MCTC continually strives to provide our students with the most relevant, up to date training. As a result, we are constantly adding new courses and refining current ones to meet your needs.
Undercover Techniques and Survival for Women (New for 2009)
Undercover Techniques and Survival For Women is a course designed to educate and train the female undercover officer in all major aspects of undercover operations. Proper preparation and officer safety are stressed, as are teamwork, use of informants and survival. Undercover Techniques and Survival is a 5-day course. Instruction is broken down into the following blocks: Covert operations, informants, preparation of the female undercover officer, undercover background and role, approaches to the violator, undercover survival techniques, force on force techniques, audio/video electronic surveillance equipment and techniques, planning undercover operations, special undercover techniques, undercover checklist, legal aspects and testifying in court, post incident procedures, and psychological effects of undercover operations. Female undercover officers face issues unique to their gender. These issues are all addressed by instructors who are experienced undercover officers.
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Trial Preparation, Presentation and Testimony (New for 2009)
This course is designed for officers who want to build their skills as active participants in the prosecution whether the officer has never testified, or is a veteran of the courtroom. The course emphasizes preparation, beginning with the investigation, and following through the motion to suppress evidence, and trial. Individual and team activities enhance courtroom presentation and opportunity for conviction. Officers prepare reports, exhibits, and testimony for participation in the motion to suppress and the trial. Each officer participates in direct examination and cross examination. Understanding each person's role in the courtroom and the need for cooperative interaction between investigation and prosecution is developed.
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Post Interdiction Investigations (New for 2009)
This period of instruction is a comprehensive post-interdiction analysis of investigative actions and procedures to be taken following the seizure of illegal drugs (or other contraband items) and the arrests of criminal suspects subsequent to a highway drug interdiction or criminal patrol stop. It is designed for patrol and interdiction officers, drug enforcement agents, criminal investigators and their respective supervisors. The post-interdiction analysis starts at the point of seizure and emphasizes the entire scheme of investigative methodologies and set of procedures that are necessary to advance the investigation to its fullest potential and logical conclusion.
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Integrated Drug and Contraband Interdiction (New for 2009)
This is a course of instruction for drug enforcement agents, criminal investigators, canine handlers, and drug unit supervisors. The course offers a comprehensive examination of field-tested investigative techniques, methodologies and legal aspects of domestic drug and contraband interdiction operations. Each of the following areas is addressed: border, airport, hotel/motel, commercial parcel and package, self-service storage facilities, bus and train, and rental car investigations. The course examines other analogous topics such as consensual encounters, consensual searches, "knock and talk" investigations, government-controlled deliveries of contraband, canine searches, currency seizures, and supervising a domestic drug interdiction unit.
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Tactical Narcotics Debriefing (New since 2008)
The Tactical Narcotics Debriefing Course is a unique training program that teaches the art and science of Tactical Debriefings for narcotics related situations. A Tactical Debriefing is defined as an interview with someone for the purpose of acquiring intelligence information. Tactical Debriefing is a tactically designed and deployed strategic interview conducted by a law enforcement officer(s) with a new arrestee, prison (or jail) inmate, or an offender on probation or parole, for the purpose of obtaining actionable intelligence information and human sources of intelligence (HUMINT). The intricacies that make Tactical Debriefing distinctly different from conventional interviews and interrogations is the designed synergistic application of several disciplines. These disciplines, applied in a coordinated fashion (synergy), can be identified, in part, as conventional interview techniques, rapport building, detecting deception, kinesiology, and tactical phraseology. Tactical Narcotics Debriefing course is the combined application of classroom instruction, skill-building exercises, careful evaluation, and practical immersion interviews using human subjects (role players) and a balanced realistic difficulty level. This training program provides all the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to go forth and immediately place the techniques into play in the real world.
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Narcoterrorism (New since 2008)
This course exposes and illustrates the nexus between Foreign Terrorists, other terrorists and narcotics trafficking. It also covers narcoterrorists, Islamic fundamentalists and radicalization targeting America, as well as a proactive approach to combat the problem. Also illustrated will be The Current Islamic Terrorist Threat within the Borders of the US, Al Qaeda: The Current Threat, Jihad in America: An Expose of American Centers for Islamic Radical Activity, Developing Intelligence within local communities within the Borders of the US, Terrorist Funding and Money Laundering, Identifying and Interdicting Hawalas, Narcoterrorists and Fraudulent Documents, Interviewing Techniques for Identifying Fraudulent Documents, Identifying Fraudulent Passports, Visas, Drivers Licenses, etc., Criminal Interdiction of Terrorist Cells, Targeting Terrorists through Identifying Funding Mechanisms, Empowering your communities to help in the fight against terror and Officer Safety and Survival.
