Learn about the costs associated with commercial trucking; how to recognize equipment and overweight violations; what to do when you decide to stop a truck; and what the law entitles you to search.
Gain the necessary knowledge to recognize potentially dangerous people and situations, and what steps to follow to prevent exposure to life-threatening diseases.
Many police watchdog groups are waiting to sue you. Don't let your next paycheck go to anyone but you! Learn the basic elements of civil law in this course.
This course covers specific warning signs of active meth labs, the types and locations of labs, as well as officer safety in these volatile situations. Meth labs can be deadly to officers; stay informed and stay alive.
User profiles, raves, club drugs, rape, investigation techniques, and the laws governing club drugs are presented in detail. Learn the indicators and visible effects of these trendy drugs and watch your arrests soar.
This course will give you information you need to alert you to the traps of misconduct associated with community policing. It will also teach you how to foster police and community cooperation to develop strong, safe communities.
This course includes information on crisis negotiations, hostage/barricade incidents, responsibilities for first responders, verbal tactics, suspect behavior, and SWAT expectations.
This course will not only improve your knowledge of habits and customs of our ever-changing public, it will also enhance your relationships with coworkers and supervisors.
This course covers diverse groups such as Earth First! ELF, various militias nationwide, and the issues that galvanize them. Topics such as gun control, the Bill of Rights, the United States Constitution, threat assessments by the FBI, and the legality of armed groups practicing battlefield tactics are also explored.
This class will teach you the ABCs of FSTs, recognizing DUI incidents based on driving behavior, and the difference between impairment and intoxication.
This course gives you a systematic court-tested method of evaluation of persons under the influence of drugs. Based on this, your investigation can proceed to the next step.
This course will provide officers with a comprehensive view of the components of criminal trials and will focus on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that contribute to an officer's credibility as a witness.
In this course, you will learn about developmental disability, psychotic and neurotic mental illnesses, and the early warning signs of potential violence from the seriously mentally ill. Methods of assessment, intervention techniques, and of involuntary psychiatric commitments are also discussed.
When a guide dog is attacked, a crime has been committed. This class is the only one we know of that addresses this common crime. Put this class to work for your department.
This course covers selecting an FTO candidate, interview techniques, training methods, learning styles of recruits, incentives, retention, and documentation.
This course is designed to help police learn how to identify and contend with street gangs and the crimes they commit. Gang clothing, graffiti, hand signs, language, and lifestyles are presented in detail.
Funding organizations expect a professional proposal and will not consider anything less than the best. Learn what the pros know and put this knowledge to work for you and your agency.
This course will assist officers in extracting needed information from suspects, victims, and witnesses. Specific questioning techniques, kinesics, statement content analysis, and handwriting analysis are all covered.
This course continues providing investigating officers with practical interviewing tools and techniques. It delves into the study of handwriting and body analysis revealing clues that can help officers obtain confessions from guilty suspects.
Since you are likely to be among the first responders in an animal abuse case, you will learn the importance of properly documenting the conditions under which these animals are found. This course investigates the link between animal abuse and other serious crimes and teaches ways to reduce the incidence of these crimes. Vista Friendly
Terrorism: A Police Perspective
This course contains information on the history of terrorism, the most common types of terrorist attacks, terrorist surveillance detection, individual protective measures, and hostage survival. (Packaged with Criminal Interdiction course.)
Criminal Interdiction
This course examines common characteristics of criminals, relevant case law pertaining to consensual contacts and detentions, and document examination in the field. (Sold as a package with Terrorism:
A Police Perspective course.)
Weapons of Mass Destruction
This course provides officers in a first-responder capacity with information on hazardous materials considerations, weapons of mass destruction, which includes chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and crime scene management.
Document Identification and
Deception - Officers will learn to recognize the manipulations and phony reproductions of passports, social security cards, permanent resident cards, alien cards, visas, and other documents in this 4-hour course. (Sold as a package with Respiratory Compliance course.)
Respiratory Compliance - This course explains how contaminants harm the body, what types of contaminants exist, types of respiratory equipment, and how to start a respiratory compliance program at your police department as well as OSHA and NIOSH regulations. (Sold as a package with Document Identification course.
This course establishes the basic elements of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and provides mechanisms for the further development and refinement of supporting national standards, guidelines, protocols, systems, and technologies.
This course walks you through the world of outlaw bikers, explaining how and why they are developed, what their ideologies are, and how to better prepare yourself and your town when these potentially dangerous bikers are stopped or are visiting your town.
Let's reduce the long lines of motorcycles, the flag-draped coffins, and the bagpipes. This course only has one purpose: to keep you alive. Instructor Ron McCarthy has been involved in numerous deadly encounters. Other instructors may have textbook knowledge; Ron McCarthy has been there.
This course examines incidents of shootings of innocent people in schools and public buildings. It provides critical information for the first responders and shows specific officer deployment tactics, formations, and cornering strategies. Also covered are police, contact, and rescue team priorities, equipment, and procedures.
Misconduct is responsible for ending more law enforcement careers than acts of violence. This course exposes common pitfalls encountered during a police career.
Is racial profiling the same as profiling? Is it a necessary tool for policing or bigotry in action? This online course explores the controversial topic of racial profiling for today's officers including the Exclusionary Rule and necessary elements before a Terry pat down is permitted.
Inaccurate reports can come back and bite you. They need to be clear, accurate, and thorough. All these issues and more are covered in this unexpectedly interesting course.
This course examines the planning and communications functions, as well as the specifics of homicide and robbery call response tactics, and crime scene management. Response strategies are important, but proper tactics will save your life!
This course will increase your knowledge of the methods thieves use to disguise stolen vehicles. You'll learn the techniques of identifying stolen vehicles on traffic stops without jeopardizing your safety.
This course provides a comprehensive look at the different surveillance techniques, including foot and vehicle, using air support, using cover, and fostering a team environment.
This course will teach you the "nuts and bolts" of surviving the execution of search warrants. Preparations, tactics, and execution of warrants are all necessary elements to enhance all officers' safety.
The primary goal of this course is to improve the survivability of accidental and non-accidental life-threatening injuries encountered by law enforcement and corrections officers with a secondary goal of decreasing the liability for the officer's department.
If you aren't well prepared before a school violence incident happens, you will fail and people will die. You cannot develop a plan as an incident occurs. This class offers tips on how any agency can prepare to encounter and defeat active shooters.
From zero to deadly force in a heartbeat, Ed Nowicki explains the "use-of-force" matrix in a hands-on manner that is as close as you can get to reality in a CD-ROM format.
This course will train you in conducting highway interdictions, safely intercepting, and successfully prosecuting the drug couriers. Learn methods used by couriers to conceal drugs while transporting them and information on recent trends of highway drug interdiction.
This course teaches officers the elements of vice-related crimes such as: prostitution, massage parlors, pornography, liquor laws, or ticket scalping. Learn how various agencies eliminated these crimes in their jurisdiction, or greatly reduced their corrosive effect.
