Law Enforcement Inservice Course Descriptions

This course will treat the following topics in depth:  Physiological Responses, Verbal and Non-Verbal Communications, Multiple Suspect Elimination, the Seven Steps of the Interrogation Process, Admissions, Confessions and Written Statements.  The instructor for the course is Retired Lt. Al Joseph of the Rochester Police Department.

This course will be a challenging one, requiring some outside work and numerous role-play exercises designed to reinforce learning activities.  There will be a final exam.  

Course Length:  5 days

This course will consist of all state-of-the-art accident investigation techniques. Prerequisite of four weeks of  basic and advanced accident school required. Topics include trigonometry functions, vector diagramming, momentum basics and 360-degree momentum, translational and rotational analysis, derivation of equations, legal issues and court   testimony.                                                 

Course Length:  10 days

Advanced Defensive Tactics Instructor

This course is for the previously certified NYS BMP Certified Defensive Tactics Instructor. Is an advanced course on the most up to date DT techniques, which include handcuffing systems, pressure points, active counter measures, weapon retention and judicious use of force.  

Course Length: 16 hours

Background Investigation

The goal of this workshop is to assist participants within the law enforcement organization to:                       

• Understand and examine the background investigation process  
• Identify a cognitive model of a complete background investigation                                             
• Identify the various sources of information a law enforcement agency should research regarding each candidate, and discuss how to evaluate this data.                          

Course Length: 16 hours

Basic Crisis Negotiation

Presented by the FBI.  Topics include:                     

• Fundamentals of Crisis Negotiations                     
• First Responder Intervention                               
• Crisis and Suicide Intervention                            
• Tactical Role of Negotiators                               
• Abnormal Psychology                                        
• High Risk Indicators in Crisis Negotiations                
• Case Studies                                               
• Practical/Role Play Scenarios                             

Course Length:  24 hours

Tactical Warrant and Building Search

This course was developed especially for the public safety officer tasked to conduct building searches, and for he officer who has responsibility to conduct narcotic search warrants. This course is facilitated with intensive, hands-on training, that will enhance the investigating officer’s ability to execute warrants and building searches safely and effectively. This course is only for participants with the capability and motivation to participate in a stressful environment, both physically and mentally.      

Course Length:  40 hours

BTO Datamaster

This is the 8 hour DATAMASTER training for certified Breath Test Operators with a valid permit. 

Course Length:  8 hours               

Criminal Behavior Profiling

This course is designed for the public safety participant who may be involved with the investigations of violent felony crimes, with emphasis toward identifying and interviewing potential suspects. Course topics to include basic human behavior in relationship to the criminally organized and disorganized personality; psychological profiling topics; behavior management; and psychodynamics portrayal.                                                 

Course Length:  16 hours

Counseling and Discipline

This course is designed for any level of police supervisor interested in improving their skills in the counseling and discipline areas.  The instruction covers contemporary issues affecting the counseling and discipline process, such as Civil Service and related laws, employee assistance programs, progressive discipline, dealing with a problem employee, and work environment topics.  Included will be a relaxed and open morning classroom session and afternoon role-plays which are realistically designed to enhance the skills taught earlier in the day.               

Course Length:  16 hours

CPR/First Aid Course

This public safety course is a one-day training program to re-certify public safety professionals as basic life support and first aid providers.  This course is designed to meet the needs of public safety professionals who respond to or  are confronted with cardiac, respiratory and first aid emergencies.  Course topics include:                       

• The role of the healthcare provider and the community   
• The information and techniques needed for adult and pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)            
• The anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems                                       
• Risk factors for heart disease and stroke               
• Signals and actions for survival against sudden death   
• Injury prevention in the pediatric age group            
• Safety factors in training and actual rescue            
• Ethical and legal considerations in CPR                 
• Bandaging, splinting and bleeding control 

  Course Length:  8 hours

Clandestine Drug Lab Enforcement

This course will assist state and local law enforcement agencies to implement a multi-agency response for planning, organizing, and managing their clandestine laboratory response programs. Through a series of lectures and case  studies, course participants will learn about the dangers of clandestine drug laboratories and the importance of a  multi-agency approach to these problems. Course topics  include: list of common chemicals and precursors (and their risks) found at clandestine laboratory sites; current issues and trends in clandestine laboratory investigations;  federal, state, and local regulations that affect clandestine laboratory enforcement and clean up actions; identify key components of a clandestine laboratory program; identify the agencies (and their roles) needed for a comprehensive clandestine laboratory program.  

