology & Forensic Data Recovery Certification (CTF) is a one of a kind certification training module for law enforcement officers, detectives, private investigators, SIU’s and computer specialists that provides a comprehensive study of how to use cell phone records and cell phone forensic technologies in any type of investigation.
he purpose of this course is to introduce the student to an overview of the nature, causes and effects of child abuse. The student will be able to identify those authorities and responsibilities in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Texas Penal Code, Texas Family Code, and Human Resources Code. The student will be able to identify historical perspectives relating to child abuse as well as be able to identify factors relating to the nature of the problem of child abuse.
This program addresses child deaths from an interdisciplinary perspective. This approach provides all agencies the necessary information to not only investigate and gather information but to understand and appreciate the details and collaboration required in order to make a final determination of cause and manner of death.
The purpose of the course is to familiarize peace officers with The Child Safety Check Alert List law (CSAL) and the purpose of the list. The student will be able to describe what information they must report to the Department of Family and Protective Services and to the Texas Crime Information Center.
This course will cover the role and duties of law enforcement, proper behaviors/demeanors for civilians and peace officers during a traffic stop and in the context of the Seven Step Violator Contact, and the use of video and audio recording during a traffic stop. This course meets Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) requirements Civilian Interaction Training Course #30418.
This course was developed with the goal of providing information to drivers, the public, and students, and training for members of law enforcement, on the expectations that each should have during a contact between officers and motorists.
Law enforcement agencies and officers are responsible for enforcing laws, maintaining public order, and managing public safety on roads and highways. Police officers strive to promote driver compliance to traffic laws and regulations to prevent dangerous road incidents and to protect the safety of all participating in transportation.
Traffic enforcement requires an understanding of Commercial Motor Vehicle laws and regulations as well as procedures to safely conduct a stop of a Commercial Motor Vehicle. This course will assist officers in recognizing law violations regarding Commercial Motor Vehicles and procedures to properly verify Commercial Driver’s Licenses in accordance with federal law. In this course, attendees will become familiar with those areas of Commercial Motor Vehicle regulation that will increase officer confidence when dealing with traffic violations involving all levels of commercial motor vehicles.
Range masters and firearms instructors must be proficient in a broad-spectrum of skills including organization training, and documentation. They must have a comprehensive understanding of the responsibility undertaken when accepting this position. Programs they design and implement may result in taking a life that could result in litigation. To prepare for that liability, range masters and firearms instructors must constantly prepare for community scrutiny and judicial review.
The Complete Rage Master course is designed to develop skills to manage any law enforcement range.
In addition to standard state qualification courses, firearms training must incorporate beneficial exercises and employ adult learning strategies. Training teams must present consistent and purposeful courses based on state standards and realistic events. An instructor who teaches from stale and outdated material is a liability to himself and his organization. The Complete Rage Master course ensures they are properly presenting quality and useful material.
The three-day Complete Range Master course emphasizes developing useable skills including lesson plan development through live-fire student-designed and graded practical exercises. The Complete Range Master is designed for both novice and veteran firearms instructors to an advanced phase of their careers and duties.
The Confined Space Entry course utilizes the TEEX Mobile Confined Space Safety Trailer to provide students with hands-on training opportunities designed to help each perform confined space entry, assist workers with entry, or supervise employees assigned to make entry. In addition to learning the proper procedures for entering a confined space, participants will be able to better determine if entry into a confined space is permitted. During this training, students will have access to a 38-foot, OSHA compliant, self-contained mobile training unit. Scenario assignments will cover the procedures for testing potential atmospheric hazards, proper application of personal protective equipment, applicable safety equipment, safe performance of work in a confined space, the successful exit of a confined space, and non-entry rescue issues.
This 2-day course teaches the skills, tactics and techniques required to conduct physical security system penetration using surreptitious and covert entry methods. Students will learn how to pick, circumvent and/or bypass locks, devices and physical security systems used to secure structures and property, then leave undetected. This skill set is also referred to as ‘stealth breaching’ and ‘subtle breaching.'
Registration Forms: To register for our course, please complete & submit the 'Contact' form, which is accessed under our 'Contact' page tab above, or call (760) 887-2892. You may also request a course registration from by emailing us directly at:info@loct-associates.net
Registration Payment: After you have registered, please send your registration fee (check or money orders) to: L.O.C.T. Associates, LLC P.O. Box 80931 Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688
For credit card payments: L.O.C.T. Associates, LLC will provide you with an invoice and payment instructions, after you have registered.
Covert Entry Specialist I & II: $1,100.00 (All 5-days)
Covert Entry Specialist I: This 2-day course teaches the skills, tactics and techniques required to conduct physical security system penetration using surreptitious and covert entry methods. Students will learn how to pick, circumvent and/or bypass locks, devices and physical security systems used to secure structures and property, then leave undetected. This skill set is also referred to as ‘stealth breaching’ and ‘subtle breaching.’
Covert Entry Specialist II: This 3-day advanced course teaches progressive techniques utilized in conducting covert entries. The subject matter includes advanced lock picking techniques & equipment, duplication, decoding, deciphering and circumvention of locks and systems, such as: biometric locks, high security locks, electronic controlled access systems, residential and commercial security alarm systems, as well as techniques solely developed & instructed by L.O.C.T. Associates. This course also covers intelligence gathering, planning, and executing a covert entry operation.
Both courses also cover ‘counter-physical security measures,’ so the student will be able to conduct physical security assessments of buildings, structures, and security systems/procedures. This subject matter is commonly referred to as ‘target hardening,’ ‘threat assessment,’ ‘penetration testing’ and ‘red team operations.’
Registration Forms: To register for our course, please complete & submit the 'Contact' form, which is accessed under our 'Contact' page tab above, or call (760) 887-2892. You may also request a course registration from by emailing us directly at:info@loct-associates.net
Registration Payment: After you have registered, please send your registration fee (check or money orders) to: L.O.C.T. Associates, LLC P.O. Box 80931 Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688
For credit card payments: L.O.C.T. Associates, LLC will provide you with an invoice and payment instructions, after you have registered.
This course will focus on training drug officers to articulate facts in a courtroom or deposition setting in a professional and accurate manner as a means to successful prosecution. Topics of the course will encompass documentation; pre-trial meetings, depositions, and preliminary hearings; types of court cases; types of examination; courtroom demeanor and attire; testifying; defense tactics in the courtroom; witness credibility; experience documentation; and a mock trial practical exercise using counterdrug scenarios.
The purpose of the course is for the student to be able to explain certain objectives and legal obligations that must be followed during a crime scene search. The training will provide the students with the necessary knowledge to perform a crime scene search that is a coordinated legal search of a crime scene to locate physical evidence or witnesses to the crime under investigation. The student will be able to identify constitutional and criminal laws related to a crime scene search.
This course is designed to first address the importance of Crime Scene Investigation. The process of gathering of “information” by professionals who will be investigating crime scenes. This process includes information obtained from call intake personnel, responding patrol officers, detectives,supervisors, crime scene technicians, medical examiners, and coroners. The course will address the roles and areas of responsibility of those various professionals in the “information” gathering process. Moreover, consideration will be given to the rules of evidence involving search and seizure and search warrant applications as part of the information gathering process.
Secondly, the course of instruction will cover Crime Scene Reconstruction. Foundational to violent crime investigations is the correct interpretation of the interactions between the victim and the suspect that comprises the criminal act. The correct analysis of physical evidence created from that interaction can assist crime scene investigators in reconstructing the crime as part of the overall investigative efforts to solve the case. Therefore, course participants will be instructed on the proper identification, memorialization, and collection methods of physical evidence that will be used to reconstruct the events.
Crisis/Hostage Negotiations Course is designed to train and educate law enforcement personnel in becoming crisis/hostage negotiators. Personnel will have an essential understanding of the dynamics in crisis/hostage negotiations. This course is accredited by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) and by the state of Texas for wiretap warrants. In addition, this course is available to non-commission personnel who are employed (part- or full-time) with a law enforcement agency.
Fee: $100 for TAHN members and $140 for non-TAHN members ($40 will subscribe you to a 12-month TAHN membership for non-members)
Training provides a review of the key concepts, safety techniques, and communication skills initially taught in the crisis intervention section of the TCOLE Basic Peace Officer Curriculum. This course will allow time for discussion, questions, and concerns of technique utilization that participants have experienced. Best practices will be discussed and the sharing of personal situational experiences.
With increasing frequency, law enforcement is being called upon to respond to individuals in serious mental health crises. It is necessary for law enforcement personnel to understand mental illness, and the tactics and techniques that have been proven to work most effectively when responding to individuals in these situations. These tactics and techniques are different than those routinely taught to officers to manage conflict. Generally, the underlying elements behind mental illness-related behavior is usually not criminal or malicious. Utilizing the information from this course, and implementing effective strategies can help keep the officer safe, keep the public safe, and greatly reduce civil liability.
Tuition Cost: Free
Location:Rio Grande High School - Library
5726 N Farm to Market Rd 755, Rio Grande City, TX 78582
Crisis Management Affecting Institutions of Higher Education: A Collaborative
Is your campus prepared? This course trains higher education campus and community members, and others involved in crisis management duties and responsibilities to effectively manage a crisis by applying a whole community approach. Risk management strategies, effective crisis communication, and a series of well-developed plans as described in the National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) are emphasized. The course utilizes case studies and activities to aid participants in recognizing potential gaps in their current crisis management program and concludes with a practical application, simulated role-play exercise.
This course meets Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) requirements for MGT361 Managing Critical Incidents Higher Education course #78402.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course.
The purpose of this course is not just to inform, but to increase awareness and understanding. The course will lead to the development of skills that will refine positive communication and enhance productivity in the workforce.
Designed specifically for Law Enforcement professionals, this course teaches cutting edge tactics designed to give officers a strategic advantage in the detection, interaction, collection, and preservation of cyber evidence.
Learn how to: Investigate any case involving a digital device, Analyze a target’s Wi-Fi network to identify all connected devices and browsing activities, Defeat challenges of a suspect using public Wi-Fi, Analyze logs to link browsing activities to specific electronic devices, Increase officer safety by remotely disrupting a target’s network connectivity (e.g., Wi-Fi surveillance cameras)
Death Investigation: Cause, Manner, and Mechanism of Death and the Investigative Process
Course Overview: Participants will receive an overview of the legal definitions for cause, manner and mechanism of death, an understanding of the basic death investigative process as well as the ability to identify various types of injuries related to the death of an individual. This course will further review the origins of the coroner medical legal system, the need for a coordinated investigation as well as the necessity to utilize trained, forensic pathologists in determining the cause of death.
This course will explain the purpose and focus of De-Escalation training: to improve the response of officers to incidents that involve persons in crisis, who are behaving erratically, emphasizing that public and officer safety are at the heart of this training process.
Who should attend: Patrol officers, new or experienced investigators and CID
This course is designed to:
Inform the student of verbal and non-verbal indicators of truth and deception
Illustrate those indicators though the use of videotaped interviews exhibiting the behaviors in real settings
Illustrate those behaviors in a classroom interview of volunteer students. Every class includes a challenging “in front of the class” interview of several students which drives home the issues discussed in lecture.
Inform students about a behavioral disorder known as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
Inform students about “theme development” and its uses to compel a confession.
Discuss considerations for the time, place and setting for successful interviews
Cement your understanding about deception indicators by observing in-class demonstration
COST: $75
To pay for class please send check to: Dennis Parker 1131 Rose Ln Canyon Lake TT 78133 Or, to pay by credit card call Dennis at 512 825-7814 Email: dparker.texas@yahoo.com
This course is composed to assist the newly appointed Detective (or Patrol Officer conducting investigations) in becoming familiar with the many aspects of a Criminal Investigation. It is designed to assist in providing a solid foundation of basic techniques from which Detectives can build upon as they progress through their careers. Policies and procedures differ from agency to agency and this presentation is a general overview, not to conflict with your department operating guidelines in criminal investigations.
Domestic Terrorism & Radicalization to Violent Extremism
This relevant and timely training will provide law enforcement officers with an introductory overview of numerous domestic terror indicators and criminally subversive subcultures encountered by law enforcement professionals on a daily basis. The course will provide a definition of violent extremism and focus on identifying individuals and groups who attempt to advance social or political beliefs through force or violence.
A two day (16 hour) interactive course designed for law enforcement officers and prosecutors. During this course participants will receive training on how individuals think and learn, how to testify under direct and cross examination, theme development for prosecutors and how to build successful cases.
