U.S. Department
of Justice
Law Enforcement Coordination
MISSION
The Law Enforcement Coordination programs primary mission is to facilitate and promote communication, coordination and cooperation among state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies in the Eastern District of Louisiana by providing resources, information, training and technical assistance, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of the criminal justice system.
This mission is accomplished in many ways, but the main focus of our LEC program is training. The LEC sponsors low cost or no-cost training seminars addressing various subjects pertinent to law enforcement officials. These seminars are made available to all state, local and federal law enforcement agencies. Topics include asset forfeiture and equitable sharing, interview and interrogation, search and seizure, methamphetamine investigation, critical incident stress management, terrorism, Community Oriented Policing, and many other contemporary issues.
Quinn A. Smith is the Law Enforcement Coordinator for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He serves as the point of contact for all law enforcement. For information or assistance concerning federal anti-crime programs or other law enforcement issues, feel free to contact him at 504-680-3003 or quinn.smith@usdoj.gov.
RECENT EVENTS
ALERRT – Solo Officer Rapid Deployment
When: November 25-26, 2019
Where:
(DAY 1) St Charles Parish Sheriff Office Shooting Range 5061 LA-3127, Kilona,LA 70057
(DAY 2) Gretna Middle School, 910 Gretna Blvd. Gretna, LA 70053
Training Summary:
This course is designed to provide the solo officer (off-duty/plain clothes/uniform) with the knowledge, physical skills, and mind set on how to isolate, distract, or neutralize an armed threat like an active shooter.
Key Topics:
- reasons to carry for off-duty/plain-clothes officers
- levels of intervention
- deadly force policies and case studies
- ergonomic considerations for plain clothes carry
- options for mitigating the occurrence of blue-on-blue shootings
- concepts and principles of solo officer movement
- threshold evaluations
- room entry techniques
- post engagement priorities of work
- incident management
Contact:
Lt. Brian Rico, Gretna PD. (504) 329-9735
Quinn Smith, USAO/LEC (504) 421-2089
Non-Emergency Call Handling Course #: 19-1098
When: Nov 19, 2019
Where: Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office
Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Price: $229.00 per person
Training Summary: Whether its 911 or 311, your call center will receive non-emergency calls. How your call takers respond to citizens is crucial to building a successful image for your agency. This class will prepare your team to professionally respond to all types of calls from your citizens.
Topics Covered:
- First impressions
- Customer service goals
- Developing a telephone personality
- Barriers to listening
- Journalistic Investigative Approach
- 300 Call Syndrome
- Reaction principle
- Telephone answering techniques
- Message taking
- Administrative call handling
- Screening callers
- Call transfers
- Information gathering
- Managing stress
- Avoiding burnout
To register: call Anthony at 203.350.0349 or email asepkowski@powerphone.com
Basic Training for Street Gang Investigators
When: Nov 13-15, 2019
Where: New Orleans Police Department Training Academy
4650 Paris Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70122
Time: 8:00am to 5:00pm
Training Summary:
As part of the Project Safe Neighborhood Violent Crime Initiative led by the US Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana, this training is made possible through funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The three-day class offers basic, entry-level training to sworn officers newly assigned to work with street gangs or those with limited experience and/or no formal training in street gang investigations.
Key Topics:
- Basic Gang Awareness: Recognition, Identification, and Documentation
- Developing and Managing Confidential Sources
- Regional Gang Overview
- Prevention/Intervention and the Role of Law Enforcement
- Gang Investigations in the New Era of Policing
- Interviewing Gang Members
- Gang Suppression Strategies
- Trial Prep for the Gang Cop
- Social Media Investigations
Register: https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Register/Basic
Contact: National Gang Center (NGC) at (800) 446-0912, extension 371, information@nationalgangcenter.gov
Quinn Smith, Quinn.Smith@usdoj.gov 504-680-3003
The Impact of Heroin and Fentanyl
When: Sep 20, 2019
Where: 39395 Pine Street, Pearl River, LA 70452
Time: 8:00am to 5:00pm
Price: Free
Training Summary: The increase of prescription drugs has led to the drastic proliferation of heroin abuse in our society and the emergence of fentanyl analogues. This tuition-free, 8-hour Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training course will provide students with an understanding of factors that influence the use and abuse of heroin and fentanyl. Starting with the history of opium, participants will explore the evolution of opium and opiates leading to fentanyl and the impact on law enforcement investigations and the communities they serve. The course will discuss safe handling of substances, precautions when encountering those who abuse opiates and opioids, and securing evidence.
