Traditional Training (Including Mobile Training Teams)
MCTFT offers traditional training on our campuses or at your location using mobile training teams. We provide quality instruction to military and law enforcement in all aspects of counterdrug enforcement and training. We offer dozens of traditional classes ranging from Analytical Investigative Techniques to Tactical Medical.
Listed here are all the traditional courses that MCTFT offers. Click on the title of the course for specifics. Class schedules can only be viewed in Firefox Web Browser v88.0.1 and above.
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Analytical Investigative Techniques Overview
Description: This course is for law enforcement personnel with no analytical experience who wish to learn and understand basic investigative analytical techniques. The course is designed to teach very basic investigative analysis techniques using drug-related data. The classroom presentation will include instruction on techniques used in the investigative analysis of a narcotics case. By the completion of the course, the student will understand the processes and techniques used by analysts for investigations. You will also be able to analyze and summarize case data in a clear, concise and graphical format.
Length: 24 hours
Asymmetric Narcotic Threat Recognition
Description: Gives narcotics officer the tools to recognize, assess and take proper precautions when faced with the possibility of a booby trap, IED and or the precursors, compounds and equipment needed to produce and activate these devices. This course is designed to increase officer safety when dealing with this increasing threat.
Length: 5 hours
Objectives: Types of devices, methods of activation, outdoor locations/signs or indicators/precautions/actions, indoor locations/signs or indicators/precautions/actions, signs and indicators of HME (home made explosives) mixing and precursor procurement, precautions and actions.
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Pistol for Narcotic Officers
Description: This course was developed to train narcotics enforcement officers in the function, handling, and employment of their agency issued handgun in an attempt to increase officer safety during its employment in the execution of their narcotics enforcement duties.
Length: 8 hours
Objectives: Expose the student to militarily unique considerations in the application of pistol handling, safety, reloading, malfunction mitigation and red dot sight employment (for those that have them). By providing these skills and much more the student achieves a greater respect and confidence in their pistol platform.
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Rifle for Narcotic Officers
Description: This course trains narcotics enforcement officers in the function, handling, and employment of their agency issued rifle in an attempt to increase their safety, subject safety and the public at large during the execution of their narcotics enforcement duties.
Length: 8 hours
Objective:
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Clandestine Laboratory Awareness
Description: This one-day course covers drug and explosive labs. Several illegal drug lab manufacturing processes will be reviewed, along with their hazards. Understanding the process helps to identify an illegal lab and the associated hazards. First Responders may find themselves exposed to the hazards of a lab while responding to calls for service that have nothing to do with a Clandestine Lab. Recognizing the characteristics of a lab is paramount to your safety while in the lab setting and actions to take once you have gotten out of the lab. Agencies hosting this course are encouraged invite other local first responders to this session (Fire, EMS, Probation and Parole, Corrections, Division of Family Services, Social Services, Department of Environmental Protection, etc.).
Clandestine Laboratory Certification and Site Safety Officer Certification
Description: This course is designed to provide the certification required to process a clandestine laboratory, rolling clan lab, or dumpsite to include assessment, hazard mitigation, evidence collection, chemical handling and documentation set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120 Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) and EPA 40 CFR 311. In addition, this course meets the requirements for Site Safety Officer Training.
Counter Transnational Organized Crime
Counterdrug Observation Techniques
Description: Gives military and law enforcement the understanding of different techniques that may be used during observation operations.
Length: 4 hours
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Counterdrug Tracking
Description: This course will introduce and enhance basic tracking skills. At the end of training students will have a better understanding of rural perimeter and cordon techniques.
Length: 24 hours
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Countering TCO Narcotic Trafficking in SE U.S. and FL
Description: This course is designed to introduce law enforcement officers and investigators to narcotics trafficking in the United States with a focus on Florida. Discussion of trafficking of narcotics in a legal, economic, political and social context, identifying the scope of the global problem, different forms of narcotics trafficking, regional trends and practices, focusing on trafficking in the United States and the different actors involved at all levels.
