Course Length: 2 days (16 hours)
MCTFT Coordinator: Gail Walker (727-344-8020)
Police officers are often creatures of habit and tend to fight crime using traditional methods. This course offers a different approach to combat the problem areas in your community and encourages officers to “think outside the box.” The methods taught have proven effective, resulting in extremely successful investigations. 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.
Course Objectives
- Effectively conduct surveillance using a patrol vehicle
- Properly develop and manage confidential sources
- Properly conduct consensual encounters
- Properly prepare and execute search warrants
- Recognize and identify current trends in illegal drugs
- Identification and proper handling of problematic areas
- Properly conduct a video-taped interview / interrogation
Overview of topics
- Targeting Problem Areas: Prostitution, Street Level Reversal Operations, Hotel / Motel Investigations, Drug Conspiracy Investigations, Club / Bar raids
- Consensual Encounters
- Conducting successful surveillance from a patrol car
- Search Warrant Preparation / Execution
- Confidential Source Development & Management
- Current Case Law
- Videoing Interviews / Interrogations
- Current Drug Trends
Course Schedule and Contacts:
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