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Basic Warrant Execution
Duration: 4 days (32 Hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer conducting high risk entries as a result of patrol, narcotics enforcement or warrant service activities
Course description: This course emphasizes individual officer basic entry and safety techniques. Team training is not provided. Topics covered in this course of instruction include:

• Selection of personnel and equipment needed to enhance officer safety
• Understanding entry breaching techniques and their importance to the success of the operation
• Familiarization with diversionary techniques and devices
• Understanding and executing basic movement techniques and officer safety concerns while entering and moving through unknown locations.
• The techniques necessary to enhance the officers ability to ascend and descend various types of stairways

During the course, each officer is required to execute several practical exercises to demonstrate the abilities learned.

All weapons and some personal protective equipment (i.e. face mask and neck guard) will be provided by NCTC. Students must bring their own gloves if desired. Male students must bring their own groin protection (cup). Chest protectors will be provided by NCTC for female students.

Cannabis Indoor Grow
Duration: 2 days (16 hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer involved in the investigation of cases involving the indoor growing and harvesting of marijuana
Course description: This course is designed to equip investigating officers and support personnel with the tools necessary to detect, search and seize, prosecute and testify in indoor marijuana grow cases. Covered in this class will be an in depth study of cannabis horticulture, the equipment required to grow indoors, indoor growing techniques including sensimilla cultivation and carbon dioxide enrichment. Methods to locate and investigate indoor grows will be discussed in depth. Search warrants, thermal imaging search warrants, scene search and seizure and court testimony are also included. A number of case studies and investigations will be examined and critiqued.
Prerequisites: None

Cross Disciplinary Training for WMD
Duration: 3 days (24 Hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer, fire service and emergency medical services (EMS)
Course Description: This course is a basic level course on interagency response to weapons of mass destruction/ drug lab incidents and is designed for first responders who will be involved in the initial phases of these types of incidents. This course concentrates on cross disciplinary training for fire, law enforcement, emergency management, and emergency medical service personnel who would be performing defensive operations in the cold and warm zones at a WMD or drug lab incident (e.g., initial response, scene assessment, scene security, on-site incident management).   It is not a hazardous materials response technician course, a special weapons and tactics course, evidence response team  nor an offensive/ hot zone operations course.

In the first 15-20 minutes of a Terrorist WMD or other dangerous environmental incidents, such as a methamphetamine lab explosion or fire, first responders need to know how to communicate and work in cooperation with each other so they know what the other disciplines are going to do.  They need to do this while protecting themselves and victims from the possibility of toxic environments and unexploded incendiary explosive devices (IEDs). Completion of this course allows participants to understand the operation of other disciplines’ specifically trained teams and perform their own tasks effectively at an incident site without disturbing the other disciplines’ management of the site and in cooperation and understanding of such management.  Students learn how to operate under different conditions where equipment from other disciplines are present and in place.  They will also learn how to complete simple tasks effectively with another discipline’s equipment and without disturbing the equipment and environment prepared by the other discipline.
Prerequisites: None.

Conducting Complete Traffic Stops
Duration: 2 days (16 hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer
Course Description: This two-day course examines the relationship between motor vehicle law enforcement and the detection of criminal activity. Students will learn techniques and skills to employ during roadside stops and interviews. Officer safety is stressed. Indicators and identification of concealed compartments are emphasized as well as indicators of other criminal activities. Consent to search and other legal considerations are covered.
Prerequisites: None.

Crime Mapping and Analysis using GIS
Duration: 5 days (40 Hours)
Designed for: Any individual working for a law enforcement, corrections or other public safety agency and who use or want to use GIS for crime analysis.
Course description: This course introduces the concepts of crime mapping, demonstrates the relationship between crime mapping and crime analysis, and presents many of the technical issues of implementation that are encountered in beginning a crime mapping effort. The course walks students through lessons using an adult learning process called “Watch – Follow – Do.” Students watch as the instructor demonstrates the process, then, follow along with the instructor as they perform the lesson together. Finally, the students practice the lesson by performing it against their agencies geographic and crime data. This method, and fact that pupils use the real-world data with which they are familiar, and will use daily upon return to their agencies, makes for a very productive training course. The final part of this course focuses on an applied project in which students take what they have learned and apply it toward the analysis of a specific crime problem in their jurisdiction. Each student then presents and defends their findings to the class. The highly interactive, hands-on approach provides the student the forum, environment, and equipment for an agency to complete a specific project while providing the support and direction of a successful end product.

Students receive training on the following topics:

• basemaps
• geocoding
• redistricting
• temporal analysis
• data acquisition and management
• pin (point symbol) mapping
• pattern analysis
• hot spot analysis
• choropleth (area symbol) mapping
• buffer analysis
• layouts/presentations

For more information, visit the CMAP website at this link: http://www.crimeanalysts.net

Prerequisites: Students must have or plan to have the software (ArcGIS 8.x or 9.x) purchased and installed, have a working knowledge of the software, have a working knowledge of the Windows operating system (95, 98, NT, XP) and Microsoft Office Suite of products (Excel, Access, Word).  Registration through the Crime Mapping & Analysis Program (CMAP) is required.  Contact CMAP at 1-800-416-8086.

Criminal Street Gang Identification
Duration: 3 Days (24 Hours)
Designed for: Demand reduction professionals, educators, law enforcement officers
Course description: This course acquaints the individual with the history and organization of gangs, legal definitions, identifiers, graffiti, hand signs, drug dealing activities, field interview reports, documentation and officer safety. It covers local street gangs, nationally affiliated gangs, gangs within the prison system, the relationship between the Department of Corrections and Law Enforcement and gang investigations using the RICO statutes.
Prerequisites: None.