Topics Covered:
- History of Opium
- Heroin, Opiates, and Opioids
- Factors Leading to Abuse
- Substances Used in Conjunction with Opioids/Opiates
- Methods of Drug Ingestion
- Fentanyl
- Drug Interactions with the Body
- Naloxone
- Signs of Opiate/Opioid Use
- Long Term Effects on the Body
- Dangers of Drug
To register: Quinn Smith, Quinn.Smith@usdoj.gov 504-680-3003 or Lt. Gary Ranatza, garyranatza@stpso.com 985-863-6510
http://cpsireg.spcollege.edu/og_register.aspx?23660
Domestic Violence Intervention Course #: 19-1097
When: Sep 19, 2019
Where: Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office
Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Price: $229.00 per person
Training Summary: Make a difference on the next domestic violence call you handle. Learn what questions to ask and what instructions to give when faced with different types of domestic violence calls. This course will provide tele-communicators with new tactics for handling volatile and complex incidents.
Topics Covered:
- Abandoned calls
- Characteristics of battered victims
- Children and domestic violence
- Legal issues
- Restraining orders
- Stalking
- Language barriers
- Cultural/religious differences
- Abusive relationships
- Defense tactics to discredit witnesses
- Essentials of courtroom testimony
- Role-playing exercises
To register: call Anthony at 203.350.0349 or email asepkowski@powerphone.com
Current Drug Trends
When: Aug 23, 2019
Where: 39395 Pine Street, Pearl River, LA 70452
Time: 8:00am to 5:00pm
Cost: Free
Training Summary: Students will learn how to visually identify various controlled and non-controlled substances and related paraphernalia; understand the processes of cultivation and/or production of various controlled and non-controlled substances; develop an understanding and recognition of how legal substances can be abused to achieve an intoxication; understand the methods of ingestion of various controlled and non-controlled substances; possible medicinal and/or cultural uses, weights and diluents, associate slang terms used for various controlled and non-controlled substances with their proper names; and identify various methods to conceal substances.
Topics Covered:
- Drug Scheduling and Classification
- Narcotics
- Cannabis
- Designer Drugs
- Stimulants
- Anabolic Steroids
- Depressants
- Non-controlled Substances
- Hallucinogens
- Clandestine Laboratories
To register: Quinn Smith, Quinn.Smith@usdoj.gov 504-680-3003 or Lt. Gary Ranatza, garyranatza@stpso.com 985-863-6510
http://cpsireg.spcollege.edu/og_register.aspx?23659
Characteristics of Armed Offenders
When: August 8-9, 2019
Where: Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office
1825 W. Willow Street, Lafayette, La 70583
Time: 8:30am to 5:00pm
Training Summary:
This training seminar is designed for Federal, State and Local law enforcement agents/officers that are engaged in the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of violent criminal street gangs, violent felons, and firearms perpetrators. Join our expert trainers for one of the two day events convenient to your agency
Register: https://usaolaetraining.org/PSNLafayette
Contact: Quinn Smith, Quinn.Smith@usdoj.gov 504-680-3003
Characteristics of Armed Offenders
When: August 5-6, 2019
Where: Shreveport Police Department Training Academy
6440 Greenwood Road, Shreveport, LA 71101
Time: 8:30am to 5:00pm
Training Summary:
This training seminar is designed for Federal, State and Local law enforcement agents/officers that are engaged in the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of violent criminal street gangs, violent felons, and firearms perpetrators. Join our expert trainers for one of the two day events convenient to your agency.
Register: https://usaolaetraining.org/PSNShreveport
Contact: Quinn Smith, Quinn.Smith@usdoj.gov 504-680-3003
ALERRT – Active Shooter Response Level 1
When: July 28 to Aug 1, 2019
Where: Gretna Middle School
910 Gretna Blvd.Gretna,La 70053
Training Summary:
This dynamic course of instruction is designed to prepare the first responder to isolate, distract, and neutralize an active shooter.
