Traditional Training & Mobile Training Teams
MCTFT offers traditional classroom training at our locations or yours, providing law enforcement officials with quality instruction in all aspects of counterdrug law enforcement and training. We offer dozens of traditional classes ranging from Analytical Investigative Techniques to Undercover Operations.
Listed here are all the traditional classroom courses that MCTFT offers. Click on the title of the course to get a brief description and click on the link within for a detailed description. Course pages best viewed with Firefox Web Browser v88.0.1 and above.
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Analytical Investigative Techniques Overview
This 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, you 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. This course is designed for law enforcement personnel with NO analytical experience who wish to learn and understand basic investigative analytical techniques.
Asymmetric Threat Recognition
This class gives the 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.
Clandestine Laboratory Awareness
This course is designed to provide first responders with the knowledge to recognize and survive a clandestine lab encounter. This course also addresses the many facets of methamphetamine history, effects and new trends in production. 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.).
Conspiracy Investigations -- also available online
Conspiracies involving the activities of complex drug organizations with numerous individuals and a variety of crimes are inherently difficult to investigate and successfully prosecute. The goal of this course is to familiarize the investigator with the basics of what it takes to conduct conspiracy investigations from start to finish and to ensure prosecution and conviction of conspirators.
Conspiracy Investigations - Overview
Activities of complex drug organizations are inherently difficult to investigative and successfully prosecute. The goal of this course is to familiarize the investigator with the legal elements related to conspiracy investigations as well as the basics of investigating and prosecuting these crimes.
Courtroom Testimony
This course will focus on training drug officers to articulate facts in a courtroom or deposition setting in a professional and accurate manner as a means to successful prosecution. Topics of the course will encompass documentation; pre-trial meetings, depositions, and preliminary hearings; types of court cases; types of examination; courtroom demeanor and attire; testifying; defense tactics in the courtroom; witness credibility; experience documentation, and a mock trial practical exercise using counterdrug scenarios.
Current Drug Trends -- also available online
The goal of this course is to 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.
Dismounted Movement Techniques
This course is designed to give the Narcotics Officer the knowledge to plan, organize, and conduct dismounted movement in a rural environment.
Domestic Drug Interdiction
This program provides classroom presentations and scenario-based training in the interception of narcotics. It outlines programs and techniques utilized to assist narcotic officers in developing partnerships with the business community in identifying violators who use legitimate businesses to facilitate narcotic trafficking. The course will outline comprehensive investigative techniques to identify behavior and conduct of the drug violator in various key settings, to include: hotels/motels, airports, commercial bus stations, parcel/package businesses, storage facilities, rental car agencies and train stations. The program also provides instruction in knock and talks, currency seizures, stash houses, and the role of the narcotic canine. Off-site practical exercises will be used to reinforce these investigative techniques. In addition, it will provide legal foundation for the techniques, to include constitutional procedure, search and seizure, and Fourth Amendment issues.
Drug Training for Investigators
This all-encompassing counterdrug course allows participants to obtain the skills necessary to work within a multijurisdictional counterdrug task force, and through its resources, bring a drug trafficking case to prosecution. The Drug Training for Investigators training program introduces the skills required to initiate and bring to prosecution a drug trafficking case while assigned to a narcotics unit. The program begins with classroom lectures which provide the knowledge necessary to develop an investigation. As the course proceeds, a simulated scenario provides investigative leads for the participants. Scenario events will include informant interviews, undercover operations, foot and vehicle surveillance, raid and arrest practical exercises, and search warrant and courtroom preparation. The course also identifies the various military and civil support capabilities available to law enforcement. Drug Training for Investigators is an introductory course intended for law enforcement new to narcotics investigations. Since this is an introductory course the topics presented only cover basic concepts.
Highway Vehicle Stops and the Drug Trafficker -- also available online
This course will provide instruction to law enforcement officers on highway 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. This course will include practical exercises for interviewing techniques and vehicle searches on cars, small trucks and commercial tractor trailers.
International Money Laundering Investigations -- also available online
This course will give the investigator/agent the ability to recognize potential money laundering violations, both international and domestic, while investigating narcotics related violations. The course 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.
Introduction to the PRC-152 Radio
Narcotics Officers are faced with communication coverage gaps within local networks, this problem is even more evident in rural or austere locations where communication is imperative, and officers often have to rely on radios for push-to talk capability. This class gives the Narcotics Officer the tools to operate, maintain, and plan long range communications in austere locations using the PRC-152 Harris Radio.
Land Navigation
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.
Marijuana Grow Investigations
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 - Indoor
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
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.
Mission Planning
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).
Multi-Weapon Operator Course
The 12 to 24 hr Multi-Weapon Operator Course was developed to train Narcotics enforcement officers in the function, handling, and employment of their agency issued Semi-Automatic carbine, shotgun and pistol in an attempt to increase officer safety during employment in the execution of their Narcotics Enforcement duties.
Observation Techniques
This course gives the Narcotics Officer the understanding of different techniques that may be used during observation operations. The course develops the comprehension and understanding of activities and events that are witnessed by the Officers. The course further develops the Officer’s ability to recall and record information gathered during the awareness phase, leading to a better decision making process.