Desert Snow Phase I-III
Duration: 4 days
Designed for: Highway patrol officers, patrolmen, drug enforcement, homeland security personnel
Course Description: DESERT SNOW is a large scale highway interdiction exercise intended for highway patrol officers, patrolmen, drug enforcement and homeland security personnel.

Phase 1: Passenger Vehicle Terrorist Threat Detection is an 8 hr. course. This class contains approx. 30 different concealment methods commonly used by drug smugglers and terrorists organizations. Officers are taught to be alert for possible criminal activity while conducting everyday patrol responsibilities. Emphasis is placed on officers to conduct high volume, legal, courteous, professional enforcement contacts.

Phase 2: Passenger Vehicle Workshop, 16 hr. course. This class contains approx. 10 different vehicles, each containing different scenarios and concealment. The class contains approx. 250 natural, constructed, and personal concealment methods commonly utilized by drug smugglers and terrorists. The class has over 2000 lbs. of simulated drugs, over 5 million dollars of simulated currency, and numerous explosive displays. Officers are taught to be alert for possible criminal activity while conducting everyday patrol responsibilities. Emphasis is placed on officers to conduct high volume, legal, professional, courteous enforcement contacts. They are taught to conduct safe, detailed, professional searches, and to professionally reconstruct vehicles to their original condition. This was the first and only, and currently the largest most comprehensive, detailed passenger vehicle, hands on training offered to peace officers in the United States.
 
An example of material covered in this class:
• Smuggling tactics / How smugglers think
• Smuggling indicators? / What is suspicious…and why?
• Indicators of terrorist activity and explosive concealment
• Profiles and why they do not work
• Officer safety tactics
• Drug paraphernalia identification
• Vehicle concealment
• How to legally ask for permission to search
• Passenger car concealment
• Pick-up truck concealment
• Van concealment
• SUV concealment
• Vehicle reconstruction
• Arrest / Release
• Currency seizures
• Evidence gathering
• Post arrest investigation and responsibilities
• Report writing
• Court testimony

Phase 3: Commercial Vehicle Criminal Interdiction is an 8 hr course. This class contains approx. 20 different displays and concealment methods commonly used by drug smugglers and terrorist organizations that use commercial vehicles for conveyances. Officers are taught to be alert for possible smuggling activity while conducting everyday assigned responsibilities. Emphasis is placed on officers to conduct high volume, legal, professional, courteous enforcement contacts.

Prerequisites: None.

Digital Evidence Recovery for Law Enforcement (updated version of the former Computer Search & Seizure course)
Duration: 3 days (24hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer
Course Description: Today law enforcement personnel encounter a number of digital devices that may contain evidence related to criminal activities.  Normally, in situation where the existence of these devices is known, coordination is made to enlist the assistance of trained specialist to deal with the proper acquisition and handling of these devices so that any evidentiary content can be properly recovered and utilized in the judicial process.  However, many times these devices are unexpectedly encountered, e.g. an operating laptop in a vehicle at the time of an arrest.  It is important that law enforcement personnel have a basic understanding of what devices potentially hold evidence and the proper method of acquiring them so that any evidence is not altered or lost and that the items are processed in a way that insures their evidentiary integrity to a subsequent analysis by a trained specialist. 

This 24 hour course is designed to provide law enforcement with the necessary skill set to recognize devices that may hold evidence; understand how the devices store data so that the device can be handled with minimal risk of destroying or altering digital evidence and process the device in such a way that its evidentiary value is intact.
Prerequisites: None.

Domestic Terrorism
Duration: 2 days (16 hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer
Course Description: Participants in this course learn about domestic terrorist groups, how to recognize indicators relating to domestic terrorism and funding through narco-terrorism.  Students explore law enforcement’s roles and responsibilities in combating domestic terrorism.  Officer safety issues relating to domestic terrorism are also covered.
Prerequisites: None.

Drug Identification
Duration : 4 days (32 hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer
Course Description: The course will educate and supply information regarding the preliminary field identification of illegal and diverted legal drugs, as well as associated paraphernalia to law enforcement personnel. The course should serve as a tool and aid in the identification drugs, aimed at the reduction of usage an illicit sales. The course provides for definitions of basic drug terminology and the scheduling of drugs based on Controlled Substance ACT (CSA). Information will be provided on the chemical make up controlled substances as well as the manner in which they are produced for human consumption. This course of instruction will describe the manner that the controlled substances are introduced into the human body and physical reactions caused by the use of controlled dangerous substances.
Prerequisites: None

Expert Testimony
Duration: 3 days (24 Hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer
Course description: This course will provide a resource base, strategies and step-by-step guidelines for the law enforcement person who wants to expand into the area of expert work or for one already testifying as an expert. Topics to be covered will include qualities of the effective expert, evaluating the case, the action/assessment plan, dos and don'ts, becoming less vulnerable, ethics and integrity. Attorneys familiar with the use of experts and recognized experts from the field of law enforcement will present the material. This course will strengthen the student's credentials when attempting to qualify as an "expert". Objectives will be met by the use of classroom lecture, discussion of actual cases involving the use of experts, class participation and shared experiences, demonstrations by the instructors and by practical exercises involving class members.
Prerequisites: None.

