SYNOPSIS

Top Gun employs a mix of mediums to enhance learning. The course is built around lectures, straightforward fact-based scenarios, mini working groups, and hands-on practical applications. The course is designed to be interactive among the participants. The course is intended for officers and prosecutors currently involved in narcotics-related law enforcement. The course culminates with realistic full-contact raids on drug houses. The course will be held at Gowen Field, and all students must stay on base throughout the training.

OBJECTIVE

Idaho Top Gun: Undercover Drug Investigation Course is a seven-day training program designed to train officers and prosecutors involved in undercover narcotics enforcement and prosecution on a wide range of topics related to narcotics enforcement.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTORS

All Top Gun instructors have successfully completed a Top Gun course and are comprised of officers from multiple state, local and federal agencies from around the Northwest.

REGISTRATION

This course is free. Registration link can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

This course is designed to enhance the ability and skills of all attendees to identify, detect and successfully articulate, to a judge or jury, your decision to apprehend the drug trafficker, distributor and/or the drug impaired person. Topics include:

• Officer safety considerations

• Public safety measures

• NARCAN utilization

Objective

Instances where this training can be applied include calls for service where persons are involved in disturbances, juveniles using drugs on school grounds and domestic violence. This training can also be used when handling the confidential informant being utilized in a narcotic investigation and all other enforcement needs where the person or persons are under the influence of a drug.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTOR

Provided by Western Regional Counterdrug Training Center

REGISTRATION

This course is free. Registration link can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

The course covers drug-in-field training, undercover surveillance, and counter surveillance, as well as how to properly investigate, document, and make arrests for drug violations.

OBJECTIVE

This course is designed to enhance the effectiveness of the individual criminal investigators skills in performing the multi-disciplined, multi-level tasks necessary to successfully conduct comprehensive major drug investigations.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTOR

Provided by Western Regional Counterdrug Training Center

REGISTRATION

This course is free. Registration link can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

This course is designed to teach Law Enforcement Officers and other first responders how to treat and manage trauma patients in a civilian tactical environment. Utilizing a mix of classroom presentation and hands-on skills training, attendees will learn how to provide life-sustaining treatments in threatening conditions.

OBJECTIVE

Upon course completion, students will be able to identify and treat the leading causes of preventable death in a multi-phase tactical environment.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTOR

WRCTC Instructors

REGISTRATION

This course is free. Registration instructions can be found on the course flyer.

Synopsis

This course is designed to teach Law Enforcement Officers and other first responders how to treat and manage trauma patients in a civilian tactical environment. Utilizing a mix of classroom presentation and hands-on skills training, attendees will learn how to provide life-sustaining treatments in threatening conditions.

objective

Upon course completion, students will be able to identify and treat the leading causes of preventable death in a multi-phase tactical environment.

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instructor

Western Regional Counterdrug Training Center (WRCTC) Medical Cadre

Registration

This course is free. Registration instructions can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

Top Gun employs a mix of mediums to enhance learning. The course is built around lectures, straightforward fact-based scenarios, mini working groups, and hands-on practical applications. The course is designed to be interactive among the participants. The course is intended for officers and prosecutors currently involved in narcotics-related law enforcement. The course culminates with realistic full-contact raids on drug houses.

OBJECTIVE

Idaho Top Gun: Undercover Drug Investigation Course is a seven-day training program designed to train officers and prosecutors involved in undercover narcotics enforcement and prosecution on a wide range of topics related to narcotics enforcement.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTORS

The course is instructed by subject matter experts from the Idaho State Police, local police agencies and State & Federal prosecutors.

REGISTRATION

This course is free. Registration link can be found on the course flyer.

synopsis

The course covers drug-in-field training, undercover surveillance, and counter surveillance, as well as how to properly investigate, document, and make arrests for drug violations.

objective

This course is designed to enhance the effectiveness of the individual criminal investigators skills in performing the multi-disciplined, multi-level tasks necessary to successfully conduct comprehensive major drug investigations.

course flyer

instructor

Provided by Western Regional Counterdrug Training Center

registration

This course is free. Registration link can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

Classroom presentation will provide students with the principles and techniques available in conducting money laundering investigations.

objective

Upon successful completion of this course, the investigator/prosecutor will be able to identify and investigate money laundering schemes utilizing the financial investigative techniques approach known as conducting Parallel Financial Investigations.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTOR

John LaFear retired after over 24 years of service as a Special Agent with the Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). He held various management positions including Director of Advanced Training at CI's National Training Academy.