Key Topics:
- shooting and moving
- threshold evaluation
- concepts and principles of team movement
- setting up for and room entry techniques
- approach and breaching the crisis site
- secondary responder tactics
- improvised explosive devices
- post engagement priorities of work.
Contact: Lt. Brian Rico Gretna PD
Quinn Smith, Quinn.Smith@usdoj.gov 504-680-3003
ALERRT – Active Shooter Response (Train the Trainer)
When: July 14-19, 2019
Where: Gretna Middle School
910 Gretna Blvd, Gretna, La 70053
Training Summary: This course includes the complete delivery of the Active Shooter Level I course of study
Key Topics:
- instructional techniques and methodology for delivering the course
- force-on-force scenario development
- safety protocols and procedures
- graded participant teach-backs
- graded participant-led force-on-force scenarios
- remediation
- video debrief
- course critiques
- evaluations
Contact: Lt. Brian Rico (Gretna P.D.) at (504) 329-9735 or brico@gretnapolice.com
Quinn Smith, Quinn.Smith@usdoj.gov 504-680-3003
ALERRT – Active Attack Integrated Response Course
When: July 10-11, 2019
Where: Central Lafourche HS
4820 LA-1 Raceland, LA 70394
Training Summary:
The AAIR course is designed to improve integration between law enforcement, fire, tele-communicator and EMS in active attack/shooter events. The course provides law enforcement officers with key medical skills based on tactical emergency casualty care guidelines, which can be used at the point of injury to increase survivability of victims.
Contact: Lt. John Champagne # 8415
Quinn Smith, Quinn.Smith@usdoj.gov 504-680-3003
RCTA – Interview and Interrogation Course
When: July 8-12, 2019
Where: St Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office
Training Facility 39395 Pine St. Pearl River, LA 70452
Training Summary:
The purpose of this program is to educate the student on the use of subconscious communication for gathering information in the field of criminal justice with specific emphasis placed on those investigations involving narcotics and the possession and distribution of illegal drugs and related activities.
Contact: Quinn Smith, Quinn.Smith@usdoj.gov 504-680-3003
ALERRT – Active Attack Integrated Response Course
When: July 8-9, 2019
Where: Central Lafourche HS
4820 LA-1 Raceland, LA 70394
Training Summary:
The AAIR course is designed to improve integration between law enforcement, fire, tele-communicator and EMS in active attack/shooter events. The course provides law enforcement officers with key medical skills based on tactical emergency casualty care guidelines, which can be used at the point of injury to increase survivability of victims.
Contact: Lt. John Champagne # 8414
Quinn Smith, Quinn.Smith@usdoj.gov 504-680-3003
Disasters and the Dispatcher Course #: 19-1096
When: Jun 11, 2019
Where: Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office
Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Price: $229.00 per person
Training Summary: Many dispatchers are not fully prepared if a disaster were to affect their community. Disasters can strike anywhere and anytime – including historical flooding along many rivers, deadly tornadoes in several states, and devastating hurricanes. Learn proven methods of gathering information in the least amount of time, while determining the severity and urgency of the call for assistance. Each student will also receive a course manual containing a Continuity of Operations Plan template to be tailored and implemented at their own agency.
Topics Covered:
- Emergency management
- Pre-arrival instructions
- Journalistic investigate approach
- Incident Command System (ICS)
- National Incident Management System (NIMS)
- Continuity of Operations (CONOPS)
- Three classes of threats
- Natural disasters
- Man-made disaster
- Unified call taking principles
To register: call Anthony at 203.350.0349 or email asepkowski@powerphone.com
Protecting Houses of Worship Security Symposium
When: Apr 24, 2019
Where: Tulane University (Uptown Campus) Academic Quad, Richardson Hall
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:00pm
Training Summary: The Federal Bureau of Investigation, New Orleans Division, in collaboration with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana; U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; Anti-Defamation League, Southern Region of Louisiana; U.S. Department of Justice, Community Relations Unit; and Tulane University, will be co-hosting a free “Protecting Houses of Worship” symposium on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. We are inviting all Faith-Based, Multi-Denominational clergy leaders and their security personnel to attend this important information symposium. Key points of discussion will include:
Topics Covered:
- Customer service Active Shooter Awareness
- Active Shooter Preparedness and Response
- Hate Crimes Overview
To register: https://usaolaetraining.org/ProtectingHousesOfWorship
"SURVIVE & THRIVE” Officer Safety & Wellness Training
When: April 9-10, 2019
Where: Belle Chasse
Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Training Summary: This training provides law enforcement officers at the patrol and supervisory levels with information and techniques to utilize throughout their careers.