Length: 8 hours
Counternarcotics Financing Training
Description: This dynamic 3-day training program offers an unmatched experience for financial investigators and intelligence analysts! In a mixture of case studies and “live investigations” students will enter into a simulated scenario of a financial intelligence investigation against a terrorist cell which will realize the importance and benefit of following the financial footprint.
Courtroom Testimony for Narcotic Cases
Description: This training course is designed for all levels of law enforcement and for prosecutors. This course will detail the necessary components to successfully investigate, document, and present the facts of a narcotics case to the court, as well as teach the fundamentals required for preparing and defeating motions to suppress. The student will learn the importance of proper demeanor and attire for narcotics investigators in court.
Crime Terror Nexus
Description: This course is designed to inform military and law enforcement agencies of what qualifies as a TOC versus what qualifies as a terrorist organization. The connection between the terror groups and TCOs and how they use narcotics to finance their goals.
Length: 2 hours (this course is part one of a four-part series still in development)
Current Drug Trends
Description: This course will present an in-depth look at the identification of various controlled and non-controlled substances and their associated paraphernalia that sworn law enforcement officers will likely encounter in their duties. Investigators receive hands-on training in the identification of narcotics and other dangerous drugs and paraphernalia which they will likely encounter in their law enforcement duties. Topics include: scheduling and classification, appearance, physiological and psychological effects, methods of ingestion, possible medicinal and/or cultural uses, slang terminology, weights and diluents, cultivation and production, and clandestine laboratories. This course will further provide an understanding of current and emerging drugs: terminology, appearance, paraphernalia, methods of ingestion, physiological and psychological effects, cultivation and or production and concealment methods. This course will also include the conversion of commonly found legal substances to achieve or mimic drug effects.
Length: 8 hours
Current Drug Trends – Drug Identification for Corrections
Description: This 16-hour class will educate corrections officers, prison guards, and jail nurses on recognizing current drug trends, clandestine clothing, paraphernalia, concealment methods, symbols of the drug world and recognizing the variety of ways contraband is smuggled or mailed to correctional facilities.
Drug Conspiracy Investigations
Description: Conspiracies involving the activities of complex transnational criminal and drug organizations with numerous individuals and a variety of crimes are inherently difficult to investigate and successfully prosecute because of the internal discipline and structure within the organization. Utilizing both conspiracy laws and investigative techniques, the investigators and prosecutors can successfully target and prosecute entire organizations whether for a singular event or a long term historical conspiracy. The goal of this course is to show the student how to successfully target, investigate and prosecute criminal organizations from start to finish. The student will be taught various investigative strategies and techniques, who to target within an organization, how to develop informants within an organization, the types of evidence to obtain, and how to link everything into a successful conspiracy prosecution of a criminal organization.
Drug Interdiction Techniques - Advanced
Description: The purpose of Drug Interdiction Techniques is to target criminal organizations, groups, or gangs who transit illegal drugs, currency, and traffic in people throughout the United States by way of legitimate commercial transportation enterprises. The course deals with investigative methodologies, (consensual encounter techniques and knock and talk) that involve the detection and interdiction of illicit drugs, other contraband items (e.g., weapons, bulk currency, etc.) and the trafficking of people that flow through the nation’s transportation hubs (e.g., airports, commercial trains and buses, commercial parcel/package and freight shipping companies).
Drug Interdiction Techniques - Patrol
Description: This fast paced one-day course is intended for patrol officers and supervisors who want to become more effective in detecting, apprehending, and documenting the arrest of criminals including drug users, drug traffickers, fugitives, gang members, and even terrorists.
Drug Parcel Interdiction and Delivery
Description: As drug trafficking organizations use parcel services more and more to distribute narcotics, it is important we train officers to identify and handle parcel packages containing contraband. This course is for law enforcement officers, including general criminal detectives, narcotics agents, and proactive patrol officers.
Fentanyl Safety for Law Enforcement
Description: The increase of prescription drugs has led to the drastic proliferation of heroin abuse in our society and the emergence of fentanyl analogues. This course will provide students with an understanding of factors that influence the use and abuse of heroin and fentanyl. Starting with the history of opium, participants will explore the evolution of opium and opiates leading to fentanyl and the impact on law enforcement investigations and the communities they serve. The course will discuss safe handling of substances, precautions when encountering those who abuse opiates and opioids, and securing evidence.