REGISTRATION

This course is free. Registration link can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

Classroom presentation will provide students with the principles and techniques available in conducting money laundering investigations.

OBJECTIVE

Upon successful completion of this course, the investigator/prosecutor will be able to identify and investigate money laundering schemes utilizing the financial investigative techniques approach known as conducting Parallel Financial Investigations.

COURSE FLYER

iNSTRUCTOR

John LaFear retired after over 24 years of service as a Special Agent with the Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). He held various management positions including Director of Advanced Training at CI's National Training Academy.

REGISTRATION

This course is free. Registration link can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

This is a foundation specialty course designed for peace officers who are currently assigned or will be assigned to investigate sensitive cases and investigations.

OBJECTIVE

This course will provide concepts, techniques, and investigative skills for newly assigned narcotic officers, task force agents, plainclothes officers, tactical officers, and uniform patrol who are or may be assigned to assist specialized units and operations. The course is also designed to enhance the effectiveness of the individual investigator in performing the multi-disciplined, multi-leveled tasks and duties necessary to conduct comprehensive special unit investigations and operations.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTOR

Epi Sevillo is a retired Special Agent Supervisor and Task Force Commander. He has 34 years of public service, 4 years in the United States Marine Corps attached to a special warfare airborne combat unit and 30 years as a law enforcement veteran.

REGISTRATION

This course is free. Registration link can be found on the course flyer.

synopsis

The agenda includes:

• Informant Management

• Operational What-Would-You-Do

• Panel on Task Force Operations

• Drug Flow to the Pacific Northwest

• Public Speaking & Public Information Considerations

• Incident Management & Operational Warning Signs

• Tactical Considerations for Supervisors & Group Dynamics

• Overdose Cases from the Supervisory Level

• Networking & Information Sharing

• Plus, networking socials both evenings

requirements

Must be a sworn WA, OR or ID narcotics unit supervisor or commander.

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Instructors

Course will be taught by current tenured narcotics unit supervisors and commanders from federal, state, and local agencies across Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

registration

This course is free. Attendees are responsible for travel and hotel costs. Registration link can be found on the training flyer.

SYNOPSIS

A course for planning high risk warrants, vehicle interdictions, dignitary protection and large events.

OBJECTIVE

Improve time and information management by utilizing time-tested formats that are easy to implement; and increase officer safety by identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTOR

Instructor provided by WRCTC

REGISTRATION

This course is free. Registration link can be found on the training flyer.

SYNOPSIS

Microsoft Excel® for Public Safety™ is designed to help public safety personnel best utilize Microsoft Excel ® to successfully manage law enforcement specific data.

OBJECTIVE

Whether it is case specific data (e.g. telephone tolls, financials) or agency-wide data (e.g. arrest stats, fugitive lists, calls for service), it can be analyzed with just a few clicks using this powerful tool!

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTOR

Instructors are provided by Police Technical

REGISTRATION

This course is free and limited to 40 students. Registration instructions can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

This 24-hour class will consist of classroom lecture and outdoor practical exercises deploying surveillance tactics into planning a drug buy, collecting surveillance evidence, briefings, surveillance reports, vehicle follows and end of mission debriefings.

OBJECTIVE

• How to conduct surveillance from a vehicle and on foot

• Effective strategies for conducting surveillance

• Briefings

• Take a-ways

• Highways, city streets, & dead ends

• Detecting counter surveillance

• Practical exercises

• Debriefings

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTORS

Sergeant David Chambers, Oregon State Police

Sergeant Brent Sitowski, Oregon State Police

REGISTRATION

The course is limited to 20 students. Registration instructions can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

How do we think? How do we make decisions? are two important questions for law enforcement personnel and analysts. The process by which LE professionals make decisions can impact and affect scores of lives, both internal to our departments and the public at large. In a concise two-day course, personnel are active in discussing and applying the concepts by which we make our decisions.

