This dynamic, fast-paced seminar has been revised to meet the current challenges your officers are facing in carrying out their duties. This is the course every police administrator wants, and every police officer needs. Understanding when de-escalation can work and its limitations, officers routinely achieve proper conduct in the "tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving circumstances" of a force event. They are not being challenged as never before to articulate and document their proper conduct. This may be that single class that significantly lowers civil and criminal liability exposure in a force response incident. This course includes practical de-escalation concepts and practices throughout! Length: 4, 6, or 8-hours
Doing business the same-ol, same-ol way is no longer acceptable or smart. This up-to-the minute course--including practical de-escalation concepts and strategies--provides instantly applicable liability prevention and mitigation "best-practices" based on the latest proven risk management strategies. With the knowledge necessary to achieve proper conduct, along with tools to better supervise subordinate officers’ force responses, you can survive the legal, civil, and political aftermath of a force incident. Length: 8-hours
You are skilled in the first half of your job--responding with force to take a resisting subject into custody. But how about the second half--reporting and documenting your response to the suspect's threatening behavior? This course provide you with up-to-the-minute strategies and methods of liability prevention in an interesting and thought provoking classroom format. Length: 4 or 8-hours
This constantly updated "Pursuit Decision-Making" course is unique. It not only provides you and your officers with the latest pursuit strategies and liability reduction practices, but also gives your officers a better understanding of the causes of what is the single largest accidental killer of police: collisions in a patrol car. This course assists in limiting both the liability of a pursuit, as well as the injuries and deaths caused by this necessary police activity. Length: 8-hours
Any level of force response by your officers carries with it the likelihood of media or community inquiry, and the possibility of either or both administrative actions against the officer or civil litigation. This course provides the training to clearly and objectively evaluate why your officer either met or did not meet the reasonable officer standard in any level of force response. A court-tested "Force Response Evaluation Formula" assists you in this vital task. Length: 4, 6, or 8-hours
When an officer is forced to shoot a suspect, he or she enters into a process that few officers really understand. This course protects your officer and agency by comprehensively detailing the entire process, from the moments before the shooting until the final civil appeal, and the standards of proof needed to navigate the system. Knowing the standard of proof at each level of the system provides administrative, criminal, and civil protection to your officers, supervisors, police managers, and command staff. Length: 8-hours
There are few investigations that carry more grave consequences than that of the Officer-Involved Shooting/Death. This course ensures the highest standards of investigation into this critical area of investigation. This course provides cutting edge training by two highly skilled investigators on meeting exemplary standards in your investigation of police shootings. Length: 24-hours
The investigation into the circumstances of a sudden and unexpected death of a subject who has been forcefully detained is critical to the future of the involved officers and the agency's relationship with its citizenry. Few areas of investigation are subject to such a degree of misinformation about how these deaths occur. This course provides your agency investigator with the latest methods and standards into these troubling deaths. Length: two days, 16-hours
De-escalation is and has been a part of effective policing. It now must be a consciously applied strategy to any situation where the subject’s behavior permits an officer’s deliberation of the “next move.” This course makes officer de-escalation tactics and methods practical and safer, working within the limitations dictated by a suspect’s threat behavior. Participant comments of, “Finally, de-escalation that’s practical!” and, “Why weren’t we trained like this in the academy?” are commonly received. Course length: 8 or 4 hours.