This course will include practical application scenarios where participants will be evaluated by instructors.
June 13-14, 2023 Don’t Fear the Darkside Course
Sponsored by:Texas Department of Transportation
THIS SPONSORED COURSE IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO TEXAS LAW ENFORCEMENT. FOR MORE INFORMATION EMAIL CARLOS.CHAMPION@TEXASDRE.ORG
Location has been changed to:South Texas College-Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence
3901 S. Cage Blvd. – Pharr, TX 78577
Time:8:30am – 5:00pm daily
Dress Attire:
Day #1 Casual Business (BDUs/polo) and Day #2 Dress Uniform or Suit for courtroom testimony
If you’re traveling from out of town, please bring a laptop and a thumb drive for the report writing exercise.
This course is for students that have limited or no drone flying experience. Flight basics from pre-flight setup to utilizing a drone will be covered. Topics and preparation for the FAA Part 107 Certification exam will be reviewed.
Day 1:
Overview of Part 107
Course overview, expectations, standards
Drone Technologies overview
Airspace Classifications
Introduction to flight (hands on with the drones)
Day 2:
Sectional charts
Weather
METAR
Crew Roles and Responsibilities (resource management)
Practical flight training.
There are no pre-requisites for this course. Students will have the personal responsibility to schedule and pay for the FAA Part 107 Certification Exam.
This course will cover the steps to making sure you are familiar with the equipment, proficient at servicing the drone, and knowing the capabilities and limitations of the drone. Subjects in the instruction will also include how to effectively use thermal imaging, flight path optimization, and all the administrative aspects of clearing the mission for flight. The training will culminate into a search and rescue simulation.
Day 1:
Mission planning
Thermal imaging
Operational implementation
Maintenance and Preflight (practical and challenge course)
Search and Rescue practicum
Day 2:
Operational optimization
Search and Rescue Simulation
Course closeout and completion
Experience piloting a drone is required and a Part 107 certification is highly recommended for this course.
This 64-hour course focuses on the skills necessary for effective fire apparatus operation. Course topics include pump theory, fire service hydraulics, apparatus inspections, driving practices, and pump operations. Upon successful completion of this course, students will take the state certification exam. Students must attend all 64 hours of class to receive course completion certificate.
Dates: July 10-20, 2023 Time: Monday – Thursday 8am-5pm
Cost: $ 300 Course (TCFP Exam Fee Not Included)
Requirements:
Students must hold TCFP Basic Firefighter Certification
Course Purpose: The primary purpose of the course is to prepare general duty federal, state and local law enforcement officials to perform their required job-duties safely while interdicting in transit commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) involved in ongoing criminal activity. DIAP training will result in the identification and removal of in-transit criminals operating CMVs, increased officer awareness and safety, increased national security, and improved traffic safety on the nation’s highways.
Topics covered include:
The norms of the Commercial Vehicle industry
The indicators of Commercial Vehicle criminal activity
Current drug trafficking trends and smuggling patterns
Current criminal trends and trafficking patterns involving Commercial Vehicles
Bulk drug movement indicators and detection methods
Commercial Vehicle driver interview techniques
Indicators of a driver using, possessing, selling, or hauling illicit drugs
This course is designed to emphasize the fundamental policy, leadership skills, and legal principles necessary to acquire proficiency in directing the efforts of a proactive drug enforcement unit. This course will present fundamental and advanced supervisory concepts, strategies, and techniques in policy, leadership, and legal principles. This course provides an ethics based approach to leadership and management principles in drug law enforcement and includes leadership skills development as well as the day-to-day management of a drug unit or task force. Practical scenarios will be used to help aid the learning process. This course will provide an update on all recent counter-narcotics related U.S. Supreme Court decisions and other pertinent decisions handed down by U.S. Circuit Courts.
Course Description: Duty to Intervene is a course designed to equip and train officers with the awareness and adeptness to intercede when reasonable objectiveness dictates that excessive force is being used by surrounding officers during an arrest or detention. The course explains on content that officer/s who witness their colleagues violating the Use of Force policy must take action and professionally restore safety. It further entails the duty to intervene is woven into the El Paso Police Department’s culture by practical discussion and policy review.
BLS covers adult, child and infant CPR. This CPR course is tailored for healthcare professionals and those in school for a field in the healthcare profession.
Law Enforcement has experienced more danger in the last four years than I can remember in my forty-five years of service. One danger has remained constant, emergency vehicle crashes. This danger is totally preventable. Ending at fault law enforcement crashes will expose in detail crashes that took the lives of emergency vehicle operators and civilians exposed to dangerous situations. Attendees will evaluate performance from dash cam videos and news reports of these cases. Finally, attendees will discuss how to eliminate these events.
Garry Parker will invoice the agencies participating at the end of the course, so when submitting registration please select Agency for Payment and include Contact Person Name, Email and Phone Number.
Strangulation is one of the most lethal forms of domestic violence where unconsciousness may occur within seconds and death within minutes. In this course we will discuss the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), domestic violence, national and state statistics, signs and symptoms of strangulation, and interviewing and investigating strangulation.
Investigating a fire fatality is one of the most complex and demanding scenes the investigator will encounter. A fatality at the scene of a fire introduces multiple new challenges to the investigation. Due in part to the relative infrequency fire fatalities are encountered, as well as the extra scrutiny and pressure accompanied with the fatality, these scenes can produce unnecessary stress. This course will help the investigator prepare for fire fatality scenes through proper preplanning, scene management and follow up. In addition, the fire investigator will most likely be investigating the scene with a Medical Examiner/Coroner Investigator, Police Department detective and possibly other entities. Understanding each other’s roles will facilitate a better, more thorough, and well-run investigation. Over the two-day course participants will be taught, through real life examples, methodology that will provide them with the skills and knowledge to prepare for and manage a fire scene involving fatalities.
FBI-LEEDA Conducting and Managing Internal Affairs Investigations
FBI-LEEDA's Managing and Conducting Internal Affairs Investigations certification course is a four and one-half day seminar focused on best practices related to effective internal control mechanisms calculated to promote enhanced agency accountability. This seminar is interactive, and attendees participate in capstone scenarios designed as an application of learning. FBI-LEEDA's Managing and Conducting Internal Affairs Investigations certification course has been recognized by the majority of state POSTs for mandatory retraining credit.
FBI-LEEDA is pleased to present a 4½-day course on media and public relations. Police cannot succeed without the support of the community they are sworn to protect. The image of an agency as a professional and ethical organization is vitally important. This course will guide the participants to promoting a consistent and positive public image of the department, enabling the community to perceive their police as a transparent organization they can depend on and trust. There are three key opinion influencers; participants will learn how each can positively or negatively affect public opinion. Students will participate in media training with numerous desktop and on-camera exercises. Topics covered include; image, branding and perception, the media’s role in public opinion, managing social media communications, interview preparation and principles for communicating in a crisis event.
The FBI LEEDA Reflective Leadership Institute course represents the next level of leadership education for law enforcement professionals This dynamic course focuses on learning to lead an inclusive culture within our law enforcement agencies The goals of this 4 and one half day program include creating a fair, unbiased, and inclusive police culture for the agency and community effectively guide law enforcement agencies to realize the practical and moral value of cultural awareness and cultural intelligence incorporate best practices for successfully navigating the complexities of our contemporary cultural with integrity assemble concrete pathways for fair and unbiased leadership development of all employees in the agency and, help create leaders with cultural wisdom and integrity as models for their internal communities and the public that they serve.
This course is designed to provide knowledge and training to develop Field Training Officers skills. Each of you will be presented with ideas and techniques to assist you in becoming more professional and confident in the application of training another Officer. This course is based on a modified“San Jose”program.
South Texas College in partnership with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is providing this course. Constitutional carry has come to Texas and, it’s our responsibility as peace officers to be educated on the nuances of this new law. Students will learn the ins and outs of constitutional carry and discuss objectives such as:
Who can carry without a Texas LTC under constitutional carry
Where a person can and cannot carry their firearm
What Penal Code signs can be used by business owners to prohibit constitutional carry
Finding Wellness - Building a Healthier Life #4202
This course is designed to teach law enforcement professionals the importance of physical, mental, emotional, and social wellness, and to break down the stigma of mental health in the law enforcement profession. First responders are routinely exposed to high stress situations and this course is designed to give law enforcement professionals guidance on how their body and brain work together and against each other. Students will learn to recognize signs, symptoms, and coping mechanisms for common forms of distress associated with their profession. This course addresses how to recognize the signs of suicidal ideation and how to build a suicide prevention plan. Students will learn how to pratice resiliency to become more able to withstand the demands of their lives and chosen careers.
This course is designed for the individual who coordinates and delivers community fire and risk prevention programs that intend to eliminate or mitigate situations that endanger lives, property, and the environment. The Fire and Life Safety Educator I course is designed to satisfy the job performance requirements (JPRs) of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1035 Chapter 4 and provide the tools necessary to obtain certification through the Texas Commission on Fire Protection (TCFP) and State Firefighters’ and Fire Marshals’ Association of Texas (SFFMA).
Participants Must Provide
Textbook – Jones & Bartlett, Fire and Life Safety Educator: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed.
Laptop computer with Excel, PowerPoint, and Word or compatible.
Thumb/Flashdrive
a photo identification on the first day of class. See the Participant Handbook for approved forms of identification and additional guidelines.
Properly trained fire department investigators reduce liability, ensure best applicant selection & help strengthen community trust. This comprehensive 3-day course teaches new & experienced background investigators advanced techniques and procedures for conducting pre-employment background investigations of new fire department employees.
Instructor: John Pallas (Deputy Chief, Retired—State of TN)
This course is designed to meet the needs of entry-level fire and emergency service instructors by meeting or exceeding the job performance requirements in National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1041,Standard for Fire Service Instructor Professional Qualifications, Chapter 4 “Fire Instructor I”.
This course is designed to meet the needs of the intermediate-level fire instructor by meeting or exceeding the job performance requirements in National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1041, Standard for Fire Service Instructor Professional Qualifications, Chapter 5 “Fire Instructor II”. The Fire Instructor II course is designed around classroom lectures and exercises.
This course is designed for the first-line company officer/supervisor and satisfies the requirements of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1021Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications, Chapter four “Fire Officer I”. It is designed around classroom lectures and group exercises to improve your abilities to manage a single fire company. This includes responsibilities such as the development of an Incident Action Plan (IAP), personnel management and mentoring, and community relations.
This course is designed to meet the needs of the mid-level officer/supervisor and satisfies the requirements of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1021Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications, Chapter five “Fire Officer II.” It is designed around classroom lectures and group interactive exercises to improve your abilities to manage multiple fire companies. This includes responsibilities such as strategic planning and operations, personnel development, and organizational communications.
The goal of this course is to enable students to identify and define key concepts of fire investigation specifically as they relate to the scientific method, scene preservation and the role of the first responder.
In partnership with the Weslaco Fire Department, the South Texas College Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence will host a training to familiarize fire instructors, and potential fire instructors, on the use of the propane fueled car fire and fire vent trailer simulator.
The training will consist of:
Transporting the Training Aid
Assembling the training aid for Operation
Discussion of Potential Safety Issues and Safety Protocols
Location:
Weslaco Fire Dept
Attendees will need to bring to class: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Fire Pattern Recognition, Identification and Persistence
The primary objective of any fire scene inspection is to collect data as set forth in the Scientific Method. This data collection begins with basic observations of the fire effects witnessed by the investigator. These observations will include such things as discoloration, deposition, deformation, and a loss of mass and in some instances a change in the state of matter. The investigator should document these effects and their location. Simply because this becomes the empirical data to be preserved and analyzed during testing your different hypotheses.
In partnership with the Weslaco Fire Department, the South Texas College Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence will host a training to familiarize fire instructors, and potential instructors, on the use of the fire vent trailer simulator. The training will consist of: • Transporting the training aid • Assembling the training aid for operation • Discussion of Potential Safety Issues and Safety Protocols
Training Location: Weslaco FD
Cost per attendee: FREE Attendees will need to bring to class: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
This train-the-trainer course includes the complete delivery of the Tactical Medical for Patrol Officers course of study as well as instructional techniques and methodology for delivering the course, scenario development, safety protocols and procedures, graded participant teach-backs, graded skills assessments, remediation, course critiques, and evaluations.
Participants are provided with all lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, student manuals, and related courseware so that they are immediately prepared to deliver the Tactical Medical for Patrol Officers course at their home agency.