Course Length:  16 hours   

Critical Issues in Law Enforcement

The course goal is to identify the enormous social, economic, and political pressures law enforcement organizations are experiencing to change. Topics include: supplying the executive and command staff with the ability to develop a vision of the future for their organization through the analysis of current change; to assist the command staff in  the development of organizational values; to demonstrate techniques by which a command staff can understand, develop, and implement changes within an organization; to require the command staff to develop a list of recommendations for change and the means to accomplish the required changes within the organization.                                   

Course Length:  8 hours

R.E.B. OC Aerosol Instructor

This course is for the defensive tactics instructor for certification in R.E.B. Oleoresin Capsicum Aerosol Basic Instructor Course. Upon successful completion of this course, the instructor will be able to present the following program of instruction: principles, skills, and techniques necessary to understand how and when to use OC; techniques to control violent and aggressive behavior including the use of OC; methods to reduce personal injury to officers, subjects and the general public; methods to increase an officer’s confidence in physically threatening situations; techniques to lessen the civil liability exposure of the officer and employer relating to allegations of unnecessary or improper force when used to control violent and aggressive behavior.                           

Course Length:  8 hours  

Cults & Satanism

The goal of this course is to assist the criminal justice community in making the link between satanic-related activity, ritual crime, and adolescent chemical abuse. Participants upon completion will be able to:             

Recognize and investigate cult-related activity in relation to non-criminal and criminal crime scene investigation

Distinguish between criminal, non-criminal, and satanic splinter groups                                           

Recognize and interpret indicators associated with cults  and occult crime                                   

Apply appropriate prevention, intervention, and investigative measures                                           

Course Length:  8 hours

Commercial Vehicle Enforcement

This BMP certified course presents the basic information for law enforcement participants involved in traffic safety enforcement assignments to successfully deal with regulations concerning commercial motor vehicles. Students receive a broad base of information concerning the registration, operator licensing and safety requirements of the vehicles.  Successful completion will enable students to confidently enforce the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, NYS Vehicle and Traffic Law and NYS Transportation Law

Course Length: 16 hours

Commercial Vehicle Weight Enforcement

This BMP certified course presents the basic information for law enforcement participants involved in traffic safety enforcement assignments to successfully deal with regulations concerning the weight of commercial motor vehicles.               

Course Length:  16 hours

Computer Technology & Investigations

This course gives law enforcement and corporate security investigators review of computer architecture and file systems and then expands to more sophisticated information regarding the methods of investigating crimes involving computers. There will be a computer seizure and forensic evidence recovery.                                         

Topics include:                                            

• Targets and vulnerabilities of computers and systems    
• Computer forensic report examples                       
• Methods for seized computer evidence recovery           
• Legal safeguards for seizing data with evidentiary value
• Where and why to search, search protocols and equipment 
• Internet criminal activities and investigation methods  
• Computer underground and organizational structure        

Course Length:  8 hours

Instructor Development School for D.A.R.E. Instructors

This a BMP certified course. To successfully complete this course, the participants must be able to prepare, in writing, a training curriculum which includes course objectives, course outline, and a detailed lesson plan; demonstrate the correct use of at least three (3) audio-visual aids; and successfully prepare and present a 50 minute oral presentation of a non-DARE training topic, using the techniques emphasized in this course. Each participant will be rated according to the BMP Instructor   Evaluation Checklist.  Upon successful completion the participant will receive certification from BMP as a POLICE INSTRUCTOR in general topics.                                                    

Prerequisite: Must be certified D.A.R.E. Instructor.  Course Length:  40 hours     

This course is for the experience criminal investigator in the developing and managing major case investigations. The course goal is to provide the investigators with PROVEN professional techniques which will include: development, evaluation, corroboration and documentation of information, telephone analysis and applications; surveillance techniques and equipment; legal issues and recent court decisions; case assessment and planning; preparing eavesdropping warrants; and preparing search warrant affidavits.                   