Officer Survival
This course will enhance Law Enforcement Officer/Agent survivability in a close quarter’s encounter with an unarmed subject, by building on current Defensive Tactics knowledge.
Patrol Rifle
The 16 hr Patrol rifle course was developed to train Narcotics enforcement officers in the function, handling, and employment of their agency issued Semi-Automatic carbine(Patrol Rifle) in an attempt to increase officer safety during employment in the execution of their Narcotics Enforcement duties.
Pharmaceutical Drug Investigations
Diverting Pharmaceutical drugs from their prescribed and appropriate use is a major problem not only to our law enforcement but also to our health care professionals. The goal of this course is to present an in-depth overview of various prescription substances, review their symptomatology, learn CSA & Drug Scheduling, and discuss diversion techniques which sworn law enforcement officers will likely encounter in their duties. Methods of diversion such as prescription forgery, doctor shopping, faking illness and injuries, nursing home drug diversion, internet pharmacies, and “gray market” pharmacies will be discussed. Included are investigative techniques to detect activity and apprehend violators.
Prescription Opioids/Opiate Investigations and Overdose Response For Law Enforcement Officers & First Responders
Prescription Opioids/Opiate Investigations and Overdose Response For Law Enforcement Officers & First Responders
This 8-hour course is designed to meet the immediate training needs of any law enforcement, 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.
Topics covered include:
- Trafficking Trends
- Drug Identification Related to Opioids/Opiates
- Fentanyl and Cafentanyl
- Dark Web/Bitcoin Investigations
- Prescription Drug Investigations and Role of the DEA Tactical Diversion Squad
- DEA Clandestine Laboratory Team Response to Opioids/Opiates Enforcement Operations
- Officer Safety Related to Opioid/Opiate Handling
- Hazards During Enforcement Operations and Other Encounters
React to Tactically Trained Subject
This class gives the Narcotics Officer the tools to recognize, assess and take proper precautions when faced with the possibility of a Tactically Trained Subject. This course is designed to increase Officer Safety when dealing with this increasing threat.
SCoRE - Secret Compartment Recognition Education
This course will provide law enforcement officers 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. Officers will 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. This class will emphasize hands on scenarios using commercial vehicles.
Supervising Counterdrug Operations -- also available online
This course is designed for law enforcement officers 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.
Supervising Counterdrug Operations Executive
This course is designed to provide executive-level law enforcement managers with insight into critical issues of counterdrug operations. Attendance should be limited to command-level executive positions (e.g., chief, sheriff, director, task force board members). The attendee will learn management practices that will ensure a stable command and control attitude of first line and middle managers for counterdrug task force operations.
Surveillance Operations -- also available online
This course will provide students with an understanding of the principles of basic surveillance techniques as they apply to the different types of surveillance performed by narcotic officers. During this presentation, the 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.
Tactical Drug Operations
This is an intensive “tactical” applications course designed for the explicit purpose of officer safety for those officers involved in high-risk encounters with subjects implicated in drug and other investigations. The training is relevant for federal, state and local drug task forces, narcotics squads, officers who encounter drug violators in their patrol duties, and teams investigating and executing arrest warrants for subjects involved in drug trafficking and violent crimes. The training is offered at two locations: Camp Blanding, Florida, and the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth, Georgia. These sites provide the necessary facilities for the intensive hands-on and scenario-based training used throughout this class. High-impact learning is aided by Simunitions-equipped weapons for tracking operational skills and student survival behaviors. Exercises develop skills of rules of engagement relevant for traditional police activities and military-law enforcement.
Tactical Drug Operations - Three Day
This is an intensive “tactical” applications course designed for the explicit purpose of officer safety for those officers involved in high-risk encounters with subjects implicated in drug and other investigations. The training is relevant for federal, state and local drug task forces, narcotics squads, officers who encounter drug violators in their patrol duties, and teams investigating and executing arrest warrants for subjects involved in drug trafficking and violent crimes. The training is offered at host locations which can provide proper facilities and tactical supplies for both the classroom and the intensive hands-on training. High-impact learning is aided by Simunition-equipped weapons for tracking operational skills and student survival behaviors. Exercises develop rules of engagement skills relevant for traditional police activities and military-law enforcement.
Tactical Medic (TacMed)
This class helps to train first responders to provide lifesaving interventions to wounded officers and civilians in a life threatening environment.
Techniques for Financial Investigations
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.
Tracking
This class is designed to introduce and enhance basic tracking skills. At the end of training students will have a better understanding of rural perimeter and cordon techniques.
Undercover Operations
This course will provide curriculum regarding drug interception investigative techniques in an undercover setting for narcotic investigators in the field. The course discusses multijurisdictional standards and techniques utilized by investigators in undercover counterdrug operations. The attendee learns the skills utilized in advanced undercover roles while performing multijurisdictional task force operations. 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, long range undercover operations requiring the officer to function outside of an officer’s immediate jurisdiction, undercover intelligence, basic surveillance techniques, the use and management of informants, the undercover operation process, flash roll management, undercover roles in “reverse” undercover settings, special concerns for women in undercover operations, dangers of undercover operations, psychological concerns for the undercover agent, and undercover operation risk management.
Weapon Malfunctions - AR Series Rifle
This course provides the participant with the necessary skills to reduce malfunctions on the AR Series Rifle.