Gangs and the Transnational Drug Threat – Gang Combat Dynamics: A Zero Tolerance Approach to Gangs
Description: This course will provide the investigator with strategies to vigorously target, investigate, interview/interrogate, prosecute, and prevent resurgence of criminal street gangs. The program will equip the investigator with the knowledge and tools to “attack” organized gangs by using a multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional approach.
Gangs and the Transnational Drug Threat – Gangs and Guns: Making Your Firearms Cases More Prosecutable
Description: The goal of this course is to familiarize new and seasoned patrol officers, detectives, law enforcement supervisors and prosecutors with techniques to assist in making prosecutable firearms cases.
Gangs and the Transnational Drug Threat – Investigative Techniques
Description: This course is for the patrol officer, investigator or detective who is assigned to a criminal street gang unit or investigation.
Gangs and the Transnational Drug Threat – Jail Gang Intelligence and Interviewing Techniques for Corrections and Law Enforcement
Description: This course is specifically designed to prepare officers to successfully identify gang members, monitor gang activity, effectively gather gang intelligence, and properly conduct successful interviews with hard-core gang members in jail.
Gangs and the Transnational Drug Threat – Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
Description: Thanks to the popular television series, Sons of Anarchy, the country has become enthralled with the idea of outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs). But how realistic is the show?
Gangs and the Transnational Drug Threat – Secret Codes, Signs and Symbols
Description: This course is designed to provide law enforcement officers with knowledge of the covert methods of communication used by gang members in correctional facilities and in other situations where covert communications are used. The emphasis is on deciphering and code-cracking of confiscated documents. Participants will learn how to look for patterns that help to decode documents and develop an appreciation for the ingenuity of criminals to hide their messages. Symbols, colors, hand signs, and tattoos will also be discussed.
Gangs and the Transnational Drug Threat – Target the Entire Gang
Description: This 3-day course will provide experienced investigators, prosecutors, probation and corrections personnel with the investigative and prosecution techniques and strategies to target, indict, and convict entire criminal street gangs.
Gangs and the Transnational Drug Threat – The Prison Connection
Description: This course is primarily for corrections personnel and law enforcement officers working closely with correctional facilities. The influence of criminal street gang members on our prison system and back into our communities is paramount. Methods to identify, monitor and manage these gang members as a security threat group are presented and discussed in this course. The relationship of gang members in prison with their local street gangs is emphasized to include intelligence, communications and criminal activities (drugs, violence, and extortion) in prison and on the streets. Criminal street gang members and Security Threat Group members utilize tactics to promote and further their criminal interests.
Gangs and the Transnational Drug Threat – Tools for the Street
Description: This course is for patrol officers, new detectives and community groups who need to understand the scope of the criminal street gang problem, history, current trends, methods of operation and safety concerns on the street.
Gangs and the Transnational Drug Threat – Transnational Criminal Organizations
Description: This course provides an overview of criminal organizations that operate on a transnational level. The course will examine transnational crime with attention to the methods and movement of illegal drugs, weapons, human trafficking, and money laundering. Analysis of the inter- and intra-operational dynamics will be presented to include organizational psychology, ideology, command and control, modus operandi, and the tactical use of international movement, corruption, and violence. Terrorist organizations and transnational criminals will be studied along with various successful preventive and investigative techniques.
Ground Reconnaissance Phase II
Description: The second phase of the ground reconnaissance course is designed to provide advanced training to operators for standardized operations in support of law enforcement agencies 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. Upon course completion students will be able to rapidly deploy as an integrated team to support domestic counterdrug operations.
Length: 130 hours
This course is for military personnel only. They should use their chain of command to request this course.
Highway Vehicle Stops and the Drug Trafficker
Description: This course will provide instruction to law enforcement officers in techniques of highway interdiction to be used in traffic stops of suspected drug couriers and users. It is the goal of this course to provide these techniques to lead to the safe discovery of illegal contraband and ultimately, a successful prosecution.