Topics Covered:
- Causes of officer assaults, injuries, and deaths
- Safety and preparedness mind-set
- Physical health
- Officer-citizen encounters
- Mitigating stress
- Weapon concealment
- Intentional wellness mind-set
- Surviving an assault
- Casualty care and rescue tactics
- Personal protective factors
- Deaths not associated with assaults
- Vehicle safety
- Officer survivor story
- Additional topics covered throughout the course include professionalism, leadership, and critical decision making
To register: call Ms. Jenny Cherry (850) 385-0600 ext. 405 jcherry@iir.comor
https://www.valorforblue.org/VALOR-Training/VALOR-Training-Events/April-9-10-2019-Belle-Chasse-LA
Overdose Death Investigations Seminar
When: Mar 21, 2019
Where: US Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana
650 Poydras Street. 16th Floor
Time: 1:30am to 4:30pm
Price: Free
Training Summary: In the midst of the national opioid crisis, Pittsburgh FBI has a well-established multi-agency task force focused on investigating overdose deaths. Prosecutors and investigators will be in New Orleans to share their successes, challenges, and best practices developed through these investigations.
All law enforcement, healthcare, and governmental partners are invited to attend the seminar. The primary target audience is homicide detectives, narcotics detectives, coroner’s office investigators, prosecutors, and their supervisors
On line registration link provided below:
To register: call Please RSVP to: cmcunningham@fbi.gov to confirm your registration
Crisis Communications Training Course #: 19-0195
When: Mar 19, 2019
Where: Belle Chasse Public Library 8442
Highway 23, Belle Chase, LA
Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Price: $229.00 per person
Training Summary: Train communications personnel on the critical role they have as a communications operator in providing customer service and responding as an operator to an agency-related or caller-based crisis, and the procedures that should follow to better protect agency employees and callers.
Topics Covered:
- Customer service as a communications operator.
- Responding as an operator to an agency-related crisis.
- Procedures to better protect company employees or agency co-workers.
- Responding as an operator to callers experiencing workplace or domestic violence.
To register: call Anthony at 203.350.0349 or email asepkowski@powerphone.com
T3-Tact, Tactics and Trust
Date: Dec 10, 2018
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: New Orleans Police Department Training Academy
4650 Paris Ave. New Orleans, LA 70122
Cost: Free
Training Summary:
One-day basic-level course on the T3 – Tact, Tactics, and Trust™ system. T3™ is a unique police training program that integrates tactical, social, and decision-making skills in a single, realistic context. The T3 training program is offered through the Bureau of Justice Assistance VALOR Officer Safety and Wellness Initiative. T3 provides law enforcement with evidence-based knowledge, tools, and skills to help better defuse and resolve tense situations with the least amount of force necessary. The T3 basic course introduces law enforcement officers to the core principles of T3, and teaches tactical, communication, and cognitive skills essential to officer safety and mutual police-community trust. Officers who learn and practice core skills from T3 will have an enhanced capability to safely and effectively handle unpredictable and potentially dangerous interactions on the street.
This class is suitable for all levels of experience. Training officers, supervisors, and police union officials are particularly encouraged to attend. Attendance restricted to sworn LE personnel except by special permission. Attire: casual or department training attire.