Grant Writing
Duration: 5 days (40 Hours)
Designed for: Law Enforcement Agents and individuals from Community Based Organizations involved in the identification and preparation or execution of grant funding
Course description: This practical grant writing course will provide the participants with the fundamental skills needed to research, develop, write and submit grant proposals. This course will cover the concepts of grant development, how to create the components of a grant, funding source research and identification, how to develop goals and objectives and an evaluation plan. To gain the maximum benefit from this course, all participants must come to the course with a project idea and a Request for Proposal from a funding source or funding announcement.
Prerequisites: Participants must have a working knowledge of their organization, an understanding of how to use the internet and a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows 95/98.

Hotel/Motel and Parcel Interdiction
Duration: 2 days (16 Hours)
Designed for: Any Law Enforcement Agent
Course description: This two-day class focuses on hotel/motel, airport, and parcel interdiction. In addition, the training provides an update on legal and constitutional issues related to each interdiction technique. Topics to be discussed are: legal and constitutional law review; criminal activity indicators; contacts with hotel/motel members; commercial airlines passenger name records; computer tips and airport concealment methods; hand-written and computer generated parcel airbills; overview of the El Paso Intelligence Center and the International Narcotic Interdiction Association; and different computer and Internet based systems that can be used as intelligence gathering tools.
Prerequisites: none.

Identifying Deceptive Behavior
Duration: 3 days (24 Hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer
Course description: This interactive class is superbly suited for the new investigator or patrol officer. By learning to professionally identify deceptive words, phrases, and non-verbal behaviors, the student gains confidence and skill in redirecting a person's words to obtain a confession. Confidence is further gained when students practice their new-gained skills during actual interrogations in a class setting. The experienced law enforcement instructor uses actual case investigations and scenarios to reinforce the skills necessary to prepare for a successful criminal prosecution. Through this unique interactive class, the officer and investigator learns that being deceptive isn't easy at all.
Prerequisites: None.

Interview and Interrogation
Duration: 3 days (24 Hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer
Course description: This course is constructed specifically for law enforcement officers. The focus of this course is to prepare for and conduct interviews and interrogations incorporating non-verbal kinetics (body language) techniques, grammatical clues to lies and truth, analysis of verbal behavior, and evasive verbal response during interview and interrogation.
Prerequisites: None.

Introduction to Law Enforcement Intelligence
Duration: 3 days (22 Hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer and law enforcement intelligence personnel
Course description: This class is specifically designed to provide attending patrol personnel, intelligence officers, analysts and investigators with a basic understanding of the concepts, processes and disciplines associated with law enforcement intelligence functions and operations. The training uses the "intelligence cycle" to illustrate the various functions involved in transforming raw data into useful information. The intelligence cycle functions reviewed include: target selection, data collection, evaluation, collation,  analysis, to reporting and dissemination. The use of various tools, techniques, disciplines and methods, both manual and electronic will be discussed. Several computerized resources for information gathering, data management and research will also be presented and demonstrated.

The curriculum includes:
Intelligence and analytical thinking concepts, intelligence fundamentals, intelligence classification and applications, the Intelligence cycle, principles & techniques of data collection, open source collection, garbology 101, electronic collection, organizing diverse data (collation), graphic data management, the analytical function, analytic logic (exercise), legal issues for intelligence, computerized data mining & resources, intelligence for major case development and management, strategic planning and forecasting in law enforcement and intelligence briefings on topical police problems.
Prerequisites: None.

Introduction to Narco-Terrorism
Duration: 3 days (22 hours)
Designed for: Law Enforcement Officers
Course description: This course is specifically designed for law enforcement officers. Emphasis of this course will be on understanding terrorism, terrorists and the narcotics trade, identifying terrorist organizations, current intelligence, first responders, interdiction and investigation, weapons of mass destruction, contemporary narco-terrorism and resources for law enforcement. The P.R.O.A.C.T. method of anti-terrorism is taught to student officers as a comprehensive program for their respective agencies.
Prerequisites: None

Lead and Seed Adult Course (Formally Leadership Development & Problem Solving in Anti-Drug Efforts)
Duration: 2 Day (12.5 hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement, program practitioners, community leaders, teachers, guidance counselors, nurses, parents, civic organization leaders, elected and non elected officials, etc.
Course Description: This 2-day, interactive training is designed for adult facilitators working with youth groups, or, coalitions.  The course is structured to enhance leadership capacities, knowledge of drug and alcohol facts, best environmental practices for schools and communities, the 5-step planning process, (SAMHSA “SPF” Strategic Planning Framework), risk and protective factors, consumption and consequence data, capacity building techniques, process and outcome evaluation and the creation of logic models and action plans  This course helps adults to create strong youth advocates and mobilizers in the local community. 

This training helps adults put drug prevention terminology into a framework that teens and tweens can understand. Adult leaders, (teachers, coalition leaders, civic organizational leaders, school resource officers, etc.) taking this course, also receive on a CD, the Youth Lead and Seed Program Power Point and Handouts and more than 100 projects and activities to mobilize and motivate communities. 
Prerequisites: None.

Leadership and Mastering Performance Management
Duration: 5 days (40 hours)
Designed for: law enforcement officers.
Course description: The Leadership and Mastering Performance Management course is a high energy forty hour course focusing on the first line supervisor and mid-manager. It introduces The Leadership Test and The Six Layers of Success as tools that will improve the skills and abilities of supervisors and managers to both manage and lead. There is an emphasis on defining the difference between leadership and management and identifying their separate skill sets. Tools are provided that will assist students to work more effectively as developers with their employees, both as individuals and as a team.
Prerequisites: None.