OBJECTIVES: (partial list)                                

• Demonstrate the ability to write a pen register application and an eavesdropping warrant.                          
• Have a working knowledge of various types of surveillance and equipment.                                           
• Investigators must pass a written and practical of performance skills exam to successfully complete the course.     

This contemporary issues course provides an opportunity for the public safety professional to intensively confront the operational, administrative, leadership, and training issues of the day, in the time-compressed decision-making environment of the public safety agencies.  A subject matter expert/instructor will present the topics identified by the participants as the most urgent to be explored and analyzed.  The students will be encouraged to exchange ideas on how the public safety community should best respond to the variety of issues discussed in class.  Some examples of topics to be confronted are:  domestic violence update, legal issues update, child abuse/neglect and juvenile procedures, among others.

Course Length: Varies          

Enhanced In-Service Supervision

This contemporary issues course provides an opportunity for the public safety manager to intensively confront the operational, administrative, leadership, and training issues of the day, in the time-compressed decision-making environment of the public safety agencies.  A subject matter expert/instructor will present the topics identified by the participants as the most urgent to be explored and analyzed.  The managers will be encouraged to exchange ideas on how the public safety community should best respond to the variety  of issues discussed in class.  Some examples of topics to be confronted are:  civil service law issues, leadership management principles, juvenile procedures, domestic violence and legal updates, among others.                  

Course Length:  Varies   

Emergency Response - Terrorism

This course addresses the special needs of responders to incidents, which may have been caused by terrorist action.  The response to terrorism program builds upon the firm foundation provided by the Hazardous Materials curriculum and adds specialized information concerning such topics as:                                                 

• Current Dept. of Justice definitions of terrorism      
• A history of terrorism                                 
• Agents utilized by terrorists                          
• Suspicious circumstances                               
• Self-protection at potential terrorist scenes          
• Crime scene considerations                        
• Specialized incident command issues.                    

Course Length:  Varies

Edged Weapons Workshop

This course is designed to make participants aware of possible weapon control tactics that they may wish to develop for their organization. This is an instructor-oriented course based on several instructional systems of unarmed defense techniques. Topics include: developing a pre-planned practice response to a sudden edged weapon assault; physical controls; follow-through strategies.     

Course Length:  16 hours 

Fundamentals of Probation

Basic school for New Probation Officers. A program of information and education to those who have chosen the field of Probation Officers as their vocation. Provide professional training in subjects ranging from Penal and Criminal Procedure Law, to Conflict Management, Juvenile Procedure Law and the supervision of probationer.                    

Course Length:  70 hours

FTO Refresher

This course is for officers who have previously attended the 35-hour Field Training and Evaluation program.  It will be helpful to field training officers who have not had a recruit assigned to them recently, and/or the field training officers who wish to refresh their skills.                 

Topics covered:                                            

• FTO as a trainer; motivation, principles of learning in adult education, documentation                            
• Errors in performance appraisal, evaluations            
• Ethics as a trainer and evaluator                       
• Termination procedures                  

Course Length:  8 hours 

Management of Internal Affairs

The Managing the Internal Investigation Seminar is a unique program specifically designed for law enforcement supervisors and investigators who may be required to conduct an internal investigation of misconduct or malfeasance by members of their department. This program will address the moral, ethical and procedural issues associated with conducting internal investigations.  Facets of the program will also illustrate how operational, administrative and legal issues may effect investigative outcomes.  Significant laws pertaining to civil service and union rights will be presented.  In addition, a component analysis of management of force and investigating officer involved critical incidents will be presented.                  

