Fentanyl Response & Decon

The main purpose of this course is to help protect responders who may encounter fentanyl during a response, and with consequence management in the form of decontamination. This objective is achieved by providing information to help detect the presence of fentanyl, identify hazards associated with those substances, and mitigate those hazards and contamination. While the curriculum is primarily intended for patrol officers, corrections officers, and parole & probation officers, personnel in counterdrug nexus may find information in this course useful during encounters with fentanyl products. This course is also beneficial for individuals who may find themselves needing to decontaminate fentanyl contaminated surface as part of their duties.

Analytical Tradecraft for Law Enforcement

This course sets a foundation in intelligence analysis and integration into law enforcement operations. The course focuses on the fundamentals of analysis, the intelligence cycle, and analysis. These classes provide students with an introduction to the intelligence process, community directives, information and source evaluation, and tools necessary to conduct analysis. Upon course completion, students will be able to recognize pertinent information and apply analytical skill sets in the law enforcement setting. These skills aid law enforcement and law enforcement support in providing effective actionable intelligence to strategic and operational initiatives.

Basic Patrolling for Drug Related Activity

Patrolling is a two-day course that covers the basics of tactical movement in a classroom and culminates in day and night patrolling to a simulated objective without compromise. Students will demonstrate knowledge of Tactical Leading Procedures, group movement formations/techniques, hand and arm signals, crossing linear danger areas, and reacting to contact.

Basic Tactical Medicine

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 evaluations, attendees will learn how to provide life-sustaining treatments in threatening conditions.

Basic Threat Finance

This course will introduce students to how threat actors utilize and exploit financial system to generate, move, store, and use their illicit proceeds. The course develops the student’s understanding of threat finance covering the fundamentals of money laundering, financial system vulnerabilities, and financial intelligence support. Using lecture, discussion and practical exercise students are introduced to the real-life applicability of counter threat finance and the various record keeping databases which support financial investigation. Students will explore the history of crypto and virtual currencies, along with how criminals procure and store these assets. Students will also observe how cryptocurrency seizures are conducted and documented. 

Critical Thinking

This course is designed to enhance the ability of criminal analysts to evaluate information or evidence in a thorough and systematic manner. By utilizing Structured Analytical Techniques students will be able to externalize the analytic reasoning process. This provides students the ability to describe their reasoning process to others, to work in analytic teams and make it easier for analysts to give briefs and write reports.

Cryptocurrency and Basic Seizure

The C&BS course provides an introduction to virtual and cryptocurrencies and how criminals utilize them to layer proceeds from specified unlawful activities. Students will be introduced to the history of cryptocurrencies, learn how to identify suspect wallets, identify transactions visible on the blockchain, and how to implement a seizure plan. Students will get hands on experience in seizing Bitcoin by transferring funds into an agency-controlled wallet. 

Deliberate Mission Planning for Law Enforcement Supervisors

In this course, officers receive an overview of the Army’s “Deliberate Mission Planning Process” which is a tool for managing time when officers have more than 48 hours to plan a challenging mission like a high-risk arrest or large event.  The course also provides a tool for managing information called the Operations Order.  Officers then work through each step of this deliberate planning process to eventually reach a decision about how they will plan the mission.  This mission is planned at lunch, and a students will fill out a portion of the Operations Order to brief the class their mission after lunch.  The class concludes with a written final exam and then an after-action review of the course. 

Enhanced Illicit Drug Manufacturing

Course Description: The main purpose of this course is to help protect responders who may encounter illicit drug manufacturing during a response. This objective is achieved by providing information to help detect the presence of illicit drug manufacturing, identify hazards associated with the process, and mitigate those hazards. The curriculum also included PPE usage, Site Safety Plans, TTP’s, and planning considerations. While the curriculum is primarily intended for law enforcement special operations officers, personnel in counterdrug nexus and community-based organizations may find information in this course useful during encounters with illicit drug manufacturing. In addition, this course can be specifically tailored to meet specific illicit drug manufacturing methods & products that an organization is encountering.

Course Length: 8 Hours (4 Hours Classroom & 4 Hours Scenario Based Training)

Enhanced Tactical Medicine

 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.

Fentanyl Facts & First Aid

Course Description: This course serves to prepare the student for encounters with fentanyl, and individuals who have suffered an overdose.  Students will learn what fentanyl is, how it is encountered, where it comes from, binders of concern, and first aid.  These objectives are achieved by providing information on how fentanyl is created, what modalities of transmission, hazards, and first aid via naloxone administration.  While the curriculum is primarily intended for members of the counterdrug nexus and community-based organizations, personnel in any organization that can/may encounter fentanyl and overdose victims would find this information beneficial. 