There is no charge for this training. It is funded through state and federal grants.
Prerequisite: Sworn law enforcement officers, Firefighters, or EMS Personnel Required Equipment: Good attitude, open mind, pen and paper
Force Encounters Analysis (Understanding Human Performance in Critical Incidents)
CANCELED
Force Encounters Analysis coursework delivers the science of human performance behind many of the most misunderstood aspects of high risk, rapidly evolving situations. Using case studies and video analysis we lead our students through an in depth discussion of the key human factors associated with use of force.
The goal of Force Encounters Analysis is to provide officers with the knowledge, skills, and ability to make quality decisions in difficult situations. The training will deepen their understanding of critical human factors that interfere with the ability to effectively control a situation. The course also promotes the application of appropriate de-escalation techniques, and addresses when and how to use them.
Course Description: A study of the proper maintenance and safe use of forcible entry tools.
End-of-Course Outcomes: Identify safety procedures for forcible entry; list all tools and uses; demonstrate safe handling; and demonstrate forcible entry techniques.
This course is a 2 - day trainin the trainer that covers handcuffing, baton, weapon retention, and pepper spray. The art of handcuffing is one of the most used tools in law enforcement and being able to handcuff in a safe tactical manner is important to the safety of your officers. The baton is seldom utilized in law enforcement because officers are not familiar with when and where they should or should not use the tool. We not only focus on sound techniques and simple concepts with the baton, but we also teach you as an instructor how to legally articulate when a baton can be reasonably used within an encounter. This course emphasizes instructor interaction and concepts to make you a better instructor for your agency, which is one of the most important aspects of your job. The use of pepper spray is still a valid tool in law enforcement since the taser does not meet every situation, which is why we’ve included this in our program. You’re not required to be exposed to pepper spray during this training if you’ve been previously exposed.
This law enforcement-based Ground Control Instructor course focuses on law enforcement grappling holds and techniques that work for police in the field. You cannot be in law enforcement during our current climate and not have skills for the ground encounter. We guarantee that you will be on the ground at some point in your law enforcement career, and you need to have a blueprint to control the suspect when the fight goes into that realm.
This course focuses on ground control techniques that will allow police officers to control a suspect until backup arrives, which includes control techniques that allow the officers to exhaust the suspect for handcuffing. The skills learned in this course will utilize body weight and compression learned through Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu but focuses on what we deal with in law enforcement. This course is not taught by a civilian trainer that has never put on a police uniform but is rather taught by veteran police officers that understand policy and what you deal with in the field. You’ll learn from them our award-winning teaching methods during this course that allows you to become a better instructor.
Dynamic Police Training (DPT) is dedicated to providing the most advanced, state of the art training related to hidden compartments located inside passenger and commercial motor vehicles. DPT's TrapMate class offers live trap videos, pictures, in-car recordings and other materials depicting hidden compartments in their entirety from start to finish. These range from sophisticated intake manifold traps, oil pan traps, electronically operated dash traps, gas tank traps, rocker panel traps, front and rear quarter panel traps, fire wall traps, tire traps, muffler traps, floor and roof traps, trailer traps and MANY more.
After taking the TrapMate class, the students will have an in-depth understanding on how drug cartels and other criminal organizations utilize compartments to smuggle contraband inside the U.S and around the world. Students will be able to identify these specific vehicles and wil have the knowledge necessary to quickly, efficiently and professionally locate and identify hidden compartments inside passenger and commercial motor vehicles. Students can tehn take this knowledge and make a difference in their local communities, roadways, and highways.
Course Objectives: This 2½ day training module will provide the fire/arson investigator with the practical and technical skills necessary to investigate and determine the area of origin(s) of vehicle fires. This training module will provide both classroom and hands-on training with practical exercises on how to conduct a systematic, thorough, and scientific examination of the vehicle. Attendees will be provided the necessary knowledge of vehicle design, electrical systems, fuel systems, and their components that will be encountered in a motor vehicle, including alternative fuels. We will examine how these components can fail or cause fires.
This course is designed to enhance participants’ abilities to improve team and organizational performance through the use of productive conflict resolution strategies. As part of the course, participants will examine lessons in teamwork learned from NASA, Google, and the aviation industry. Participants will walk away with tools they can immediately put to use in the workplace.
Topics covered include: • Productive versus destructive conflict • Conflict styles and associated behaviors • Psychological safety in the workplace • Strategies for managing common conflicts
This course is eligible for 3 hours TCOLE credit (#3039)
This course is designed to enhance participants’ abilities to improve team and organizational performance through the development of psychological resources of hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism (psychological capital). Participants will examine the benefits of building psychological strengths while clearing up misconceptions about weakness. Participants will also walk away with tools they can immediately put to use in the workplace. Topics covered include:
Operational and organizational stressors
Job burnout and officer safety
The effects of job demands and resources
Strategies for developing psychological capital
Cost: $75 if registering for this course only, or $120 for this course and Suspect Statements: Enhancing Courtroom Admissibility
The primary purposes of Highway Drug Investigations are to detect, interdict, and disrupt the continual flow of illicit drugs on the nation’s highways. It is where the struggle for superiority of the nation’s highways takes place; a contest between uniformed police officers and the most prolific and dangerous illicit drug traffickers in the world (i.e., Transnational Drug Trafficking Organizations). Emphasis is placed on Mexican drug trafficking organizations, the smuggling routes, transportation corridors, and distribution networks in the United States. Confronting the threat to national security, highway drug interdiction operatives stand as the vanguard in the nation’s second line of defense against those who would export illicit activity, lawlessness, violence, and corruption into the country.
Moreover, comprehensive post-interdiction investigative methods and techniques are emphasized in order to further identify and debilitate ongoing illicit drug-trafficking schemes that have a nexus to highway drug interdiction stops (e.g., conspiracy investigations, government controlled deliveries of contraband, and other investigative methodologies designed to advance a criminal investigation).
Topics Included:
Modus operandi of drug trafficking organizations
Detection of drug-laden vehicles
Weapons trafficking
Vehicular contraband concealment
Gathering of strategic drug intelligence
Bulk currency seizures and investigations
Effective strategies designed to disrupt the use of the nation’s highway as a delivery/profit gaining system for illicit drugs and weapons
Homicide Investigation & Crime Scene Management Training
This three day death investigation course instructs & consults fellow members of law enforcement at each level in the successful investigation and prosecution of violent offenders. Because of its unique presentation and course content, this continues to be one of the most requested and popular death investigation training courses available today.
Those who attend will learn to develop successful crime scene strategies that will afford them the best opportunity to properly document a violent crime scene and have analyzed the very probative evidence that will eventually lead them down that path of truth. Concentration is on the crime scene and the ability for the homicide detective to recognize various crime scene indicators coupled with victimology that will make it much easier to establish a proper motive.
Successful prosecution always begins at the initial crime scene. The recognition of physical evidence and its documentation, collection and analysis are key to an accurate and reliable reconstruction. This course also teaches and stresses the importance of proper crime scene protocol that will ensure the thorough process and documentation of any homicide scene, which often is followed by arrest of the offender and successful prosecution.
Introduction to Crisis/Hostage Negotiation: The history of negotiations will be discussed from NYPD 1973 to present day. Why we negotiate even in barricade situations. Recognize elements of successful crisis negotiation. Apply common crisis negotiation terms. Discussion on how virtually every hostage taker fits into one of three main categories “The Three C’s.”
How to Write a Search Warrant by the District Attorney Office
Recommended for Officers and Investigators that write search warrants on a regular basis for their departments.
In this course the students will learn how to draft a search warrant affidavit by collectively discussing fact-based scenarios. The presentation will consist of a lecture that highlights and discusses the latest court cases and that is also interspersed with practical exercises. The students discuss the facts and then, as a group, prepare an affidavit for a search warrant along with the warrant itself. The instructor will type the affidavit in “real time” as it is authored by the students and shown on the PowerPoint screen. The instructor will then offer constructive criticism and make corrections to the student’s work product.
The course will emphasize the information that will need to be provided in order for their affidavit to survive the close scrutiny of the courts. The lecture portion of the class will include focus on:
Knock and Talks
The Fourth Amendment as applied to search warrants
How to properly describe the place to be searched
How to properly describe the items to be seized
How to deal with computers and cell phones when asking to seize them and then search the content of those devices
Naming or describing persons that you want to search under the authority of the search warrant; and stating probable cause to support the search of every item you want to search under the warrant.
Each student will receive a handout that details the requisites of drafting a search warrant and search warrant affidavit. They will also receive a handout on Digital Searches.
This course will increase the law enforcement communities awareness of the issue of human trafficking, through the exposure of information including: victim identification, investigation, rescue and prosecution considerations, referral and service providers availability, the critical need for development of a coordinated community response and the inter-connectivity of state, federal and global human trafficking concerns.
Human Trafficking Training for Law Enforcement - Truckers Against Trafficking
Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) provides a 4-hour, in-depth law enforcement training on human trafficking and societal attitudes that contribute to a misunderstanding of prostitution, along with a victim-centered approach and case studies of inspection and interdiction stops that turned into human trafficking. Central to TAT’s training is a powerful survivor’s testimony with her perspectives on interactions with law enforcement she encountered.
Illicit drug cartels exploit migrants’ desire for a better life. The cartels' existing drug routes are used to transport and exploit these migrants along with the illicit drugs into the United States. Many times, these migrant indentured servants are used as pawns to transport these drugs. This expansion has in effect tripled the cartel’s profits, which include not only drug proceeds, but the proceeds of human smuggling (Fee or Piso) and indentured servitude (Trafficking victim). This training is currently being provided to the DEA, US State Department, and numerous law enforcement agencies throughout the US. The course covers the direct correlation between human trafficking and all levels of narcotics investigations, from street level to transnational trafficking.
The instructor will provide a QR code with a link for fillable templates for use for warrant requests, preservation letters, service provider guidelines, OSINT resources and FINCEN requests.
**NO COST** (Travel and Meals - Not Included)
**This course is restricted to local, tribal, state, federal, and US military law enforcement personnel along with other civilian law enforcement employees.
Course Length:Human Trafficking in Narcotics Operations is a 1-Day (8 hour) course.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites to attend this class.
This course meets NFPA 1521,Standard for Fire Department Safety Officer Professional Qualifications,Chapter five “Incident Safety Officer.” Upon completion of this course you are eligible to schedule the Texas Commission on Fire Protection (TCFP) exam, should you meet the TCFP requirements. Participants are also eligible to apply for certification through State Firefighters’ and Fire Marshals’ Association (SFFMA).
This course does NOT offer Pro Board certification.
Cost: $420/student for Texas Firefighters, departments, or agencies* (Standard tuition $840/student)
The purpose of the course is for officers to be able to recognize the types of identity crime and recognize how identity crimes occur. The officer will also be able to recognize the legal aspects of identity crimes.
This 16-hour course exposes students to various indoor drone technology available to public safety personnel and teaches them to operate drones confidently in confined spaces and indoor environments. This class is ideal for operators needing to enhance their skill level in flying drones indoors for tactical operations. We've partnered with major Drone manufacturers to provide participants with top-of-the-line equipment and training, allowing operators an opportunity to familiarize themselves with indoor-drone thermal abilities, tactical communication abilities, turtle mode, and other indoor uses. The program will include discussions and hands-on flight time on where and how to implement indoor drone operations both safely and efficiently while reducing the chances of injury. While part 107 is not required for the class drone experience and flight time is highly suggested.
Who should attend: Patrol officers, new or experienced investigators and CID
This course is designed to:
Define how insurance companies operate
Define civil hazards to insurance companies for NOT paying claims
Define how insurance companies manage money.
List the major elements of Insurance Fraud
Define the punishment levels in Texas for insurance fraud
List the typical roles encountered in accident fraud rings
List the major types of common accident fraud scenarios
Identify strategic considerations for the interview of conspirators
Define damages at accident scenes that should be considered suspicious
Illustrate novel interviewing techniques
COST: $75
To pay for class please send check to: Dennis Parker 1131 Rose Ln Canyon Lake TT 78133 Or, to pay by credit card call Dennis at 512 825-7814 Email: dparker.texas@yahoo.com
Interacting with Drivers who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
This course will provide knowledge on identifying practical suggestions for more effectively communicating with drivers who are deaf or hard of hearing and describe how to identify specialty license plates issued to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing in the State of Texas.