Topics Covered:
- Seven Core Principles of Tact, Tactics, and Trust
- Controlling the Deadly Mix of Serious and Lethal Attacks Against Police
- “Graham-Plus:” Strengthening Your Legal “Body Armor”
- Patrol Expert TM Digital Training System and Tactical Decision Exercises (TDEs)
- Interactive Scenarios and tactical skills demonstrations
- “GIRing-In” – How to Rapidly Assess and Engage Strangers
- “Sul-Talk” – Effective Control of People at Gunpoint• Communicating with the active shooter
To register: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07efqx2e7ac3b090e8&llr=oag98i9ab
Active Shooting
Date: Nov 13, 2018
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Location: Belle Chasse Library 8442 Highway 23
Cost: $229.00 per person
Training Summary:
Make every second count when you are faced with a fast-moving incident. From college campuses to workplace violence to mall shootings, the active shooter is a unique challenge for law enforcement agencies. 911 calls from frightened victims and bystanders are a reality that tele-communicators will continue to be faced with.
Topics Covered:
- Pre-planning
- Profiling the active shooter
- Five origins of active shootings
- Pre-arrival instructions
- Gathering vital intelligence for responders
- Communicating with the active shooter
- Workplace violence
- School shootings
- Containment plans
To register: call (203)-350-0349 Course#: 18-1029
Street Gangs And The Prison Connection
Date: September 25 - 26, 2018
Time: 8 am to 5 pm
Location: Gretna Police Department, 200 - 5th Street, Gretna, LA 70053
Cost: Free
Training Summary: This tuition-free 16-hour Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training course is primarily for corrections personnel and law enforcement officers working closely with correctional facilities. The influence of criminal street gang members on our prison system and back into our communities is paramount. Methods to identify, monitor and manage these gang members as a security threat group are presented and discussed in this course. The relationship of gang members in prison with their local street gangs is emphasized to include intelligence, communications, and criminal activities (drugs, violence, and extortion) in prison and on the streets. Criminal street gang members and Security Threat Group members utilize tactics to promote and further their criminal interests.
Key Topics:
- Success tactics for management of gangs in prison
- Gang origins
- Gang types (transnational, national, regional, neighborhood
- Prison intake process and housing
- Support structure inside and outside of the prison
Register at: https://cpsireg.spcollege.edu/og_register.aspx?23403
Contact: Quinn Smith, Ouinn.Smith@usdoi.gov, 504-680-3003 or
MPO Ann Lore, alore@gretnapolice.com, 504-329-9735
Interviews and Body Language Techniques
Date: September 6, 2018
Time: 8 a.m.-5 pm
Location: St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office Training Center Special Services Office
220 Judge Edward Dufresne Pkwy., Luling, LA 70070
Cost: Free
Training Summary: This tuition-free, 8-hour Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training course will address techniques for assessing transnational offenders through knowledge of interview techniques, body language and eye patterns. At the conclusion of this course, the student will be able to apply successful interrogations techniques to detect deception or truthfulness in an individual while obtaining intelligence on transnational crime which may encompass terrorism, drug cartels and counter terrorist finance investigations.
Key Topics:
- The Basics of Offender Encounters
- Legal Issues
- The Interview
- Eye Accessing
Register at: https://cpsireg.spcollege.edu/og_register.aspx?23408
Contact: Quinn Smith, Ouinn.Smith@usdoi.gov, 504-680-3003 or Sgt. Darren Gros, St. Charles SO, dgros@stcharlessheriff.org 985-783-6237 ext. 2604
Transnational Criminal Organizations
Date: August 27, 2018
Time: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: 39395 Pine Street, Pearl River, LA 70452
Training Summary: This tuition-free, 8-hour Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training course is designed to provide an overview of criminal organizations that operate on a transnational level. The course will examine transnational crime with attention to the methods and movement of illegal drugs, weapons, human trafficking, and money laundering. Analysis of the inter and intra operational dynamics will be presented to include organizational psychology, ideology, command and control, modus operandi, and the tactical use of international movement, corruption, and violence. Terrorist organizations and transnational criminals will be studied along with various successful preventive and investigative techniques.