Methamphetamine Intelligence and Investigations
Duration: 3 days (24 Hours)
Designed for:
Course description: This course is an awareness level course designed for first responders and public servants. This includes but is not limited to, fire, ems, law enforcement, educators, federal, state, and local public servants in any field.
This course will cover the following:

-Methamphetamine use and its affect on the human body.
-Methamphetamine lab statistics for Pennsylvania and across the nation.
-Precursors and equipment used in clandestine methamphetamine labs.
-Legislation affecting the availability of certain precursors.
-An overview of the different methods utilized in the clandestine manufacture of methamphetamine.
-Indicators of a clandestine methamphetamine lab site.
-What to do if you suspect or find yourself in a hazardous methamphetamine environment.
-Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and decontamination options.
-Clean up and disposal of hazardous waste from a clandestine lab.
-Specialized resources available to assist you at the clandestine lab site.
-Common crimes code sections that apply when arresting someone at a lab site.
-Video documentary of a methamphetamine family.
-Static display of common household items and precursors used in the manufacture of methamphetamine.

Methamphetamine Training
Duration: 5 days (40 Hours)
Designed for: Law enforcement officers and other first-responders involved in investigating clandestine meth labs.
Course description: This course teaches students the basic physical and chemical hazards of wastes produced during meth production through either hydriodic acid red phosphorous (HI red P) or metal ephedrine reduction (either lithium or sodium).
Training includes:

• Planning a successful raid.
• Identifying booby traps.
• Collecting and preserving evidence.
• Handling chain-of-custody to ensure sample integrity.
  

Field exercises focus on using specialized equipment, such as explosimeters and colorimetric indicator tubes, to monitor for hazards before entering the site. Participants get basic training in chemistry and toxicology, with practical lab sessions geared toward understanding safety concerns. Students learn how to put together a site-specific health and safety plan, select and use the proper personal protective equipment (PPE), and conduct decontamination. In field exercises, we cover how to wear and operate self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA), and the use of Level B PPE. Due to the nature of this class, the average academic day runs between 9-11 hours.
Prerequisites: Upon receipt of official student selection confirmation letter from NCTC, the student will be required to obtain a medical certification signed by a physician.

Methods of Communication in Criminal Organizations (formally Enhancing Investigations using Telephonic Information)
Duration: 3 days (24 Hours)
Designed for: Probation & Parole, Corrections (Must have a direct Intel focus in their job assignment), Military (Intel, SF, MP only), Law Enforcement Support Personnel (Intel only)
Course Description: This three-day course, designed for new and experienced investigators and analysts, provides strategies and techniques to identify communications used by criminal enterprises and terrorist organizations. The class will cover communications ranging from conventional and cellular telephones to internet communication including social networking websites.  It teaches students how to find information associated with numbers obtained from communication devices.  Instruction also focuses on state and federal law governing collection of this type of information and the preparation and management of subpoenas and court orders.  The course will also include discussion on databases and programs used to chart communication intelligence compiled as a result of the analysis of raw data.  Students will receive hands on training and will complete exercises including spreadsheet analysis and charting techniques. 

Course Objectives: At the end of the course the students will be able to:

1.     Describe landline and cell systems and their impact on investigations.
2.     Recognize and evaluate leads from communication devices.
3.     Describe techniques and sources used to obtain information.
4.     Describe types of information that can be obtained from communication providers.
5.     Search and evaluate various websites.
6.     Prepare subpoenas and court orders.
7.     Analyze call information.
8.     Manage intelligence gathered during an investigation.
9.     Generate leads and maintain evidence.

Prerequisites: Attendees should be sworn police officers, federal agents, or intelligence analysts with experience in a criminal or counter-terrorism investigative unit.

Money Laundering
Duration: 3 days (20 Hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer assigned to money-laundering investigations
Course description: This course provides students with the principals and techniques available in conducting money-laundering investigations. It introduces the concepts surrounding money laundering violations and provides a historical summary of the statutes. The course covers elements of proof needed to charge money-laundering violations, currency reporting violations, and civil and criminal asset seizure and forfeitures. It identifies methods used to launder money and techniques for detecting laundering schemes. This course also deals with sources of information available to the investigator.
Prerequisites: None.

Multiagency Course: Introduction to Basic Drug Intelligence Analysis
Duration:  5 days (40 hours)
Designed for:  Law enforcement officers, law enforcement intelligence personnel, and individuals working with LE intelligence support. 
Course Description:  The Multiagency Course is an intensive, 1-week entry level training drug intelligence analysis course. This introductory course provides an overview of counterdrug intelligence analysis, introduces students to basic analytical tools and techniques, and allows students to apply newly acquired skills to a comprehensive final practical exercise involving charting, analysis, and presentation. The Multiagency Course is a cooperative effort by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the National Guard Bureau, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and the National Drug Intelligence Center.
Prerequisites:  None

National Coalition Academy
Registrations are recieved from CADCA
Course description: The National Coalition Academy is a year long coalition development program that includes classroom instruction, distance learning and on-line support.  The course develops individual skills in each of the fifteen core competency areas for community problem solving.  Through distance instruction and technical assistance the course also helps newly formed local coalitions engage in the twelve essential processes research suggests are associated with achieving community level outcomes.

 Week I – Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships; Assessing Community Needs and Resources; Analyzing Problems and Goals; Developing a Framework or Model of Change; Developing Interventions.