This course will enable the students to fully understand the "tradecraft" of smuggling operations at all levels and familiarize the student with the various countermeasures deployed by those involved in smuggling contraband, through the use of C.O.A.T.I.S (clandestine operations and tradecrafts identification system). C.O.A.T.I.S. is a system developed by the instructor and is the result of human intelligence gathered from the formal debriefing of hundreds of smugglers. Additionally, the course will also dive deep into the various countermeasures used to conceal clandestine smuggling activity.
Integrated Drug and Contraband Interdiction: Trafficking in Transportation and Service Industries
The purpose of integrated drug and contraband interdiction operations is to target criminal organizations, groups, or gangs who transit illegal drugs throughout the United States by way of legitimate commercial transportation enterprises. The course deals with investigative methodologies that involve the detection and interdiction of illicit drugs and other contraband items (e.g., weapons, bulk currency, etc.) that flow through the nation’s transportation hubs (e.g., airports, commercial trains and buses, commercial parcel/package and freight shipping companies). Moreover, drug and contraband interdiction investigations are designed to disrupt and curtail illicit activities at hotels/motels, self-service storage facilities, and rental vehicle companies. Any activities that are directly related to illegal drug distribution and/or other contraband transactions that are reasonably deemed a threat to public safety and to the health of concerned citizens are targeted for further investigation.
The purpose of the course is for the student to obtain a basic overview of the terminology and concepts regarding use of force. The student will also obtain information concerning research indicating factors and situations where use of force may be likely.
Topics covered: • Legal Aspects of a Crime Scene Search • Preparing for a Crime Scene Investigation • Investigating a Crime Scene • Sketching and Photographing • Fingerprinting • Identification, Collection, and Preservation of Evidence • DNA Evidence • Specific Crime Scene Searches • Simulated Crime Scene • Computer and Other Electronic Evidence
Who should attend: Texas Peace Officers desiring Intermediate Proficiency Certification
Cost per attendee: $160.00 Attendees will need to bring to class: Laptop, Camera, Flashlight and USB Drive (at least 32GB)
Intermediate Incident Command System for Expanding Incidents, ICS 300
This course provides training on use of multiple resources for personnel who require application of the Incident Command System (ICS) during expanding incidents. This course expands upon information covered in the ICS-100 and ICS-200 courses.
Course Objectives: • Describe how the National Incident Management System (NIMS) Command and Management component supports the management of expanding incidents. • Describe the Incident/Event Management process for supervisors and expanding incidents as prescribed by the Incident Command System (ICS). • Implement the Incident Management process on a simulated Type 3 incident. • Develop an Incident Action Plan for a simulated incident.
Prerequisites & Other Information: Students will NOT be approved until all prerequisites have been UPLOADED to their preparingtexas.org transcript.
Cost: No tuition is charged. This Course is considered Local and TDEM will not pay any stipends to attend this course.
Note: Students requiring TCOLE credit must self-report completion of class.
The purpose of the course is for the student to obtain a basic overview of the terminology and concepts regarding use of force. The student will also obtain information concerning research indicating factors and situations where use of force may be likely.
Many organizations manufacturing and distributing illicit narcotics within the United States are specially trained to evade and deceive law enforcement officers when questioned. Gathering information from the lowest level dealer and then turning the information into action is the most effective means of infiltrating higher levels of drug networks and is successful in curbing the flow of drugs. Gathering accurate and predictive information through interviews and interrogations increases the success rates of identifying new targets and prosecution. This course is designed to enable federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement professionals to enhance their ability to gain information and determine the truth about illicit narcotics activity through the interview and interrogation process. It teaches specialized skills that enable detection of deception through non-verbal and verbal communication with both theory and practical application.
Topics Included • Personality typology theme development • Competitive examination (exercise) • Gathering data • Detecting deception • Systematic interviewing • The interrogation process • Formulation and types of questions • Body language for the interrogator • Effective use of territory and zones
Internal Affairs Administrative Investigation and Officer Discipline
This two-and-a-half-day course covers the “Nuts and Bolts” of Internal Affairs (IA) Investigations, Criminal and Administrative sections, along with public-initiated and department-initiated complaints.
This course will also conduct Mock IA case studies review and adjudication of real-world cases. This course is designed for IA investigators, whether sworn or civilian, correctional supervisors, and first-line supervisors that are involved in the internal affairs process, manage a professional standards office, or are tasked with conducting personnel complaint investigations. The process for managing and investigating complaints against law enforcement personnel is becoming increasingly complex, and the public expectation is timely, thorough, and fact-based investigations that support the adjudicative findings. This program will provide participants with national best practices along with experience-based insights in order to conduct simple to complex internal affairs investigations. Attendees will have a thorough understanding of the different types of Internal Affairs interviews and the Garrity Warning and how it is used.
Introduction to Communication Technologies for Law Enforcement
This course introduces students to the basic understanding of communication technologies. The instructor utilizes lectures to describe cellphone communication architecture, cell phone geolocation, IP address, online communication, and strategies in analyzing communication. Students will learn how to read, analyze, and interpret communication data and be informed of the latest updates on iOS/ Android that could affect LE investigation. This course is for those little or no experience/understanding in how certain communication technology works. Upon course completion, students will have a better understanding of how different types of communication technology work and some ideas for improving their performance as a LE officer when handling and investigatying communication devices.
Introduction to Intelligence is specifically developed to provide criminal justice and military personnel with a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental concepts, processes and disciplines associated with modern law enforcement criminal intelligence. This introductory course addresses intelligence matters, primarily from a broader operational point of view in order to more effectively carry out the national and international counterdrug mission of disrupting, disabling, and/or dismantling drug markets, traffickers, networks, financiers, terrorists, and all conspirators who aid and abet them.
The training focuses on a disciplined, systematic process for transforming raw information into useful and timely intelligence, known as the intelligence cycle. The training explores each component of the intelligence cycle, from target identification and selection, data collection, evaluation, collation, analysis, to proper documentation and dissemination. A more protracted perspective is emphasized, allowing for the examination of the behavior and activities of the conspiratorial from the stage of the initial planning, through the crime act, up to and including the flow of finances derived from the criminal activity. The broader perspective and process (intelligence cycle) enhances the ability to identify both the obvious, as well as the conspiratorial relationships common amongst street gangs, drug dealers, retailers, wholesalers, importers, and the numerous others linked to the trafficking networks.
The use of various skills, tools, techniques, disciplines and proven intelligence methods, both manual and electronic, will be discussed. Numerous computerized resources to conduct open source gathering, data mining, research, data management and research and networking will also be discussed and demonstrated, supporting the whole-of-government approach in networking, sharing, and fostering intelligence missions. A combination of criminal justice, military and corporate resources will be discussed and demonstrated.
● What data is available from cell phone companies, including records of phone calls, geographic data, text messages, multimedia messages, voicemails, and Internet data such as emails, web traffic, and IP data? ● What data is available on the physical cell phone devices themselves and important considerations for all first responders? ● Introduction to how law enforcement typically uses the data, ● Introduction on how to interpret, analyze, map, surveil, archive, and present this extremely valuable data that exists in essentially EVERY criminal investigation conducted, ● What real-time surveillances may be conducted on cellular telephones, including traps and traces, pen registers, geolocations, and intercepts known as “wiretaps?”, ● Detailed introduction to the geographic data that is available from cell phones, and, how to map this data with inexpensive tools along with important considerations regarding the courtroom presentations of cell phone data, and, ● Introduction to important legal considerations regarding accessing and utilizing cell phone data, and, where the field is headed and how will it impact law enforcement
Investigating Cases of Child Homicide and Unexplained Deaths of Children
Course Overview: This two day training is designed for law enforcement (homicide and death investigators), coroner/medical examiner investigators (medicolegal death investigators) and those in the child protection field. The instruction will comprehensively examine all aspects of responding to and investigating cases of child homicide and unexplained deaths of children, either through accidental causes or those committed by parents, family members, caretakers, or others. Actual case studies will be presented to emphasize teaching points and to provide practical exercises for the participant discussions.
Investigating Citizen Complaints & Officer Misconduct for Supervisors
Description
1. Attendees will learn about the impact of internal investigations on an officer’s conduct and ethical decision-making.
2. Attendees will learn strategies and concepts to improve citizen complaint investigations.
3. Attendees will learn the differences between performance matters and serious misconduct and the supervisor’s role in handling such incidents.
4. To inform the attendees of the importance of an open, unbiased and responsive complaint intake process and its impact on the process.
5. To review recruitment and hiring concepts for citizen complaint review boards.
6. To define different types of personnel investigations involving internal reviews of alleged misconduct.
7. To acquaint attendees regarding the interviewing techniques associated with internal investigations.
8. The attendee will learn the differences in interviewing civilians, witness officers, and subject employees. To inform the attendees of union contract rights and Law Enforcement Officer Bill of Rights and their applicability to internal complaints/investigations.
9. To inform attendees about the constitutional limitations of taking compelled statements from public employees and/or regarding work-place searches in both the administrative and criminal settings; provide recommendations for agency policy/practices.
10. To acquaint the attendees with the Weingarten Doctrine, regarding the right to union representation, and its applicability to employees about potential misconduct matters.
11. To acquaint the attendees about the benefits of Early Intervention Systems as well as other effective proactive measures that can reduce incidents of misconduct within their agencies.
12. To inform the attendees about their personal exposure and liabilities for failing to effectively manage and investigate their personnel.
Investigating Internal Affairs, Citizen Complaints and Officer Discipline
This course covers the “Nuts and Bolts” of Internal Affairs (IA) Investigations, Criminal and Administrative sections, along with public initiated and department-initiated complaints. This course is designed for IA investigators, whether sworn or civilian, correctional supervisors, and first-line supervisors that are involved in the internal affairs process, manage a professional standards office, or are tasked with conducting personnel complaint investigations. The process for managing and investigating complaints against law enforcement personnel are becoming increasingly complex and the public expectation is timely, thorough, and fact-based investigations that supports the adjudicative findings. This program will provide participants with national best practices along with experience-based insights in order to conduct simple to complex internal affairs investigations.
Be prepared for the street! This essential training combines Emergency Vehicle Operations for bike officers with patrol procedures, tactics, night operations, mock scenes, and basic bike maintenance and on-the-road repairs. Learn to ride like a pro, avoid crashes, and use your bike to foil the bad guys every time. Off-road riding and bike-specific live-fire exercises may be added at the instructor’s discretion.
Event Schedule/Agenda: Monday- Friday with Wednesday being the low light a.m. ride (40 hours). Day 1 will be at 8 a.m. subsequent days will have a start time to be determined by instructor.
Prerequisites: Law enforcement officer; basic bicycle-handling skills; good physical condition.
Required Equipment:
Reputable manufacturer public safety bicycle in good working order, properly fitted.
Protect your beat! This course is designed for non-law enforcement security personnel who patrol a wide array of facilities. It produces confident, competent, and effective personnel who operate in a safe manner and reduce departmental liability. Learn how to ride like a pro, avoid crashes, and safely and effective patrol all corners of your beat. The course includes night operations, mock scenes, basic maintenance, and patrol procedures. Off-road riding may be added at the instructor’s discretion.
Event Schedule/Agenda: A three-day coursewith the second day being the low light a.m. ride(24 hours). Day 1 will be at 8 a.m. subsequent days will have a start time to be determined by instructor.
The K-9 Drug Detection Enhancement course is designed for the advanced training of Drug Detector Dog and Handler Teams, which will improve the teams' search ability and help them become both more effective and efficient. Practical exercises will include a variety of buildings and vehicles.
Supervisors (without dogs) are welcome to attend. This will help supervisors without prior handling experience to better understand the ability of the narcotic dog team and what is and is not possible.
Selection and training of drug detecting dogs
Search strategies and patterns
Theory of odor dispersion
Setting up training aid containers
Vehicular contraband concealment
Training records
Canine drives and communication
Case law
Course Length
K-9 Drug Detection Enhancement is a 4 Day (32 Hour) course.
Prerequisites
K-9 team MUST have a prior drug detection certification. This certification may be from any certifying entity. Proof of certification must be provided prior to the start of the class and may be emailed or faxed to our office.
Tuition Fee:FREE
***Registration Link for K-9 Handler:
***If you are a student attending without a K-9, please use the following link:
This course is the only training designed specifically for law enforcement and the grants that they will pursue. It emphasizes a systematic approach to grant preparation, including the collection and organization of agency data, proactive grant opportunity identification, grant announcement dissection, and structured writing. High quality state and federal grant application examples are presented in this course.