History of TCOs
Description: This course is designed to inform military and law enforcement agencies of the history of Transnational Criminal Organizations. The historic rise of illicit networks, with a focus on narcotic primary TCOs.
Length: 4 hours
Illicit Organizational Structures
Description: This course is under development. This course is designed to inform military and law enforcement agencies of the connection between the power brokers in the TCOs, and their facilitators that make up functional illicit networks as well as the TTPs used by illicit facilitators to move narcotics. The course also discusses some of the viable methods used to break down these networks.
Length: 8 hours
INFORMANTS: Development, Management, and Control
Description: This 16-hour class is intended to teach investigators how to develop, manage, and control informants used for narcotic and criminal investigative purposes. The course includes an awareness component, covering the critical information investigators need to know before using informants and during operations, to ensure the safety of all, while building successful prosecutable cases. This course addresses the many potential pitfalls that can arise when using informants and how to prevent criminal and civil liability for the agency as well as internal discipline for the investigator that could lead to termination. Course topics include, but are not limited to, the following: who qualifies as an informant; recruitment techniques for informants; implementing an informant policy; common methods of using an informant; the risk associated with using an informant; and understanding the informant’s motivations.
Length: 16 hours
International Money Laundering Narcotic Investigations
Description: This course gives the investigator or agent the ability to recognize potential money laundering violations, both international and domestic, while investigating narcotics-related violations. Introduces the concepts surrounding money laundering violations with an emphasis on “off shore” schemes, and provides a historical summary of the statutes, from cash reporting through the most current amendments to the federal money laundering statutes. The course will cover the elements of proof needed to charge money laundering and currency reporting violations in both domestic and international cases. The course also deals with the sources of information available to the investigator emphasizing the techniques needed to obtain legally admissible evidence from foreign countries. In addition, the analyst or investigator will learn how to prove the amount of illegal income. Lastly, the participants will be introduced to “exotic” international money laundering schemes as well as ones that are utilizing some of the latest technology.
Length: 24 hours
Interview and Interrogation for Narcotic Officers – Elements for a Successful Interview
Description: The goal of this course is to provide the military and law enforcement investigator with the knowledge and skills to develop and conduct successful information-gathering for all aspects of transnational criminal investigations.
Interview and Interrogation for Narcotic Officers – Interview and Body Language Techniques
Description: This course will address techniques for assessing transnational offenders through knowledge of interview techniques, body language and eye patterns.
Length: 8 hours
Interview and Interrogation for Narcotic Officers – Interviews and Statement Analysis
Description: The goal of this course is to familiarize the new and seasoned military and law enforcement investigators with the various disciplines of “detecting deception” when engaged with face to face interviewing.
Land Navigation for Narcotics Officers
Description: This course gives the narcotics officer the tools to read maps, use a compass and a global positioning system (GPS), and introduces navigation techniques. This course further enhances the confidence of the officer to successfully and safely navigate to an objective, and implement these land navigation techniques into the planning process. Practical exercises are part of this course and we offer over 70,000 acres of training space.
Marijuana Grow Investigations
Description: Upon completion of the course, the investigator will be familiar with cultivation trends in the United States and will be able to identify the signs that indicate the presence of an indoor or outdoor grow operation. The course will emphasize the skills necessary to draft an affidavit for a search warrant and give credible testimony in criminal trials. Further, the investigator will be taught investigative techniques to successfully disrupt and prosecute the violator.
Marijuana Grow Investigations – Advanced
Description: Upon completion of the course, the investigator will be familiar with cultivation trends in the United States and will be able to identify the signs that indicate the presence of an indoor or outdoor grow operation. The course will emphasize the skills necessary to draft an affidavit for a search warrant and give credible testimony in criminal trials. Further, the investigator will be taught investigative techniques to successfully disrupt and prosecute the violator. This course is an expansion of the 2-day course to include various domestic and transnational drug trafficking organizations and site safety.
