Proactive Criminal Patrol

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Length:3 Days (24 Hours)

Designed for: This course is designed for uniformed state, local, federal and tribal law enforcement officials who are interested in enhancing their traffic enforcement activities or developing a traffic enforcement program to serve as an effective means to deter and detect in-transit criminals.

Prerequisites: None

Description: This course is a comprehensive advanced course for law enforcement that focuses on the many issues that are encountered during criminal/drug interdiction patrol stop. This course also concentrates on improving the officer’s conversational and observational skills to facilitatethe development of reasonable suspicion/probable cause. Through these learned techniques the patrol officer will be able to detect and apprehend traveling criminals. The student will be taught how to identify and locate manual, and electronic controlled aftermarket compartments in passenger and commercial motor vehicles that are widely used today by Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCO).

Objectives:

• Have a better understanding of Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCO).
• Criminal drug interdiction concept.
• Articulate initial contact observations.
• Observations prior to lawful traffic stops.
• Key to successful interdiction of drug couriers.
• Other crimes that are discovered during traffic stops.
• The importance of the ethical approach during a traffic stop.
• The importance of the Domestic Highway Enforcement (DHE) Resources, El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) Resources and National Seizure System (NSS).
• Properly process the US Currency Detention.
• Explain the difference between Indicators and Items of Interest.
• Importance of networking in criminal patrol/drug interdiction.
• Three threats of a traffic stop.
• Officer safety issues during traffic stops.
• History and facts of Fentanyl.
• Report writing essentials.
• Three typrs of police-citizen encounters.
• Explain probable cause and reasonable suspicion.
• Three problems that officers face when testifying in court.
• Importance of the roadside interview.
• How to establish rapport during traffic stop.
• The importance of active listening.
• Four types of concealment options in passenger vehicles.
• Evaluate commercial motor vehicle documents.
• Break down the commercial motor vehicle assessment.•
• Be able to conduct a systeematic search to locate load and vehicle concealment.
• Officer safety issues with meth oil during searches.

Taught by  Alex Gonzalez, Southeast Training