Prerequisites: There are no special prerequisites for this class. 

Course Length:  

Training Day(s): Half day 

Academic Hours: 1 Hour 

Fentanyl Safety & Awareness

 Fentanyl Safety & Awareness provides an overview of the characteristics and hazards of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Students will learn about current tactics, techniques and procedures to mitigate hazards to first responders when fentanyl or other harmful illicit substances are present at a scene.

Illicit Drug Manufacturing

This course is designed for all Law Enforcement that enforce drug laws to include patrol, investigators, agents, corrections, probation, parole and all others who possess authority to investigate and come into contact with illicit drugs and materials. The object of this course is to develop the situational awareness of the students to safely identify, and effectively respond to the dynamic situations that illicit manufacturing entails. Topics include fentanyl pill press, illegal indoor/outdoor marijuana production, designer drugs, and meth labs.

Introduction to Communication Technology

This course introduces students to the basic understanding of communication technologies. Utilizing lecture the instructor will describe cellphone communication architecture, cellphone geolocation, IP address, online communication and strategies in analyzing communication. The instructor will teach students how to read, analyze, and interpret communication data and inform them of the latest updates on iOS/Android that could affect law enforcement investigation.

Introduction to Mission Planning

This course offers a standard for planning based on the spectrum of “tactical excellence” (accomplishing the mission with minimal costs) and “tactical failure” (a mission where the cost exceeded the benefit of accomplishing the mission).  The course also introduces a tool for managing time called the “Time-constrained Planning Process”, and a tool for managing information called the “Concept of the Operation”. 

Introduction to Threat Finance - Virtual

This course will introduce students to how threat actors utilize and exploit financial system to generate, move, store and use their illicit proceeds. The course develops the student’s understanding of threat finance covering the fundamentals of money laundering, financial system vulnerabilities, and financial intelligence support. Students will explore the history of crypto and virtual currencies, along with how criminals procure and store these assets. 

Land Navigation

Students will be taught to interpret map marginal data, terrain features on a map, plot the grid of a location on a map, orient the map, determine elevation, create a route, use a compass to determine magnetic north, understand and use declination information to determine grid north, and shoot an azimuth.  We will also do a 3-hour daylight navigation practical exercise, and a 3-hour night practical exercise.

Military Leadership for LEOs

Course Description: The ‘Military Leadership for Law Enforcement Officers’ class is a one-day, 8-hour course based on the Army’s manual ADP 6-22: Army Leadership and the Profession.  The first part of the class will focus on the Army’s definition of ‘leadership’.  Students will spend time discussing the different components of this definition, they will assess the effect on the unit if these components are missing, and they will assess how they can improve their ability to lead regarding these components.  The second part of the class will analyze ‘law enforcement leader attributes’: students will brainstorm what these attributes should be for an effective law enforcement leader, they will identify the cost if these attributes are absent, and they will assess how they can become a better leader regarding these attributes.  Students will repeat this process for ‘law enforcement leader intellectual attributes’ and for ‘law enforcement leader competencies’. The goal is that officers by the end of the course will have an effective definition of ‘leadership’, a model for an effective law enforcement leader, an enhanced awareness of the qualities and effects caused by ineffective leadership, and a strategy for improving their personal ability to lead.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 8 Hours

Mission Planning

This course provides military planning tools and practical guidance that will help students become better organized mission planners. The course will introduce general frameworks to help students improve their information, time, and risk management to support the foundational goal of officer safety. This course is designed to be highly experiential and hands-on.

Money Laundering 101

The ML101 course provides a focused introduction on how criminals and criminal organizations launder funds from Specified Unlawful Activities. Students will learn about the money laundering cycle, vulnerabilities for criminals engaged in laundering funds, and common methods used in layering. Students will also be introduced to cryptocurrencies, focusing on the history of virtual currencies, basics of procurement, and how criminals attempt to launder or obscure funds through the blockchain. Students will learn how to identify cryptocurrency wallets and procedures for seizing funds from those criminal wallets.  