Marijuana Grow Investigations – Indoor Grows
Description: Upon completion of the course, the investigator will be familiar with cultivation trends in the United States and will be able to identify the signs that indicate the presence of an indoor grow operation. The course will emphasize the skills necessary to draft an affidavit for a search warrant and give credible testimony in criminal trials. Further, the investigator will be taught investigative techniques to successfully disrupt and prosecute the violator.
Marijuana Grow Investigations – Outdoor Grows
Description: Upon completion of the course, the investigator will be familiar with cultivation trends in the United States and will be able to identify the signs that indicate the presence of an outdoor grow operation. The course will emphasize the skills necessary to draft an affidavit for a search warrant and give credible testimony in criminal trials. Further, the investigator will be taught investigative techniques to successfully disrupt and prosecute the violator.
Multi-Weapon Operator
Description: The course begins with a 2 hour classroom portion with a course of instruction for the pistol, rifle and shotgun that covers and introduction, maintenance, loading and clearing procedures, reloading procedures, reduce malfunctions, and marksmanship fundamentals that include proper sight picture, mechanical offset, rifle manipulation, safety, shooting stance, and body position.
Length: 24 hours
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Narcotic Mission Planning and Operations Order
Description: This course is designed to provide an overview of Troop Leading Procedures and the Army Operations Order to officers of a Law Enforcement Agency (LEA). These time-proven methods will add to your mission planning skill set and success.
Length: 4 hours
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Narcotic Officer Survival
Description: This course enhances law enforcement officer/agent survivability in a close quarter’s encounter with an unarmed subject by building on current defensive tactics knowledge.
Length: 24 hours
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Narcotic Search Warrant Service
Description: This course is for units and officers who are executing search warrants but have not had in depth tactical training. It is also beneficial for swat operators who are interested in gaining different perspectives on tactical operations.
Narcotics Patrolling
Description: This course gives the narcotics officers and military personnel the tools to recognize, assess and take proper precautions when faced with a structure when on patrol for a narcotics subject. The course will increase safety and survivability when dealing with this increasing and ever-common threat.
Length: 16 hours
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Night Vision Goggle Familiarization
Description: This course has three options (pick one, some or all): Mod-1 is classroom only, Mod-2 is practical exercises, Mod-3 is live fire (flat range).
Mod-1 classroom is an interactive exploration with students discovering the history of night vision, NVG models, procurement options, how to fully exploit the use of NVGs, theory and principals of NVG functionality, laser and illuminator application in the IR spectrum as well as white light considerations in a zero visibility environment.
Mod-2 practical’s build on what was learned in the classroom with exercises in our Tactical Training Lab. Students are exposed to learning how to use their NVGs properly including focusing, movement, threshold assessment and depth perception appreciation. Additionally, students will see and or apply photonic penetration methods using IR illuminations and will experiment with how their IR and white light tools in a variety of real-world environmental conditions (indoor and outdoor). Finally, students are required to navigate our Lab where they are forced to ascend and descend stairs and ladders, adjust focus, identify objects, move items and complete tasks as a team and navigate obstacles.
Mod-3 live fire (flat range) builds on Mods 1 and 2 and require the student to successfully activate their WL or white light during low light and then transition to laser or white light system in order to safely identify potential threats as the sun fully sets. Other objectives include using IR/WL systems correctly, working as a team when one system goes down, engaging with WL when NVGs are on their eyes but IR aiming lasers are not an option (NVG defeat methods), movement drills, reloading and malfunction clearance drills.
Length: Mod-1: 90 minutes / Mod-2: 2 hours (may be less or only slightly more depending on amount of equipment and persons agency has) / Mod-3: 3 – 5 hours (depending on range used, time of year and needs of the agency).
Objective: To provide agencies with a formal course on NVGs in order to develop the following competencies: safe and confident use around team members, subjects and the public, how to care for these very expensive pieces of equipment, provide knowledge and provoke thought about other accouterments not yet considered for use in the zero visibility environment that may prove useful in the prosecution of LE duties.
Special notes: we realize that every agency doesn’t have IR laser/illuminators and that every team member may not have a set of NVGs. Contact us in order to learn how we can still run this course for your team.