Who Should Attend: This class is designed for detectives, patrol officers, and analysts.

OBJECTIVE

Day One: Define Critical Thinking; Common Intellectual Principles; Critically Reading/Writing; Claims/Arguments; Thinking; Where do we get our information (Data)?; Sources; How to distinguish good data.

Day Two: Allowing the data/evidence to lead; Problem Identification; Decision Making; Systems/Processes/Procedures; Impact of Technology; Creating Intelligence Products using Critical Thinking; Speaking Truth to Power.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTORS

Instructors are provided by Police Technical

REGISTRATION

This course is free and limited to 45 students. Registration instructions can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

Whether responding to a critical missing person, a homicide, or a hostage barricade, students learn step by step how to exploit mobile technology in real time and how to interpret the data available from the various service providers.

OBJECTIVES

Day One

1. Capabilities of Mobile Technology

2. Exigency Requests, Line Captures, Telephone, and Internet Service Restrictions

3. Legal Demands and What You Should Ask of a Service Provider

4. Hands-on exercise with Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint Records

5. Using Call Detail Records to Conduct a Complete Interview or Negotiation

6. Interpreting Real Time location services data from Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile

Day Two

1. Dropped Phone and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) investigations

2. Legal Demands Associated with Spoofing, SWATing, Harassment, and VOIP investigations

3. Identifying offenders who exploit Craig’s List, Offer Up, and other online sales sites

4. Special Hazards for Law Enforcement involving mobile applications

5. Case Studies of Telephone Misuse Cases and How to Identify Offenders

6. EXIF Data and open source intelligence gathering

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTORS

Instructors are provided by Police Technical

REGISTRATION

This course is free and limited to 24 students. Registration instructions can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

The course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of international and organized crime groups and transnational criminal organizations, with specific emphasis on their criminal activities and how they impact the United States.

OBJECTIVE

Students will examine the often complex working relationships between drug cartels, organized crime groups, transnational gangs, and the criminal street gangs of the United States. They will also be introduced to practical investigative tools to combat the influence and spread of transnational organized crime and their criminal partnerships.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTOR

Instruction provided by Blue Line Academy

REGISTRATION

This course is free and intended for all members of the law enforcement community including patrol officers, correctional officers, detectives, special assignment personnel, federal agents, tribal officers, analysts, parole and probation officers, and prosecutors. Registration instructions can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

This course covers drug-in-field training, undercover surveillance and counter surveillance as well as how to properly investigate, document, and make arrests for drug crimes.

OBJECTIVE

This course is designed to enhance the effectiveness of the individual criminal investigators skills in performing the multi-disciplined, multi-level tasks necessary to successfully conduct comprehensive major drug investigations.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTOR

Provided by Human Domain Solutions

REGISTRATION

Registration for this course is Free. Registration instructions can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

This workshop is designed as a two day training and networking event for analysts supporting narcotics related investigations or analysis.

OBJECTIVE

This workshop is designed for analysts to meet their peers from across the state, to help foster networking and to learn what assets are available to them.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTORS

To be determined.

REGISTRATION

Registration for this course is Free. Registration instructions can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

This three-day course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of criminal street gangs as well as the fundamentals of effective gang investigation.

OBJECTIVE

Students of this course will learn relevant definitions, overall gang recognition, proper documentation and classification of criminal gangs and gang members, how to develop expertise for affidavits and courtroom testimony. The course will also provide an overview of influential gangs nationwide as well as a current perspective of gangs in the instruction area.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTOR

Andy Eways - Blue Line Academy

REGISTRATION

The course is limited to 30 students. Registration for this course is Free. Registration instructions can be found on the course flyer.

SYNOPSIS

This course is designed to teach first responders (LE, Fire, EMS, etc.) how to treat and manage trauma patients in a Law Enforcement tactical environment.

OBJECTIVE

Utilizing a mix of classroom presentation and hands-on skills practice, attendees will learn how to provide life-sustaining treatments in threatening environments.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTOR

Provided by WRCTC

REGISTRATION

This course is limited to 25 students. Registration is Free. Registration instructions can be found on the course flyer.