Body Worn Camera is a recording device that is capable of recording, or transmitting to be recorded remotely, video or audio, and is worn on the person of a peace officer, which includes being attached to the officer’s clothing or worn as glasses. This purpose of this course is for the student to be able to discuss when a camera should be activated due to privacy and departmental situations as well as a location in which a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, including a person’s home.
This course will teach the student the circumstances in which a search can be conducted without a search warrant. Not every search, seizure, or arrest must be made pursuant to a lawfully executed warrant. The Supreme Court has ruled that warrantless police conduct may comply with the Fourth Amendment so long as it is reasonable under the circumstances. The exceptions made to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement reflect the Court's reluctance to unduly impede the job of law enforcement officials.
Leadership Development for Law Enforcement Professionals
STC in partnership with the Caruth Police Institute is offering this course to patrol officers, senior corporals, detectives, and federal agents. The two-week course (80 hrs.) is intended for those who wish to develop their leadership skills as informal leaders or as they seek eventual promotion to supervisory/executive ranks. The course includes an emphasis on followership; communication; conflict resolution; personal health and wellness; financial wellness; career development; 21st Century Law Enforcement; procedural justice; and the future of policing.
A 40 hour course based on the "Developing Leaders" course concepts, modified for FTOS. Focuses on Leadership Methods to increase trainee motivation and success by coaching.
All proceeds benefit the Texas Police Chiefs Association Foundation.
The LWLE is a training program designed to explore challenges for women in the law enforcement profession. Participation is gender-neutral, and FLETC encourages all interested persons to participate. This program will proactively foster and support inclusiveness while facilitating open, candid discussions and activities to develop leadership skills, improve resiliency, and foster understanding about challenges that a female law enforcement officer may encounter. Competency areas include understanding and adapting to human behaviors, communication skills, team building, decision-making, gender differences, and emotional intelligence. While communicating life and work-related experiences, participants will develop themselves and others through lecture, labs, role play, case studies, and self-directed learning. Topics and questions will be selected by participants for a group of diverse law enforcement executives who will lead a round table discussion. One on one instructor led counseling will be available upon request to support growth and improvement in emotional intelligence.
The Less Lethal Instructor Program provides the necessary training for a changing world. This course is comprised for four 8-hour instructor-level classes covering OC Aerosols, Impact Munitions, Chemical Munitions and Distraction Device®️ Munitions. The student will acquire instructor level knowledge of Defense Technology®️ products, both technically and tactically, along with the skills necessary to conduct in-service training.
M.A.P.P. Training (Motel, Airport, Parking Lot & Parcel Interdiction)
This course will discuss and provide in-depth details on the common criminal trends and smuggling tactics used at these facilities and locations. The student will be educated on why and how drug trafficking organizations are exploiting major courier services to engage upon and operate their illegal businesses. Students will focus on how to initiate a thorough investigation at a hotel/motel, from establishing sources of information and common tactics to effecting an arrest and further court proceedings. If you have a hotel in your area, this is going to be a huge eye opener for you.
This course will provide officers with the tools and available resources to establish their own parcel interdiction program. The amount of US currency being shipped through all major courier services is astounding. Simple techniques and investigations being used at locations like UPS store fronts have yielded extremely large seizures of contraband and confiscated US currency. The forfeited and seized monies can then be used to fund continued crime fighting efforts. Students will be provided with example search warrants to aid them in opening, searching, and seizing the parcel after probable cause has been established. Vaccaro provides detailed training, using many visual resources to ensure that the student has a very practical skillset to implement immediately. As always, the methodology is legal and utilized by law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. We will provide legal direction to ensure that the attendee has a very thorough understanding of law and case law compliance.
Master Presentations with Canva (#38704 is an 8-hour Instructor Development Course to assist instructors with new ideas and ways to present in the classroom. Instructional media is a tool used by teachers (instructors) to explain material in the classroom, which is anything that can be used to stimulate learners’ thoughts, attention, and feelings, to encourage the learning process. This course will cover basic information on how to use Canva. Canva makes designing beautiful creative assets easy for everyone. From social media images, videos and gifs to posters, websites, booklets, multimedia presentations, and a lot more. Canva is an invaluable tool for helping you level up your design skills, even if you’re just getting started.
Course Description The MCTC Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opiates course will increase the student’s ability and skills to correctly - and successfully through safety protocols - identify, detect and seize synthetic opiates.
Topics Covered • Overview of the history of opiates and synthetic opiates • Synthetic opiate recognition and variances (types) • Officer and public safety concerns • Opiate user recognition • Synthetic opiate paraphernalia and lab recognition • Regulatory handling requirements for synthetic opiates • Naloxone/Narcan employment
MCTC- Introduction to Intelligence for Law Enforcement
Course Description:
Introduction to Intelligence is specifically developed to provide criminal justice and military personnel with a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental concepts, processes and disciplines associated with modern law enforcement criminal intelligence. This introductory course addresses intelligence matters, primarily from a broader operational point of view in order to more effectively carry out the national and international counterdrug mission of disrupting, disabling, and/or dismantling drug markets, traffickers, networks, financiers, terrorists, and all conspirators who aid and abet them. The training focuses on a disciplined, systematic process for transforming raw information into useful and timely intelligence, known as the intelligence cycle. The training explores each component of the intelligence cycle, from target identification and selection, data collection, evaluation, collation, analysis, to proper documentation and dissemination. A more protracted perspective is emphasized, allowing for the examination of the behavior and activities of the conspiratorial from the stage of the initial planning, through the crime act, up to and including the flow of finances derived from the criminal activity. The broader perspective and process (intelligence cycle) enhances the ability to identify both the obvious, as well as the conspiratorial relationships common amongst street gangs, drug dealers, retailers, wholesalers, importers, and the numerous others linked to the trafficking networks. The use of various skills, tools, techniques, disciplines and proven intelligence methods, both manual and electronic, will be discussed. Numerous computerized resources to conduct open source gathering, data mining, research, data management and research and networking will also be discussed and demonstrated, supporting the whole-of-government approach in networking, sharing, and fostering intelligence missions. A combination of criminal justice, military and corporate resources will be discussed and demonstrated.
Topics Included:
• Criminal Intelligence Fundamentals • The Intelligence Cycle and Intelligence-Led Policing • Focus on Crime, Criminals, Threats, Patterns, Trends, & Modus Operandi • Conspiratorial Relationships...Organizational Structure, Networks & Associations • Awareness of Ethnic Criminals, Transnational Networks, and National Security Threats • Identifying and Targeting the Drug Nexus • Intelligence: Types and Applications (Statistical, Tactical, Operational & Strategic) • Operational Intelligence in Support of Criminal Investigations
• Collection of Data: Criteria, Techniques, Covert & Overt Methods • Covert Collection Operations • Financial Data Collection...Follow the Money • Techniques & Methodologies for Refuse Collection, Analysis & Storage • Considerations for Electronic Collection • Focus on Communications Collection: Telephonic, E-mails, Text Messages • Human Intelligence (HUMINT) • Computerized Intelligence Aids and Resources • Open Source Research / Data Mining • Exploring Intelligence Aids, Resources & Assistance • Partnerships: Criminal Justice, Government, Military, & Corporate • Logical Data Management Goals and Techniques • Collation: Data Organization & Management Techniques • Graphic Data Management: Typology & Methodology • Financial Analysis Data Collection and Techniques • The Initial Analytical Function • Legal: Ethics, Case Law and Criteria for Data Collection • Safeguards of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments Useful Intelligence: Counterdrug Related Briefings
MGT 384 - Community Preparedness for Cyber Incidents
Community Preparedness for Cyber Incidents is designed to provide organizations and communities with strategies and processes to increase cyber resilience. During this 12 hour course, participants will analyze cyber threats and initial and cascading impacts of cyber incidents, evaluate the process for developing a cyber preparedness program, examine the importance and challenges of cyber related information sharing and discover low to no cost resources to help build cyber resilience.
The purpose of the Mental Health Officer course is to further inform and educate the officer in the area of mental health and issues pertaining to serving as a mental health officer, to include advanced crisis intervention training.
Prerequisites for class participation:
Completion of Basic Crisis Intervention Training, Course # 3841 or 3842; or Basic Peace Officer Course 1000 after January 2005.
Prerequisites for Mental Health Officer Proficiency Certification:
Currently appointed as a peace officer, county jailer or justice of the peace;
At least two years’ experience as a peace officer, county jailer, or justice of the peace;
If not currently a commissioned peace officer or county jailer, an applicant must meet the current enrollment standards;
If an applicant is a commissioned peace officer or county jailer, an applicant must not ever have had a license or certificate issued by the commission suspended or revoked;
If an applicant is a commissioned peace officer or county jailer, an applicant must have met the continuing education requirements for the previous training cycle;
Successful completion of a training course in emergency first aid and lifesaving techniques (Red Cross or equivalent); and
Successful completion of the current mental health peace officer training course, pass the approved written examination for mental health officer proficiency, with a score of 80% or better, and pass the skills-based exam with a grade of satisfactory.
To gain an understanding of mental impairments and their impact within the jail system. To gain an understanding of constructive techniques utilized when communicating in a time of crisis in a jail setting.
This course is intended as an introduction to issues related to responding to and investigating missing and exploited children cases. The participant will be able to determine specific steps to take upon receiving a report of a missing child while considering factors such as child history, individuals at the scene, evidence collection, search procedure and available resources. The participant will be able to differentiate when reporting youth runaway cases is legally required as well as correlate youth runaway populations and risks for potential harm or exploitation. The participant will be able to identify risks posed to children for sexual exploitation, potential offenses related to child sexual exploitation, and grooming techniques commonly used by offenders.
Training provided through the Northeast Counterdrug Training Academy ("NCTC"). Hosted by the South Texas College/Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence and South Texas HIDTA. Tuition FREE (Travel and meals not included)
Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations are impacting communities in nearly every city in the United States. This problem can no longer be viewed as a “Border Issue.” The majority of the drugs distributed and consumed in the U.S. originate in Mexico. The cartel leaders have strategically formed relationships with American street gangs to flood the streets with illicit drugs. In an effort to aggressively target drug trafficking organizations, local law enforcement officers need to gain a better understanding of the true structure and operational components of the Cartels and how the Mexican drug war impacts local cities in the U.S. on a daily basis. This training course will teach local law enforcement officers how to identify, target, infiltrate, and prosecute Mexican drug trafficking organizations operating in their cities. All police officers, regardless of assignment, will benefit from this training. Gaining a true understanding of the “Drug Trafficking Pyramid” will lead to more arrests as well as larger seizures of drugs, currency, and assets.
**NOTE 1: This course is restricted to local, tribal, state, federal, and US military law enforcement personnel along with other civilian law enforcement employees to include intelligence and crime analysts, correctional and probation/parole officers.
**NOTE 2: Pls follow all guidelines for outside training set by your Department before enrolling in any STX HIDTA class.
Law enforcement in the United States recognizes the drug-related overdose and death epidemic affecting every state in the country. Fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, ecstasy, and combinations of these drugs supplied by illicit manufacturers have contributed to a surge of narcotic related offenses.
This course has been developed with the intent of providing law enforcement officers with problem-solving procedures that can assist agencies and organizations address the drug problems that impact their cities, counties, and states. As the drug epidemic continues to grow in intensity, police agencies will need to implement narcotics enforcement that identifies problems, selects and deploys personnel, and provides the procedural techniques needed to be successful. This course outlines the investigative methodology needed for drug enforcement.
This course is designed for patrol officers, narcotics officers, supervisors, and command personnel.
TEEX NIMS/ICS–300 Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents - Mid Valley Campus
The NIC recommends that all mid-level management personnel should take ICS-300. The course material is specific to personnel who will be serving in the following positions: command staff, section chiefs, strike team leaders, task force leaders, unit leaders, division/group supervisors, branch directors, and multi-agency coordination system/emergency operations center staff. Federal, State, territory, tribal or local agency/organization/jurisdiction reserve the right to make the final decision as to who should complete this course.
TEEX NIMS/ICS–300 Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents - Starr Campus
The NIC recommends that all mid-level management personnel should take ICS-300. The course material is specific to personnel who will be serving in the following positions: command staff, section chiefs, strike team leaders, task force leaders, unit leaders, division/group supervisors, branch directors, and multi-agency coordination system/emergency operations center staff. Federal, State, territory, tribal or local agency/organization/jurisdiction reserve the right to make the final decision as to who should complete this course.
