Managing Personnel and Organizational Change

Dave Corderman

Hours: 1

Understanding how to make effective change within an organization is a key to effective leadership. When change is introduced, there are certain psychological effects that are predictable.

Field Training Programs: An Introduction

Lt. Steve Kellams

Hours: 2

This course will introduce officers to apprenticeship programs for law enforcement, corrections, communications, fire, and emergency medical services. This course focuses ...

Field Training Programs:

Correcting Poor Performance

Lt. Steve Kellams

Hours: 2

This course is designed to provide officers with an understanding of the proper steps to correct poor performance in new recruits. This course will discuss   ...

Field Training Programs:

Utilizing the Daily Observation Report

Lt. Steve Kellams

Hours: 2

This course will provide officers with the information necessary to complete a daily observation report for the San Jose Model of field training. This course will discuss  ...

Ethical Leadership

Al Malinchak

Hours: 3

This course provides participants with a pragmatic understanding, reflection, and continued discussion of ethical issues and dilemmas in life and the workplace. Participants will engage in exercises to further determine their own ethics and ...

Generational Differences in the Workplace

Chief Jo Vitek

Hours: 1

The different generations in the workplace in today’s law enforcement agencies are identified and examined in this course. For the first time ever, there are four generations in our law enforcement ...

Introduction to Internal Affairs Investigations

Rick Courtemanche, J.D.

Hours: 4

An internal affairs process based on the principles of fairness and responsiveness demonstrates a police agency’s willingness to meet public expectations of unquestionable integrity and ethics.

Advanced Internal Affairs Investigations

Rick Courtemanche, J.D.

Hours: 4

This course is designed for chiefs, commanders, supervisors, and internal affairs/professional standards unit managers and investigators who are central to the administrative investigative process.

Maneuvering Successfully in the Political Environment

Chief Dwayne Orrick

Hours: 2

This course will serve as a primer for identifying key players within the environment and how to build successful relationships with each. This course is not designed to be a comprehensive ...

Recruitment and Retention of Law Enforcement

Chief Dwayne Orrick

Hours: 3

The success of any organization is dependent upon the quality of personnel it attracts and retains. This course provides a comprehensive approach for identifying...

Reducing Liability for the Smaller Agency

Chief Paul Schultz

Hours: 2

Individuals (both pre-service and in-service) and agency managers will be provided with practical, real-life tools necessary to manage their personal careers and individual law enforcement agencies ...

Social Media for Public Agencies

Steve Holt

Hours: 1

Social Media for Public Agencies is a course that provides information and direction to public agencies who are ready to engage with their communities using social media tools. This course will provide specific direction ...

Strategic Planning

Chief David Kurz

Hours: 2

This course will discuss the importance of a creating a strategic plan, implementing it effectively, and utilizing it as a means to not only achieve your agency’s mission but also to engage in the community and promote a positive  ...

The Value Gap

Steve Barger

Hours: 1

The Value Gap module offers a direct path of self-discovery for participants who wish to increase their personal value in the eyes, minds and hearts of their intended audience. The Value Gap offers participants the opportunity to brand l  ...

Connecting the Dots to an American Purpose

Chief Jo Vitek

Hours: 1

The concept of Connecting the Dots is about a police officer’s higher calling. Police are sworn to uphold the United States Constitution. Yet, the vast majority have never read the document they are required to uphold.

Leading By Example

Alan A. Malinchak

Hours: 3

The acronym “ICRELIEF” is used as a conceptual framework to present various leadership concepts germane to a professional position within an organization. These concepts can be applied to both an individual’s personal and professional life.

Child Sex Abuse Prevention Training

Terry Hall

Hours: 3

Child abuse investigators face a tough task. Child sex abuse is one of the worst crimes committed against children but the least reported. This course will assist officers in getting the ...

Domestic Violence: Call Through Investigations

Rod Reder

Hours: 2

A proactive response by law enforcement to a domestic violence incident is key to a successful case. Knowing the state statutes, understanding the victim’s plight, and being able to use your training to read ...

Emergency Vehicle Operation Course (EVOC)

Richard Maxwell

Hours: 3

This lecture will cover the various aspects of operating a police vehicle. Topics will include model policies for vehicle inspection, understanding vehicle dynamics and learning effective control techniques ...

Verbal Judo

Gary Klugiewicz

Hours: 4

Verbal Judo will provide officers with career building, career changing, and career saving conflict prevention and conflict resolution communication tactics. Officers will learn how to make themselves a tactical communicator and keep physically and legally safe ...