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Pharmaceutical Drug Investigations – Patrol
Description: This course is for street patrol officers/new detectives who need to understand the scope of the problem, recognize the types of crimes that may be encountered, how to respond to the scene, awareness of associated evidence, interview techniques, and documentation to further an investigation for a successful prosecution.
Length: 8 hours
Pharmaceutical Drug Investigations – Advanced
Description: This course is for the detective who is assigned to a pharmaceutical crime unit or investigation. This course will address the crimes associated with pharmaceutical drug diversion, criminal methods, investigative techniques, evidence collection and the importance of involving a prosecutor at the onset to prepare the case for successful prosecution.
Length: 8 hours
PRC 152 Harris Radio Operations
Description: Gives military and law enforcement the tools to operate, maintain, and plan long range communications in austere locations using the PRC-152 Harris Radio.
Length: 7 hours
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Prescription Opioids/Opiate Investigations and Overdose Response
Description: This course is designed to meet the immediate training needs of any military personnel, law enforcement officer, evidence technician, or other first responder personnel who respond to or investigate drug overdose deaths. It is intended as a basic safety familiarization related to opioids/opiates enforcement encounters.
Reducing the Risks for Narcotics Agents
Description: This course is designed for law enforcement investigators, narcotic officers, and supervisors of narcotics units / specialty units. Attendees will learn the importance of continuously weighing the risk vs reward during narcotics operations. Real life scenarios of robberies and operations which have gone “bad” will be reviewed and discussed in length.
SCoRE – Secret Drug Compartment Recognition Education – Mobile
Description: This course provides students with the crucial knowledge to make informed, effective, and coordinated commercial vehicle searches for the purpose of detecting hidden compartments used to transport illegal narcotics and related contraband. Students learn the role that commercial vehicles play in smuggling throughout the country, as well as the techniques and strategies to find these hidden compartments during traffic encounters.
Street Patrol Drug Enforcement Training
Description: This course is for law enforcement officers, and will be especially beneficial for proactive aggressive patrol officers, narcotic agents, and detectives conducting proactive policing. Attendees will leave this course with the ability to write search warrants, conduct successful consensual encounters, deal with problem areas in their venue, develop / gather intelligence while conducting patrol, and successfully conduct video interviews/interrogations.
Supervising Counterdrug Operations – Basic
Description: This course is designed for law enforcement officers and military members who are drug unit commanders or supervisors of drug investigation initiatives. The primary focus of this course is to provide the basic knowledge and skills necessary to develop an increased appreciation of managerial resources used in counterdrug operations and an understanding of how to select, train and lead officers conducting counterdrug missions. Task force organization and management, the restrictions upon task force operations, selection and training of personnel, and related risk assessment and mitigation are highlighted. Presentations are enhanced via several simulations, practical exercises, and an open forum that allows for interactions designed to expose real-life situations.
Length: 24 hours
Supervising Counterdrug Operations – Advanced
Description: 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.
Surveillance Operations (also available online)
Description: This course provides students with an understanding of the principles of basic surveillance techniques as they apply to the different types performed by narcotics officers. Students will become acquainted with the various types and methods of surveillance, the purposes for conducting surveillance, the preparation of surveillance equipment, and the proper execution and documentation of surveillance operations. In the demonstration of basic surveillance techniques, the students will be shown how to apply the various principles discussed in class to actual surveillance situations, including a night time surveillance via practical exercises and scenarios.
Length: 40 hours
Tactical Medical (TacMed)
Description: This class helps to train first responders to provide lifesaving interventions to wounded officers and civilians in a life threatening environment.
Length: 4 hours
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Tactical Weapons Operator for Narcotics Officers
Description: This course will provide the participant with an in-depth overview of the operation, function and employment techniques for the AR-series rifle and pistol. At the end of the class, participants will be able to employ all their weapon types and transition between them. Participants will also practice fundamental skills through practical exercises conducted on the firing range. The class will reinforce communication between operators in a challenging final live fire exercise.