NIMS G-300 Intermediate Incident Command System for Expanding Incidents
This one and a half day course provides training and resources for personnel who require advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS). The course expands upon information covered in the ICS-100 through ICS-300 courses. Earn TCOLE credit hours. (21hrs)
Schedule: April 27-28, 8am - 5pm April 29, 8am - 12pm
$0 Tuition
Prerequisites & Other Information:
Students will NOT be approved until all prerequisites have been UPLOADED to their preparingtexas.org transcript. These courses are the following:
IS-100.c, Introduction to the Incident Command System, ICS-100
IS-200.c, Incident Command System for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents
IS-700.b, National Incident Management System, An Introduction
IS-800.c, National Response Framework, An Introduction
It is recommended that students have actual experience using concepts and principles from ICS-100 and ICS-200 in a response or exercise.
TEEX NIMS/ICS–400 Advanced ICS for Complex Incidents - Mid Valley Campus
The NIC recommends that all command and general staff personnel should take ICS-400. The course material is specific to personnel who will be serving in the following positions: command or general staff in an ICS organization, select department heads with multi-agency coordination system responsibilities, area commanders, emergency managers, and multi-agency coordination system/emergency operations center managers. Federal, State, territory, tribal or local agency/organization/ jurisdiction reserve the right to make the final decision as to who should complete this course.
TEEX NIMS/ICS–400 Advanced ICS for Complex Incidents - Starr Campus
The NIC recommends that all command and general staff personnel should take ICS-400. The course material is specific to personnel who will be serving in the following positions: command or general staff in an ICS organization, select department heads with multi-agency coordination system responsibilities, area commanders, emergency managers, and multi-agency coordination system/emergency operations center managers. Federal, State, territory, tribal or local agency/organization/ jurisdiction reserve the right to make the final decision as to who should complete this course.
NIMS G-400 Advanced Incident Command System, Command and General Staff
Schedule: April 29, 1pm - 5pm April 30 8am - 5pm
$0 Tuition TCOLE Credit Hours (15hrs)
Prerequisites & Other Information:
Students will NOT be processed until all prerequisites have been UPLOADED to their preparingtexas.org transcript. You may enroll in the Advanced ICS class at the same time you enroll in the intermediate class if they are back to back. These courses are the following:
IS-100.c, Introduction to the Incident Command System, ICS-100
IS-200.b, Incident Command System for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents
IS-700.b, National Incident Management System, An Introduction
IS-800.c, National Response Framework, An Introduction
G300, Intermediate Incident Command System for Expanding Incidents
It is the purpose of this in-depth course to examine the investigative best practices for the modern world, providing a standardized and systematic approach to use-of-force investigations. An investigative model specific to use-of-force and officer-involved shooting incidents is presented, including example checklists, templates, forms, reports and policies that can be put to immediate use by your agency. The information presented is current and relevant to today’s technological advances and political climate, including instruction on the implications of social media; analysis of video recordings (body and dash cam, cell phone, surveillance, etc.); managing media and public relation concerns; legal considerations; crime scene processing and reconstruction; and the benefits of incorporating 3D scans and overhead drone footage to visually present the findings of your investigation to all interested parties in a manner more easily understood. At the conclusion of this training, attendees will be equipped with the knowledge, skills and confidence necessary to appropriately investigate and document any use-of-force incident, including those resulting in serious bodily injury or death.
Registration Fee: $650.00 Includes training materials and a Certificate of Completion.
The purpose of this course is to provide attendees with investigative knowledge that is applicable to all law enforcement involved uses of force (lethal and less lethal, hits or non-hits) and in-custody death investigations, regardless of the size of their department, and whether the incident occurred on or off duty. Law Enforcement officer-involved use of force investigations require a unique skill set that is gained through training and experience. The stakes for the involved officers and the departments are so high that it is imperative that the investigations be conducted using industry standards that seek to find the truth of the matter and never compromise investigative integrity. This course will provide those in attendance with the knowledge, skills, and investigative protocols necessary to handle any law enforcement use of force and in-custody death investigations.
Course Overview Drug-related overdose cases are increasing at an alarming rate across the United States. From the heroin epidemic to the fentanyl crisis, communities are experiencing the deadly effects of illicit drugs. Unfortunately, criminals that often supply the drugs that cause the overdoses, often evade prosecution.
One of the primary challenges for law enforcement officers assigned to conduct overdose death investigations is the lack of cooperation from witnesses and/or the victim if he or she is not deceased. As a result, these cases are rarely prosecuted.
Successful overdose death investigations rely on a comprehensive strategy to target all those responsible for the death. Using conspiracy laws as well as homicide laws, investigators across the United States have had success in bringing justice for the families of the victims.
This training course is designed to equip law enforcement officers with the tools necessary to successfully conduct and prosecute drug-related overdose death cases.
Topics Covered
Opioid Crisis
Primary Drugs Causing Overdoses
Federal Drug Conspiracy Laws
Treating as Homicide Investigations
Toxicology Overview
Processing/Securing the Crime Scene
Challenges/Interviews/Lack of Cooperation
Proactive Investigations
Course Length Overdose Death Investigations is a 1 day (8 hour) course.
Prerequisites There are no prerequisites to attend this course
Participants enrolling in this course must complete the following courses prior to attendance:
Basic Patrol Rifle #3322 or Basic S.W.A.T. #3301
Basic Instructor #1014
Firearms Instructor Certification #2222
Ammunition Requirements:
1,500 rounds for patrol rifle, No armor-piercing, AP, green tip, or incendiary rounds
300 rounds for semi-automatic handgun
Performance Requirements: You will be required to shoot 2 courses of fire on the first day with a minimum of 90% (2 attempts). If you are unable to achieve 90%, then you will not be allowed to participate in the course at this time. You will not be able to zero before the qualifications and you will qualify with only the weapon you bring to class. No rifle sharing.
(3 rounds inthe green = 90% / 4 rounds in the green = fail)
Any rounds off of the silhouette are an automatic disqualification.
Any rounds not fired within time are counted as misses.
Tuition: $85 Please know that tuition must be paid before the first day of class
Please bring Elbow & Knee Pads along with plenty of water.
People. Pressure. Personality. Understanding emotional intelligence and psychological safety.
Adaptability Determines Survivability.
The student will learn the benefits of and Importance of emotional Intelligence and psychological safety. The student will learn and commit to practicing the key behaviors that cultivate psychological safety. Additionally, the student will recognize that their capacity to consistently perform these behaviors is directly impacted by their Mindset, which they will be able recognize and know which Mindset to bring to the given moment. Finally, they will know that all of this is possible through deepening their levels of self-awareness, others awareness, and intentionality-which they will gain a deeper awareness of through the utilization of tools, exercises, coaching, and peer-to-peer support.
TCOLE #3010
Pre-Requisite: A link will be sent to each student to complete a confidential, online assessment prior to the training date. The assessment results are confidential and will only be used by the student during the training.
Personnel Selection: An I/O Psychology Approach to Hiring and Promotion
This course is designed to enhance participants’ knowledge of scientifically valid and legally defensible hiring and promotional processes.
Topics covered include: • How Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment apply to personnel decisions • Case law related to personnel decisions and practices • Adverse impact • Predicting work performance • The role of assessments in hiring and promotion • Structured interviews
This course is eligible for 3 hours TCOLE credit (#3757)
Physical Surveillance for Counternarcotic Missions
Course Description:
Physical surveillance is conducted in numerous types of counternarcotics operations from controlled buys and pattern-of-life intelligence collection, to cross-border operations on the national Southwest and Northern borders. This course focuses on physical surveillance skills, equipment, and adaptability necessary to become proficient at conducting surveillance on narcotics related activities through a variety of terrain. During this course, students will learn to develop tactical operation plans, surveillance reports, deconfliction procedures, suspect apprehensions and takedown techniques, surviving confrontation situations, and circumventing counter-surveillance operations. Student officers will learn to operate in task force situations through multiple jurisdictions.
Students will be immersed in actual surveillance operations conducting surveillance solo and in team scenarios. Surveillance methodologies will stress and test officer safety, efficiency, and adaptability through various settings. One day of classroom instruction will be followed by four days of immersion into real surveillance operations.
If possible, students should bring vehicles to be used in the practical portions of the class. Each vehicle must be properly registered and insured. Each department-authorized vehicle must have a letter from the department stating that the student has permission to use the car for surveillance operations during the course. Students without access to a vehicle will be paired with other students.
Topics Included:
Developing tactical operation plans, surveillance reports, and deconfliction procedures
Suspect apprehension and takedown techniques
Survival in confrontational situations
Learning to operate in task force situations through multiple jurisdictions
Course Length Physical Surveillance for Counternarcotic Missions is a 5 day (40 hour) course. Please note that daily start/end times will shift to accommodate nighttime training scenarios.
Prerequisites There are no prerequisites to attend this course.
Tuition Fee: FREE (Travel and meals not included)
*NOTE: Due to the extensive practical exercises that are a part of this course, the class size is limited to 28 attendees.
This course is designed for first responders with little to no medical experience and is presented in an easy-to-learn format, ensuring students retain the information for use when it is critically needed. This training is essential for law enforcement officers of all ranks.
Course Objective:
The objective of this course is providing essential critical wound care at the point of injury and increasing survivability for first responders, while allowing them to “stay in the fight.” Certified tactical medics with years of experience “down range” will teach students comprehension of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), including:
Priority of actions required prior to providing essential emergency medical care
Performance of the MARCH rapid trauma assessment protocol
Recognition and control of bleeding from an extremity through proper application of tourniquets
Control of hemorrhagic bleeding through the use of hemostatic gauze
Proper opening, clearing, and maintaining of airways
Assessment and treatment of a penetrating chest wound
This comprehensive 3-day course teaches background investigators the basic techniques and procedures for conducting pre-employment background investigations of new public safety employees. Attendees will be provided with sample forms, background packets, policy and procedures, release of liability waivers and background investigation manuals for department use.
Practical Kinesic Interview and Interrogation Phase I and II
Practical Kinesic Interview & Interrogation® is a training program that teaches multi-phase behavioral analysis and tactical interrogation methods using advanced kinesic interview and interrogation theories. The course is designed to help interviewers maximize their ability to gain valuable information as quickly and efficiently as possible. The two phases encompassing all the courses that make up Practical Kinesic Interview & Interrogation® training programs includes the Practical Kinesic Analysis Phase and the Tactical Interrogation Phase.
Transporting suspects may be the most dangerous work officers perform, and it often involves minimal resources. The potential danger to officers, civilians and the suspect themselves is substantial.
This class will sharpen the skills of those who transport arrestees and prisoners between locations, including street, correctional, probation, and court officers. Participants will explore all aspects of transportation, included legal considerations, best practices for restraints, and optimal responses to hazardous situations. They will also receive material to help them comply with FAA/TSA regulations for armed transport on aircraft.
Public Safety - First Response to Mass Casualty/Active Shooter Incidents
A comprehensive look at effective emergency management strategies and tactics in mutual aide, unified command, and area command scenarios.
Understand the history of national and international mass casualty incidents and their impact on the strategies, sub-strategies and tactics employed by first responders
Learn the importance of employing elements of the National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) in critical incidents
Gain knowledge necessary for establishing unified command and area command in mutual aid response scenarios
Learn the importance of emergency response planning, the development of command posts, staging areas, camps, bases, helispots, heliport, casualty collection points/areas, and evacuation corridors.
RADAR is an important and effective means of accurately establishing vehicle speed. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) believes that police traffic RADAR is an effective enforcement tool. Police traffic RADAR provides a means of increasing enforcement effectiveness and permits police administrators to make better use of scarce personnel and costly fuel. Research shows that excessive speed is a major contributing factor to motor vehicle crashes. Further, excessive speed increases the severity of the crashes that do occur.
Bring your own handheld RADAR device or vehicle RADAR mounted system
The goal of all police work is to protect the lives, property, safety, and well-being of the public. Traffic law enforcement is no exception. Research shows that excessive speed is a major contributing factor to motor vehicle crashes. Further, excessive speed increases the severity of the crashes that do occur.
The overall goal of this course is to improve the effectiveness of speed enforcement through the proper and efficient use of police traffic RADAR speed measurement instruments. Every officer who successfully completed this course will become a better instructor and enforcer of the traffic laws governing vehicle speed.
