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This intensive course provides the foundation of information attendees need to conduct effective, thorough investigations. Discussions and training to include investigation best practices for persons’ crimes, walk-through crime scene and forensic information, search warrants, electronic evidence, resources, engagement, and more. All patrol staff and investigations may benefit from the comprehensive investigations’ knowledge in this course.

Once you have the basics, join our ACTION Team for Advanced Investigations. We discuss writing and serving effective search warrants for all cases, geo tracking, working serial cases, NCIC offline searches, forensic evidence collection, open source intelligence searches, and more. These are the tips and tricks of the trade from seasoned investigators ready to help you and your team succeed.

Red flag violence warning behaviors and threats are best addressed in a multi-disciplinary team environment. Stalking and threat cases can be some of the most extensive and long-term cases for any agency - but also the most important. This course provides step-by-step evidence-based patrol and investigations training to help attendees develop strong stalking cases, focused on both victim and community physical and psychological safety.

Every jurisdiction needs a well-developed threat assessment and management program. Creating such a program requires a Full Circle approach to include location assessment security, as well as behavioral threat concerns. This course will teach Pathway Warning behaviors and create a paradigm shift about threat, while providing immediate use information for any agency looking to start responding to behaviors of concern as a multidisciplinary team.

Understanding the methodology of crime scene investigation is imperative to any law enforcement officer. This course provides detailed information related to how we investigate crime scenes and use forensic science to address potential evidence. Attendees will study the effective use of search warrants, evidence collection, fingerprinting and DNA, photography, blood spatter, and more to discover what really happened.

Best for patrol and new investigators, this intensive course wraps up decades of experience into three days so our ACTION Academy Team can train our law enforcement how to investigate death. The three-day course provides all of the filler and no fluff when it comes to intense training on homicide case investigation.

Addressing the investigation of Gunshot Wounds effectively is an important task that affects both living and non-living victims. This course is taught by a guest instructor who is a forensic medical doctor; one who brings vast experience and an extremely congenial manner to this subject. This class will likely make your Top Ten.

Effective intimate partner physical and sexual abuse recognition and response begins with an understanding of abuse dynamics and all the aspects of power and control. This course will provide this, and show the attendee how to conduct detailed, evidence-based investigations with the physical and psychological safety of the victim in mind. Course content shall include a basic understanding of abuse crimes, strangulation, investigative tactics, working with recanting victims, interviewing, murder/suicide, and familicide.

This course will teach advanced sexual assault investigation including trauma-informed interviewing and case management, creating the right timelines to support evidence collection and case development, training investigators to use perspective messaging, exploring the different components of a “consent defense” investigation, and providing expert field investigation tactics to help corroborate statements.

Learn investigation tactics and potential avenues to search for evidence while working on drug/alcohol-facilitated sexual assault cases, including those where consent is the defense. When the primary investigation focus changes from “who” did it (DNA) to who is telling the truth about “what” happened (corroboration).

Each year, men, women, and children are trafficked across the world for forced labor, fraud, sexual acts, and more, and business is booming. This course discusses the red flags of different types of human trafficking, how to disrupt the cash flow while holding people responsible for this insidious crime, and help caretake the victims along the way as best one can.

Fentanyl is one of the leading causes of death among persons 17-25 years of age. With this rising lethality rate, police departments need to adapt to combat it. Attendees to this course will learn how to apply state and federal statutes to arrest the dealers, what evidence is needed to construct a case to be submitted to state and federal prosecutors. They will learn how to seize the evidence and employ interview and interrogation techniques. There will be practical exercises so the student can implement these ideas right away into their current and future investigations.

Every profession requires the ability to not just talk with people, but to understand them, their experiences, and backgrounds. We will discuss how to conduct effective interviews and interrogations, based on the ability to reflect a person’s opinions, roadblocks, and concerns back to them in a way that allows them to relax and have an informative conversation rather than shut down and refuse to engage.

Writing excellent reports is not just about getting your Grammar Police on. Rather, it is about providing statements and evidence-based information in such a clear and concise manner, that the reader is left without questions, because even what could not be explained was addressed. This is an art form that can be learned and repeated and an absolute must in any field within the justice community.

An effective law enforcement officer must be both a warrior to defend and a friend to aid within their community. Officers must practice and cultivate bravery and honor to help strengthen courage whenever it is needed to save the lives of innocents, while balancing the emotional intelligence to communicate and serve those everyday who need our help and hope. Our ACTION Team instructors will help you develop and navigate this mindset through the curriculum and their experience in defensive tactics instruction, high-risk patrol and warrants service, and more.

Intimate partner abuse cases are significant identifiers for those who may commit violence against their families, workplaces, schools, and communities. Recognizing threat behaviors and significant lethality indicators, such as strangulation, and understanding effective de-escalation tactics, are extremely important factors to help enhance safety for both victims and first responders.

Leadership is not about authority; leadership is a choice, whether you are an executive or line staff. This course uses best practices in business development for attendees increase communication, engagement, and change within their organizations for maximum effect.

Creating real programs to solve problems, allowing agencies to handle issues effectively across multi-disciplines is a learned skill. We explore roadmaps for looking outside of your own perspective to open up to ideas and see the future in terms that can be applied and measured for realistic change - and we will show you how to start this change for little or no money. Bring your issue to class and we will design solutions together.

A comprehensive grants strategic plan can be the huge change your agency or non-profit needs. This course will discuss program development related to grants, creating and abiding by a mission statement and culture, and how to write and create sustainable grants to help your agency solve problems and thrive.

Safer environments are created when there is trust; trust among supervisors and employees, co-workers, clients. We discuss how to build that trust in any environment (schools, agencies, military, etc.) by employing successful business practices to create strong, supported teams where leadership, open communication, and productivity is a way of life.

“Recover Your Strength by Being FREE (Fitness, Recovery, Engagement & Exploration).” Explore our Survivor program, as we begin to “take the drama out of trauma,” normalizing our reactions to stress, and physical or emotional harm. Open a program in your jurisdiction and begin to address wellness directly from real victims and those who have served them.

Foundational corporate security, human resources, and all stakeholders training that addresses violence recognition and response, with a special focus on domestic violence and the workplace. Learn how creating these programs at work will enhance business operations in SAFER environments.

Creating a student environment that promotes empathy, engagement, information sharing, and pathways to healthy behaviors. Violence recognition and response for student, staff, parent, and outside actor behaviors. Done in a positive, safe space and learning environment to enhance student, staff, and parent comfort.

A self-leadership course for staff that creates development pathways to excellence, career, and personal growth. A strategic plan course for life and career, encouraging ways to enhance teamwork and positive working environments.