Course topics include:
- The Universal Criminal Code
- Narco-Terrorism
- TCO Characteristics, Motivation, and Ideology
- Columbian Drug Trafficking Organizations
- Illicit Commerce and Money Laundering
- Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations
Register at: http://cpsireg.spcollege.edu/og_register.aspx?23462
Contact: Quinn Smith, Quinn.Smith@usdoj.gov, 504-680-3003 or Lt. Gary Ranatza, garyranatza@stpso.com, 985-863-6510
Interviews and Statement Analysis
Date: August 21-23, 2018
Time: 8 am to 5 pm
Location: St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office Training Center Special Services Office, 220 Judge Edward Dufresne Pkwy., Luling, LA 70070
Cost: Free
Training Summary: Obtaining intelligence on transnational crime is critical during all phases of an investigation. HUMINT has proven to be one of the most effective methods in gathering information, especially with the use of effective interview and interrogation techniques. The goal of this tuition-free, 24-hour Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training course is to familiarize both new and seasoned military and law enforcement investigators with the various disciplines of detecting deception when engaged with face to face interviewing. This is accomplished though learning to recognize non-verbal body language, eye-assessing cues (neurolinguistics), and by being introduced to the newest form of conducting a detailed analysis of verbal and written statements. This unique course offers investigators insight as to what a person is actually saying, and, most importantly, what they are not saying. Attendees are challenged to analyze a variety of written statements to evaluate their validity and the value of the information contained when dealing with transnational offenders/suspects engaged in terrorism, drug trafficking, and money laundering. The students will also view multiple recorded sessions of actual interviews. The students are also invited to participate in group and individual class assignments involving factual cases.
Key Topics:
- Verbal lie detection
- Open and closed end questions
- Teaching the subject to lie
- Non-verbal body language
- Evasive verbal response
Register at: https://cpsireg.spcollege.edu/og_register.aspx?23407
Contact: Quinn Smith, Ouinn.Smith@usdoi.gov, 504-680-3003 or Sgt. Darren Gros, St. Charles SO, dgros@stcharlessheriff.org 985-783-6237 ext. 2604
Highway Vehicle Stops and the Drug Trafficker-Patrol Training
When: August 10, 2018
Where: St. Charles Parish Sheriff Office Training Center
220 Judge Edward Dufresne Pkwy., Luling, LA 70070
Time: 8am to 5pm
Training Summary: This fast paced one-day course is intended for patrol officers and supervisors who want to become more effective in detecting, apprehending, and documenting the arrest of criminals including drug users, drug traffickers, fugitives, gang members, and even terrorist. Course topics include: Background and History of Criminal Investigations, Suspects Contacts, Pre-and Post-Stop Characteristics of Criminal Behavior, Making a Legal Stop, Consensual Encounters, Roadside Interviews, Detecting Deception, and Arrest Tactics.
Online registration link provided below:
http://cpsireg.spcollege.edu/og_register.aspx?2322
Protecting Law Enforcement Responders
Co-Hosted w/ U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of LA & ROCIC
Date: Aug 7, 2018
Location: Belle Chasse, LA- Belle Chasse Public Library 8442 Highway 23
Time: 8:30 AM 4:30 PM
Cost: Price: $229.00 per person
Training Summary: With high-risk law enforcement-related 911 calls dispatched daily, it is essential that focus on officer safety is continuously reinforced. As a 911 call-taker or dispatcher, you are a vital link in the emergency response chain and the lifeline to responding officers. Consequently, you must educate yourself about the dangers they might face and how to best minimize those risks.
Key Topics:
- Felonious line of duty deaths
- High-risk crimes and incidents in progress
- Groups that target law enforcement
- Extremist and street gangs
- Dispatcher tactics to protect officers
- Officer safety in motor vehicle stops
To register: Call at 203-350-0349
Drug Identification for Corrections Training Course
When: July 31-Aug 1, 2018
Where: Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office Training Facility
2981 Old Plain Dealing Rd., Plain Dealing, LA 71064
Time: 8am to 5pm
Training Summary: This tuition-free 16-hour Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training class is designed to educate correctional officers at the county, state, and federal levels, and jail nurses and will provide pertinent information on recognizing current drug trends, clandestine clothing, paraphernalia, concealment methods, symbols of the drug world and recognizing the variety of ways contraband is smuggled or mailed to correctional facilities. One of the key factors in keeping both staff and inmates safe is recognizing substance abuse, overdose signs and symptoms and being able to distinguishing between possible medical conditions, which can mimic drug use. The course will give a broad overview and break down the human body and how each of the 11 major systems are affected by the use of substances. Whether it is a Huber inmate returning from work, bookings or sentenced inmates drug use is prevalent. The key to officer and inmate safety is recognizing drug use and properly documenting those observations. Course topics include: Booking procedures and medical screenings, Paraphernalia, clothing, and tattoos, Drug categories,
Physiology, Signs and symptoms of drug use, K-9 deployment, and Report writing.
