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Police Symbology

Police Symbology

Decoding DTO’s, Terrorist Groups & Violent Extremists

Presented by: Symbol Intelligence Group, LLC

October 1 – 2, 2018, 8 AM – 4 PM.

$200/ officer

MN POST #10035-1124

To register, click here.

 

COURSE OVERALL LEARNING GOAL: 

This two day training introduces law enforcement professionals to ‘Police Symbology’. Attendees are trained on identifying the emblems, flags, insignia, tattoos, graffiti, clothing, masks, vehicle decals and other identifiers found during searches, on vehicles, on social media, at protests, crime scenes and in prisons. Officers will learn to recognize and evaluate symbols and other identifiers of drug trafficking organizations, nationalists, anarchists, special interest extremists, designated terrorist groups and violent extremists. Symbolic analysis techniques are described. This class includes a special segment on anti-police symbols, movements and cyberattacks that target officers. The significance of symbolic evidence for identification, interdiction, corrections, intelligence, crowd control, investigation and countering violent extremism will be emphasized. This lecture will assist officers in recognizing and evaluating potential threats.

Instructor: Dawn Perlmutter

TRAINING INCLUDES:

  • FREE Annual Subscription to Symbol Intelligence Group Officer Awareness Bulletins 100.00 value
  • Narco-ID LEO Reference Guide / Poster.
  • Jihad-ID LEO Reference Guide / Poster.
  • Symbol Intelligence Group Publications.
  • Police Symbology Training Certificate

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

Class Fee: The fee for this two day class is 200.00. A small fee is charged for online credit card registration. Registration is open on the day of training if seats are still available. Same day registration is limited to online payments received prior to 8:00am.

Online Registration: Go to the green ‘Tickets’ button at the top right of this page. Select the number of attendees and click the checkout button. Fill out the registration form. After your payment is approved you will receive email confirmation and your class ticket(s).

Registration by Mail: You can mail your registration in with payment by check. For mailing address, registration form and instructions download the Police Symbology Training Flyer.

Authorization to Invoice Agency: For authorization to invoice your agency email info@symbolintelligence.com

Area Hotels: Directions and lodging near the South Metro Public Safety Training Facility are listed on their website here.

Credentials: Police Symbology Training is restricted to personnel in law enforcement, forensics, intelligence, defense, probation/parole, corrections and criminal justice professionals. Identification will be required.

Contact Information: Symbol Intelligence Group info@symbolintelligence.com | 703 348-8005 | www.symbolintelligence.com

Symbol Intelligence Group

The Symbol Intelligence Group specializes in the research, analysis and identification of symbolic evidence.The Symbol Intelligence Group hosts unique training events that introduce law enforcement professionals to ‘Police Symbology’. Our subject matter experts provide training on the identification, analysis and assessment of symbols, emblems, graffiti, ciphers, codes and other symbolic evidence. Classes have applications for narcotics investigation, interdiction, corrections, intelligence, homicide investigation, crowd control and counterterrorism.

To view the course flyer, click here: POLICE SYMBOLOGY – OCTOBER 1-2, 2018 – EDINA, MINNESOTA

Women’s Self Defense Pistol Training- May 12, 2018

Saturday, May 12, 2018

9AM-2PM

$125

To register, click here.

COURSE SUMMARY:

This course provides four hours of combined classroom and firearms simulator-based training exercises. Students build on their marksmanship fundamentals, developing simple defensive tactical skills and situational awareness needed to safely operate a pistol for self- and home defense.

STUDENT OBJECTIVE:

  • Will understand firearm storage & transport
  • Will be introduced to situational awareness concepts and mindset
  • Will develop students’ ability to move, shoot, and take cover/concealment
  • Will learn strategies for skills development such as how to safely draw from the holster, move and     shoot, use cover and concealment, and respond to common self-defense situations.

STUDENT UNDERSTANDING:

Students will understand essential ethical, technical and legal responsibilities associated with carrying a firearm

Students will use an advanced indoor, video-simulation system usually available only to law enforcement.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Jennifer McDowell is a life-long member of the Air Force Association, volunteered with the AFROTC program at St. Thomas University, and was volunteer instructor with Junior Achievement. She holds NRA certifications as Pistol Instructor and Range Safety Officer, and has completed various defensive and tactical shooting courses.

For more information regarding this class, please contact Jennifer directly at jennifer@astrid-defense.com or visit her website at http://astrid-defense.com

MN CIT Certification

MN CIT Certification

Presented by: MN Crisis Intervention Training

Monday – Friday, April 30 – May 4, 2018, 8 AM – 5 PM.

Tuition: $700

40 Training Hours

To register, click here.

