Midwest Counterdrug Training Center
America's fastest growing crime, Identity Theft, affects 1 in 5 Americans and results in losses of over $53 Billion per year as well as a new crime of choice for existing criminal enterprises. In fact, Identity Theft has become a vehicle for drug traffickers and all sorts of terrorists to obtain enormous sources of funding for their illegal operations. It is the number one fraud complaint in the United States, according to the Federal Trade Commission, and most Law Enforcement agencies do not proactively combat Identity Theft, nor do they train their officers on Identity Theft interdiction and investigation. It is becoming the most commonly encountered crime in every police agency in the United States and overseas. Identity theft is committed by organized crime groups such as Russian OC, Terrorist Groups, Drug Trafficking Groups, La Cosa Nostra, Extremists, Domestic Terrorists, Anarchists, and other groups and individual criminals seeking huge profits for less risk.
Identity Theft is a two day course. Instruction is broken down into the following blocks: dynamics of Identity Theft, the vehicles of committing Identity Theft, crime prevention methods to educate and empower the community in the fight against identity theft, exposing Identity Theft perpetration, interdiction methods, and conducting investigations of Identity Theft crimes.