Course Length:  24 hours

Infrared - BTO

This course is for certified BTO operators. Will consist of using infra-red (Data Master) as another tool in breath test procedures. 

An authentic assessment will be given at the end of this course consisting of written and practical performance.    

Course Length: 8 hours

Corrections Firearms Training

Two-week firearms training for correction academy per BMP peace officer standards.

Course Length: 80 hours                                    

Legal Issues Update

This course is presented by the Monroe County District Attorney and select members of his staff.  Topics include recent legal developments in Criminal Procedure Law and Penal Law.  Time has also been built in for questions from participants.  

Course Length: 8 hours                                       

Multi Media Instruction

This course is for certified BMP instructors. The goal is to familiarize instructors in contemporary multi-media methods to further professionalize and enhance their presentations.  Topics include: use of computers, the Internet and presentation software; video and audio enhancement; writing training articles and research skills. Each participant will be required to develop a ten-minute presentation or write a five-hundred word article for publication utilizing multi-media methods learned in this course.                                                    

Course Length:  24 hours 

Corrections Officer Part I

At the completion of this course each participant must receive a score of 75% or better on the State Commission of Corrections final examination for certification.                            

The course is designed to prepare a student for a career in the corrections field. Topics of instruction include:      

1.   Principles, skills, and techniques necessary to understand how and when to use OC.                         

2.   Defensive techniques to control violent and aggressive behavior.                                                  

3.   Methods to write complete and accurate reports.        

4.   Methods to increase a deputy’s confidence in the identification and prevention of suicide attempts.         

5.   Techniques to lessen the civil liability exposure of the deputy and employer relating to conflict management issues.

Reactive Patrol Tactics is a dynamic hands on two-day program designed to train officer safety tactics under realistic conditions.  Practical applications of building search, suspicious and high-risk encounters will be instructed, simulated and evaluated during full spectrum simulation exercises.  Officers will participate in firearms and defensive tactic stimulus response scenarios that will incorporate the use of Simunition as well as other non-lethal weapons and tactics. Participants must be in good physical condition as much of the instruction occurs in dynamic exercises requiring running, jumping and self-defense during controlled encounters.  

Tactical Warrant and Building Search School is highly recommended as a prerequisite for attending.    

Course Length:  16 hours                                                

Probation Training Advanced

An advanced in-service course for veteran Probation Officers includes training in defensive tactics, firearms, conflict management, CPL and penal law, officer safety and EDP. Role-play situations where applicable.  

Course Length:  Varies                  

Public Information Officer

Public Information Officer Workshop. This course was designed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in response to the need to provide law enforcement officers with the ability to address the need to provide accurate and timely release of information during both routine and crisis situations.

Participants will learn:    

• Duties and responsibilities of a PIO                     
• Media preparation planning and legal communications       
• Components of news releases, news conferences & interviews
• Media relations during crisis situations                 
• Release of information when the news is bad.             

Course Length:  24 hours                                     

Sexual Abuse

This one-day session is primarily designed for law enforcement personnel, especially those who investigate child abuse and sex crimes.  Instructors include ADA of the District Attorney’s Child Abuse Unit, as well as members of Strong Memorial Hospital’s REACH clinic.  The REACH clinic will also have a slide presentation detailing examples of physical and sexual abuse.                                 

Overview of topics:                                 

• Legal issues                                             
• Sex investigations                                       
• Child victim interviews                                  
• Mandated report requirements.                            

Course Length: 8 hours

Intermediate Straight Baton Instructor

Upon successful completion of course the participant will   be able to instruct and certify officers as instructors in the Monadnock Expandable Baton Program. Prior PR-24 Basic Course Instructor certification or recertification within the last five years is a prerequisite for  attending this course.  Also, participants will be allowed  to test for a PR-24 Instructor Recertification.            

Course Length:  8 hours

Accident Special Concerns

This is a BMP certified course with a prerequisite of basic and advanced accident investigation. Topics include tire failure analysis, photography and videography, seatbelt investigations, airbags, report writing, visibility issues, pedestrian impact, motorcycles, bus and large truck issues, speed from crash, energy equations, autopsies and injury identification.                                     