 

COURSE SUMMARY

This 40 hour CIT certification course is very intense and interactive. It gives an in-depth look at mental illness and its implications for law enforcement. We cover: schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, mood disorders, cognitive disorders, personality and substance disorders, suicide assessment, adolescent & elder issues, PTSD, excited delirium, suicide by cop, and mental health courts. Advocates and people living with mental health issues speak on their experiences, there are site visits to mental health hospitals and service providers in your area and extensive role play exercises with professional actors.
MN CIT Officers’ Assoc 40 hour Certification Training goals include providing advanced mental health awareness, communication techniques and de-escalation skill to help law enforcement when dealing with a person in a mental health crisis.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

-Define the difficulty responding to crisis calls involving someone with a mental illness.

-Develop an understanding of their struggle in the mental health system and the role of the police and the risk factors involved.

-Meet a panel of consumers of the mental health services in the area in an effort to promote communication and understanding by having interaction when the individual is doing well and not in crisis. Discussion is encouraged on what works well for them when they are having issues with their medications and what doesn’t work well.

-Define the concept of CIT and its origins. Compare it to traditional police response. Officers benefit from the advantages of building partnerships in the community.

-Introduction to the practice of active listening skills and techniques that aid law enforcement when dealing with an individual in a mental health crisis.

-Attendees are given the opportunity to practice and demonstrate these listening skills and techniques in realistic role play exercises using professional actors.

-Provide contact with community mental health professionals giving presentations on adolescent issues, elder issues, suicide prevention, excited delirium, suicide by cop, prepetition screening, commitment, medications, and military reintegration. This community contact helps us achieve our goal of familiarizing law enforcement with the community resources available to them.

-De-escalation techniques are taught to be combined with their active listening skills in order to achieve our goal of using verbal communication before using force when confronting an individual in a mental health crisis.

For more information:
Contact: Jerry Hutchinson -Training Director
E-mail: training.director@mncit.org
PH: 763-607-7667

 

Women’s Self Defense Pistol Training- April 14, 2018

Saturday, April 14, 2018

9AM-2PM

$125

THIS CLASS IS CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER

COURSE SUMMARY:

This course provides four hours of combined classroom and firearms simulator-based training exercises. Students build on their marksmanship fundamentals, developing simple defensive tactical skills and situational awareness needed to safely operate a pistol for self- and home defense.

STUDENT OBJECTIVE:

  • Will understand firearm storage & transport
  • Will be introduced to situational awareness concepts and mindset
  • Will develop students’ ability to move, shoot, and take cover/concealment
  • Will learn strategies for skills development such as how to safely draw from the holster, move and     shoot, use cover and concealment, and respond to common self-defense situations.

STUDENT UNDERSTANDING:

Students will understand essential ethical, technical and legal responsibilities associated with carrying a firearm

Students will use an advanced indoor, video-simulation system usually available only to law enforcement.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Jennifer McDowell is a life-long member of the Air Force Association, volunteered with the AFROTC program at St. Thomas University, and was volunteer instructor with Junior Achievement. She holds NRA certifications as Pistol Instructor and Range Safety Officer, and has completed various defensive and tactical shooting courses.

For more information regarding this class, please contact Jennifer directly at jennifer@astrid-defense.com or visit her website at http://astrid-defense.com

L.E.A.D.S. Law Enforcement Active Diffusion Strategies

Presented by: Lt Kevin Dillon (ret), Police Combat.

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 8 AM – 4:30 PM.

Tuition: $140 (includes lunch)

POST #10035-1111 (8 hours)

To register, click here.

COURSE SUMMARY

This is a classroom based combat-confrontation avoidance course based upon the L.O.C.K.U.P. ® System. It teaches within a classroom setting how to recognize aggression and to not stimulate aggression. Students will learn communications skills and evidence based Active Diffusion Strategies that can avoid or resolve interactions by employing tactical de-escalation the techniques, conflict resolution methods and distraction techniques that promote successful tactical applications. The course also discusses tactical responses when diffusion tactics are inappropriate or ineffective. This program teaches officers how professional communication can protect officers in the field, reduce civilian complaints as well as civil litigation. Instruction uses lectures and demonstrations to facilitate learning and retention.

Understanding the principals of risk management for officer safety
Identifying indications of hostility through body language
Understand police “customer service” methods that yield positive relations
Identify professional benefits of active diffusion strategies
Learn methods of effective verbal de-escalation strategies
Understanding physiological changes during aggression
Learn to use cognitive limitations for active diffusion
Learn methods to re-direct the thought process through positive direction
Learn the importance of professional posturing
Identity different communications styles with appropriate response tactics
Learn methods of motivational interviewing skills
Learn methods of distraction to obtain tactical advantages
Learn communication and physical strategies to de-escalate situations
Learn how to avoid communications that may be negative
Learn how active strategies blend with a total law enforcement presentation

 

Interview & Interrogation: Basic & Advanced

Presented by: William P. Schreiber, REID & Associates, Inc., Chicago, IL

BASIC COURSE

Tuesday – Thursday, March 20 – 22, 2018, 8 AM – 4:30 PM

Tuition: $445

MN POST training hours: 24

ADVANCED COURSE*

Friday, March 23, 2018, 8 AM – 3 PM

Tuition: $130

MN POST training hours: 8

* Participants who have previously attended the three-day basic course are eligible to attend the advanced session only. 