Week II – Strategic and Action Planning; Building Leadership; Enhancing Cultural Competence; Evaluating the Initiative; Advocating for Change.

Week III – Increasing Participation and Membership; Influencing Policy Development; Improving Organizational Management and Development; Writing Grant Applications; Sustaining the Work or Initiative.

Photographic Surveillance Techniques for Law Enforcement-DIGITAL
Duration: 5 Days (44 Hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer required to conduct photographic surveillance using a digital SLR camera. The problems encountered when photographing at long distances, under low light or other less than ideal conditions are stressed.
Course description: This course is taught by personnel specially trained in surveillance and low light photography. Practical exercises are conducted during daylight and nighttime with critiques done the following morning. This course takes the student from novice to advanced level. In-depth photographic experience is not necessary The topics covered include:

• Understanding photographic equipment
• Isolating your subject
• Low light photography
• Night vision photography
• Crime scene photography
• Basic introduction to Adobe Photoshop Elements
• Digital formats and filing systems
• Maintaining digital integrity through good standard operating procedures

Prerequisites: Students must provide their own single lens reflex digital camera. The camera must have interchangeable lenses and minimum required accessories such as: battery, battery charger, manual, electronic flash and memory card(s) of at least 250 MB (512 MB to 1GB card recommended).  A limited amount of digital photo equipment is available for use through NCTC. If you plan on borrowing NCTC equipment you must call and reserve the equipment prior to registering for the class.

Physical Surveillance
Duration: 5 Days (37.5 Hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer required to conduct physical surveillance
Course description: This course focuses on the categories of surveillance and surveillance terminology, equipment and skills. It addresses circumventing counter-surveillance, identifying terrorist counter-surveillance, tactical operation plans, investigative reports, preparing for surveillance and operation scratch reports. The course will culminate with scenario-based practical exercises.
Prerequisites: None.

Police Executive Development (POLEX) Basic
Duration: 10 Days (80 Hours)
Designed for: Middle management personnel in law enforcement holding the rank of lieutenant and above
Course description: This course is designed to enhance the leadership and management skills of executive-level law enforcement practitioners. Key topics and concepts include developing leadership skills, making organizational culture work for you, liability issues and how to minimize your department's risk, developing decision-making and planning skills, issues for measuring police productivity and quality, how to more effectively handle problem employees, and enhancing communication skills. POLEX graduates can gain three academic credits at the graduate or upper division undergraduate level.
Prerequisites: None.

Police Executive Development (POLEX) Advanced
Duration: 10 Days (80 Hours)
Designed for: Senior law enforcement managers
Course description: This course builds on the issues of leadership and management covered in POLEX Basic. A significant portion of the advanced program is dedicated to the topics of leadership and management during major incidents, and methods for effectively handling the media.
Key concepts and topics include:

• Creativity and Risk Taking
• Barriers to Innovation
• Diagnosing Organizational Culture
• Quantifying Quality Policing
• Partnership with the Community
• Media and Law Enforcement
• POLEX graduates can gain three academic credits at the graduate or upper division undergraduate level.

Prerequisites: POLEX Basic.

Polygraph Institute
Duration: 12 Weeks (450 hours)
Designed for: Criminal Investigators assigned to Drug Law Enforcement.
Course description: This course provides American Polygraph Association accredited training in the field of forensic psychophysiology using polygraph techniques. The course provides current "state of the art" training by practicing professionals and researchers in the forensic psychophysiological detection of deception field. The course is developed and provided by Harrisburg Area Community College and is recognized by the American Association of Police Polygraphists and exceeds the standards of the American Society for Testing and Materials. Additional expertise and funding is provided from the Pennsylvania State Police.
Requirements:
1. Must be a sworn law enforcement officer and sponsored by your Agency;
2. No criminal convictions for any moral turpitude crimes or any crimes above a
summary/petty offense level;
3. Knowledge and proficiency with "Windows" computer operating system;
4. Five (5) years of full-time street or criminal investigative experience with a public law enforcement agency or military police unit;
AND
5. Successful completion of 60 college credits from a state/government licensed institution
(not including developmental courses - official transcripts required;
OR
6. Where less than 60 credits or 5 years experience, applicants will be evaluated by the selection board.
For more information about this course, CLICK HERE

Professional Decision Making for Narcotics Investigations (formally Ethical Decision Making for Narcotics Investigations)
Duration: 2 days (16 hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer
Course description: This course is essential for any narcotics investigator, police officer, or patrol supervisor. Defining personal integrity and the need to remain professionally ethical are course goals Through group discussion, using actual law enforcement scenarios, students develop the confidence and knowledge necessary to aid them in resolving ethical issues. While all departments require ethical conduct, few have formal ethics training programs or qualified instructors to host them. Participation in this class will promote individual pride, group efficiency, and unit productivity, while enhancing the overall espirit de corps of your agency.
Prerequisites: None.

Role of the Undercover
Duration: 5 Days (40 Hours)
Designed for: Law enforcement officers
Course description: This five-day course trains new and experienced undercover officers to conduct safe and efficient undercover operations and understand the roles and responsibilities of other team members. The course stresses how to conduct every undercover operation safely and efficiently. In addition to classroom instruction, the course includes many practical exercises.
Prerequisites: None.

