Course Length: 5 days (40 hours)

MCTFT Coordinator: Gail Walker (727-344-8020)

This course is designed to emphasize the fundamental policy, leadership skills, and legal principles necessary to acquire proficiency in directing the efforts of a proactive drug enforcement unit. This course will present fundamental and advanced supervisory concepts, strategies, and techniques in policy, leadership, and legal principles. This course provides an ethics based approach to leadership and management principles in drug law enforcement and includes leadership skills development as well as the day-to-day management of a drug unit or task force. Practical scenarios will be used to help aid the learning process. This course will provide an update on all recent counter-narcotics related U.S. Supreme Court decisions and other pertinent decisions handed down by U.S. Circuit Courts.

Course Objectives

  • Identify key traits of successful supervisors of drug units.
  • Identify supervision tools to deal with discipline issues.
  • Describe the makeup of a drug unit to include types of team members and skills provided.
  • Conduct a drug threat analysis.
  • Describe the importance of drug unit policies.
  • Describe case law and legal issues that are the foundation for proper procedures while conducting a drug investigation.
  • Discuss operational planning to include types of plans, UC buys, surveillance, search warrant execution.
  • Understand the importance of confidential informants in the investigative process, associated policies and documentation.
  • Discuss officer safety issues for all members of the team.
  • Understand forfeiture policies and procedures.
  • Plan a drug investigation.

Overview of topics

  • Drug Unit Levels of Supervision
  • Management of a Drug Unit, Critical Tasks for Drug Unit Supervisors
  • Leadership & Leadership Skills Development
  • Problem Employees
  • Team Member Selections
  • Development of agency standard operating procedures (SOP)/Unit Policies
  • Case Law/Legal Aspects of Conducting Drug Investigations
  • Drug Recognition, Current Local and National Drug Trends
  • The Role of Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCO) in the Domestic Drug Trade
  • Drug Unit Field Operations
  • Violence and Risk Management in Undercover (UC) Operations
  • Buy Money Management
  • Operational Planning
  • Confidential Informant Management
  • Undercover Officer Safety
  • Forfeitures
  • Drug Investigations Involving Police Officers

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