Less Lethal Force

Steve Ijames

Hours: 3

In this course, officers will be exposed to the primary issues involved in the safe and effective use of impact projectiles. The content will offer historical information on the evolution of these devices, outline the steps that increase the probability of...

Mission, Vision, and Core Values

Chief Jo Vitek

Hours: 1

The importance of identifying and embedding core values into an agency’s organizational framework will influence the behaviors and decision making of all staff and ultimately develop future leaders within your  ...

Officer Involved Domestic Violence

Rod Reder

Hours: 1

Law enforcement agencies have generally ignored officer involved domestic violence and allowed batterers to continue wearing a badge—enforcing the domestic violence laws that they violate themselves. This program encourages ...

Police Mental Wellness

Andy O'Hara

Hours: 2

This course explores the many issues and problems police officers commonly face with stress in their careers. It outlines the traps many officers fall into, the difference between stress and trauma, and how critical incidents and cumulative stress can shorten a ...

Preparing For and Responding to Celebratory Riots

Chief David L. Kurz

Hours: 1

In this course, Chief David Kurz provides a detailed strategy to address the emerging national phenomenon known as celebratory riots. Many of these events are occurring...

Sovereign Citizens

Brice Allen

Hours: 2

This course will provide vital information about this growing challenge by discussing the most common theories and practices of the sovereign citizen as well as the movement’s ever-changing tactics and techniques, ways to better identify and ...

Police Response to Incidents Involving Psychiatric Disorders (Mental Illness)

Gary Klugiewicz

Hours: 2

Many law enforcement personnel do not receive adequate mental health training, which can result in ineffective and sometimes fatal outcomes. This course ...

Professionalism in the 21st Century

Ray Farris, J.D.

Hours: 2

Professionalism in the 21st Century will look at image problems within the criminal justice field and discuss ways to minimize their negative impact. This course will focus primarily on individuals and their motivation for ...

Cellphone Technology and Data Recovery

Glenn Bard

Hours: 4

This training course is designed to increase the knowledge and effectiveness of investigators in the recognition, use, and display of information that can be derived from background research and cellular data ...

Criminal Drug Interdiction

Greg Goltz

Hours: 4

Officers will see firsthand how criminal patrol techniques can yield large and small drug and other type arrests from traffic stops and other legal contacts. Officers will also learn of the incredibly advanced concealment places in land vehicles that smugglers ...

Death and Homicide Investigations

Tony Monheim

Hours: 4

This course is designed to enable the investigator to immediately interpret what he or she sees upon entering crime scene and to derive from that knowledge an analytical approach to the investigation. Participants will become ...

Fingerprint Identification and Preservation Techniques

John Williams

Kerri McClary

Hours: 3

As law enforcement entities, we do not make the facts; we discover and report them. It is not what we think, but what we can prove. The physical evidence we seek will   ...

Firearms Investigations Training

Ben Hayes

Hours: 3

Increasingly, law enforcement officers and the public face the issue of armed offenders. Whether encountering firearms or investigating firearms related crimes, it is imperative to understand the nature of firearms in the ...

Investigating and Prosecuting Cyber Predators

Steve Dempsey

Hours: 4

Internet crimes against children are among the most under-reported and rapidly-growing crimes. This intense training course is designed to provide officers with practical knowledge and skills to  ...

Officer Involved Shooting Investigations

Chief Russell Fischer

Hours: 4

The purpose of this course is to provide attendees with a basic investigative model that is applicable to all officer involved shooting incidents, regardless of the size of their department. Police officer involved shootings are vastly ...

Practical Kinesic Interviewing Techniques: Phase I

Stan Walters "The Lie Guy"

Hours: 4

This course is designed to help develop a solid foundation for interviewing skills and maximize the amount of usable information gained from any interview. Officers will learn the basic ...

Practical Kinesic Interviewing Techniques: Phase II

Stan Walters "The Lie Guy"

Hours: 4

This course is designed to provide the smart practices needed to manage each interview and gain compliance and cooperation from the interview subject. A confession is NOT the objective—it’s...

Statement Analysis® Interviewing Techniques

Mark McClish

Hours: 2

Statement Analysis® is the process of analyzing how a person phrases his statement in an effort to determine if the person is being truthful or deceptive. People will always word their statement based on all their knowledge.

Six Senses of School Safety

Chris Dorn

Hours: 4

Despite recent events drawing the public’s focus to school shootings, violence is surprisingly not the leading cause of death in schools. And, as Chris Dorn explains in this course, a wide array of dangers can exist in schools beyond just violence. Thus  ...