School Resource Officer Course
Duration: 5 days (40 Hours)
Designed for: Law enforcement officers with two years or less experience working in an educational environment.
Course description: The course emphasizes three main areas of instruction: functioning as a police officer in the school setting, working as a resource and problem solver, and the development of teaching skills. Students will be given a working knowledge of the School Resource Officer concept and how to establish a lasting partnership with their schools.
Prerequisites: None.
Additional information about this course may be obtained at this link. School Safety Advocacy Council

School Resource Officer Course (Advanced)
Duration: 3 days (24 Hours)
Designed for: Law enforcement officers
Course description: During this course, the students will be given the School Resource Officer History and concept, practical skills of interviewing and teaching, legal aspects, and information on current youth-related topics. They will develop a working knowledge of the School Resource Officer and develop a plan for implementation for the SRO program into the school in which they are assigned. The class will spend two hours at a school conducting a "Site Assessment."
Prerequisites: It is recommended the student attend the Basic School Resource Officer Course.

Security, Vulnerability,& Threat
Duration: 3 days (24 hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer
Course Description: Terrorists frequently utilize drug trafficking as a tool to fund activities attacking infrastructure and populations.  Students attending this course will be given information relating to the principles of security, conducting vulnerability and threat assessments, establishing security plans and the equipment, technology and methods to mitigate security threats of their infrastructure.  This course will include practical scenarios that give students an opportunity to apply principles of security while conducting an actual assessment of a venue in the local geographic area.  Topics covered include facility security, individual protective security, government security nets, methods of security, how to develop a security plan and special event security planning.
Prerequisites: None.

Spanish for Law Enforcement Phase 1
Duration: 3 days (18 Hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer who encounters Spanish speaking persons.
Course description: This intensive course places emphasis on drug terminology, field interrogations, executing arrests and specialized Spanish vocabulary that indicates impending danger. Considerable attention is given to action scenarios and role playing. In addition to Spanish language training, a special cross-cultural component addresses the elimination of non-verbal communication barriers that will enhance officer safety and effectiveness when dealing with Spanish speaking persons.
Prerequisites: None.

Spanish for Law Enforcement Phase 2
Duration: 4 days (28 Hours)
Designed for: Students who have completed either Basic Spanish course
Course description: This course is a review and continuation of the course material common to the Basic Spanish courses. It focuses on field interview and interrogation protocols to enable officers and investigators to obtain critical information relevant to drug enforcement and investigations. This workshop prepares non-Hispanic officers to use Spanish in order to request and receive critical information concerning suspects, searches and seizures associated with illegal drug activity.
Prerequisites: Basic Spanish for Law Enforcement.

Tactical and Operational Analysis using GIS
Duration: 5 days (40 Hours)
Designed for:  Individuals working for a law enforcement, corrections or other public safety agency who have substantial experience using ArcGIS 8.x or 9.x and are interested in learning more in-depth techniques to apply to tactical or operational crime analysis.
Course description: This is a very fast-paced and intensive course.  Training topics include:

• point pattern analysis
• density-based field analysis & distance-decay field analysis
• spatiotemporal integration
• Lund space-time trajectories
• applied spatiotemporal profiling
• movement-based event forecasting

For more information, visit the CMAP website at this link: http://www.crimeanalysts.net

Prerequisites: Students must have a strong working knowledge of ArcGIS 8.x or 9.x, the Windows operating system (95, 98, NT, XP) and Microsoft Office Suite of products (Excel, Access, Word).

Students must have taken the Crime Mapping and Analysis using GIS course offered by CMAP or have received comparable training or experience elsewhere, and be able to demonstrate their proficiency using the software through submission of two (2) maps.  Registration through the Crime Mapping & Analysis Program (CMAP) is required.  Contact CMAP at 1-800-416-8086.

Tactical Narcotics and Counter-terrorist Debriefing
Duration: 3 days (24 Hours)
Designed for:  Law Enforcement / Code Enforcement, Corrections, Military (Intel, SF, MP only), Law Enforcement Support Personnel (Intel only)
Course description: The Tactical Narcotics and Counter-terrorist Debriefing Course is a three-day training course that teaches all types of law enforcement officers (Police, Corrections, Federal Agents, Parole, Probation, and other Law Enforcement Officers) from a variety of duty assignments (Narcotics, Patrol, Investigations, Terrorism, etc…), to conduct effective debriefings of new arrestees, jailed prisoners, prison inmates, probationers, parolees, and other individuals for the purpose of acquiring intelligence information and cultivating informants.  This training course has been taught to, and utilized, by members of the NYPD Intelligence Division plus Field Intelligence Officers (FIO) and hundreds of law enforcement officers within the seventeen (17) impact zones (high crime cities) throughout New York State with outstanding results and subsequent successes.  It has resulted in the development of more counterdrug-related informants, terrorist-related informants, and ‘actionable’ intelligence (arrests, search warrants, buys, etc…) in these zones than ever before. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Identify the Intelligence needs of their own jurisdiction regardless of their role in law enforcement
• Conduct effective debriefings of arrestees, prisoners, inmates, and other offenders with an emphasis on narcotics, terrorist, and gang investigations
• Conduct more successful debriefings of difficult individuals from the preceding categories
• Identify Motivations Leading to Cooperation of Potential Informants
• Use effective body language to increase communication
• Phrase efficient questions to greatly increase the potential of acquiring intelligence
• Utilize maximum elicitation communication techniques
• Utilize Conducive Communicative Behavior
• Cultivate more informants useful in combating drugs and other crimes in their jurisdiction
• Develop considerably more ‘Actionable’ Intelligence than before

Terrorism Intelligence Gathering
Duration: 3 days (24 hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer and law enforcement intelligence personnel
Course Description: This course will inform the participant about intelligence gathering techniques to combat terrorism.  Emphasis will be placed on the correlation between drug trafficking and terrorist activities.  The street level officer will become familiar with interview techniques specifically aimed at developing counter-terrorism intelligence.  The street level officer will become familiar with terrorism indicators derived from roadside interviews and observations, citizen contacts, community members, arrestees and arresting officers.
Prerequisites: None.

