Homeland Security Training for Law Enforcement
Basic Homeland Security Training for Patrol Officers
This basic-level training is a POST certified, 32-hour course. The course provides patrol officers with training on the skills and techniques required to properly detect, prevent, and respond to various acts of terrorism.
The course is comprised of 4 modules. They include the following:
- Defining and Understanding Terrorism
- Community Policing and Terrorism
- Combating Terrorism
- Street Officer Safety and WMD Response
"...we have to be risk-based in our approach to our activities, and that means focusing on consequences, vulnerabilities and threats, and allocating our resources."
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff
Threat and Vulnerability Assessment Training
This advanced-level training is intended for law enforcement supervisors and training officers. This 40-hour course is POST certified and it provides officers with the essential skills needed to identify and respond to vulnerable targets and prospective threats of terrorism in their local jurisdictions.
Trainee Goals
- Describe different threat assessment methodologies.
- Recognize, identify, and understand threats and weapons that terrorists use to conduct attacks.
- Identify and glean information from the types of targets that terrorists have historically attacked and be able to distinguish potential targets in Tennessee.
- Understand that terrorists pose an enhanced threat to critical infrastructure, information technology, and special events.
- Describe a risk management approach to threat assessments and identify various preventive safeguards and measures to protect critical infrastructure.
- Conduct and update a vulnerability and threat assessment of potential targets.
Terrorism Briefings for Law Enforcement Executives
This executive level training is a POST Certified 16-hour seminar, held in Nashville bi-annually for law enforcement chiefs, sheriffs, and other executive-level officers. The purpose of the briefings is to inform and network the capabilities of the various police departments and sheriff offices across Tennessee in order to prevent, deter, and combat potential acts of terrorism. Internationally-respected homeland security experts share insight and intelligence to those attending.
Past Seminar and Briefing Topics Have Included:
- Targeting Al Qaeda and Associates in Tennessee
- Cyber-terrorism
- Protocol for Law enforcement Dealing with Suicide Bombers
- Media in the War on Terrorism
- Tennessee in the Global War on Terrorism
- Terrorist Operations and Intelligence