School Safety: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

MIchael Dorn

Hours: 3

This dynamic, fast-paced, informative and fascinating session will help dispel many of the school safety myths that dominate the American media and popular perception of school staff, students and parents. Course ...

The Root of Violence Part I: Lessons from Jonesboro on School and Gang Violence

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

Hours: 2

This course examines school massacres, common denominators, and preventative actions that can be taken by school administrators and law enforcement.

The Root of Violence Part II: The External Threat and Predicting Terrorist Attacks

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

Hours: 2

Part II provides in-depth training in predicting terrorist attacks, along with effective police response to such attacks.  Colonel Grossman believes “the greatest achievement is the ...

The Root of Violence Part III: School Violence Prevention Tactics

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

Hours: 2

The impact of the video game industry on school violence is explored, along with how parents can contribute to a healthier child in their home.  Col. Grossman also expounds on his Bullet-Proof Mind ...

4th Amendment, Exclusionary Rule and Remedies

Marvin Zalman

This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appealss ...

Search Warrants, Probable Cause, Plain View, and Consent

Marvin Zalman

This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appeals ...

Arrests, Terry Stops, Stop and Frisk, and Warrantless Searches

Marvin Zalman

This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appeals ...

6th Amendment (Right to Counsel, Impartial Jury)

Marvin Zalman

This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appeals. Courses 1–4 focus ...

Police Interrogations, Confessions, Miranda Warnings

Marvin Zalman

This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights ...

Suspect Identification (Lineup, Show up, Photographic Array), Entrapment

Marvin Zalman

This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial ...

Pretrial Process, Bail, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Grand Jury, Discovery

Marvin Zalman

This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appeals ...

The Criminal Trial

Marvin Zalman

This course series serves as an overview to constitutional aspects of criminal procedures, including investigations, arrests, search and seizures, pre-trial processes, trial rights, sentencing, and appeals. Courses 1–4 focus ...

Tennessee Legal Update for Officers

Brian Grisham

Hours: 3

The Legal Update for Officers course is an annual update of developments in Tennessee Law, including recently enacted legislation and criminal case decisions affecting law enforcement. The recently passed ...

Fire Safety

David Jordan

Hours: 1

This training course was designed to prepare all correctional officers for any action or event that could result in a fire. Officers will learn specific tools and procedures for preventing fires and handling them if they should occur. Topics  ....

Use of Force

Cheryl Price

Hours: 1

The purpose of this course it to instruct correctional officers on which policies cover the use of force, when and when not to use force, the different levels of force that can be used, the level of force that should be used in a given situation, and the ...

Right to Know

David Jordan

Hours: 1

The purpose of this course is to provide correctional officers with a general overview of the hazardous chemicals they may come in contact with in a correctional facility and to provide instruction on the proper use and handling of these substances ...

Security Audits and Count Management

Cheryl Price

Hours: 1

This course will focus on maximizing the benefit and credibility of security audits. Physically counting inmates to ensure around-the-clock accountability of all inmates assigned to the institution is the very heart of institutional ...

Segregation

Cheryl Price

Hours: 1

Maintaining full control of inmates and protecting those who are not capable of or simply refuse to function properly in the general population requires having resources to separate those inmates from the rest of the population.

Asbestos Awareness

David Jordan

Hours: 1

This course is designed to enable the officer, administrator, and or custodial worker to describe the physical properties of asbestos, list the most common asbestos containing products, list exposure methods, identify common ways asbestos ...

Cultural Diversity

Cheryl Price

Hours: 1

Cultural diversity continues to be a major focal point of the workplace and our communities. In this course, students will learn how having a healthy perspective on diversity makes an organization more effective by capitalizing on all the ....

Performance Management

Diane Titus

Hours: 1

The basics are included in this module as an introduction to the critical role of Performance Management in organizations. Performance Management processes in different settings may vary in scope and level of detail, but the ...

The Value Gap

Steve Barger

Hours: 1

The Value Gap module offers a direct path of self-discovery for participants who wish to increase their personal value in the eyes, minds and hearts of their intended audience. The Value Gap offers participants the opportunity to brand l  ...

Workplace Harassment

Amber Aziza

Brad Minor

Jonathan Motley

Hours: 2

This course covers a handful of important subjects, including diversity and inclusion, harassment in the workplace, how to resolve conflict, and managing within the law.