Top Gun Undercover Drug Investigation
YOU CAN NOT register for this course online or via fax!!!!! Call (717) 861-2465 for information.
Duration: 6 days (44 Hours)
Designed for: Narcotics investigators and prosecutors with 0-5 years of experience
Course description: This course of instruction highlights the various stages of a typical drug investigation from the time the initial information is received through the resulting search warrant and presentation of a prima fascie case. The course is designed to intermix classroom presentations with practical exercises. This instruction provides both the prosecutor and drug investigator with a look at each other's responsibility throughout an investigation. This course is presented by special request and due to varying laws concerning investigations is generally limited to students from the same state.
Topics covered in this course of instruction include:

• Investigative techniques
• Rules of evidence
• Courtroom techniques and presentations
• Hidden compartment investigations
• Warrant service techniques
• Surveillance techniques (fixed, mobile, photographic, etc)
• Interview and interrogation techniques
• Asset seizure programs

Prerequisites: Due to the nature of this course of instruction a specific state-level sponsor is required and the course will be presented specific to that state. A dedication of instructional resources, from the supporting state is necessary, particularly in the area of legal aspects of the investigations.

Undercover Risk Analysis
Duration: 2 days (15 Hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer
Course description: This course will identify and reinforce the principles of safe undercover, arrest and warrant service tactics. Students will learn how to assess risk, determine if the risk is of an acceptable level and then how to manage that risk. They will also learn when and how to shut down an operation due to excessive risk. Objectives will be met by use of classroom lecture, student participation and shared experiences, review of critical incidents and with a practical exercise wherein each student will have the opportunity to work undercover.
Prerequisites: None.

Video Equipment Training for Surveillance
Duration: 3 days (21 hours)
Designed for: Any law enforcement officer
Course description: This is a basic video surveillance course for officers with little or no video experience. Students will learn how to choose a video camera for surveillance and what accessories are needed. Camera techniques, planning for a shoot, and developing a standard operating procedure will be covered.  Although the course is geared toward surveillance some time will be spent on recording of crime scenes. There will be shoots during daylight and night time both indoor and outdoor.  Officers will need to bring a video camera with batteries, recording media for their camera, and a tripod.
Prerequisites: None.

Ground Reconnaissance Specialist - Phase I
Duration: 5 days (40 hours)
Designed for: Any Soldier or Airmen that is assigned to a Ground Recon ( Mission 5a) position in their respective state’s CD program.
Course Description: This is a Train the Trainer type course and a prerequisite to attend PH II. **NOTE: Attendance of the Mission 5a Program Managers Course prior to 2006 is equivalent to this course. (Documentation must be provided).
Course content:

• Mission planning
• Medical considerations
• Force continuum
• Review CD weapons qualification standards

Prerequisites:
1. Pass the APFT within thirty days of the start date of the course.  Students are required to bring validation to registration.

2. No temporary profiles which prohibit a student from meeting all physical requirements of the course – subject to review on a case by case basis.

3. Meet height-weight requirements IAW AR 600-9/AFI10-804.  Validation noted on an APFT card.

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Ground Reconnaissance Specialist – Phase II
Duration: 15 days (180 hours)
Desinged for: Any Soldier or Airmen assigned to a Ground Recon position, in their respective state’s CD program and have completed a PH I requirement.
Course Description: The second phase of the ground reconnaissance course is designed to provide advanced training to operators for standardized operations in diverse counterdrug environments.  This course focuses at the team level with an emphasis on field training exercises and operating standardized counterdrug equipment in diverse environments.  This course is extremely high tempo and is both physically and mentally challenging.  Graduates of this course will be awarded an ASI/SEI.
Course content:  Daily PT, CWST, Boat OPS, Surveillance Ops (Mobile & static), ATV Training, LEA interaction, Combatives, drug identification, small unit tactics, employ various communication networks & equipment, Sat phone training, video & digital camera techniques, employ Night Vision eqpt. And Urban/Rural FTX’s to include night operations.

Prerequisites:
1. Graduate of PHASE I GR or equivalent, ( Mission 5A Program Managers course)

2. Basic familiarity with map reading and recognizing terrain features

3. Pass the APFT within thirty days of the start date of the course.  Students are required to bring with them to registration a valid APFT card.

4. No temporary profiles or medications which prohibit a student from meeting all physical requirements of the course – subject to review on a case by case basis.

5. Meet height-weight requirements IAW AR 600-9/AFI10-804

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Counterdrug Management Information System (CMIS) Course - Phase I (Basic)
Duration: 3 days ( 24 hours)
Designed for:Admin Personnel, Budget Personnel, Drug DDR Administrator, CMIS Administrators/NCO. See **NOTE
Course description: This course provides standardized instruction in the use of the CMIS program.   Students will be instructed in how to set up, create, maintain and extract data from CMIS. Upon completion of this course the student will be qualified to input local state data into the CMIS program, and generate basic CMIS reports. Additionally, students will receive familiarization in manipulating CMIS data into an Excel based report. 