Performance Nutrition for Law Enforcement

Performance Nutrition for Law Enforcement (PNLE)

Course Description: PNLE will take you on a journey of education and self-discovery. The course will explain the basics of human nutrition, nutritional challenges most law enforcement officers face, the importance of nutrient dense food choices, mental reframing techniques, and ultimately, how to build an individualized and executable performance nutrition plan. LEO’s will walk away with a new sense of confidence and ownership over their nutritional choices.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 day / 4 Hours

Photo Analysis

This course teaches students basic techniques to identify the location where a picture or video was taken through a combination of reverse image searches and online searching. This course uses both lecture and practical exercises to teach the students. Upon course completion students will have acquired new techniques to analyze pictures and videos in order to aid their investigations.​

Prevention Ethics

Course Description: The Prevention Ethics Course identifies the standards of conduct for relating to service recipients, sets professional goals with prevention ethics standards, and describes methods of decision making for ethical situations. Participants will be instructed on the potential for moral and ethical dilemmas they may face when working in the prevention field and how to address them based on current knowledge and practice in the field. This training is designed to assist practitioners in reducing the likelihood of substance misuse and promoting well-being among individuals, families, workplaces, schools, and communities.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 Day / 8 Hours

Resilience Training

Course Description: Resilience Training (RT) teaches students 14 distinct skills that allow them to develop themselves and others in the six RT competency areas: Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Optimism, Mental Agility, Strengths of Character, and Connection. With these skills, students develop the ability to understand their own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, as well as the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of others. Students master skills to to use during high and low stress situations to strengthen relationships through communication strategies and learn how to praise effectively, respond constructively to positive experiences, as well as discuss and manage stressful activating events effectively.

Prerequisites: Value in Action Character Strength Survey

Course Length: 3 Days/ 24 Hours

Resilience Training Workshop

Course Description: The Resilience Training Workshops are a modular version of our larger three-day Resilience Training. It can include a combination of instruction in the use of 1 to 14 cognitive based therapy skills that increase the use of six Competencies that have been found to increase overall resilience, performance, and optimal functioning of an individual. The Competencies are Self-awareness, Self-regulation, Optimism, Mental Agility, Strengths of Character, and Connection. Upon course completion, students will have tools that will increase their abilities to handle stressful situations efficiently, perform optimally and communicate more effectively. Contact the WRCTC to coordinate the length and number of skills desired to learn. The 14 skills are:

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 Day/ 4 Hours

SAPST

SAPST is broken down into four sessions:

• Session 1 - Setting the Foundation: From Theory to Practice – The theories that lead to the evidence-based curriculums of today
• Session 2 - SPF: Assessment and Assessing Capacity
• Session 3 - SPF: Building Capacity, Cultural Proficiency, and Planning
• Session 4 - SPF: Implementation, Evaluation, and Sustainability / Bringing It All Together

Synthetic Opioid Awareness

This course provides law enforcement with fundamental knowledge and overview of characteristics, hazards and availability of synthetic opioids such as Fentanyl within the illegal drug market, as well as hazards associated with clandestine lab production and milling operations.

Synthetic Opioid Response

This course provides members of the counterdrug nexus with fundamental knowledge and overview of characteristics, hazards, and availability of synthetic opioids such as Fentanyl within the illegal drug market. This course is designed to train responders in the identification of Fentanyl, Fentanyl related substances, Upjohns, AH’s, and W series synthetic opioids. Personnel are also trained on current tactics, techniques and procedures utilized to mitigate hazards to responders during a synthetic opioid incident. This course also covers planning considerations for personnel to implement within their jurisdictions to include: personal protection equipment selection; methods for presumptive field testing and laboratory confirmatory testing; and available local, state and federal resource.

Tactical Medicine Hemorrhage Control (HEMCON)

This course is designed to provide Law Enforcement Officers and other first responders with tools and techniques when caring for patients in tactical environments. Tactical Medicine Hemorrhage Control (HEMCON) for Law Enforcement emphasizes basic interventions for hemorrhage control used to treat one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in tactical environments (extremity and junctional exsanguination).

Threat Finance Analysis

This course will introduce students to how threat actors utilize and exploit financial system to generate, move, store and use their illicit proceeds. The course develops the student’s understanding of threat finance covering the fundamentals of money laundering, financial system vulnerabilities, and financial intelligence support. Using lecture, discussion and practical exercise students are introduced to the real life applicability of counter threat finance and the various record keeping databases which support financial investigation.

Time-Constrained Mission Planning for Patrol Officers

This course offers a standard for planning based on the spectrum of “tactical excellence” (accomplishing the mission with minimal costs) and “tactical failure” (missions where the costs exceeded the benefits of accomplishing the mission).  The course also introduces a tool for managing time called the “Time-constrained Planning Process” which can be used when officers have between 2 and 48 hours to plan a mission.  Officers are introduced to a tool for managing information called the “Concept of the Operation”.  Students will break up into teams and plan a time-constrained mission over lunch.  A class on giving a military-style mission brief is taught, and students then brief the class the mission they planned based upon that class.  The final class is how to conduct an After-Action Review.