To register, click here. 

COURSE SUMMARY:

Objectives for the basic course are 1) to provide the fundamentals necessary to conduct a proper interview and interrogation, 2) to provide a structured frame of reference for those interviewers who have some experience but also may not have had any formal training in the area and 3) to improve the efficiency of all participants in obtraining the truth from suspects, witnesses and victims in a legally acceptable manner.

Objectives for the advanced course are 1) to provide additional tactics and techniques designed to obtain confessions from the deceptive suspect in more expedient manner, 2) to provide finesse tactics dealing with the psychology of interrogation to enhance the investigators ability to acquire confessions that might not have otherwise been obtained and 3) to provide a logical guideline that may be used to profile out any type of suspect for interrogation.

More than 300,000 professionals in the law enforcement and security fields have attended these programs since it they were first offered in 1974. Participants come from both the private sector (retailing, finance, health care, manufacturing, etc.) and the public sector, including all levels of law enforcement and government; from every U.S. State and Canadian Province, as well as countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

COURSE CONTENT

BASIC TOPICS INCLUDE:
• Distinguishing between interview and interrogation
• Legal aspects of interview and interrogation
• What makes an excellent interviewer
• Factors affecting a subject’s behavior
• Behavior symptom analysis (see detail below)
• Five points to follow when evaluating behavior
• Reid Behavioral Analysis Interview™
• Baiting techniques

The REID Nine Steps of Interrogation (see detail below)
1. Behavior symptoms analysis
2. Evaluating Attitudes
3. Evaluating Non-verbal Behavior
4. Evaluating Verbal Behavior
5. Evaluating Paralinguistic Behavior
6. Reid Behavioral Analysis Interview™
7. The Baiting Technique
8. Analyzing Factual Information Prior to the Interview
9. Asking Behavior Provoking Questions

THE REID NINE STEPS OF INTERROGATION
1. The Positive Confrontation
2. Theme Development
3. Handling Denials
4. Overcoming Objections
5. Procuring and Retaining the Suspect’s Attention
6. Handling the Suspect’s Passive Mood
7. Presenting an Alternative Question
8. Detailing the Offense
9. Elements of Oral and Written Statements

ADVANCED TOPICS INCLUDE ABOVE TOPICS AS THEY RELATE TO:

Advanced concepts in behavior symptom analysis, behavioral interview and REID approach to interrogation:
• Difficult suspects that give the interrogator problems and specific tactics to get them to confess
• Defiant, neutral and accepting suspects – how to move suspects out of a stage for best end results
• Distinguishing elements which identify need, lifestyle, impulse and esteem criminal characteristics
• Additional interrogation tactics.

Professional Standards & Internal Affairs for Law Enforcement

Presented by: Greg Anderson, On-Target Solutions Group

March 5-6, 2018, 8 AM – 4 PM.
14 hours (POST Board Approved)

$225/ officer
$200/ if 3 or more from same agency

To view the course announcement, and to register, click here: 

South Metro IA 03-05-18

 

Who should attend: This nationally acclaimed course is for law enforcement executives, supervisors, internal affairs investigators, human resource personnel and anyone who desires to understand law enforcement professional standards and internal affairs investigations.

 

COURSE SUMMARY: 

The professional standards model is a must for law enforcement and government officials to be prepared before a critical incident occurs. This course sets the stage for law enforcement professionals to create an agency wide practice of professional standards for all agency operations. In the covered material, attendees will understand “best practices” including how to avoid the problems before they occur and properly address issues that do arise.

This is a comprehensive course covering the entire internal affairs process through final discipline. Participants will learn the skills necessary to review, investigate and complete internal affairs investigations based on sound investigative techniques and within legal guidelines.

Topics Include:

-Current climate between public and police
-Breaking the cycle of mediocrity
-The professional standards model
-5 root causes of discipline problems
-Stakeholders and their perceptions
-Types of internal investigations
-The complaint process
-The investigation process
-Officer involved shootings and major incidents
-Applicable case law
-Employee rights
-Appropriate discipline procedures
-Workplace searches
-False Complaints
-Official hearing requirements
-How discipline is determined
-The effect of untruthfulness

 

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