This course meets Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) requirements RADAR Course #2054.
The purpose of this course is that the officer will be able to identify the legal aspects of racial profiling, be able to identify logical and social arguments against racial profiling and be able to identify the elements of both inappropriate and appropriate traffic stops.
Successful recruiting of police applicants is dependent on the ability of an agency to advertise their openings, generate interest in the job that is available and then to develop a more personalized contact with the potential employee to make them feel welcome and wanted at the agency.
This course provides methods for creating more personalized contacts with police applicants in an effort to get them to engage the hiring process. This is a very challenging environment in which agencies are working to hire the best employees while competing against each other in the law enforcement labor market. This course will provide best practice information in the field of recruiting while outlining effective approaches to attract new candidates.
The 3 day (500rd) TCOLE Red Dot Handgun Instructor course is designed around current TCOLE Firearms Instructors who are already familiar with Red Dot Sight equipped pistols. This course is designed by a veteran TCOLE instructor to insure that instruction, implementation, policy and program development will successfully withstand any vetting processes.
Course Prerequisites:
Hold a TCOLE Peace Officer License
Course Fee is $600.00.
Course location: Hidalgo County Sheriff's Academy 711 E. El Cibolo Rd. Edinburg, Texas
Please go to registration link for more information in regards to Equipment List and Registration Process.
Reid Investigative Interview and Advanced Interrogation
This 4-day program is our most comprehensive program on the Reid Technique. We have integrated all of our material from our standard three day program and our one day advanced program into a single presentation to give participants a complete presentation of the Reid Technique in a single seminar.
The purpose of the course is for the student to understand the importance of and the creation of effective field notes and the uses and essential characteristics of police reports. The student will demonstrate effective written communication skills. The course will prepare the student to be an effective courtroom witness and demonstrate proper demeanor when called to testify by using techniques for presenting effective testimony.
Responding to Veterans and Police Officers in Crisis
This class will prepare your officers to better respond to veterans while making themselves more resilient. Combat veterans and police officers have similar lifetime rates of conditions like PTSD, and a resilient police department is the best way to prepare to respond to veterans.
Understand the difficulties veterans face in the transition home
Understand how PTSD develops and manifests itself in veterans
Understand how to defuse threatening situations with veterans
Understand why resilient officers better respond to veterans in distress
Create a culture of resiliency and pro-active community awareness of veteran's issues
Investigate the connection between suicide, PTSD, and the traumas of service
Better understand the mindset of a veteran whose head is still on the battlefield
Learn tools for helping veterans and first responders make healthy transitions from conditions of trauma
Create a culture of resiliency and pro-active community awareness of veteran and first responder issues
Learn and use simple peer support tools that can be used in your department and your community
Resilience and 21st Century Law Enforcement Skills
Course is divided in three sections earning a total of 24 hrs. You may attend a class individually (8 hrs each) Below are the cost per course
Part 1 (Resilience) November 12 8:00am-5:00pm Cost: $250.00
The 21st century law enforcement officer navigates hazardous and complex situations on a daily basis, and they do so in the presence of unprecedented levels of public scrutiny. In the digital era, some members of the general public record, or live stream, their interactions with law enforcement officers with the intent of publishing these interactions on social networking sites. This one day course will use the principles of HeartMath’s Resilience Advantage to provide students with skills to regulate their physiological responses to stressful situations. Students will learn about the four resiliency domains, and will also learn about the synergy between these resilience domains that lead to coherent heart rhythms. This class will discuss how the body’s nervous system causes physiological changes in response to stress, and students learn how to mitigate the stress response to respond decisively and effectively in the face of adversity
Part 2 (De- Escalation) November 13 8:00am-5:00pm Cost: $225.00
This course examines the most common pathway the police use to increase citizen perceptions of legitimacy. This course will familiarize the students with strategies and techniques on de-escalation within the law enforcement and family community. This pathway is through the use of the following:
Procedural Justice
Crisis Intervention Training
Verbal De-escalation
Students will further develop their understanding of the research that confirms when people perceive the police as legitimate, they are more likely to report higher levels of satisfaction and confidence in the police (both for individual officers and the institution), perceive the police as effective in their crime-control efforts, and are more willing to assist police and accept the manifest outcomes of an interaction with police (Tyler 2004). Police legitimacy thus engenders compliance, fosters cooperation, and improves citizen satisfaction with police, thus facilitating the capacity of police to maintain order and control crime.
Part 3 (Communication) November 14 8:00am-5:00pm Cost: $225.00
This course examines the elements of contemporary leadership and delineates the principles of communication that are important in the development of a leader for the 21st century. Emphasis is placed on how to overcome communication challenges and the skills you need to become a leader. This course provides students with the ability to inspire and build a team that produces not only results, but also future leaders.
The officers will be able to get familiarized with, child and adolescent development, psychology, mental health, and crisis Intervention, De-Escalation Techniques for limiting the use of force. Mental health and behavioral needs with children with disabilities or special needs and restorative practices and positive behavioral interventions.
School and Workplace Violence: Preparation and Response
COURSE OVERVIEW This is a specially designed course for law enforcement, school, and business professionals dealing with selected issues in preparing for and responding to incidents of mass violence. All participants will begin classroom instruction together; the law enforcement attendees and the school / business attendees will then separate for continued instruction along tracks suited to the roles of each group. All participants will reunite for the practical application to allow for integration of their respective roles during field exercises. Utilizing both lecture and facilitated learning techniques, the following topics will be among those covered: threat analysis, the application of physical security systems and procedures to incidents of mass violence, emergency plan development and assessment, and law enforcement response issues. It is expected that participants are familiar with basic concepts in these areas. Special emphasis will be given to lessons learned from past incidents.
This class is designed to walk officers through the process of writing a search warrant, search warrant affidavit and a search warrant return and covers the execution of search warrants and the problems associated with no-knock warrants, as well as, the proper procedure to not only write and execute warrants, but the ability to defend an executed search warrant in the court system. Attendee will be provided with a copy of the Texas District & County Attorney’s Association Warrants Manual. This manual includes a flash drive with sample warrants for most types of warrants an officer will encounter.
$490.00/Officer
AN EXERCISE WRITING A SEARCH WARRANT IS PART OF THE CLASS – PLEASE BRING A LAPTOP WITH A WORD PROCESSOR INSTALLED
This one-day course is intended as a review for Texas Law Enforcement Officers on how to detect a DUI offender (i.e. all applicable and recent case laws, all applicable and recent validation studies, current DUI trends, etc.) and administering the NHTSA Standardized Field Sobriety Tests – Walk and Turn (WAT), One Leg Stand (OLS) and Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN). Also, included in this training is updated information on “drugged driving” and current trends.
Instead of the standard lecture on what you cannot do when acting under the color of law, this class zeros directly in on ways of fulfilling law enforcement objectives in the face of the law’s constraints. Consisting of an interactive multi-media presentation designed to engage the students in thought and discussion with the instructor and each other while learning how to apply the Fourth Amendment to both basic and highly complex fact patterns. An absolutely essential class for personnel at all levels of law enforcement taught in a uniquely dynamic way.
This is a hands-on program that teaches and guides each participant through all armorer operations, step-by-step with the instructor. Active participation coupled with question and answer periods provide a supportive learning environment for maximum retention of the material. The course is also well suited for law enforcement armorers to design their agency's own maintenance and inspection program. A three (3) year certification is issued upon successful course completion.
Course Outline
Identification of SIG SAUER M400/AR15 rifle features
Examination of the M400/AR15 safety systems
Comprehension of rifle cycle of operation
Disassembly and assembly procedures of lower and upper receiver
Installation and adjustment procedures of sights
Implementation of inspection procedures
Troubleshooting methods
Performance of function checks
Application of acceptable maintenance methods
In order to receive a certificate of completion, students will attend 16 hours of training and pass a written test. Students will demonstrate proper disassembly, assembly, understanding of the operating systems, and proper parts replacement.
This two-day Social Media & Geofence Investigations course is designed to teach Law Enforcement Personnel how to legally utilize and exploit both Social Media intelligence and Geofence warrants in their current assignments. Students will be shown relevant and current case studies to reinforce some of the investigative techniques taught in the course. Students will learn the most current case law that allows them to use these techniques in their investigations. The investigative techniques taught in this class apply to Patrol Officers, Detectives, SRO’s, Dispatchers, Crime Analysts, etc.
Exercises for students to demonstrate proficiency. Students will be given a FREE list of investigative resources in the class and shown numerous free databases/resources during the class.
This dynamic and immersive training will focus on sovereign citizens and their rapidly increasing problematic contact with all forms of government, with a specific focus on interactions with law enforcement and criminal justice personnel. Basic awareness of this growing threat and how it will directly impact the daily duties and responsibilities of law enforcement and other government entities will be discussed at length. Attendees should expect a general “indoctrination” into the sovereign citizen movement to help further awareness, recognition and mitigation of this unconventional and bothersome problem.
The purpose of this course is for the student to be able to interpret the Spanish words and phrases that may signal danger as they are spoken within a conversation during a simulated response.
This course provide the officer an understanding of child abuse & neglect, family violence, sexual assault, and sex offender characteristics and those key changes within the different Texas Codes that may impact on their performance in these critical areas.
The purpose of the course is for the student will be updated on the bills passed that will have an impact on Texas law enforcers and review recent judicial decisions that are important for law enforcement officers, law enforcement administrators, and law enforcement policy makers. The training will provide the students with the necessary knowledge to perform their daily job tasks with competency and to continue to serve the public at a high level of performance.
Supervisors face a growing number of challenges in law enforcement today. Not only must they balance the responsibilities of providing qualified and competent employee performance for the community, but for the employees as well. One important step to ensure this is to create and maintain a professional work environment.
Unfortunately, there are employees who intentionally and unintentionally create a toxic work condition.
While the number of toxic employees are generally low, the amount of damage they can cause in an organization is very high. It is critical that leaders and supervisors understand the dynamics of the toxic employee, how they are created, and ways to mitigate the damage to the department. This course will provide students with the knowledge and skills to identify and deal with the toxic employee.
This course emphasizes how to recognize pre-stop indicators, selecting target vehicles / locations, successful roadside interviews, establishing articulable reasonable suspicion to continue a stop, and important case law on how and why officers can extend traffic stops and broaden the scope of searches. Finally, officers will be provided with tools on how to build a successful case on patrol, and forwarding information to detectives/investigators for more in-depth investigations. The course exhibits body worn camera / in-car video for practical application of the information discussed. This course also consists of hands-on scenarios to assist officers in better understanding implementing the information discussed. Whether you are a rookie or a seasoned patrol officer, this course will provide invaluable insight into being a successful street level narcotics officer and how to build successful cases for prosecution. Guaranteed to open the eyes and minds of the newest to the most veteran officers of your department.
Leadership has become a buzz word in the law enforcement profession. With so much talk, why is there still a lack from street police officers to those in charge of the agency? Leadership should focus on making each officer better today than yesterday. This is accomplished by starting the process early in the career of each officer. Academy training could be described as drinking from a fire hose. The training process does not end with graduation and the field training officer program. Street Level Leadership was designed for, but not limited to, officers with 3-5 years of street experience, F.T. O’s and first line supervisors.
Garry Parker will invoice the agencies participating at the end of the course, so when submitting registration please select Agency for Payment and include Contact Person Name, Email and Phone Number.
Surviving an Active Shooter Incident Helping Civilians Join Forces With Law Enforcement Against Active Shooters
South Texas College Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence will be the location for the 2020 Surviving an Active Shooter Incident. The purpose of the presentation will be to provide training for school officials, Police Agencies, and anyone who may potentially be involved in risk detection. LEO Seminar Trainer will give the training. The three-hour presentation will learn how to be an active participant in your won rescue through teamwork with first responders.
This course is designed to improve participants’ abilities to obtain information from suspects in a criminal case in a way that enhances the admissibility of the suspect’s statements in trial. Topics covered include:
The purpose of interviews in criminal investigations
Legal standards for conducting interviews
Legal issues and consequences of false confessions
Juror’s perceptions of confessions and interview techniques
Methods to reduce the possibility of false confessions and enhance courtroom admissibility of statements
Cost: $75 if registering for this course only, or $120 for this course and High-Performance Teamwork: Psychological Capital*
P.O.C. - Daniel Fuentes / cprplustx@gmail.com – (956) 400-8323
This is a six-day course that includes both classroom and field training.