On line registration link provided below:
http://cpsireg.spcollege.edu/og_register.aspx?23363
Drug Identification for Corrections Training Course
When: July 18-19, 2018
Where: St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Office Training Facility
39395 Pine St. Pearl River, LA 70452
Time: 8am to 5pm
Training Summary: This tuition-free 16-hour Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training class is designed to educate correctional officers at the county, state, and federal levels, and jail nurses and will provide pertinent information on recognizing current drug trends, clandestine clothing, paraphernalia, concealment methods, symbols of the drug world and recognizing the variety of ways contraband is smuggled or mailed to correctional facilities. One of the key factors in keeping both staff and inmates safe is recognizing substance abuse, overdose signs and symptoms and being able to distinguishing between possible medical conditions, which can mimic drug use. The course will give a broad overview and break down the human body and how each of the 11 major systems are affected by the use of substances. Whether it is a Huber inmate returning from work, bookings or sentenced inmates drug use is prevalent. The key to officer and inmate safety is recognizing drug use and properly documenting those observations. Course topics include: Booking procedures and medical screenings, Paraphernalia, clothing, and tattoos, Drug categories,
Physiology, Signs and symptoms of drug use, K-9 deployment, and Report writing.
On line registration link provided below:
http://cpsireg.spcollege.edu/og_register.aspx?23294
Street Gangs and the Prison Connection
When: July 11-12, 2018
Where: St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office Training Center Special Services Office
220 Judge Edward Dufresne Pkwy., Luling, LA 70070
Time: 8am to 5pm
Training Summary:
This tuition-free 16-hour Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training course is primarily for corrections personnel and law enforcement officers working closely with correctional facilities. The influence of criminal street gang members on our prison system and back into our communities is paramount. Methods to identify, monitor and manage these gang members as a security threat group are presented and discussed in this course. The relationship of gang members in prison with their local street gangs is emphasized to include intelligence, communications, and criminal activities (drugs, violence, and extortion) in prison and on the streets. Criminal street gang members and Security Threat Group members utilize tactics to promote and further their criminal interests.
Key Topics:
- Mindset of criminal street gangs and security threat groups
- Types of crimes
- Prison intake process and housing
- Major gangs in the United States
- Support structure inside and outside of the prison
- Immigrant gangs
- Success tactics for management of gangs in prison
- Alliances
- Gang origins
- Gang types (transnational, national, regional, neighborhood)
- Prison and street intelligence
- Safety
Register: http://cpsireg.spcollege.edu/og_register.aspx?23405
Recognition of Domestic Hate Groups and Lone Wolves
When: July 11, 2018
Where: Gretna Police Department Training Complex
200 5th Street Gretna, La. 70053
Time: 8am to 4pm
Training Summary:
This Intelligence Project Training Course begins with a general overview of domestic hate extremism using the most recent information and map of hate groups and chapters currently active in the country. An examination into their history, leaders, threat potential, and current activities nationwide precedes more specific intelligence about chapters in Louisiana.
Contact:
Quinn A. Smith, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Law Enforcement Coordinator (LEC) quinn.smith@usdoj.gov
Lt. Brian Rico, Gretna Police Department, (Director of Training) brico@gretnapolice.com
T3 – Tact, Tactics, and Trust
When: June 21, 2018
Where: New Orleans Police Academy
4650 Paris Ave. New Orleans, LA 70122
Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Training Summary:
The New Orleans Police Department is pleased to host a no-cost, half-day executive/command-level course on the T3 – Tact, Tactics, and Trust™ system. T3™ is a unique police training program that integrates tactical, social, and decision-making skills in a single, realistic context. The T3 training and technical assistance program is offered through the Bureau of Justice Assistance VALOR Officer Safety and Wellness Initiative. T3 provides law enforcement with evidence-based knowledge, tools, and skills to better defuse and resolve tense situations with the least amount of force necessary.