Length: 16 hours
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Techniques for Financial Investigations
Description: This course will provide students with the principles and techniques for the financial aspects of drug-related investigations. This interactive course involves specific case scenarios that will allow the student to conduct financial interviews, identify sources of financial information, utilize indirect methods of proving profitability in illegal enterprises, carry out financial undercover operations, and execute financial search warrants.
Trafficking Overview: Illicit Trade
Description: This course is designed to provide an overview of how human smuggling and trafficking networks are linked to other transnational crimes including drug trafficking and the corruption of government officials. The course includes how the movement of narcotics, criminals, fugitives, terrorists, trafficked persons, and economic migrants are associated. This course gives the student the tools necessary to identify the indicators of human smuggling and trafficking.
Length: 8 hours (this course is part one of a four-part series that is still in development. Forthcoming are: Human Trafficking, Narcotics Trafficking, Interdiction Strategies).
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Click here if you want to take the online, self-paced, version.
Undercover Narcotic Operations
Description: This course is for law enforcement investigators and narcotic officers and will provide training on drug interception investigative techniques in an undercover setting. The course will discuss multijurisdictional standards and techniques for effective yet safe undercover operations. Instructors will cover planning and execution of undercover operations as well as specific techniques for undercover officers. Included are: the complexities of the selection process for undercover agents, the various roles and responsibilities of undercover operation team members, planning an undercover operation, the undercover operation process, long range undercover operations, undercover intelligence, basic surveillance techniques, the use and management of informants, flash roll management, “reverse” undercover operations, special concerns for women in undercover operations, dangers and psychological concerns for the undercover agent, and undercover operation risk management.
Length: 16 hours
Undercover Narcotic Operations – Basic Tactics
Description: This course is for law enforcement officers and will be beneficial for general criminal detectives, narcotics agents, patrol officers, and any other officers interested in proactive narcotic related policing. During this training, agents are provided information to conduct narcotic investigations in a safe yet effective manner. Agents will learn the latest techniques being used by narcotic officers across the country to combat drug trafficking and the distribution of illegal narcotics. With today’s view on policing, it is important to stay current on case law, search warrant execution, and consensual encounters (all discussed in this course). Upon completion of this course, agents will be better prepared to handle every aspect of narcotic investigations. This course offered with or without practical exercises.
Length: 40 hours
Undercover Narcotic Operations – Advanced Tactics
Description: This course is for law enforcement investigators and narcotic officers. Attendees will learn advanced surveillance techniques and effective, yet safe methods to conduct all types of undercover operations. The curriculum includes street level conspiracy investigations, undercover operations, reversal operations, money flashes, and consensual encounters.
Length: 16 hours
U.S. Counter Transnational Organized Crime Strategy
Description: This course provides an overview of 9 related topics in the realm of countering transnational organized crime. The emphasis is on human trafficking, weapons trafficking, and drug trafficking. The course can be tailored to fit the requesting agency’s needs.
Length: 4 hours
Vehicle Contraband Concealment
Description: This course will provide the narcotics officer with an overall view of how contraband is concealed in vehicles and the ethical requirements of law enforcement officers in the search of suspected vehicles. At the end of the class the participant will have knowledge of the latest techniques/methods used by criminals and criminal organizations to prevent detection of contraband. The class will also explore traditional techniques used by law enforcement in the search for contraband and demonstrate how ineffective they are against current concealment techniques.
Length: 16 hours
Request this course by clicking here (takes you to our Training Request Form page).
Vehicle Contraband / Drug Concealment
Description: This course will provide the participant with an overall view of how contraband is concealed in vehicles and the ethical requirements of law enforcement officers in the search of suspected vehicles.
Water Infiltration for Counternarcotic Operations
Description: This course enables the student who needs to conduct a reconnaissance operation on a rural clandestine drug lab or marijuana grow to perform a waterborne infiltration to their subject location.
Length: 8 hours
Objectives: Planning, nautical navigation, various marine characteristics, water safety, water survival, combat swim test, small boat handling as well as kayak handling.
Special notes: Counterdrug will provide Zodiac boats and all required equipment to run them. Agencies are welcome to bring and launch their own boats. We use Camp Blanding’s 2000 acre Kingsley Lake for training.