• Participating students must hold a current certification of EMT or higher. • The $650 course fee covers administrative and course fees. To keep tuition fees at a minimum we will be requesting material and logistic support from participating agencies. Details to follow.
Uniform •Day 1-4: Agency classroom Training Uniform •Day 5-6: Agency rough duty training uniform and duty gear. Equipment required: bump helmet, safety glasses, gloves, knee pads, hydration system and head lamp with red or blue lens capabilities.
Schedule: *Day 1-4 of the course is held at the STC Campus in Pharr, TX. On day 4 we will be moving to a secure training site in Brooks County and will be staying on site until day 6 in the evening. The course provides 63 hours of CE credit. Details to follow once candidates are registered. * The practical scenarios in this course are designed to be as realistic as possible. Be prepared for training indoors and outdoors regardless of weather conditions outdoors. Clothing and other equipment may become soiled or damaged during this training.
TASER X26P, X2, TASER 7 and TASER 7 CQ Instructor certification course. With the release of version 22, we have enhanced the instructor course to teach students how to develop and safely execute scenarios and isolation drills and provide more in-depth scenario training. You will be certified to instruct others on the use of the X26P, X2, TASER 7 and TASER 7 CQ energy weapons. Students will be required to complete an interactive on-line experience prior to attending the one day in-classroom training.
What to bring: • Dress – Appropriate training attire • Department issued TASER holster – if applicable • Duty belt and training pistol (if available)
What not to bring: • No firearms • No ammunition • No TASER energy weapons (will be provided by Axon) • No defense sprays • No weapons of any kind
This course is for operators who perform all TCIC/NCIC functions, including inquiry, entry, modification, clearing, canceling, and III functions. It also covers navigation of the databases that are connected to the TLETS system such as administrative messages, driver license, vehicle registration, and instructions regarding proper procedures for broadcasting in the state and nationwide. This course requires the TCIC/TLETS Operation Manual Parts 1 - 3. Operators must receive this training within the first six months of assignment or employment, regardless of whether these duties are performed on a full-time or part-time basis. In order to comply with federal requirements, operators must recertify within two years of certification or most recent recertification date.
What is Texas Law Enforcement Peer Network? In 2019, 228 police officers died by suicide in the United States, eclipsing line-of-duty deaths that same year by nearly 60 percent. In 2021, that number increased to 632 law enforcement deaths and nearly 25% of those were self-inflicted. Suicide ranked second among law enforcement deaths that year. The Texas Law Enforcement Peer Network (TLEPN) was established out of Senate Bill 64 (87th Texas Legislature). TLEPN is a state-wide program designed to give Texas law enforcement officers access to resources and end law enforcement suicides. The Caruth Police Institute at the University of North Texas at Dallas, partnered with The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute to train active police officers to be peers to help fellow officers address stressors, trauma, fatigue, and other needs to help combat workforce burnout and end police suicide and self-harm.
**Police Chaplains, Fire/ EMS Personnel, or local Mental Health Professionals interested in attending can also attend the 16-hour class.
South Texas College in partnership with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is providing this course. Numerous law enforcement involved incidents over the past several years has changed the way some of the public views law enforcement officers across the nation. This has led to staffing issues across the law enforcement profession, an increase in the number of law enforcement officers indicted, and a record amount of violence against law enforcement officers. This course is designed to revisit effective strategies such as dealing with the public, mindset when training, and officer safety. Topics of discussion will include:
Instructor and class participants will define atypical behaviors, discuss societal normality behaviors, mental health detention, sexual deviant behaviors, intrusive thoughts, suicide attempts, and more. This course will allow law enforcement officers to gain insight to mental health persons or emotionally disturbed persons while in the field and how to properly approach a person in crisis, identify possible needs, when is it appropriate to [detain] or utilize a mental health professional.
The Trauma Informed Peer Facilitator Program is designed to train police officers, firefighters, and EMT/EMS personnel (includes dispatchers) to understand and implement knowledge of peer facilitation in an individual and group context to include critical incident debriefing skills within a regionally relevant community context. It equips the facilitator with methods and knowledge to interact wit their peers and families in the safest manner thereby reducing risk, injury, and harm.
Training Location:
Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence-3901 S. Cage Blvd, Pharr, Texas
Course Date: Every Tuesday beginning January 31st to February 28th (5 Tuesdays)
Co-hosted by: South Texas College/Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence
Tuition FREE (Travel and meals not included)
Course Description This military-led familiarization course is designed to provide law enforcement officials with an overview of hands-on tactical first-aid techniques that can be executed as a team or by individual providers. Derived from the U.S. Military's Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) and civilian Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC), this course will cover select types of physical traumas and the associated treatment of injuries seen on dispatched scenes, law enforcement officials/first responders are also taught to consider “big picture” aspects such as: direct threat care, indirect threat care, triage of patients, collection, evacuation, and communication with EMS services for improving chances of survival for casualties.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
Explain the mental readiness required and mental considerations that must be taken by team leaders, team members, and individual providers when initiating, managing, and terminating emergency trauma care to include post-event considerations
Describe the indicators and complications associated with penetrating trauma, burns, blasts, bleeding, shock, and environmental trauma
Demonstrate the skills required to treat casualties within the scope of training
Demonstrate the planning and execution of care under direct and indirect fire
Establish and secure a Casualty Collection Point (CCP), and securely lift/move casualty(ies) from the trauma site to the CCP
Establish a secure communications plan within the limits of available resources
Course Length Trauma Management is a 2-day (16 hour) course.
Prerequisites There are no prerequisites to attend this course.
Dress Uniforms or business casual. It is recommended that students bring any first aid equipment they may use in the line of duty.
NOTE: This class is limited to 24 attendees.
**NOTE**: The registration link above will take applicants to the Northeast Counterdrug Training Center (NCTC) "Upcoming Training" webpage. If you do not have a current NCTC account, you will have to open one. Then, search for June classes and select the appropriate Trauma Management class to register. (No HIDTA registration required for this class.)
**NOTE 2**: The instructor for this class highly recommends that each of you bring your duty belt or any medical kits/trauma gear you may carry on your person or in your vehicle. That way you will be able to reference your medical gear and appropriate recommendations can be made. Also, please bring along some note taking material.
The Ultimate K9 Handler’s Course is here to transform your approach, making every deployment and training session more effective and successful. This comprehensive course is meticulously designed for law enforcement professionals like you, who aspire to excel in K9 handling by gaining a profound understanding of the science behind canine behaviors.
From exploring the fundamental drives to intricate behavior patterns, this course covers it all. Understand your canine’s instincts for tracking, building searches, article searches, detection, and bite work on an entirely new level.
Learn how to refine and adjust behaviors, enhancing your K9’s performance across all forms of training and operations. With a strong emphasis on practical, real-world applications, this course equips you with the knowledge and skills to leverage your canine’s capabilities to their fullest potential.
Prepare for courtroom appearances with confidence. Our curriculum includes critical discussions on courtroom testimony, emphasizing the importance of effective communication and record-keeping.
Embark on a transformative journey with the Ultimate K9 Handler’s Course. Elevate your skills, deepen your understanding, and unlock the full potential of your canine partner. Enroll now and become the key to a successful canine team.
Undercover Techniques and Survival for Narcotics Officers
Training provided through the Midwest Counterdrug Training Center Hosted by South Texas HIDTA Co-hosted by South Texas College/Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence Tuition FREE (Travel and meals not included)
Course Description: Undercover Techniques and Survival for Narcotics Officers is designed for law enforcement officers who are beginning to work undercover in narcotics operations or have worked undercover for some time. The basic portion of the course will be essential for newer undercover officers and definitely provide veterans with a solid reminder of important principles of working undercover. The course will move into advanced undercover techniques and audio/video surveillance techniques which are rapidly changing with the introduction of new technology. The "survival" portion of the classroom instruction will definitely impact all undercover officers and assist them in keeping themselves safe while working in undercover operations.
Officers who participate in covert operations are not born with the talents needed to perform effectively and safely in undercover situations. These talents are developed from experience, hard work and training. This program will provide officers with the techniques and survival tactics necessary to develop or compliment their present undercover experience. Many times this can make the difference between success or failure and safety or injury.
Topics Included
Covert operations
Informants
Preparation of the undercover officer
Undercover background and role
Approaches to the violator
Undercover survival techniques
Force on force techniques
Audio/video electronic surveillance equipment and techniques
Planning undercover operations
Special undercover techniques
Legal aspects and testifying in court
Post incident procedures
Psychological effects of undercover operations
Course Length: Undercover Techniques and Survival for Narcotic Officers is a 5 day (40 hour) course.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for attending this course
U.S. Secret Service (Threat Assessment Training for School Officials)
The U.S. Secret Service and the South Texas College Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence will be co-sponsoring a training event which will provide Threat Assessment Training for School Officials. This training is free and will be open to School Resource Officers, police investigators, school administrators, school counselors, school psychologists and anyone who may potentially be involved in a risk detection / management position. This training is provided by personnel from the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC), a component of the U.S. Secret Service. The NTAC conducts research, training and consultation on threat assessment and the prevention of targeted violence.
This four hour block will address the following topics:
Identifying potential threats and students who may be exhibiting concerning behaviors
Investigating and gathering information on the background and behaviors of concerning students
Assessing whether students pose a threat of violence or other harmful behavior
Developing risk management strategies and interventions
Interactive case studies
This is not training on responding to an active shooter situation
Use of Force/Deadly Force In The 21st Century Training
Educate and Prepare
Hear From Some Of The Most Accomplished Law Enforcement Practitioners In The Profession
Learn Use of Force/Deadly Force Laws
Earn TCOLE Continuing Education Credit Hours
Training Objectives
To save the lives of law enforcement professionals through candid discussion on the fundamentals of force, available force options, discussion on real-world force applications, and possible consequences for the use of unlawful force.
Reinforcement of the need for continued training on the laws regarding proper use of force, effective decision making under stressful conditions, and proper use of the “tools of force” in a highly litigious operational theater
Emphasis on understanding the most basic and paramount public safety value: Protection of property and apprehension of criminal offenders is subservient to the preservation of life safety, particularly their own.
Identify incidents of law enforcement officers’ use of force and laws governing the administrative, criminal, and civil consequences for use of excessive force or force without justification.
Identify and understand the concerns and rights of law enforcement officers who use force in Texas.
To study and learn from analysis of recent use of force cases in Texas, to be positioned to reduce a law enforcement officer’s risk of criminal responsibility, civil liability, and disciplinary action.
Victim Support & Addressing the Aftermath of Violence
Law enforcement professionals will be educated on trauma and trauma-informed practices when interacting with individuals impacted by different types of violence. This training will highlight different ways in which to humanize victims of violent crime in an effort to leverage community cooperation and bring judicial resolution to ongoing investigations. This training will discuss the importance of collaboration with already established community groups and advocacy resources best positioned to provide meaningful assistance. And finally, the training will provide attendees with new ideas, techniques and methods they can implement in partnership with community and faith based organizations.
The Valve and Hydrant Maintenance course utilizes the TEEX Mobile Valve and Hydrant trailer to provide students with hands-on training opportunities designed to help each plan, schedule, and budget for valve and hydrant maintenance. During the course, students are provided opportunities to explore various types of valves, hydrants, and specialized tools required to help maintain or repair system equipment.
Writing Narcotic Search Warrants is designed to educate students on the essential elements needed to write and obtain a search warrant while conducting criminal investigations. It will instruct students on how to compose an affidavit and improve their abilities and skills needed to write a clear, concise and factual basis for search warrants. The course will address requirements established by federal and/or state specific constitutional authorities in order to develop probable cause. Officers will be taught the principles of writing the affidavit and warrant rather than how to plug information into a blank spot in a template. Participants learn how to relay information from informants in the affidavit while still maintaining confidentiality of the informant's identity.
Topics Included • Purpose of a search warrant • Types and nuances of different search warrants • Federal and state specific constitutional requirements • Basis for, and effective development of, the affidavit under differing facts/circumstances • Contents of the warrant • Documentation of probable cause • Relaying information from informants without compromising the informant’s identity • Suppression hearings • Civil liability • Criminal liability • Defending search warrants in court • Legal considerations for financial investigations
Minimum Qualifications: Advanced Structure Firefighter, Instructor II, Class B Driver's license. Call Amy Espericueta, 956-872-4200, or email: aespericueta_3728@southtexascollege.edu.
Note: Must be local and have minimum 12 years experience
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