Key Topics:
- Seven Core Principles of Tact, Tactics, and Trust™
- The essential role of leaders in ensuring the success of training
- Outcomes-based training and “deal-breaker” traits
- The essential role of decision-making in police training
- Tactical Decision Exercises (TDEs)
- Using T3 training to support your agency’s mission and values
- How T3 training can be integrated into wider agency training and education initiatives
Crisis Management for School-Based Incidents
When: June 6, 2018
Where: Library
39395 Pine St.
Pearl River, LA 70452
Time: 8am – 4pm
Training Summary:
DHS-approved course designed to educate rural law enforcement personnel as well as school administrators and staff on the elements that would allow for an effective response to school-based emergencies.
Key Topics:
- Introduction to Incident Planning and Preparedness
- Proactive Threat Mitigation
- Incident Response
- Incident Recovery
- Vulnerability Assessments
- Threat Assessment Management
- Incident Defusing and Debriefing
- Parent Reunification
- Anniversaries, Memorials, “Copy-Cats”
Register: https://www.ruraltraining.org/training/schedule/2018-06-06-awr148-pearlriverla-001/
T3 – Tact, Tactics, and Trust
When: May 17, 2018
Where: New Orleans Police Academy
4650 Paris Ave., New Orleans, LA 70122
Time: 9am to 1pm
Training Summary:
The New Orleans Police Department is pleased to host a no-cost, half-day executive/command-level course on the T3 – Tact, Tactics, and Trust™ system. T3™ is a unique police training program that integrates tactical, social, and decision-making skills in a single, realistic context. The T3 training and technical assistance program is offered through the Bureau of Justice Assistance VALOR Officer Safety and Wellness Initiative. T3 provides law enforcement with evidence-based knowledge, tools, and skills to better defuse and resolve tense situations with the least amount of force necessary.
Key Topics:
- Seven Core Principles of Tact, Tactics, and Trust™
- The essential role of leaders in ensuring the success of training
- Outcomes-based training and “deal-breaker” traits
- The essential role of decision-making in police training
- Tactical Decision Exercises (TDEs)
- Using T3 training to support your agency’s mission and values
- How T3 training can be integrated into wider agency training and education initiatives
Stress Identification and Management
When: May 15, 2018
Where: Belle Chasse
Public Library 8442 Highway 23
Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Training Summary:
Reduce burnout and turnover in the 911 center. As an emergency telecommunicator, you help save lives every day. But when was the last time you did something to improve the quality of your life? Stress from your job can lead to increased absenteeism and burnout. If you’re a supervisor or a communications center manager, you know how stress impacts job turnover at your agency. Learn to combat stress both inside and outside the communications center with this class.
Key Topics:
- Job analysis
- Symptom identification
- Stress inventory scale
- Examination of stress responses
- Cumulative job stressors
- C.I.S. for telecommunicators and debriefings
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Stress management techniques
Register: Call 203-350-0349
911 Liability
When: Mar 20, 2018
Where: Belle Chasse
Public Library 8442 Highway 23
Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Training Summary:
Learn how to reduce your agency’s exposure to legal actions and manage risks. Every time you handle an emergency call, you are creating a log and journal that’s admissible in a court of law – just as if it were a police report. That’s why 911 centers are setting the pace for public safety liability. Be proactive, learn how to protect yourself and your agency from costly legal actions.
Key Topics:
- Measuring standards of care
- Negligence
- Good Samaritan statutes
- Public duty doctrine
- Sovereign immunity
- Vicarious liability
- Recent 911 court cases
- Abandonment
- Principle of reasonableness
- Emergency rule
- Damages
- Consent
- Caller confidentiality
- Misconceptions of liability
- The future of 911 liability
Register: call 203-350-0349
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