The training objective is to assist Law Enforcement and Corrections professionals to experience positive outcomes when encountering individuals who are engaged in suicidal behaviors.                                                 

Topics include:                                            

a.   Theoretical overview of suicidal behaviors and characteristics.                                    

b.   Prevention methods that can be applied to reduce the risk of suicide.                                           

c.   Situation role-plays.     

Course Length: 8 hours

Defensive Tactic Instructor (BMP Certification)

This the BMP certified defensive tactic instructor course which includes techniques and mechanics of arrest, control tactics, searching, handcuffing, pressure points, and come-a-longs. Successful completion of this program will prepare an instructor to present in-service and recruit defensive tactic program.

Instructor Development School is a prerequisite for attendance.  Participants should be in good physical condition and prepared for this physically demanding course.

Course Length:  80 hours                                     

Weapons Familiarization aka Street Weapons (Security)

The trainee will be able to:                               

1.   Identify four common weapon types that an officer may be exposed to.                                                

2.   List orally or in writing the definition of deadly and dangerous weapons as described in NYS Penal Law Section Article 10 and 265.00.                                     

This course offers instructor certification in the Lindell Weapon Retention System (aka Kansas City P.D.), which has a 30-year track record of saving officer’s lives.  This two-day course consists of intensive “hands-on” training designed to defeat common handgun and long gun attacks. It is an excellent addition to any prior defensive tactic or firearms instructor certification.

Course Length:  16 hours

Basic Criminal Investigations Course

This in-service course is intended to instruct officers in the critical task of solving crime. The curriculum consists of core subjects that include police and society, the process of investigation, legal issues, crime scene matters, physical evidence, documentation, interviews and interrogations, specific incidents, sources and resources of information. This course is administered by OPS, local law enforcement agencies, and academies.

Course Length: 60 Hours (Minimum)
Prerequisites: None

Crime Scene and Evidence Specialist Course

This in-service course is intended to instruct officers in the critical duties necessary to record and document crime scene conditions and perform evidence collection. Its application is targeted at officers who will be the first arriving officers and those responsible for complete crime scene analyses. Specific skills that are emphasized include basic photography, diagramming, measurements, latent fingerprint processing, and retrieval of physical evidence. This course is administered by OPS, local law enforcement agencies, and academies.

Course Length: 80 hours (Minimum)
Prerequisites: None

Oleoresin Capsicum Aerosol Instructor Course

This program prepares MPTC certified Instructors in the history of chemical agents, selection, safety, effectiveness, delivery systems, methods of carry, operational guidelines, in-custody deaths, case studies, decontamination, and practical exercise.

Course Length: 2 days
Prerequisites: Instructor Development Course

Firearms Instructor Course

This program prepares MPTC certified Instructors in firearms related issues: safety, instructional techniques, shooting fundamentals, tactics, revolvers, semi-automatic pistols, shotguns, ammunition, equipment, use of force, critical incident trauma, legal issues. The program is presented in the classroom and the firearms range.

Course Length: 2 weeks
Prerequisites: Basic Course for Police Officer or Basic Course for Peace Officer, Instructor Development Course, and three years experience in a position requiring carrying a firearm.

On Scene Motor Vehicle Collision Investigation Course

This program is designed to equip a police officer with the capability to process a traffic accident scene by preserving and collecting the available data. Additionally, the student learns the ability to perform basic speed calculations. This course is offered by OPS, local law enforcement agencies, and academies.

Course Length: 10 days
Recommendations: Familiarity with algebra functions, geometry, and physics.

Advanced Motor Vehicle Collision Investigation Techniques

This program is designed to assist an accident investigator in becoming proficient in the examination and interpretation of crash data. The course includes lecture and project work dealing with thrust diagrams, collision analysis, impact and airborne speed determinations and time position diagrams. Successful completion of the Accident Scene Investigation Course with a passing grade of at least 80% is required. This course is offered by OPS.