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Crisis / Hostage Negotiation - Intermediate (New for 2009)
This course will further enhance the knowledge and skills you acquired in MCTC's Crisis Hostage Negotiations - Basic course, or its 40-hour equivalent. A more in-depth study of abnormal psychology, high element negotiations, and advanced communication techniques will be a primary focus during the course.
After identifying and assessing your personal listening style, you will learn effective questioning techniques and appropriate responses based on the "clusters of five." You will learn how to say "no," how to show empathy and how to develop and apply a communication strategy during a negotiation.
In a continued discussion of abnormal psychology, we will examine additional mental health disorders as they relate to crisis negotiation, including depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. We will examine the Victim Precipitated Homicide and behaviors meant to compel law enforcement to respond with deadly force.
Situations that create unique challenges for law enforcement, such as jumpers from bridges, cell towers and overpasses, will be among the advanced concepts discussed. You will learn how to interpret a crisis and recognize signs that may indicate the immediacy of suicidal intent. And you will learn guidelines for working with rescue personnel at the scene.
In regards to the hostages involved, we will show you how to interpret the behavior of hostages while in captivity and techniques you can use when dealing with them directly. The consideration of hostages when developing a deliberate strategy will be explored.
Challenging, team-oriented, scenario-driven practical exercises are an integral part of the course and will allow you the opportunity to practice and refine your crisis negotiation skills.
Topics Include:
Effective Communication II: Active Listening
Advanced communication techniques (questions)
Advanced communication techniques (responses)
Abnormal Psychology II
Victim precipitated homicide
Using third party intermediaries and interpreters
The hostage experience
Prerequisite: You must be a sworn member of law enforcement or corrections, a non-law enforcement member of a crisis negotiation team, a mental health professional or a clergy member supporting law enforcement activities and have successfully completed MCTC's Crisis Hostage Negotiations - Basic course, or its 40-hour equivalent, prior to attending this course. This class is not recommended for students with no previous negotiation training. Requests for exceptions must be submitted and approved by course director.
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Crisis/Hostage Negotiations - School Environment (New for 2009)
This unique 3-day course will prepare the experienced crisis negotiator to deal with the very contemporary and relevant topic of adolescents who present a threat in a school environment by taking hostages or attempting to commit suicide.
We will explore current school violence trends throughout the U.S. and the role law enforcement plays in mitigating future threats. To better understand how negotiators must coordinate their efforts with first responders and tactical teams, you will receive an overview of the tactical response in a school environment with special emphasis on low- and mid-level threats. You will also learn how to work collaboratively with school officials when organizing a school response.
A suicidal adolescent who makes a decision to commit suicide at school presents a risk to both peers and faculty. You will learn to identify indicators of the immediacy of suicide intent as well as procedures for ensuring the safety of others. We will also discuss the psychological and sociological aspects of the "Classroom Avenger" with special emphasis on negotiation techniques.
The course will culminate with one of the program's most challenging scenario-driven practical exercises allowing you to refine your negotiation team work as well as your own personal negotiation skills.
Topics include:
Overview of trends in school violence
Pre-incident planning for a school response
Overview of the tactical response
Adolescent mental health
Adolescent suicide
Negotiating with troubled youth
Prerequisites: You must be a sworn member of law enforcement or juvenile corrections, a non-law enforcement member of a crisis negotiation team, a mental health professional or a clergy member supporting law enforcement or school activities, a school resource officer, or a member of a school staff assigned duties to a crisis incident response team and have successfully completed MCTC's Crisis Hostage Negotiations - Basic course, or an equivalent 40-hour crisis negotiation course, to attend this class. Requests for exceptions must be submitted and approved by the course director.
Note: This course alone does not meet state and federal training requirements for crisis-hostage negotiator certification; however, it is intended as an advanced/refresher for previously trained and experienced negotiators.
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The following courses are being planned...
Officer Safety for Indoor Grow Investigations (New for 2009)
Course description coming soon.
Clandestine Laboratory Site Safety Officers Training (New for 2009)
Course description coming soon.
Methamphetamine Investigations (New for 2009)
Course description coming soon.
Middle Eastern: Crime, Culture, and Community (Pilot course in 2009)
Course description coming soon.