**NOTE: CMIS Phase I training is not intended for all state CD staff. Only personnel who enter multiple types of information or manage the Data Administration tables within the database should attend Phase I training.
Course content:

• Review CMIS compliance requirements outlined in NGR 500-2
• Review input information in the CMIS handbook
• Review basic mission input information
• Review and Create information in CMIS Data Administration Tables
• Review, Create and Update information in CMIS Funding Authorization Tables
• Review, Create and Update information in the CMSI Expenditures Tables
• Review, Create and Update personnel pay records
• Review, Create, Update and Complete various support category  missions
• Review and interpret canned reports
• Download and utilize Access Database

•   Basic computer skills
•   Basic MS Office product skills
•   Familiarity with NGR 500-2/AFI 10-801
  

Desired:

•  Familiarity with MS Access
•  Familiarity with Governor’s State Plan

Counterdrug Management Information System (CMIS) Course -Phase II (Administrators Course)
Duration: 2 days (16 hours)
Designed for: CMIS State Administrators, CD Program NCOIC/OIC. See **NOTE
Course description: This course provides standardized advanced instruction in the management of CMIS to certify CMIS Administrators. Students will be instructed in how to maintain and extract data from CMIS.  Upon completion of this course the student will be qualified to train local CMIS users, generate advanced CMIS reports, and conduct quality control functions.  Students will receive familiarization in manipulating CMIS data into an Access/Excel based report. Additionally, students will receive in depth instruction on state specific CMIS data reviews.

**NOTE: CMIS Phase II training provides guidance on quality checking state CMIS information. Only personnel assigned those responsibilities within the state program should attend.
Course content:

1.  Review CMIS compliance requirements outlined in NGR 500-2

2.  Review input information in the CMIS handbook

3.  Review of NGB CMIS reports and how state information utilized

4.  Conduct a demonstrative review of CMIS data administration tables and information requirements

5.  Conduct a demonstrative review of CMIS program reports.

6.  Provide guided student practical review of state CMIS reports utilizing state demo database

7.  Provide student awareness of CPE requirements by reviewing states data utilizing state reports

Prerequisites:

6 Months CMIS experiences and/or familiarity with the overall CMIS program

Required: 

•   Basic computer skills
•   Basic MS Office product skills
•   Familiarity with NGR 500-2/AFI 10-801

Desired:

• Familiarity with MS Acces
• Familiarity with Governors State Plan

Counterdrug Coordinator and Leader’s Seminar
Duration: 5 days (36 hours)  [Day 1 starts at 1200hrs, Day 5 ends at 1200hrs]
Designed for: This course is appropriate for Counterdrug Coordinators (CDCs) and select senior leader personnel approved by the respective CDC 
Seminar Description:  The Counterdrug Senior Leader’s Seminar (CDSLS) will provide a basic understanding of the various facets of the regulatory requirements involved in managing a state CD program.  This seminar focuses on an initial introduction and overview of CD Program facets.  Upon completion, attendees will comprehend the policies, procedures, and responsibilities governing the utilization of National Guard and Department of Defense (DOD) resources in the National Guard Counterdrug Support Program.  This course when executed in the National Capital Region (NCR) will include a No-Host social on the first evening, a Tour of NGB-J3-CD facilities (w/introduction to all NGB-J3-CD Staff members), an Arlington National Cemetery tour, and an optional  ONDCP site visit /  DC War Memorials Tour.
Course content:  CD program overview, Organizational structure, History, Funding, CD Training & Schools, Communication with legislators, Governor’s State plans, Personnel & Administration, CD Operations, CMIS overview, Legal aspects, JSAP overview, Safety, Logistics overview, CPE overview, NGB-J3-CD Tour (JP1 Arlington, VA) and various socials and monument visits in the National Capital Region (NCR) area.
Prerequisites: Familiarization with NGR 500-2 & applicable NGB-CD All States Letters, CMIS Handbook, CPE Checklist.  CDC’s should bring their State Plan and State SOP (if available).

DDR Stay on Track
Duration: 4 days (32 hours)
Designed for:  National Guard Counterdrug Personnel
Course Description:  The Stay on Track (SOT) 101 course familiarizes participants with the SOT program being implemented by the National Guard (NG) Drug Demand Reduction (DDR) program in 45 states and territories.  The SOT curriculum is designed to reduce future substance abuse by middle school students. Special emphasis is given to alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, inhalant, club drug, and prescription drug use, due to their prominence among middle school students.  The course also provides participants with the knowledge and tools needed to certify additional NG personnel, middle school teachers, and volunteers to facilitate the SOT program in middle schools and youth programs the National Guard supports. Participants who successfully complete the program will be certified by the National Center for Prevention and Research Solutions (NCPRS) to facilitate the SOT program and to certify others to facilitate the program .
Visit www.stayontrack-online.com for additional information about the SOT program and the National Guard’s involvement.
Course content: Overview of SOT development, educational standards, SOT structure & training materials, evaluation methodology, change theory, teaching styles, learning styles, lesson presentation, certification of others, community outreach and when possible; actual practice lesson with an SOT Mentor at an actual Middle school.

*** YOU MUST USE THE AIR FORCE KNOWLEDGE NOW (AFKN) PORTAL - COUNTERDRUG COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE TO REGISTER FOR STAY ON TRACK COURSE - REGISTRATIONS ON THE NCTC SYSTEM WILL NOT BE PROCESSED ***

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