Course Length: 10 days
Prerequisites: On Scene Investigation Course (passing grade of 80% required)

DWI Detection / Standardized Field Sobriety Testing Course  

This program is designed to increase the police officer’s ability to detect the alcohol impaired motor vehicle operator. The course instructs the officer in ways of building a strong common law case emphasizing the administration of Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFST) developed by NHTSA. This course is offered by OPS, local law enforcement agencies, and academies.

Course Length: 24 hours
Prerequisites: None

Drugs That Impair Driving Course 

This NHTSA course is designed to provide police officers with the ability to recognize drivers under the influence of drugs other than alcohol, and to take the appropriate action when they encounter same. The course expands on the use of standardized field sobriety tests and how they are effected by different drugs. This course WILL NOT qualify a student as a Drug Recognition Expert (DRE). This course is offered by OPS, local law enforcement agencies, and academies.

Course Length: 8 hours
Prerequisites: DWI Detection, Standardized Field Sobriety Testing or Impaired Boaters Courses

Crime Scene Photography Course                      

This course instructs officers in the use of cameras for the documentation of crime scene scenes and physical evidence.  Students learn camera functions, the use of films and lighting, and how to make evidentiary photographs.  The course is presented in the classroom and in practical workshops. 

Course Length:  5 days

This introductory course is for those officers who work at crime scenes identifying, developing (powder and chemical), and photographing latent fingerprints.  Experts for the field present the course through a combination of lecture and hands-on training.

Course Length:  28 hours  

Domestic Violence Instructor Course

This program enables officers to make presentations at basic and in-service programs on the causes of domestic violence and the strategies that can be used to address it.  The course also addresses the legal, social and moral aspects of abuse as it relates to spouses, children and the elderly.  This program was designed in conjunction with the NYS Office for the prevention of Domestic Violence.

Course Length: 18 hours

Highway Drug Interdiction Course

This course focuses on techniques of drug interdiction and their applications to patrol stops, search techniques and drug courier techniques.  The course also includes instruction on narcotics identification and search and seizure procedures.

Course Length: 7 hours  

Law Enforcement Bicycle Patrol Course

This course gives law enforcement personnel the skills required to conduct patrol and enforcement activities utilizing the modern mountain bicycle.  The participants will practice techniques appropriate for urban, residential and rural environments.  Students will also lean the proper care, maintenance and selection of equipment, physical conditioning and defensive tactics.  The program includes both classroom and field exercises.

Course Length: 5 days

Instructor Development Course

This course will give officers the ability to research, prepare and communicate knowledge in the field of law enforcement.  Lesson focus on setting instructional objectives, factors that influence adult learning, communication skills, the instructional process and methods of evaluating course effectiveness.  Successful students will receive certification for General topics.  This course is offered by local law enforcement agencies and academies.  This important course is a prerequisite for other instructor course since it covers basic instructional techniques.

Course Length:  10 days  

Officers attending this course, that is based on NHTSA curriculum, are instructed in vehicle speed estimation, RADAR theory and operation of RADAR instruments.  The training incorporates classroom instruction and practical field work.  This course is administered by local law enforcement academies.

Course Length: 4 days

Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) Program

This NHTSA program utilizes intensive classroom training and practical field work to instruct officers in the evaluation procedure for subjects arrested for driving while ability impaired where drug influence is suspected.  Candidates should be actively involved in DWI enforcement.

Course Length:  56 hours and 15-20 days field certification training  

The Municipal Police Training Council approved the curriculum for this course in 1990 to establish minimum standards of training Police Juvenile Officers.  While the course has required core topics, there is flexibility for relevant youth-related issues to be incorporated.

Course Length:  40 hours  

Public Safety Supervision (BMP Certification)

This course in Public Safety Supervision is a balanced lecture and role play agenda on the authority and  responsibilities of first line supervisors.  It focuses on the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to function effectively and professionally for  the public good. The course also provides an opportunity in role playing exercises.  Special emphasis is placed on incident management, leadership skills, communications and resource development.   

Course Length:  105 hours