Legal Aspects: (60 hours)

• Arrests and Response to Terrorism

• Confessions and Admissions

• Exclusionary Rule

• Legal Liabilities and Other Consequences of Police Misconduct

• Line-ups and Other Pre-trial Identification Procedures

• Plain View, Open Fields, Abandonment, and Electronic Surveillance

• Probable Cause and Reasonable Suspicion

• Search and Seizure

• Stop and Frisk

• Vehicle Stops, Searches, and Inventories

• Witnesses, Hearsay Rule, and Privileged Communications

• Elements of Criminal Conduct

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Integrated Use of Force Management - Response to Resistive Behavior: (12 hours)

• Use of Force, Reasonable Force, Non-Deadly Force, Deadly Force, and Punitive Force

• Four instances when an officer may use force

• Justifiable and reasonable use of force

• Louisiana laws pertaining to the use of force

• The four Graham factors

• Key issues in the landmark case of Graham v. Connor

• Amendments to the U.S. Constitution related to police use of force

• Key holdings in the landmark cases

  • Tennessee v. Garner

  • Scott v. Harris

  • Hudspeth v. City of Shreveport

• Four requirements to use force by an officer

• Threat assessment

• Three elements of a threat assessment

• Four levels of resistance

• Six officer vs. threat factors

• Four parts of the OODA Loop

• Role fear plays in police use of force

• Force option selection process

 

Drug ID & Investigations: (4 hours)

• Identification of Drugs

• Controlled Dangerous Substances Act

• Drug Trafficking Trends

• Introduction to Drug Investigations